Improvements to the ARM code was mentioned in the release notes, and I would think that apart from "practical" mobile development, reintroducing Pascal as a teaching language for Raspberry Pi's is a motivation for that.

I just wish they had more dialects to choose from, a highly optimizing Oberon compiler would be nice to have (although the code size of the project would give Prof. Wirth chills). And, well, Modula-3…

There's also a new standard for Ada out, so fans of the Algol/Pascal family would have their weekend research/projects cut out for them this year.