Add some placeholder notes for major 3.8 features (GH-13927)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index bf75387d9517f3f978c5777919fad4c92ece74de..99bb793830bc37ef1c1c2d542835e71da2818d72 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ For full details, see the :ref:`changelog <changelog>`.
    form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.8 moves towards release,
    so it's worth checking back even after reading earlier versions.
 
+   Some notable items not yet covered here:
+
+   * :pep:`574` - Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data buffer support
+   * :pep:`578` - Runtime audit hooks for potentially sensitive operations
+   * ``python -m asyncio`` runs a natively async REPL
+   * ...
+
 
 Summary -- Release highlights
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