Describe changes to Carp and Carp::Heavy

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@@ -129,6 +129,19 @@ line match modifier C</s>. (If C<\N> is followed by an opening brace and
 by a letter, perl will still assume that a Unicode character name is
 coming, so compatibility is preserved.) (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
 
+=head2 Implicit strictures
+
+Using the C<use VERSION> syntax with a version number greater or equal
+to 5.11.0 will also lexically enable strictures just like C<use strict>
+would do (in addition to enabling features.) So, the following:
+
+    use 5.11.0;
+
+will now imply:
+
+    use strict;
+    use feature ':5.11';
+
 =head2 Parallel tests
 
 The core distribution can now run its regression tests in parallel on
@@ -155,6 +168,17 @@ See L</"The C<overloading> pragma"> above.
 
 =back
 
+=head2 Selected Changes to Core Modules
+
+=over 4
+
+L<Carp> now includes all the necessary code to function. Previously, it
+used to be a lightweight placeholder that loaded the actual code from
+C<Carp::Heavy> on demand. C<Carp::Heavy> is now a simple, empty module
+kept for backwards compatibility for programs that used to pre-load it.
+
+=back
+
 =head1 Utility Changes
 
 =head1 Documentation
@@ -172,6 +196,13 @@ See L</"The C<overloading> pragma"> above.
 as documented, and as does C<-I> when specified on the command-line.
 (Renée Bäcker)
 
+=item C<kill> is now fatal when called on non-numeric process identifiers
+
+Previously, an 'undef' process identifier would be interpreted as a request to
+kill process "0", which would terminate the current process group on POSIX
+systems.  Since process identifiers are always integers, killing a non-numeric
+process is now fatal.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics