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diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst
index ee4e2ccb5..ed7024f62 100644
--- a/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst
+++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.3.rst
@@ -240,6 +240,16 @@ Minor Feature Additions
 - We allow extra keyword arguments to be passed to the
   :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.action` method.
 
+- New API: :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.set_request_property`. Add lazy
+  property descriptors to a request without changing the request factory.
+  This method provides conflict detection and is the suggested way to add
+  properties to a request.
+
+- Responses generated by Pyramid's :class:`pyramid.views.static_view` now use
+  a ``wsgi.file_wrapper`` (see
+  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#optional-platform-specific-file-handling)
+  when one is provided by the web server.
+
 Backwards Incompatibilities
 ---------------------------
 
@@ -300,6 +310,11 @@ Backwards Incompatibilities
   ``add_route`` as a pattern, it will now fail at startup time.  Use Unicode
   instead.
 
+- The ``path_info`` route and view predicates now match against
+  ``request.upath_info`` (Unicode) rather than ``request.path_info``
+  (indeterminate value based on Python 3 vs. Python 2).  This has to be done
+  to normalize matching on Python 2 and Python 3.
+
 Documentation Enhancements
 --------------------------