diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.2.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.2.rst
index 2d2553e7b32be..09d7294948530 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.2.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.2.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Bug fixes
 - Boolean operations (``|``, ``&``, ``^``) with bool-dtype objects on the left and :class:`StringDtype` objects on the right now cast the string to bool, with a deprecation warning (:issue:`60234`)
 - Fixed ``~Series.str.match``, ``~Series.str.fullmatch`` and ``~Series.str.contains``
   with compiled regex for the Arrow-backed string dtype (:issue:`61964`, :issue:`61942`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Series.replace` and :meth:`DataFrame.replace` inconsistently
+  replacing matching values when missing values are present for string dtypes (:issue:`56599`)
 
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diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
index b94d82f3c9783..d519400834ee1 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
@@ -1093,7 +1093,6 @@ Other
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.isin` raising ``TypeError`` when series is large (>10**6) and ``values`` contains NA (:issue:`60678`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.mode` where an exception was raised when taking the mode with nullable types with no null values in the series. (:issue:`58926`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.rank` that doesn't preserve missing values for nullable integers when ``na_option='keep'``. (:issue:`56976`)
-- Bug in :meth:`Series.replace` and :meth:`DataFrame.replace` inconsistently replacing matching instances when ``regex=True`` and missing values are present. (:issue:`56599`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.replace` and :meth:`DataFrame.replace` throwing ``ValueError`` when ``regex=True`` and all NA values. (:issue:`60688`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.to_string` when series contains complex floats with exponents (:issue:`60405`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_csv` where chained fsspec TAR file and ``compression="infer"`` fails with ``tarfile.ReadError`` (:issue:`60028`)