[patch] add release notes to news

[Martin Pool]

On 05/05/2006, at 10:02 PM, John A Meinel wrote:

>> +    Release 0.8 of bzr introduces a new format for history  
>> storage, called
>> +    'knit', as an evolution of to the 'weave' format used in  
>> 0.7.  Local
>> +    and remote operations are faster using weaves than knits.   
>> Several
>> +    operations including 'init', 'init-repo', and 'upgrade' take a
>> +    --format option that controls this.  Branching from an  
>> existing branch
>> +    will keep the same format.
>
> Well, I'm guessing you want to say that :
>  Local and remote operations are faster using knits than weaves.

Oops, thanks.
>
> While this is true, 'bzr info' shows a lot of detail for someone who
> just wants to know whether they are a knit or a weave branch.

That's true, but it's the best user-accessible way at the moment.
>
> Seems good to me. I don't know if you want to mention anything about
> light versus plain checkouts. And how plain checkouts would still let
> you commit locally when offline.

I left it out for now - I wanted this to be fairly short and just hit  
the high points people really needed to know.

We'll probably make 0.8 fairly shortly now.

-- 
Martin