added whatsnew entry

pandas-dev · Nov 4, 2019 · 1eb2aa6 · 1eb2aa6
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@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ Other API changes
   See :ref:`units registration <whatsnew_1000.matplotlib_units>` for more.
 - :meth:`Series.dropna` has dropped its ``**kwargs`` argument in favor of a single ``how`` parameter.
   Supplying anything else than ``how`` to ``**kwargs`` raised a ``TypeError`` previously (:issue:`29388`)
+- An empty :class:`pandas.core.series.Series` now has the dtype ``object`` instead of ``float64``. The behaviour is now
+  consistent with the behaviour of :class:`pandas.core.frame.DataFrame` and :class:`pandas.core.indexes.base.Index`
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