Treat interpreter-mode-alist as alist of regexps, not literals

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@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ build time.  To prevent this, use the configure option
 `--with-file-notification-no'.  See below for file-notify features.
 FIXME?  This feature is not available for the Nextstep port. (?)
 
+** The configure option `without-compress-info' has been generalized,
+and renamed to `without-compress-install'.  It now prevents compression
+of _any_ files during installation.
+
 ** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
 It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked
 specially.
@@ -610,9 +614,20 @@ file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
 ** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
 Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
 in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
+
+** The cars of the elements in `interpreter-mode-alist' are now treated
+as regexps rather than literal strings.  For the time being, any
+element whose car does not start with "\\" is still treated as a
+literal string, so this change should not cause any incompatibilities
+if you have code that just adds elements to the list, only if you are
+actually using interpreter-mode-alist for something.
+
 \f
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4
 
+** The second argument of `eval' can now be a lexical-environment.
+
+** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
 +++
 ** New function `define-error'.