unposted: NEWS: update per w/53257 and w/53260

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@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@ Non-forking command substitutions with ${ ... } and ${| ... } are now
 available, and the latter extended with ${|param| ... } to return the
 result via assignment to the named param rather than always via $REPLY.
 
+The shell now uses monotonic time instead of wall time for most
+internal time tracking, making it immune to system clock changes due to
+NTP, etc. For the most part this is transparent to users. However, as a
+side effect, some features like $SECONDS and the time builtin gained
+(nominal) nanosecond precision.
+
+The zsh/zutil module's zparseopts builtin learnt a -v option which can
+be used to specify the array of arguments to parse instead of $@.
+
+The zparseopts builtin also learnt a -G option which enables GNU-style
+argument parsing ('--opt=arg', etc.).
+
 Changes since 5.8.1
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