diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.1.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.1.rst
index 2aa1562168fbb..bcd8ddb9cbc0b 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.1.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.1.rst
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ Fixed regressions
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.loc` raising ``FutureWarning`` when setting an empty :class:`DataFrame` (:issue:`48480`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.describe` raising ``TypeError`` when result contains ``NA`` (:issue:`48778`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.plot` ignoring invalid ``colormap`` for ``kind="scatter"`` (:issue:`48726`)
-- Fixed regression in :meth:`MultiIndex.values`` resetting ``freq`` attribute of underlying :class:`Index` object (:issue:`49054`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`MultiIndex.values` resetting ``freq`` attribute of underlying :class:`Index` object (:issue:`49054`)
 - Fixed performance regression in :func:`factorize` when ``na_sentinel`` is not ``None`` and ``sort=False`` (:issue:`48620`)
 - Fixed regression causing an ``AttributeError`` during warning emitted if the provided table name in :meth:`DataFrame.to_sql` and the table name actually used in the database do not match (:issue:`48733`)
 - Fixed regression in :func:`to_datetime` when ``arg`` was a date string with nanosecond and ``format`` contained ``%f`` would raise a ``ValueError`` (:issue:`48767`)
-- Fixed regression in :func:`assert_frame_equal` raising for :class:`MultiIndex` with :class:`Categorical` and ``check_like=True`` (:issue:`48975`)
+- Fixed regression in :func:`testing.assert_frame_equal` raising for :class:`MultiIndex` with :class:`Categorical` and ``check_like=True`` (:issue:`48975`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.fillna` replacing wrong values for ``datetime64[ns]`` dtype and ``inplace=True`` (:issue:`48863`)
 - Fixed :meth:`.DataFrameGroupBy.size` not returning a Series when ``axis=1`` (:issue:`48738`)
-- Fixed Regression in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.apply` when user defined function is called on an empty dataframe (:issue:`47985`)
+- Fixed Regression in :meth:`.DataFrameGroupBy.apply` when user defined function is called on an empty dataframe (:issue:`47985`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.apply` when passing non-zero ``axis`` via keyword argument (:issue:`48656`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`Series.groupby` and :meth:`DataFrame.groupby` when the grouper is a nullable data type (e.g. :class:`Int64`) or a PyArrow-backed string array, contains null values, and ``dropna=False`` (:issue:`48794`)
 - Fixed performance regression in :meth:`Series.isin` with mismatching dtypes (:issue:`49162`)
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.__getitem__` not falling back to positional for integer keys and boolean :class:`Index` (:issue:`48653`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_hdf` raising ``AssertionError`` with boolean index (:issue:`48667`)
-- Bug in :func:`assert_index_equal` for extension arrays with non matching ``NA`` raising ``ValueError`` (:issue:`48608`)
+- Bug in :func:`testing.assert_index_equal` for extension arrays with non matching ``NA`` raising ``ValueError`` (:issue:`48608`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.pivot_table` raising unexpected ``FutureWarning`` when setting datetime column as index (:issue:`48683`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.sort_values` emitting unnecessary ``FutureWarning`` when called on :class:`DataFrame` with boolean sparse columns (:issue:`48784`)
 - Bug in :class:`.arrays.ArrowExtensionArray` with a comparison operator to an invalid object would not raise a ``NotImplementedError`` (:issue:`48833`)
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.3.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.3.rst
index 6abbff9ed872c..0166b925f8375 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.3.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.3.rst
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Fixed regressions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 - Fixed performance regression in :meth:`Series.isin` when ``values`` is empty (:issue:`49839`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.memory_usage` showing unnecessary ``FutureWarning`` when :class:`DataFrame` is empty (:issue:`50066`)
-- Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.transform` when used with ``as_index=False`` (:issue:`49834`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`.DataFrameGroupBy.transform` when used with ``as_index=False`` (:issue:`49834`)
 - Enforced reversion of ``color`` as an alias for ``c`` and ``size`` as an alias for ``s`` in function :meth:`DataFrame.plot.scatter` (:issue:`49732`)
-- Fixed regression in :meth:`SeriesGroupBy.apply` setting a ``name`` attribute on the result if the result was a :class:`DataFrame` (:issue:`49907`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`.SeriesGroupBy.apply` setting a ``name`` attribute on the result if the result was a :class:`DataFrame` (:issue:`49907`)
 - Fixed performance regression in setting with the :meth:`~DataFrame.at` indexer (:issue:`49771`)
 - Fixed regression in the methods ``apply``, ``agg``, and ``transform`` when used with NumPy functions that informed users to supply ``numeric_only=True`` if the operation failed on non-numeric dtypes; such columns must be dropped prior to using these methods (:issue:`50538`)
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