diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
index 2716d9b09eaa9..fcb4ba68e645f 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - :func:`DataFrame.clip()` and :func:`Series.clip()` have gained an ``inplace`` argument. (:issue:`15388`)
 - :func:`crosstab` has gained a ``margins_name`` parameter to define the name of the row / column that will contain the totals when ``margins=True``. (:issue:`15972`)
 - :func:`Dataframe.select_dtypes` now accepts scalar values for include/exclude as well as list-like. (:issue:`16855`)
-
+- Improved thread safety for `read_html()`. (:issue:`16928`)
 .. _whatsnew_0210.api_breaking:
 
 Backwards incompatible API changes