this statement isn't actually true
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
index 5d121e9..0ae5ca4 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
@@ -454,9 +454,7 @@
for passing typing safety information and a less complicated signature
for calling a destructor.
- The old type had a problematic API and is now deprecated. To ease
- transitioning code, the new type was implemented as a subtype of
- :ctype:`PyCObject` API.
+ The old type had a problematic API and is now deprecated.
(Contributed by Larry Hastings; :issue:`5630`.)