bpo-42345: Add whatsnew and versionchanged for typing.Literal in 3.9 (GH-23386)

* Whatsnew entry in 3.9 same as the one in 3.10.
* versionchanged for typing.Literal docs

Needs backport to 3.9.

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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index a601b16f1c..b89faf101d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -1454,3 +1454,32 @@ Removed
   ``PyNullImporter_Type``, ``PyCmpWrapper_Type``, ``PySortWrapper_Type``,
   ``PyNoArgsFunction``.
   (Contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado in :issue:`39372`.)
+
+Notable changes in Python 3.9.1
+===============================
+
+typing
+------
+
+The behavior of :class:`typing.Literal` was changed to conform with :pep:`586`
+and to match the behavior of static type checkers specified in the PEP.
+
+1. ``Literal`` now de-duplicates parameters.
+2. Equality comparisons between ``Literal`` objects are now order independent.
+3. ``Literal`` comparisons now respect types.  For example,
+   ``Literal[0] == Literal[False]`` previously evaluated to ``True``.  It is
+   now ``False``.  To support this change, the internally used type cache now
+   supports differentiating types.
+4. ``Literal`` objects will now raise a :exc:`TypeError` exception during
+   equality comparisons if one of their parameters are not :term:`immutable`.
+   Note that declaring ``Literal`` with mutable parameters will not throw
+   an error::
+
+      >>> from typing import Literal
+      >>> Literal[{0}]
+      >>> Literal[{0}] == Literal[{False}]
+      Traceback (most recent call last):
+        File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
+      TypeError: unhashable type: 'set'
+
+(Contributed by Yurii Karabas in :issue:`42345`.)
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