Add whatsnew

Author: sanggon6107

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -742,6 +742,7 @@ Indexing
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.__getitem__` when slicing a :class:`DataFrame` with many rows raised an ``OverflowError`` (:issue:`59531`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.from_records` throwing a ``ValueError`` when passed an empty list in ``index`` (:issue:`58594`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.loc` with inconsistent behavior of loc-set with 2 given indexes to Series (:issue:`59933`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Index.equals` when comparing between :class:`Series` with string dtype :class:`Index` (:issue:`61099`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Index.get_indexer` and similar methods when ``NaN`` is located at or after position 128 (:issue:`58924`)
 - Bug in :meth:`MultiIndex.insert` when a new value inserted to a datetime-like level gets cast to ``NaT`` and fails indexing (:issue:`60388`)
 - Bug in printing :attr:`Index.names` and :attr:`MultiIndex.levels` would not escape single quotes (:issue:`60190`)