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diff --git a/pod/perl595delta.pod b/pod/perl595delta.pod
index 8ff50be..246b2cc 100644
--- a/pod/perl595delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl595delta.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.5
+perl595delta - what is new for perl v5.9.5
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ anyway.)
 The regular expression construct C<(?p{})>, which was deprecated in perl
 5.8, has been removed. Use C<(??{})> instead. (Rafael)
 
+=head2 Pseudo-hashes have been removed
+
+Support for pseudo-hashes has been removed from Perl 5.9. (The C<fields>
+pragma remains here, but uses an alternate implementation.)
+
 =head2 Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc
 
 C<perlcc>, the byteloader and the supporting modules (B::C, B::CC,
@@ -238,12 +243,12 @@ to, 5.9.5.
 
 A new pragma, C<mro> (for Method Resolution Order) has been added. It
 permits to switch, on a per-class basis, the algorithm that perl uses to
-find inherited methods in case of a mutiple inheritance hierachy. The
+find inherited methods in case of a multiple inheritance hierarchy. The
 default MRO hasn't changed (DFS, for Depth First Search). Another MRO is
 available: the C3 algorithm. See L<mro> for more information.
 (Brandon Black)
 
-Note that, due to changes in the implentation of class hierarchy search,
+Note that, due to changes in the implementation of class hierarchy search,
 code that used to undef the C<*ISA> glob will most probably break. Anyway,
 undef'ing C<*ISA> had the side-effect of removing the magic on the @ISA
 array and should not have been done in the first place.
@@ -253,6 +258,54 @@ array and should not have been done in the first place.
 The three numeric pragmas C<bignum>, C<bigint> and C<bigrat> are now
 lexically scoped. (Tels)
 
+=head2 Math::BigInt/Math::BigFloat
+
+Many bugs have been fixed; noteworthy are comparisons with NaN, which
+no longer warn about undef values.
+
+The following things are new:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item config()
+
+The config() method now also supports the calling-style
+C<< config('lib') >> in addition to C<< config()->{'lib'} >>.
+
+=item import()
+
+Upon import, using C<< lib => 'Foo' >> now warns if the low-level library
+cannot be found. To suppress the warning, you can use C<< try => 'Foo' >>
+instead. To convert the warning into a die, use C<< only => 'Foo' >>
+instead.
+
+=item roundmode common
+
+A rounding mode of C<common> is now supported.
+
+=back
+
+Also, support for the following methods has been added:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item bpi(), bcos(), bsin(), batan(), batan2()
+
+=item bmuladd()
+
+=item bexp(), bnok()
+
+=item from_hex(), from_oct(), and from_bin()
+
+=item as_oct()
+
+=back
+
+In addition, the default math-backend (Calc (Perl) and FastCalc (XS)) now
+support storing numbers in parts with 9 digits instead of 7 on Perls with
+either 64bit integer or long double support. This means math operations
+scale better and are thus faster for really big numbers.
+
 =head2 New Core Modules
 
 =over 4
@@ -303,6 +356,11 @@ C<File::Fetch> provide a simple generic file fetching mechanism.
 
 =item *
 
+C<Log::Message> and C<Log::Message::Simple> are used by the log facility
+of C<CPANPLUS>.
+
+=item *
+
 C<Archive::Extract> is a generic archive extraction mechanism
 for F<.tar> (plain, gziped or bzipped) or F<.zip> files.
 
@@ -376,7 +434,8 @@ ben Jore)
 
 As the old 5005thread threading model has been removed, in favor of the
 ithreads scheme, the C<Thread> module is now a compatibility wrapper, to
-be used in old code only.
+be used in old code only. It has been removed from the default list of
+dynamic extensions.
 
 =back
 
@@ -405,8 +464,6 @@ CSS. Some formatting problems were also corrected. (Jari Aalto)
 A new manual page, L<perlunifaq> (the Perl Unicode FAQ), has been added
 (Juerd Waalboer).
 
-=head1 Performance Enhancements
-
 =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
 
 =head2 C++ compatibility
@@ -425,16 +482,38 @@ It's now possible to build a C<perl-static.exe> that doesn't depend
 on C<perl59.dll> on Win32. See the Win32 makefiles for details.
 (Vadim Konovalov)
 
-=head2 C<d_pseudofork>
+=head2 win32 builds
+
+All win32 builds (MS-Win, WinCE) have been merged and cleaned up.
+
+=head2 C<d_pseudofork> and C<d_printf_format_null>
 
 A new configuration variable, available as C<$Config{d_pseudofork}> in
 the L<Config> module, has been added, to distinguish real fork() support
 from fake pseudofork used on Windows platforms.
 
+A new configuration variable, C<d_printf_format_null>, has been added, 
+to see if printf-like formats are allowed to be NULL.
+
+=head2 Help
+
+C<Configure -h> has been extended with the most used option.
+
+Much less 'Whoa there' messages.
+
+=head2 64bit systems
+
+Better detection of 64bit(only) systems, and setting all the (library)
+paths accordingly.
+
 =head2 Ports
 
 Perl has been reported to work on MidnightBSD.
 
+Support for Cray XT4 Catamount/Qk has been added.
+
+Vendor patches have been merged for RedHat and GenToo.
+
 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
 
 PerlIO::scalar will now prevent writing to read-only scalars. Moreover,
@@ -482,10 +561,6 @@ an hash/array when the op is flagged with OPf_SPECIAL (Nicholas Clark).
 
 =for p5p XXX new BIND SV type, #29544, #29642
 
-=head1 Known Problems
-
-=head2 Platform Specific Problems
-
 =head1 Reporting Bugs
 
 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles