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PATCH for NEWS update



Proposed NEWS list.  If anyone wants to elaborate on these or thinks I
have missed something important, please jump in.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d515a60..e6bd732 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,39 @@ creates a local "scalar" containing the text "one word"
 and an array "array" containing the words "several"
 "words".
 
+- The print builtin has new options -x and -X to expand tabs.
+
+- Several new command completions and numerous updates to others.
+
+- Options to "fc" to segregate internal and shared history.
+
+- All emulations including "sh" use multibyte by default; several
+  repairs to multibyte handling.
+
+- ZLE supports "bracketed paste" mode to avoid interpreting pasted
+  newlines as accept-line.  Pastes can be highlighted for visibility
+  and to make it more obvious whether accept-line has occurred.
+
+- Improved (though still not perfect) POSIX compatibility for getopts
+  builtin when POSIX_BUILTINS is set.
+
+- New setopt APPEND_CREATE for POSIX-compatible NO_CLOBBER behavior.
+
+- Completion of date values now displays in a calendar format when
+  the complist module is available.  Controllable by zstyle.
+
+- New parameter UNDO_LIMIT_NO for more control over ZLE undo repeat.
+
+- Several repairs/improvements to the contributed narrow-to-region
+  ZLE function.
+
+- Many changes to child-process and signal handling to eliminate race
+  conditions and avoid deadlocks on descriptor and memory management.
+
+- New builtin sysopen in zsh/system module for detailed control of
+  file descriptor modes.
+
+
 Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.8
 ---------------------------
 

-- 
Barton E. Schaefer



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