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diff --git a/pod/perl595delta.pod b/pod/perl595delta.pod
index 034a927..26beb31 100644
--- a/pod/perl595delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl595delta.pod
@@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ that can now be converted to
 
 which is much more efficient. (Yves Orton)
 
+=item Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak
+
+Regular expressions now recognize the C<\v> and C<\h> escapes, that match
+vertical and horizontal whitespace, respectively. C<\V> and C<\H>
+logically match their complements.
+
+C<\R> matches a generic linebreak, that is, vertical whitespace, plus
+the multi-character sequence C<"\x0D\x0A">.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 The C<_> prototype
@@ -234,6 +243,11 @@ 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)
 
+=head2 bignum, bigint, bigrat
+
+The three numeric pragmas C<bignum>, C<bigint> and C<bigrat> are now
+lexically scoped. (Tels)
+
 =head2 New Core Modules
 
 =over 4
@@ -346,6 +360,12 @@ ben Jore)
 
 =for p5p XXX document this in B.pm too
 
+=item C<Thread>
+
+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.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Utility Changes
@@ -356,6 +376,11 @@ C<cpanp>, the CPANPLUS shell, has been added. (C<cpanp-run-perl>, an
 helper for CPANPLUS operation, has been added too, but isn't intended for
 direct use).
 
+=head2 C<cpan2dist>
+
+C<cpan2dist> is a new utility, that comes with CPANPLUS. It's a tool to
+create distributions (or packages) from CPAN modules.
+
 =head2 C<pod2html>
 
 The output of C<pod2html> has been enhanced to be more customizable via
@@ -378,12 +403,22 @@ Efforts have been made to make perl and the core XS modules compilable
 with various C++ compilers (although the situation is not perfect with
 some of the compilers on some of the platforms tested.)
 
+=head2 Visual C++
+
+Perl now can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
+
 =head2 Static build on Win32
 
 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>
+
+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.
+
 =head2 Ports
 
 Perl has been reported to work on MidnightBSD.
@@ -412,6 +447,9 @@ up what categories of warnings are activated or not. (Rafael)
 Duping a filehandle which has the C<:utf8> PerlIO layer set will now
 properly carry that layer on the duped filehandle. (Rafael)
 
+Localizing an hash element whose key was given as a variable didn't work
+correctly (as in C<local $h{$x}>). (Bo Lindbergh)
+
 =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
 
 =head2 Deprecations