=head1 Core Enhancements
-XXX New core language features go here. Summarise user-visible core language
-enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go
-here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
-
=head2 Non-destructive substitution
The substitution operator now supports a C</r> option that
a version number in the declaration, as in C<package Foo 1.2 { ... }>.
See L<perlfunc> (434da3..36f77d, 702646).
+=head2 CLONE_PARAMS structure added to ease correct thread creation
+
+Modules that create threads should now create C<CLONE_PARAMS> structures
+by calling the new function C<Perl_clone_params_new()>, and free them with
+C<Perl_clone_params_del()>. This will ensure compatibility with any future
+changes to the internals of the C<CLONE_PARAMS> structure layout, and that
+it is correctly allocated and initialised.
+
=head2 perl -h no longer recommends -w
perl -h used to mark the -w option as recommended; since this option is
=head1 Changed Internals
-XXX Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here.
+The implementation of sv_dup_inc() has changed from a macro to a function.
=over 4