Adapt whatsnew

Author: h-vetinari

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ Backwards incompatible API changes
 
 - A newly constructed empty :class:`DataFrame` with integer as the ``dtype`` will now only be cast to ``float64`` if ``index`` is specified (:issue:`22858`)
 - :meth:`Series.str.cat` will now raise if `others` is a `set` (:issue:`23009`)
-- The `.str`-accessor does not work for anything other than string data anymore. Any other uses (like ``bytes``, for example)
-  were never intended to be used and "worked" purely due to limitations of dtype checking (:issue:`23011`, :issue:`23163`)
+- The `.str`-accessor will perform more rigorous type checking for inputs. Previously, some types that were never intended to be used
+  "worked" purely due to limitations of dtype checking -- e.g. ``bytes``, which is now disabled except for :meth:`Series.str.decode` (:issue:`23011`, :issue:`23163`)
 
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