diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.4.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.4.rst
index a49772fb83ca7..dce8fb60ecdd6 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.4.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.4.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ Bug fixes
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 - The :class:`errors.FutureWarning` raised when passing arguments (other than ``filepath_or_buffer``) as positional in :func:`read_csv` is now raised at the correct stacklevel (:issue:`47385`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_sql` when ``method`` was a ``callable`` that did not return an ``int`` and would raise a ``TypeError`` (:issue:`46891`)
-- Bug in :func:`read_xml` when reading XML files with Chinese character tags and would raise ``XMLSyntaxError`` (:issue:`47902`)
 - Bug in :meth:`loc.__getitem__` with a list of keys causing an internal inconsistency that could lead to a disconnect between ``frame.at[x, y]`` vs ``frame[y].loc[x]`` (:issue:`22372`)
 
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diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.0.rst
index eef14d9432eeb..ce1b4fd32f60e 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.0.rst
@@ -1007,6 +1007,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :func:`read_sas` with RLE-compressed SAS7BDAT files that contain 0x00 control bytes (:issue:`47099`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_parquet` with ``use_nullable_dtypes=True`` where ``float64`` dtype was returned instead of nullable ``Float64`` dtype (:issue:`45694`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_json` where ``PeriodDtype`` would not make the serialization roundtrip when read back with :meth:`read_json` (:issue:`44720`)
+- Bug in :func:`read_xml` when reading XML files with Chinese character tags and would raise ``XMLSyntaxError`` (:issue:`47902`)
 
 Period
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