diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 20885a05..1e66120c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   - Config value `rss_limit` is renamed to `feed_limit`
   - Config value `languages.*.rss` is renamed to `languages.*.feed`
   - Config value `generate_rss` is renamed to `generate_feed`
+  - Feed template variable `last_build_date` is renamed to `latest_date`
 
   Users with existing feeds should either set `feed_filename = "rss.xml"` in config.toml to keep things the same, or set up a 3xx redirect from rss.xml to atom.xml so that existing feed consumers aren’t broken.
 
diff --git a/components/site/src/lib.rs b/components/site/src/lib.rs
index 0ef6615b..88c8c0a9 100644
--- a/components/site/src/lib.rs
+++ b/components/site/src/lib.rs
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ impl Site {
 
         pages.par_sort_unstable_by(sort_actual_pages_by_date);
 
-        context.insert("last_build_date", &pages[0].meta.date.clone());
+        context.insert("latest_date", &pages[0].meta.date.clone());
         let library = self.library.read().unwrap();
         // limit to the last n elements if the limit is set; otherwise use all.
         let num_entries = self.config.feed_limit.unwrap_or_else(|| pages.len());
diff --git a/components/templates/src/builtins/atom.xml b/components/templates/src/builtins/atom.xml
index 17f5fe41..dcbe7507 100644
--- a/components/templates/src/builtins/atom.xml
+++ b/components/templates/src/builtins/atom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<link href="{{ feed_url | safe }}" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/>
 	<link href="{{ config.base_url | safe }}"/>
 	<generator uri="https://www.getzola.org/">Zola</generator>
-	<updated>{{ last_build_date | date(format="%+") }}</updated>
+	<updated>{{ latest_date | date(format="%+") }}</updated>
 	<id>{{ feed_url | safe }}</id>
 	{%- for page in pages %}
 	<entry
diff --git a/components/templates/src/builtins/rss.xml b/components/templates/src/builtins/rss.xml
index b3ac9a51..d66befd4 100644
--- a/components/templates/src/builtins/rss.xml
+++ b/components/templates/src/builtins/rss.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
         <generator>Zola</generator>
         <language>{{ config.default_language }}</language>
         <atom:link href="{{ feed_url | safe }}" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
-        <lastBuildDate>{{ last_build_date | date(format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z") }}</lastBuildDate>
+        <lastBuildDate>{{ latest_date | date(format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z") }}</lastBuildDate>
         {%- for page in pages %}
         <item>
             <title>{{ page.title }}</title>
diff --git a/docs/content/documentation/templates/feeds.md b/docs/content/documentation/templates/feeds.md
index b013b514..71fd7c1d 100644
--- a/docs/content/documentation/templates/feeds.md
+++ b/docs/content/documentation/templates/feeds.md
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ need to provide a template yourself.
 The feed template gets three variables in addition to `config`:
 
 - `feed_url`: the full url to that specific feed
-- `last_build_date`: the date of the latest post
+- `latest_date`: the date of the latest post
 - `pages`: see [page variables](@/documentation/templates/pages-sections.md#page-variables) for
 a detailed description of what this contains