From: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:22:00 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools remova... 
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GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal (#109768)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index 700daea75f12..33ddd539b3b1 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ Important deprecations, removals or restrictions:
   `the migration guide <https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice>`_
   for advice on its replacement.
 
+* :gh:`95299`: Do not pre-install ``setuptools`` in virtual environments
+  created with :mod:`venv`.
+  This means that ``distutils``, ``setuptools``, ``pkg_resources``,
+  and ``easy_install`` will no longer available by default; to access these
+  run ``pip install setuptools`` in the :ref:`activated <venv-explanation>`
+  virtual environment.
+
 Improved Error Messages
 =======================