NEWS: first cut of a NEWS file for 4.00

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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@@ -3,9 +3,47 @@ or EXTLINUX apply to that specific program only; other changes apply
 to all derivatives.
 
 Changes in 4.00:
-       * chain.c32: support booting GPT partitions by index, GUID, label
-       * chain.c32: support booting the Syslinux partition with "fs"
-       * chain.c32: implement gpt.txt hand-over protocol
+       * Major code base changes; all filesystem rewritten in C.
+         This work was done primarily by Liu Aleaxander (Yuanhan Liu).
+       * EXTLINUX: btrfs and ext4 support.  btrfs support was done by
+         Alek Du of Intel.
+       * EXTLINUX is no longer a separate derivative; extlinux and
+         syslinux both install the same loader (ldlinux.sys); for the
+         Linux-based installers the extlinux binary is used for a
+         mounted filesystem; the syslinux binary for an unmounted
+         filesystem.
+       * When loading a new configuration file with the CONFIG
+         command, one can now also specify a new current directory
+         with an APPEND statement.
+       * Full ADV support for Syslinux, to boot-once and MENU SAVE
+         works.
+       * Full support of GPT-partitioned disks, including disks
+         and/or parititions larger than 2 TiB (if supported by BIOS.)
+       * The GPT handover protocol adjusted to the current T13
+         committee draft; see doc/gpt.txt.
+       * HDT: major updates.
+       * The "linux" syslinux installer (syslinux-nomtools) now has a
+         command-line syntax closer to the extlinux installer.  The
+         mtools, dos and win32 installers will get this new syntax
+         eventually, but it is not implemented yet.
+       * chain.c32: support booting GPT partitions by index, GUID, label.
+       * chain.c32: support booting the Syslinux partition with "fs".
+       * chain.c32: implement gpt.txt hand-over protocol.
+       * chain.c32: support for chainloading Grub stage 2.
+       * PXELINUX: TFTP URL syntax (tftp://) supported even when not
+         running gPXE/gpxelinux.
+       * New ls.c32 module to display the contents of the disk from
+         the command line, and pwd.c32 to display the current
+         directory.
+       * rosh.c32 (read only shell) updated and hopefully usable.
+       * PXELINUX: Support "localboot -1", just like the other
+         derivatives.
+       * gfxboot.com removed in favor of gfxboot.c32.
+       * New MENU HELP statement to display fullscreen help text as a
+         result of a menu selection.
+       * memdiskfind utility that can be used with the phram driver
+         in the Linux kernel to mount a memdisk.
+
 Changes in 3.86:
        * chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken
          in 3.85).