diff --git a/package/CHANGELOG b/package/CHANGELOG
index eefad7b8a7..cac0212fe7 100644
--- a/package/CHANGELOG
+++ b/package/CHANGELOG
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ The rules for this file:
  * 2.11.0
 
 Fixes
+ * Fix doctest in util.py for platform-dependent path output
+   (Issue #3925, PR #5285)
  * Fixes TypeError with np.int64 indexing in GSD Reader (Issue #5224)
  * Fixed bug in add_transformations allowing non-callable transformations
    (Issue #2558, PR #2558)
diff --git a/package/MDAnalysis/lib/util.py b/package/MDAnalysis/lib/util.py
index 0f497892f1..917e494666 100644
--- a/package/MDAnalysis/lib/util.py
+++ b/package/MDAnalysis/lib/util.py
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ def greedy_splitext(p):
     -------
 
     >>> from MDAnalysis.lib.util import greedy_splitext
-    >>> greedy_splitext("/home/joe/protein.pdb.bz2")
+    >>> greedy_splitext("/home/joe/protein.pdb.bz2") # doctest: +SKIP
     ('/home/joe/protein', '.pdb.bz2')
 
     """