Well. You also get better binary compatibility and the possibility to do whole program analysis.

Edit: oh. And this is on top of a rewritten, faster, compiler, a unified base paradigm making it easier to learn the language, and better error messages for compile errors. I think dismissing this as as minor release is disingenuous to how much effort goes in such a large scale rewrite. Granted, most of it is under the hood but it will pay off dividend.