diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.1.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.1.rst
index b1f8389420cd9..4102bdd07aa8f 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.1.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.1.rst
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ including other versions of pandas.
 Backwards incompatible API changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-.. _whatsnew_121.api_breaking.testing.assert_frame_equal:
+.. _whatsnew_121.api_breaking.testing.check_freq:
 
-Added ``check_freq`` argument to ``testing.assert_frame_equal``
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Added ``check_freq`` argument to ``testing.assert_frame_equal`` and ``testing.assert_series_equal``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-The ``check_freq`` argument was added to :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal` in pandas 1.1.0 and defaults to ``True``. :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal` now raises ``AssertionError`` if the indexes do not have the same frequency. Before pandas 1.1.0, the index frequency was not checked by :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal`.
+The ``check_freq`` argument was added to :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal` and :func:`testing.assert_series_equal` in pandas 1.1.0 and defaults to ``True``. :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal` and :func:`testing.assert_series_equal` now raise ``AssertionError`` if the indexes do not have the same frequency. Before pandas 1.1.0, the index frequency was not checked.
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/pandas/_testing/asserters.py b/pandas/_testing/asserters.py
index 13115d6b959d9..69e17199c9a90 100644
--- a/pandas/_testing/asserters.py
+++ b/pandas/_testing/asserters.py
@@ -878,6 +878,8 @@ def assert_series_equal(
         .. versionadded:: 1.0.2
     check_freq : bool, default True
         Whether to check the `freq` attribute on a DatetimeIndex or TimedeltaIndex.
+
+        .. versionadded:: 1.1.0
     check_flags : bool, default True
         Whether to check the `flags` attribute.