diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
index 78eba1fe5d0258..85a2ba5bb03b6d 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 **Reshaping**
 
-- Bug in :func:`merge` when merging by index name would sometimes result in an incorrectly numbered index (:issue:`24212`)
+-
+-
 
 **Visualization**
 
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
index 5129449e4fdf3d..d0ddb6e09d5555 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Groupby/Resample/Rolling
 Reshaping
 ^^^^^^^^^
 
--
+- Bug in :func:`merge` when merging by index name would sometimes result in an incorrectly numbered index (:issue:`24212`)
 -
 -