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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index c7a0436..ef200d9 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ make use of them.
 
 =item *
 
+L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.35 to 1.36.
+
+C<B::COP::stashlen> has been replaced with C<B::COP::stashoff>.
+
+C<B::COP::stashpv> now supports UTF8 package names and embedded nulls.
+
+=item *
+
 L<ExtUtils::CBuilder> has been upgraded from version 0.280206 to 0.280208.
 
 It no longer fails when trying to embed manifests on Windows
@@ -263,6 +271,11 @@ XXX Describe change here
 The "Runaway prototype" warning that occurs in bizarre cases has been
 removed as being unhelpful and inconsistent.
 
+=item *
+
+The "Not a format reference" error has been removed, as the only case in
+which it could be triggered was a bug.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Utility Changes
@@ -430,6 +443,12 @@ nulls through unchanged [perl #97478].
 
 =item *
 
+C<prototype> now treats magical variables like C<$1> the same way as
+non-magical variables when checking for the CORE:: prefix, instead of
+treating them as subroutine names.
+
+=item *
+
 Under threaded perls, a run-time code block in a regular expression could
 corrupt the package name stored in the op tree, resulting in bad reads
 in C<caller>, and possibly crashes [perl #113060].
@@ -453,6 +472,26 @@ to see a stack frame belonging to that deleted package.  C<caller> could
 crash if the stash's memory address was reused for a scalar and a
 substitution was performed on the same scalar [perl #113486].
 
+=item *
+
+C<UNIVERSAL::can> no longer treats its first argument differently
+depending on whether it is a string or number internally.
+
+=item *
+
+C<open> with "<&" for the mode checks to see whether the third argument is
+a number, in determining whether to treat it as a file descriptor or a
+handle name.  Magical variables like C<$1> were always failing the numeric
+check and being treated as handle names.
+
+=item *
+
+C<warn>'s handling of magical variables (C<$1>, ties) has undergone several
+fixes.  FETCH is only called once now on a tied argument or a tied C<$@>
+[perl #97480].  Tied variables returning objects that stringify as "" are
+no longer ignored.  A tied C<$@> that happened to return a reference the
+I<previous> time is was used is no longer ignored.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems