docs: adjust NEWS file for kmscon-8

Mostly build-tool changes and code removal. Everything else bug fixes,
fixes, fixes, ...

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3fb05a4..5ba64e9 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,35 @@
 = KMSCON Release News =
 
+CHANGES WITH 8:
+       * Several build-tools changes. Please adjust your build-scripts
+         accoringly:
+           - xz instead of bz2 tarballs
+           - tarballs moved to: www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases
+           - linking with ld.gold now supported
+           - libtsm was extracted into a separate library, available at:
+               www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm
+           - Several dependencies are mandatory now. See README.
+           - --prefix=/usr is no longer the default. You need to pass it
+             yourself!
+
+       * Removed wlterm. A GTK+ variant of wlterm is now available at:
+           www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/wlterm
+
+       * Removed uvtd and uvt. They were unused.
+
+       * Removed cdev-sessions
+
+       * Removed freetype2 font-backend
+
+       * Removed cairo text renderer
+
+       * eloop and uterm are now linked statically
+
+       * Dynamic font resizing is now supported. Use ctrl+'+' and ctrl+'-' as
+         default shortcuts to resize your font on-the-fly.
+
+       * Lots of bug-fixes!
+
 CHANGES WITH 7:
        * TSM, font and text subsystems have been extended to support
          multi-width fonts (via wcwidth(3)). This allows using CJK characters