Document the change in Shellwords.shellwords

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   * Tk is removed from stdlib.  [Feature #8539]
     https://github.com/ruby/tk is the new upstream.
 
+* shellwords
+
+  * Shellwords.shellwords (shellsplit) treats the backslash as escape
+    character only when followed by one of the following characters:
+    $ ` " \ <newline>
+    [Bug #10055]
+
 === C API updates
 
 * ruby_show_version() will no longer exits the process, if