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+Thu Mar 14 11:53:01 2013  Narihiro Nakamura  <authornari@gmail.com>
+
+	* NEWS: describe RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR.
+
 Thu Mar 14 10:01:12 2013  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
 
 	* doc/globals.rdoc:  $? is thread-local
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 === Language changes
 === Core classes updates (outstanding ones only)
 
+* GC
+  * added environment variable:
+    * RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR: growth rate of the heap.
+
 * Mutex
   * misc
     * Mutex#owned? is no longer experimental.