Updating NEWS for 2.26

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/04/2017 10:36 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> Given the variety of changes in this release I think some more
>> organization of NEWS would be helpful, as well.  I'm thinking
>> subsections for changes to build requirements, new features,
>> deprecated and/or removed features, important bugfixes.
>
> Sure, I'll see what kind of logical groups the changes fall into.
>
> If you have a change in mind, please just checkin rough text and I'll
> wordsmith it later.

This is done now; please feel free to make further changes as you see fit.

I am wondering whether we really need a comprehensive list of all the
TS 18661-3 macros and functions.  It's a giant wall of text and it may
make people think they're done reading, when the very important
"deprecated and removed features" section is just below.

zw