diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index e98dd06fb5a..f31c14aec49 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Short version
 
 #. Write a ``changelog`` entry: ``changelog/2574.bugfix.rst``, use issue id number
    and one of ``feature``, ``improvement``, ``bugfix``, ``doc``, ``deprecation``,
-   ``breaking``, ``vendor`` or ``trivial`` for the issue type.
+   ``breaking``, ``vendor``, ``packaging``, ``contrib``, or ``misc`` for the issue type.
 
 
 #. Unless your change is a trivial or a documentation fix (e.g., a typo or reword of a small section) please
@@ -305,8 +305,9 @@ Here is a simple overview, with pytest-specific bits:
 
 #. Create a new changelog entry in ``changelog``. The file should be named ``<issueid>.<type>.rst``,
    where *issueid* is the number of the issue related to the change and *type* is one of
-   ``feature``, ``improvement``, ``bugfix``, ``doc``, ``deprecation``, ``breaking``, ``vendor``
-   or ``trivial``. You may skip creating the changelog entry if the change doesn't affect the
+   ``feature``, ``improvement``, ``bugfix``, ``doc``, ``deprecation``, ``breaking``, ``vendor``,
+   ``packaging``, ``contrib``, or ``misc``.
+   You may skip creating the changelog entry if the change doesn't affect the
    documented behaviour of pytest.
 
 #. Add yourself to ``AUTHORS`` file if not there yet, in alphabetical order.
diff --git a/testing/_py/test_local.py b/testing/_py/test_local.py
index e7301c273e0..592058a54a5 100644
--- a/testing/_py/test_local.py
+++ b/testing/_py/test_local.py
@@ -207,13 +207,9 @@ def test_visit_norecurse(self, path1):
         assert "sampledir" in lst
         assert path1.sep.join(["sampledir", "otherfile"]) not in lst
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "fil",
-        ["*dir", pytest.mark.skip("sys.version_info < (3,6)")(b"*dir")],
-    )
-    def test_visit_filterfunc_is_string(self, path1, fil):
+    def test_visit_filterfunc_is_string(self, path1):
         lst = []
-        for i in path1.visit(fil):
+        for i in path1.visit("*dir"):
             lst.append(i.relto(path1))
         assert len(lst), 2  # noqa: PLC1802,RUF040
         assert "sampledir" in lst
@@ -463,12 +459,11 @@ def test_fspath_func_match_strpath(self, path1):
 
         assert fspath(path1) == path1.strpath
 
-    @pytest.mark.skip("sys.version_info < (3,6)")
     def test_fspath_open(self, path1):
-        f = path1.join("opentestfile")
-        open(f)
+        f = path1.join("samplefile")
+        stream = open(f, encoding="utf-8")
+        stream.close()
 
-    @pytest.mark.skip("sys.version_info < (3,6)")
     def test_fspath_fsencode(self, path1):
         from os import fsencode