diff --git a/src/tools/compiletest/src/common.rs b/src/tools/compiletest/src/common.rs
index de93e2b99eede..31c696ed41ff4 100644
--- a/src/tools/compiletest/src/common.rs
+++ b/src/tools/compiletest/src/common.rs
@@ -415,13 +415,10 @@ pub struct Config {
     /// ABI tests.
     pub minicore_path: Utf8PathBuf,
 
-    /// If true, disable the "new" executor, and use the older libtest-based
-    /// executor to run tests instead. This is a temporary fallback, to make
-    /// manual comparative testing easier if bugs are found in the new executor.
-    ///
-    /// FIXME(Zalathar): Eventually remove this flag and remove the libtest
-    /// dependency.
-    pub no_new_executor: bool,
+    /// If true, run tests with the "new" executor that was written to replace
+    /// compiletest's dependency on libtest. Eventually this will become the
+    /// default, and the libtest dependency will be removed.
+    pub new_executor: bool,
 }
 
 impl Config {
diff --git a/src/tools/compiletest/src/lib.rs b/src/tools/compiletest/src/lib.rs
index 7948a273c1e86..b3b9299ea0787 100644
--- a/src/tools/compiletest/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/tools/compiletest/src/lib.rs
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ pub fn parse_config(args: Vec<String>) -> Config {
             "COMMAND",
         )
         .reqopt("", "minicore-path", "path to minicore aux library", "PATH")
-        .optflag("N", "no-new-executor", "disables the new test executor, and uses libtest instead")
+        .optflag("n", "new-executor", "enables the new test executor instead of using libtest")
         .optopt(
             "",
             "debugger",
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ pub fn parse_config(args: Vec<String>) -> Config {
 
         minicore_path: opt_path(matches, "minicore-path"),
 
-        no_new_executor: matches.opt_present("no-new-executor"),
+        new_executor: matches.opt_present("new-executor"),
     }
 }
 
@@ -577,10 +577,9 @@ pub fn run_tests(config: Arc<Config>) {
     // Delegate to the executor to filter and run the big list of test structures
     // created during test discovery. When the executor decides to run a test,
     // it will return control to the rest of compiletest by calling `runtest::run`.
-    let res = if !config.no_new_executor {
+    let res = if config.new_executor {
         Ok(executor::run_tests(&config, tests))
     } else {
-        // FIXME(Zalathar): Eventually remove the libtest executor entirely.
         crate::executor::libtest::execute_tests(&config, tests)
     };