Add NEWS in preparation for the new release

Change-Id: I629158b59ff38f9b82a560f119a391bb97af43f2
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://openocd.zylin.com/2701
Tested-by: jenkins

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ad081ed..6620bc69 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,16 +2,92 @@ This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD
 source archive release.
 
 JTAG Layer:
+	* SWD support with FTDI, Versaloon, J-Link, sysfsgpio
+	* CMSIS-DAP massive speed and stability improvements
+	* Versaloon driver ported to libusb-1.0
+	* STLink can reestablish communication with a target that was
+          disconnected or rebooted
+	* STLink FAULT and WAIT SWD handling improved
+	* New hla_serial command to distinguish between several HLA
+          adapters attached to a single machine
+	* Serial number support for CMSIS-DAP and J-Link adapters
+	* Support for more J-Link adapters
+	* TAP autoprobing improvements
+	* Big speedup for SVF playback with USB Blaster
 
 Boundary Scan:
 
 Target Layer:
+	* Stability improvements for targets that get disconnected or
+          rebooted during a debug session
+	* MIPS speed and reliability improvements
+	* MIPS 1.5/2.0 fixes
+	* ARMv7-R improvements
+	* Cortex-A improvements, A7, A15 MPCores support
+	* FPU support for ARMv7-M (Cortex-M4F)
+	* TPIU/ITM support (including SWO/SWV tracing), can be
+          captured with external tools or STLink
+	* JTAG Serial Port (Advanced Debug System softcore) support
+	* Profiling support for OpenRISC
+	* ChibiOS/RT 3.0 support (with and without FPU)
+	* FreeRTOS current versions support
+	* Freescale MQX RTOS support
+	* GDB target description support for MIPS
+	* The last created target is auto-selected as the current
 
 Flash Layer:
+	* nRF51 async loader to improve flashing performance and stability
+	* Cypress PSoC 41xx/42xx family flash driver
+	* Silabs SiM3 family flash driver
+	* Marvell Wireless Microcontroller SPI flash driver
+	* Kinetis mass erase (part unsecuring) implemented
+	* lpcspifi stability fixes
+	* STM32 family sync with reference manuals, L0 support, bugfixes
+	* LPC2000 driver automatically determines part and flash size
+	* NXP LPC11(x)xx, LPC13xx, LPC15xx, LPC8xx, LPC5410x, LPC407x support
+	* Atmel SAMD, SAMR, SAML21 devices support
+	* Atmel SAM4E16 support
+	* ZeroGecko family support
+	* TI Tiva C Blizzard and Snowflake families support
+	* Nuvoton NuMicro M051 support
 
 Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
+	* Normal target configs can work with HLA (STLink, ICDI) adapters
+	* STM32 discovery and Nucleo boards configs
+	* Gumstix AeroCore board config
+	* General Plus GP326XXXA target config
+	* Micrel KS869x target config
+	* ASUS RT-N66U board config
+	* Atmel SAM4E-EK board config
+	* Atmel AT91SAM4L proper reset handling implemented
+	* TI OMAP/AM 3505, 3517 target configs
+	* nRF51822-mKIT board config
+	* RC Module К1879ХБ1Я target config
+	* TI TMDX570LS20SUSB board config
+	* TI TMS570 USB Kit board config
+	* TI CC2538, CC26xx target configs
+	* TI AM437x major config improvements, DDR support
+	* TI AM437X IDK board config
+	* TI SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200 LaunchPad configs
+	* Silicon Labs EM357, EM358 target configs
+	* Infineon XMC1000, XMC4000 family targets and boards configs
+	* Atheros AR9331 target config
+	* TP-LINK TL-MR3020 board config
+	* Alphascale asm9260t target and eval kit configs
+	* Olimex SAM7-LA2 (AT91SAM7A2) board config
+	* EFM32 Gecko boards configs
+	* Spansion FM4 target and SK-FM4-176L-S6E2CC board configs
+	* LPC1xxx target configs were restructured
+	* IoT-LAB debug adapter config
+	* DP BusBlaster KT-Link compatible config
 
 Server Layer:
+	* Polling period can be configured
+	* "shutdown" command has an immediate effect
+	* The "program" command doesn't lead to a shutdown by
+          default, use optional "exit" parameter for the old behaviour
+	* Proper OS signal handling was implemented
+	* Async target notifications for the Tcl RPC
 
 Documentation:
 
@@ -22,7 +98,7 @@ This release also contains a number of other important functional and
 cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the
 last release, see the git repository history:
 
-http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.9.0/log/?path=
+http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.9.0-rc1/log/?path=
 
 
 For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release