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Co-authored-by: MarcoGorelli <>

Author: MarcoGorelli

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.1.rst

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 Fixed regressions
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 - Fixed regression for subclassed Series when constructing from a dictionary (:issue:`52445`)
-- Fixed regression in :meth:`Series.describe` showing ``RuntimeWarning`` for extension dtype :class:`Series` with one element (:issue:`52515`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.pivot` changing :class:`Index` name of input object (:issue:`52629`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.sort_values` not resetting index when :class:`DataFrame` is already sorted and ``ignore_index=True`` (:issue:`52553`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`MultiIndex.isin` raising ``TypeError`` for ``Generator`` (:issue:`52568`)
-- Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.pivot` changing :class:`Index` name of input object (:issue:`52629`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`Series.describe` showing ``RuntimeWarning`` for extension dtype :class:`Series` with one element (:issue:`52515`)
 
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 Bug fixes
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-- Fixed bug in :func:`merge` when merging with ``ArrowDtype`` one one and a NumPy dtype on the other side (:issue:`52406`)
-- Bug in :func:`to_datetime` and :func:`to_timedelta` when trying to convert numeric data with a :class:`ArrowDtype` (:issue:`52425`)
-- Bug in :meth:`Series.describe` not returning :class:`ArrowDtype` with ``pyarrow.float64`` type with numeric data (:issue:`52427`)
-- Fixed segfault in :meth:`Series.to_numpy` with ``null[pyarrow]`` dtype (:issue:`52443`)
+- Bug in :class:`arrays.DatetimeArray` constructor returning an incorrect unit when passed a non-nanosecond numpy datetime array (:issue:`52555`)
 - Bug in :func:`pandas.testing.assert_series_equal` where ``check_dtype=False`` would still raise for datetime or timedelta types with different resolutions (:issue:`52449`)
-- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.max` and related casting different :class:`Timestamp` resolutions always to nanoseconds (:issue:`52524`)
-- Bug in :meth:`ArrowDtype.__from_arrow__` not respecting if dtype is explicitly given (:issue:`52533`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_csv` casting PyArrow datetimes to NumPy when ``dtype_backend="pyarrow"`` and ``parse_dates`` is set causing a performance bottleneck in the process (:issue:`52546`)
-- Bug in :class:`arrays.DatetimeArray` constructor returning an incorrect unit when passed a non-nanosecond numpy datetime array (:issue:`52555`)
+- Bug in :func:`to_datetime` and :func:`to_timedelta` when trying to convert numeric data with a :class:`ArrowDtype` (:issue:`52425`)
 - Bug in :func:`to_numeric` with ``errors='coerce'`` and ``dtype_backend='pyarrow'`` with :class:`ArrowDtype` data (:issue:`52588`)
+- Bug in :meth:`ArrowDtype.__from_arrow__` not respecting if dtype is explicitly given (:issue:`52533`)
+- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.max` and related casting different :class:`Timestamp` resolutions always to nanoseconds (:issue:`52524`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Series.describe` not returning :class:`ArrowDtype` with ``pyarrow.float64`` type with numeric data (:issue:`52427`)
+- Fixed bug in :func:`merge` when merging with ``ArrowDtype`` one one and a NumPy dtype on the other side (:issue:`52406`)
+- Fixed segfault in :meth:`Series.to_numpy` with ``null[pyarrow]`` dtype (:issue:`52443`)
 
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 .. _whatsnew_201.other:
 
 Other
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-- Implemented :meth:`Series.str.split` and :meth:`Series.str.rsplit` for :class:`ArrowDtype` with ``pyarrow.string`` (:issue:`52401`)
 - :class:`DataFrame` created from empty dicts had :attr:`~DataFrame.columns`  of dtype ``object``. It is now a :class:`RangeIndex` (:issue:`52404`)
 - :class:`Series` created from empty dicts had :attr:`~Series.index`  of dtype ``object``. It is now a :class:`RangeIndex` (:issue:`52404`)
+- Implemented :meth:`Series.str.split` and :meth:`Series.str.rsplit` for :class:`ArrowDtype` with ``pyarrow.string`` (:issue:`52401`)
 
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