add whatsnew note

Author: jorisvandenbossche

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.0.rst

@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ Conversion
 Strings
 ^^^^^^^
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.rank` for :class:`StringDtype` with ``storage="pyarrow"`` incorrectly returning integer results in case of ``method="average"`` and raising an error if it would truncate results (:issue:`59768`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Series.replace` with :class:`StringDtype` when replacing with a non-string value not upcasting to ``object`` dtype (:issue:`60282`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.str.replace` when ``n < 0`` for :class:`StringDtype` with ``storage="pyarrow"`` (:issue:`59628`)
 - Bug in ``ser.str.slice`` with negative ``step`` with :class:`ArrowDtype` and :class:`StringDtype` with ``storage="pyarrow"`` giving incorrect results (:issue:`59710`)
 - Bug in the ``center`` method on :class:`Series` and :class:`Index` object ``str`` accessors with pyarrow-backed dtype not matching the python behavior in corner cases with an odd number of fill characters (:issue:`54792`)
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 Interval
 ^^^^^^^^