Camera Raw file size

I have accidently noticed that Camera Raw's files size nearly doubled between 6.4 and 6.5. Not that I care about a few megs of lost disk space, but what little secrets are there hidden? I don't remember any major new features being added.
P.S. I have not been around for a good couple of months, so maybe I missed something.

No, I said "no new features" in ACR 6.5, but a big jump in file size.
Camera Raw.8bi is 11.9 MB for version 6.4
Camera Raw.8bi is 19.0 MB for version 6.5
Remember how ACR 5.7 had no UI for editing PV2010 adjustments, but could interpret it to assure some compatibility of the old Photoshop CS4 with the new process? At first, I thought maybe it's the same thing here: there's some code in ACR 6.5 for PV2012 interpretation. But seems a bit unlikely, given that it was released about 5 month ago and PV2012 is still considered unfinished in LR4.
Then I thought it has something to do with fixing the dreaded "hue shift when using Recovery" issue. But that was fixed in 6.4 already. (BTW, how come this went unnoticed, without any mention of it in release notes? This was a huge problem for some images and fixing also caused a major difference in rendering of some images, thus braking backward compatibility.)
But I don't believe that the sudden doubling of ACR file size is an accident either.

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