diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 5261acb75e..ff4167d227 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -4774,15 +4774,15 @@ function wp_staticize_emoji_for_email( $mail ) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Shorten an URL, to be used as link text
+ * Shorten an URL, to be used as link text.
  *
  * @since 1.2.0
- * @since 4.4.0 Moved to wp-includes/formatting.php from wp-admin/includes/misc.php and added $length param
+ * @since 4.4.0 Moved to wp-includes/formatting.php from wp-admin/includes/misc.php and added $length param.
  *
- * @param string $url URL to shorten
- * @param  int $length Maxiumum length of url to return
- * @return string
-*/
+ * @param string $url    URL to shorten.
+ * @param int    $length Optional. Maximum length of the shortened URL. Default 35 characters.
+ * @return string Shortened URL.
+ */
 function url_shorten( $url, $length = 35 ) {
 	$stripped = str_replace( array( 'https://', 'http://', 'www.' ), '', $url );
 	$short_url = untrailingslashit( $stripped );
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 4f04c21341..27d3d3e9fd 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.4-RC1-35814';
+$wp_version = '4.4-RC1-35815';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.