+C<Configure> now builds C<miniperl> and C<generate_uudmap> if you
+invoke it with C<-Dusecrosscompiler> but not C<-Dtargethost=somehost>.
+This means you can supply your target platform C<config.sh>, generate
+the headers and proceed to build your cross-target perl. [perl #127234]
+
+=item *
+
+Builds with C<-Accflags=-DPERL_TRACE_OPS> now only dump the operator
+counts when the environment variable C<PERL_TRACE_OPS> to be set to a
+non-zero integer. This allows C<make test> to pass on such a build.
+
+=item *
+
+When building with GCC 6 and link-time optimization (the C<-flto> option to
+C<gcc>), C<Configure> was treating all probed symbols as present on the
+system, regardless of whether they actually exist. This has been fixed.
+[perl #128131]
+
+=item *
+
+The F<t/test.pl> library is used for internal testing of Perl itself, and
+also copied by several CPAN modules. Some of those modules must work on
+older versions of Perl, so F<t/test.pl> must in turn avoid newer Perl
+features. Compatibility with Perl 5.8 was inadvertently removed some time
+ago; it has now been restored. [perl #128052]
+
+=item *
+
+The build process no longer emits an extra blank line before building each
+"simple" extension (those with only F<*.pm> and F<*.pod> files).