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@@ -1258,6 +1258,15 @@ Other properties are ignored.
 
 ** keywordp is a new predicate to test efficiently for an object being
 a keyword symbol.
+
+** Changes to garbage collection
+
+*** The function garbage-collect now additionally returns the number
+of live and free strings.
+
+*** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of
+strings that have been consed so far.
+
 
 * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1