diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.2.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.2.rst
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--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.2.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.2.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 **I/O**
 
-- Bug in reading a HDF5 table-format ``DataFrame`` created in Python 2, in Python 3
+- Bug in reading a HDF5 table-format ``DataFrame`` created in Python 2, in Python 3 (:issue:`24925`)
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