fixes gh-96841: replace Mercurial with VCS (#96879)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index 7c7a196..3e21127 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
module.
(Contributed by P.Y. Developer in :issue:`12345`.)
- This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the Mercurial log
- when researching a change.
+ This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the VCS log when
+ researching a change.
This article explains the new features in Python 3.12, compared to 3.11.
