diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index fb31a07930da25..62e470aa1b7b4c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Summary -- Release highlights
 
 New grammar features:
 
-* :pep:`701`: Syntactic formalization of f-strings
+* :ref:`whatsnew312-pep701`
 
 Interpreter improvements:
 
@@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ Interpreter improvements:
 
 New typing features:
 
-* :pep:`688`: Making the buffer protocol accessible in Python
+* :ref:`whatsnew312-pep688`
 
 * :ref:`whatsnew312-pep692`
 
 * :ref:`whatsnew312-pep695`
 
-* :pep:`698`: Override Decorator for Static Typing
+* :ref:`whatsnew312-pep698`
 
 Important deprecations, removals or restrictions:
 
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ Inlining does result in a few visible behavior changes:
 
 Contributed by Carl Meyer and Vladimir Matveev in :pep:`709`.
 
+.. _whatsnew312-pep688:
+
 PEP 688: Making the buffer protocol accessible in Python
 --------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -340,6 +342,8 @@ See :pep:`692` for more details.
 
 (Contributed by Franek Magiera in :gh:`103629`.)
 
+.. _whatsnew312-pep698:
+
 PEP 698: Override Decorator for Static Typing
 ---------------------------------------------