Edit whatsnew

Author: gcaria

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.0.rst

@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :meth:`read_table` now supports the argument ``storage_options`` (:issue:`39167`)
 - Methods that relied on hashmap based algos such as :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.value_counts`, :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.count` and :func:`factorize` ignored imaginary component for complex numbers (:issue:`17927`)
 - Add :meth:`Series.str.removeprefix` and :meth:`Series.str.removesuffix` introduced in Python 3.9 to remove pre-/suffixes from string-type :class:`Series` (:issue:`36944`)
+- :meth:`DataFrame.reset_index` now accepts a ``names`` argument which renames the index names (:issue:`6878`)
 
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