diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index dd5dd5ca4e9e32..b43b61b69b6b9b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -2155,7 +2155,9 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
    is no guarantee that the parse (or success of the parse) is the same as
    when run on the Python version corresponding to ``feature_version``.
 
-   If source contains a null character (``\0``), :exc:`ValueError` is raised.
+   This function raises :exc:`SyntaxError` if the parsed source is invalid.
+   It can also raise :exc:`ValueError`, :exc:`OverflowError` and
+   :exc:`RecursionError`.
 
    .. warning::
       Note that successfully parsing source code into an AST object doesn't
@@ -2176,6 +2178,10 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       Added ``type_comments``, ``mode='func_type'`` and ``feature_version``.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.12
+      Previously, :exc:`ValueError` was raised instead of :exc:`SyntaxError`
+      when null characters (``\0``) were encountered in *source*.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.13
       The minimum supported version for ``feature_version`` is now ``(3, 7)``.
       The ``optimize`` argument was added.
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 2c649376efee70..8b92471cf4f289 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -334,8 +334,9 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    ``__debug__`` is true), ``1`` (asserts are removed, ``__debug__`` is false)
    or ``2`` (docstrings are removed too).
 
-   This function raises :exc:`SyntaxError` if the compiled source is invalid,
-   and :exc:`ValueError` if the source contains null bytes.
+   This function raises :exc:`SyntaxError` if the compiled source is invalid.
+   It can also raise :exc:`ValueError`, :exc:`OverflowError` and
+   :exc:`RecursionError`.
 
    If you want to parse Python code into its AST representation, see
    :func:`ast.parse`.
@@ -371,6 +372,9 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
       ``ast.PyCF_ALLOW_TOP_LEVEL_AWAIT`` can now be passed in flags to enable
       support for top-level ``await``, ``async for``, and ``async with``.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.12
+      Previously, :exc:`ValueError` was raised instead of :exc:`SyntaxError` when
+      null characters (``\0``) were encountered in *source*.
 
 .. class:: complex(number=0, /)
            complex(string, /)