diff --git a/book/templating.rst b/book/templating.rst
index 23dbfab869a..fb5bcf00511 100644
--- a/book/templating.rst
+++ b/book/templating.rst
@@ -1067,46 +1067,12 @@ assets won't be loaded from cache after being deployed. For example, ``/images/l
 look like ``/images/logo.png?v2``. For more information, see the :ref:`reference-framework-assets-version`
 configuration option.
 
-.. _`book-templating-version-by-asset`:
+If you need absolute URLs for assets, use the ``absolute_url()`` Twig function
+as follows:
 
-If you need to set a version for a specific asset, you can set the ``version`` argument
-if you are using Twig (or the fourth argument if you are using PHP) to the desired version:
+.. code-block:: html+jinja
 
-.. configuration-block::
-
-    .. code-block:: html+jinja
-
-        <img src="{{ asset('images/logo.png', version='3.0') }}" alt="Symfony!" />
-
-    .. code-block:: html+php
-
-        <img src="<?php echo $view['assets']->getUrl(
-            'images/logo.png',
-            null,
-            false,
-            '3.0'
-        ) ?>" alt="Symfony!" />
-
-If you don't give a version or pass ``null``, the default package version
-(from :ref:`reference-framework-assets-version`) will be used. If you pass ``false``,
-versioned URL will be deactivated for this asset.
-
-If you need absolute URLs for assets, you can use the ``absolute_url`` function
-if you are using Twig (or the third argument if you are using PHP) to ``true``:
-
-.. configuration-block::
-
-    .. code-block:: html+jinja
-
-        <img src="{{ absolute_url(asset('images/logo.png')) }}" alt="Symfony!" />
-
-    .. code-block:: html+php
-
-        <img src="<?php echo $view['assets']->getUrl(
-            'images/logo.png',
-            null,
-            true
-        ) ?>" alt="Symfony!" />
+    <img src="{{ absolute_url(asset('images/logo.png')) }}" alt="Symfony!" />
 
 .. index::
    single: Templating; Including stylesheets and JavaScripts
diff --git a/reference/configuration/framework.rst b/reference/configuration/framework.rst
index 85ba39f3b89..67a8bf70165 100644
--- a/reference/configuration/framework.rst
+++ b/reference/configuration/framework.rst
@@ -1081,10 +1081,6 @@ Now, the same asset will be rendered as ``/images/logo.png?v2`` If you use
 this feature, you **must** manually increment the ``version`` value
 before each deployment so that the query parameters change.
 
-It's also possible to set the version value on an asset-by-asset basis (instead
-of using the global version - e.g. ``v2`` - set here). See
-:ref:`Versioning by Asset <book-templating-version-by-asset>` for details.
-
 You can also control how the query string works via the `version_format`_
 option.
 
diff --git a/reference/twig_reference.rst b/reference/twig_reference.rst
index 717d0dbf6e2..37f4c7a4475 100644
--- a/reference/twig_reference.rst
+++ b/reference/twig_reference.rst
@@ -126,6 +126,29 @@ assets_version
 Returns the current version of the package, more information in
 :ref:`book-templating-assets`.
 
+absolute_url
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: jinja
+
+    {{ absolute_url(asset(path, packageName)) }}
+
+``path``
+    **type**: ``string``
+``packageName``
+    **type**: ``string`` | ``null`` **default**: ``null``
+
+Returns the absolute URL that corresponds to the given asset path and package.
+More information in :ref:`book-templating-assets`. For configuring the base URLs,
+:ref:`ref-framework-assets-base-urls`.
+
+The absolute URLs generated with this function ignore the asset versioning.
+Combine it with the ``assets_version()`` function to append the version number:
+
+.. code-block:: jinja
+
+    {{ absolute_url(asset('logo.png')) ~ '?' ~ assets_version('images') }}
+
 form
 ~~~~