In the interest of getting the CHANGES worked out sooner or later I will try to (with the eager help of members of this conferance) work out at least one undescribed entry in the CHANGES per day. Depending on current level of boredom there might be more than one entry in a day.
1st entry:
basetype()
Suggested entry, added to "Language additions":
o basetype(foo) Returns the basic type of foo as opposed to typeof(foo) that returns the full type. Also available as sprintf("%t", foo).