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Intel announces major update to core x86 instruction set
(www.intel.com)
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This is the only way really to move forward with ISA extensions.
Though, I think for this update we don't need to be too concerned. Since it changes the code in such an extensive way, compiler writers will be strongly incentivised to produce this duplicate path themselves. Instead of letting the burden of dispatching fall on the programmer like with AVX and friends