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+2013-10-25  Peter Stephenson  <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
+
+	* 31890 (with Mikael's fixes in 31891): NEWS: add descriptions
+	of new features since 5.0.2.
+
 2013-10-24  Peter Stephenson  <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
 
 	* 31889: Test/D02glob.ztst: tests for disable -p.
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@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ similar to "functions -t" except that tracing is turned off for any
 functions called from the specified one(s) that don't also have the -t
 or -T flag.
 
+The option FORCE_FLOAT has been added to force all arithmetic constants
+to be treated as floating point.  This is most useful locally within
+functions or scripts performing floating point calculations.
+
+Individual pattern characters can be disabled.  For example, to allow '^'
+to be an ordinary character even if the option EXTENDED_GLOB is set, use
+"disable -p '^'".
+
+The variable editing builtin vared can be given custom editing widgets
+for initialisation and finishing.
+
+Hooks for adding history (the function zshaddhistory and the
+array zshaddhistory_functions) can return status 2 to indicate that
+history is to be saved internally within the shell but not written.
+
 In file completion, the recursive-files style can be set to an array of
 patterns to match against "$PWD/".  In any matched location, it is
 possibly to complete files in arbitrarily deep subdirectories without