added allocator improvments to the changelog; closes #6031

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@@ -118,3 +118,8 @@ This now needs to be written as:
See [special-operators](https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#special-operators)
for more information.
- Added ``macros.unpackVarargs``.
- The memory manager now uses a variant of the TLSF algorithm that has much
better memory fragmentation behaviour. According
to [http://www.gii.upv.es/tlsf/](http://www.gii.upv.es/tlsf/) the maximum
fragmentation measured is lower than 25%. As a nice bonus ``alloc`` and
``dealloc`` became O(1) operations.