[3.12] gh-105256: What's New note for comprehension over locals() (GH-106378) (#106471)

gh-105256: What's New note for comprehension over locals() (GH-106378)
(cherry picked from commit 13aefd175e3c04529251f175c23cb3ed88451fd0)

Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net>

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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
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--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
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@@ -253,6 +253,12 @@ Inlining does result in a few visible behavior changes:
 * Calling :func:`locals` inside a comprehension now includes variables
   from outside the comprehension, and no longer includes the synthetic ``.0``
   variable for the comprehension "argument".
+* A comprehension iterating directly over ``locals()`` (e.g. ``[k for k in
+  locals()]``) may see "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration"
+  when run under tracing (e.g. code coverage measurement). This is the same
+  behavior already seen in e.g. ``for k in locals():``. To avoid the error, first
+  create a list of keys to iterate over: ``keys = list(locals()); [k for k in
+  keys]``.
 
 Contributed by Carl Meyer and Vladimir Matveev in :pep:`709`.