diff --git a/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation.py b/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation.py
index cb5a7c528..c06d4db05 100644
--- a/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation.py
+++ b/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ ALLOCATION_SCHEMA_V1_12 = {
         "allocations": {
             "type": "object",
             "minProperties": 1,
-            # resource provider id
+            # resource provider uuid
             "patternProperties": {
                 "^[0-9a-fA-F-]{36}$": {
                     "type": "object",
diff --git a/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation_candidate.py b/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation_candidate.py
index 4a842bd7c..94b6b79e0 100644
--- a/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation_candidate.py
+++ b/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/allocation_candidate.py
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@ def _transform_allocation_requests_list(alloc_reqs):
     """Turn supplied list of AllocationRequest objects into a list of dicts of
     resources involved in the allocation request. The returned results is
     intended to be able to be used as the body of a PUT
-    /allocations/{consumer_uuid} HTTP request, so therefore we return a list of
-    JSON objects that looks like the following:
+    /allocations/{consumer_uuid} HTTP request, prior to microversion 1.12,
+    so therefore we return a list of JSON objects that looks like the
+    following:
 
     [
         {
diff --git a/nova/api/openstack/placement/microversion.py b/nova/api/openstack/placement/microversion.py
index 210acca40..323e68b4d 100644
--- a/nova/api/openstack/placement/microversion.py
+++ b/nova/api/openstack/placement/microversion.py
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ VERSIONS = [
     '1.11',  # Adds 'allocations' link to the GET /resource_providers response
     '1.12',  # Add project_id and user_id to GET /allocations/{consumer_uuid}
              # and PUT to /allocations/{consumer_uuid} in the same dict form
-             # as GET
+             # as GET. The 'allocation_requests' format in GET
+             # /allocation_candidates is updated to be the same as well.
     '1.13',  # Adds POST /allocations to set allocations for multiple consumers
 ]
 
diff --git a/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml b/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
index 5c000a701..8d746ae70 100644
--- a/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
+++ b/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ allocations_dict: &allocations_dict
   type: object
   in: body
   required: true
-  min_version: 1.12
   description: >
     A dictionary of resource allocations keyed by resource provider uuid.
 allocations_dict_empty:
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/bp-symmetric-allocations-6ff7b270c32dcb7d.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/bp-symmetric-allocations-6ff7b270c32dcb7d.yaml
index 89986ed20..f847f9a44 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/bp-symmetric-allocations-6ff7b270c32dcb7d.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/bp-symmetric-allocations-6ff7b270c32dcb7d.yaml
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ features:
     and `project_id` in the request body, these fields are added to the
     `GET` response. In addition, the response body for
     ``GET /allocation_candidates`` is updated so the allocations in the
-    ``alocation_requests`` object work with the new `PUT` format.
+    ``allocation_requests`` object work with the new `PUT` format.