NEWS patches v2

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, Oct 17 2015, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:

> I had a series in progress more or less at the same time as Jani, so
> of course there were all kinds of silly conflicts.
>
> I rebased the two series together, and tried to get most of Tomi's
> formatting comments.

>From the formatting point of view this series looks good -- with luck
I don't have to do post-release NEWS formatting tunes this time(*) ;)

Jani: the tool to "check" formatting is devel/news2wiki.pl

(*) perhaps this time I have a chance (i.e. remember) to run
devel/news2wiki.pl *before* release.

Tomi