diff --git a/guide/src/migration.md b/guide/src/migration.md
index 6b3d2b1265d..921d186fc8d 100644
--- a/guide/src/migration.md
+++ b/guide/src/migration.md
@@ -59,6 +59,17 @@ let _: Bound<'_, PyNone> = unsafe { Bound::from_owned_ptr(py, raw_ptr).cast_into
 # })
 ```
 
+### Internal change to use multi-phase initialization
+
+[PEP 489](https://peps.python.org/pep-0489/) introduced "multi-phase initialization" for extension modules which provides ways to allocate and clean up per-module state.
+This is a necessary step towards supporting Python "subinterpreters" which run on their own copy of state.
+
+Starting in PyO3 0.28, the `#[pymodule]` macro machinery has been reworked to use multi-phase initialization.
+The possibility of creating and consuming per-module state (and supporting subinterpreters) is left for a future PyO3 version.
+This should not require migration, nor is there expected to be breakage caused by the change.
+
+Nevertheless, this affects the order of initialization so seemed worth noting in this guide.
+
 ## from 0.26.* to 0.27
 
 ### `FromPyObject` reworked for flexibility and efficiency
diff --git a/pyo3-ffi/README.md b/pyo3-ffi/README.md
index 41b9546ac50..389ea2c4cc2 100644
--- a/pyo3-ffi/README.md
+++ b/pyo3-ffi/README.md
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static mut MODULE_DEF: PyModuleDef = PyModuleDef {
     m_doc: c"A Python module written in Rust.".as_ptr(),
     m_size: 0,
     m_methods: std::ptr::addr_of_mut!(METHODS).cast(),
-    m_slots: unsafe { SLOTS as *const [PyModuleDef_Slot] as *mut PyModuleDef_Slot },
+    m_slots: std::ptr::addr_of_mut!(SLOTS).cast(),
     m_traverse: None,
     m_clear: None,
     m_free: None,
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static mut METHODS: [PyMethodDef; 2] = [
     PyMethodDef::zeroed(),
 ];
 
-static mut SLOTS: &[PyModuleDef_Slot] = &[
+const SLOTS_LEN: usize = 1 + if cfg!(Py_3_12) { 1 } else { 0 } + if cfg!(Py_GIL_DISABLED) { 1 } else { 0 };
+static mut SLOTS: [PyModuleDef_Slot; SLOTS_LEN] = [
     // NB: only include this slot if the module does not store any global state in `static` variables
     // or other data which could cross between subinterpreters
     #[cfg(Py_3_12)]
diff --git a/pyo3-ffi/examples/sequential/src/module.rs b/pyo3-ffi/examples/sequential/src/module.rs
index c8d506c5568..99b573d4154 100644
--- a/pyo3-ffi/examples/sequential/src/module.rs
+++ b/pyo3-ffi/examples/sequential/src/module.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ pub static mut MODULE_DEF: PyModuleDef = PyModuleDef {
     m_free: Some(sequential_free),
 };
 
-const SEQUENTIAL_SLOTS_LEN: usize = 3 + if cfg!(Py_GIL_DISABLED) { 1 } else { 0 };
+const SEQUENTIAL_SLOTS_LEN: usize =
+    2 + if cfg!(Py_3_12) { 1 } else { 0 } + if cfg!(Py_GIL_DISABLED) { 1 } else { 0 };
 static mut SEQUENTIAL_SLOTS: [PyModuleDef_Slot; SEQUENTIAL_SLOTS_LEN] = [
     PyModuleDef_Slot {
         slot: Py_mod_exec,
diff --git a/pyo3-ffi/examples/string-sum/src/lib.rs b/pyo3-ffi/examples/string-sum/src/lib.rs
index e772b792e17..658b798c523 100644
--- a/pyo3-ffi/examples/string-sum/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pyo3-ffi/examples/string-sum/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ static mut MODULE_DEF: PyModuleDef = PyModuleDef {
     m_doc: c"A Python module written in Rust.".as_ptr(),
     m_size: 0,
     m_methods: std::ptr::addr_of_mut!(METHODS).cast(),
-    m_slots: unsafe { SLOTS as *const [PyModuleDef_Slot] as *mut PyModuleDef_Slot },
+    m_slots: std::ptr::addr_of_mut!(SLOTS).cast(),
     m_traverse: None,
     m_clear: None,
     m_free: None,
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ static mut METHODS: [PyMethodDef; 2] = [
     PyMethodDef::zeroed(),
 ];
 
-static mut SLOTS: &[PyModuleDef_Slot] = &[
+const SLOTS_LEN: usize =
+    1 + if cfg!(Py_3_12) { 1 } else { 0 } + if cfg!(Py_GIL_DISABLED) { 1 } else { 0 };
+static mut SLOTS: [PyModuleDef_Slot; SLOTS_LEN] = [
     #[cfg(Py_3_12)]
     PyModuleDef_Slot {
         slot: Py_mod_multiple_interpreters,