bpo-40829: Add a what's new entry about deprecation of shuffle's random parameter...

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index 6c3cbbe641b573295a101ca6f78a3cebd1eb0631..7f81074b2b55feb00251c5c33639136110316fa8 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -761,6 +761,9 @@ Deprecated
   `parso`_.
   (Contributed by Carl Meyer in :issue:`40360`.)
 
+* The *random* parameter of :func:`random.shuffle` has been deprecated.
+  (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`40465`)
+
 .. _LibCST: https://libcst.readthedocs.io/
 .. _parso: https://parso.readthedocs.io/