diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
index 0542254f6a8a1..49546c9e9faca 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Fixed a bug in failing to compute rolling computations of a column-MultiIndexed ``DataFrame`` (:issue:`16789`, :issue:`16825`)
 - Bug in a DataFrame/Series with a ``TimedeltaIndex`` when slice indexing (:issue:`16637`)
 - Bug in reindexing on an empty ``CategoricalIndex`` (:issue:`16770`)
+- Fixed a pytest marker failing downstream packages' tests suites (:issue:`16680`)
 
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