diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index d07896b71f2..2de7a50a471 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -272,6 +272,9 @@ Changes in the Python API
   success; an exception was raised on error under Unix.
   (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`2122`.)
 
+* The function :func:`math.factorial` no longer accepts arguments that are not
+  int-like. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`33083`.)
+
 
 CPython bytecode changes
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