Add various and sundry news items -- most mine, one Barry's, one

Michael Hudson's.

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@@ -3,6 +3,43 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a3?
 
 Core
 
++ Overflowing operations on plain ints now return a long int rather
+  than raising OverflowError.  This is a partial implementation of PEP
+  237.  You can use -Wdefault::OverflowWarning to enable a warning for
+  this situation, and -Werror::OverflowWarning to revert to the old
+  OverflowError exception.
+
++ A new command line option, -D<arg>, is added to control run-time
+  warnings for the use of classic division.  (See PEP 238.)  Possible
+  values are -Dold, -Dwarn, and -Dnew.  The default is -Dold, meaning
+  the / operator has its classic meaning and no warnings are issued.
+  Using -Dwarn issues a run-time warning about all uses of classic
+  division for int, long, float and complex arguments.  Using -Dnew is
+  questionable; it turns on new division by default, but only in the
+  __main__ module.  You can usefully combine -Dwarn and -Dnew: this
+  gives the __main__ module new division, and warns about classic
+  division everywhere else.
+
++ Many built-in types can now be subclassed.  This applies to int,
+  long, float, str, unicode, and tuple.  (The types complex, list and
+  dictionary can also be subclassed; this was introduced earlier.)
+  Note that restrictions apply when subclassing immutable built-in
+  types: you can only affect the value of the instance by overloading
+  __new__.  You can add mutable attributes, and the subclass instances
+  will have a __dict__ attribute, but you cannot change the "value"
+  (as implemented by the base class) of an immutable subclass instance
+  once it is created.
+
++ A new built-in type, super, has been added.  This facilitates making
+  "cooperative super calls" in a multiple inheritance setting.  For an
+  explanation, see http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html#cooperation
+
++ A new built-in type, getset, has been added.  This enables the
+  creation of "computed attributes".  Such attributes are implemented
+  by getter and setter functions (or only one of these for read-only
+  or write-only attributes), without the need to override
+  __getattr__.  See http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html#getset
+
 + The syntax of floating-point and imaginary literals has been
   liberalized, to allow leading zeroes.  Examples of literals now
   legal that were SyntaxErrors before:
@@ -22,6 +59,9 @@ Library
   When read on a box where Python ints are 4 bytes, such values are
   converted to Python longs.
 
++ In restricted execution mode (using the rexec module), unmarshalling
+  code objects is no longer allowed.  This plugs a security hole.
+
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@@ -44,6 +84,10 @@ API
 
     - remove calls to PyObject_AS_GC and PyObject_FROM_GC
 
++ Two new functions: PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
+  These can be used safely to construct string objects from a
+  sprintf-style format string (similar to the format string supported
+  by PyErr_Format()).
 
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