* NEWS: add improvements of the garbage collector.

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       * File.fnmatch? now expands braces in the pattern if
         File::FNM_EXTGLOB option is given.
 
+  * GC
+    * improvements:
+      * introduced the bitmap marking which suppresses to copy a memory page
+        with Copy-on-Write.
+      * introduced the non-recurcive marking which avoids unexpected stack overflow.
+
   * GC::Profiler
     * added method:
       * added GC::Profiler.raw_data which returns raw profile data for GC.