diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 0aa4f151faf..0c3be15627e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ the equality of the underlying sequences generated by those range objects.
 (:issue:`13021`)
 
 
+The ``count()``, ``find()``, ``rfind()``, ``index()`` and ``rindex()``
+methods of :class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` objects now accept an
+integer between 0 and 255 as their first argument.
+
+(:issue:`12170`)
+
+
 New and Improved Modules
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