some updates to NEWS

NEWS.md

@@ -187,8 +187,14 @@ Command line option changes
  * The `--depwarn={yes|no|error}` option enables/disables syntax and method deprecation warnings,
  or turns them into errors ([#9294]).
 
-Compiler improvements
----------------------
+ * Some command line options are slated for deprecation / removal
+ - `-f, --no-startup` Don't load ~/.juliarc (deprecated, use --startup-file=no)
+ - `-F` Load ~/.juliarc (deprecated, use --startup-file=yes)`
+ - `-P, --post-boot <expr>` Evaluate <expr>, but don't disable interactive mode (deprecated, use -i -e instead)
+ - `--no-history-file` Don't load history file (deprecated, use --history-file=no)
+
+Compiler/Runtime improvements
+-----------------------------
 
  * Functions may be annotated with metadata (`:meta` expressions) to be used by the compiler ([#8297]).
 
@@ -198,6 +204,8 @@ Compiler improvements
 
  * Accessing fields that are always initialized no longer produces undefined checks ([#8827]).
 
+ * New generational garbage collector which greatly reduces GC overhead for many commmon workloads ([#5227]).
+
 Library improvements
 --------------------
 
@@ -1382,6 +1390,7 @@ Too numerous to mention.
 [#5164]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5164
 [#5196]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5196
 [#5214]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5214
+[#5227]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5227
 [#5255]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5255
 [#5263]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5263
 [#5275]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5275