diff --git a/cranelift/README.md b/cranelift/README.md
index acdb579d04..3ca3337da5 100644
--- a/cranelift/README.md
+++ b/cranelift/README.md
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ active effort to formally verify Cranelift's instruction-selection backends. We
 take security seriously and have a [security policy] as a part of Bytecode
 Alliance.
 
-Cranelift has three backends: x86-64, aarch64 (aka ARM64), and s390x (aka IBM
-Z). All three backends fully support enough functionality for Wasm MVP, and
+Cranelift has four backends: x86-64, aarch64 (aka ARM64), s390x (aka IBM
+Z) and riscv64. All backends fully support enough functionality for Wasm MVP, and
 x86-64 and aarch64 fully support SIMD as well. On x86-64, Cranelift supports
 both the System V AMD64 ABI calling convention used on many platforms and the
 Windows x64 calling convention. On aarch64, Cranelift supports the standard