Restore normal development cycle

Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>

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+This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD
+source archive release.
+
+JTAG Layer:
+	* New CMSIS-DAP driver
+	* Andes AICE debug adapter support
+	* New OpenJTAG driver
+	* New BCM2835 (RaspberryPi) driver
+	* JTAG VPI client driver (for OpenRISC Reference Platform SoC)
+	* Xilinx BSCAN_* for OpenRISC support
+	* ST-LINKv2-1 support
+	* ST-LINKv2 SWO tracing support (UART emulation)
+	* JLink-OB (onboard) support
+	* Altera USB Blaster driver rewrite, initial Blaster II
+	  support
+	* ULINK driver ported to libusb-1.0, OpenULINK build fixes
+	* Support up to 64 bit IR lengths
+	* SVF playback (FPGA programming) fixes
+	* "ftdi" interface driver got extensive testing and is now
+	  recommended over the old ft2232 implementation
+
+Boundary Scan:
+
+Target Layer:
+	* New target: Andes nds32
+	* New target: OpenRISC OR1K
+	* New target: Intel Quark X10xx
+	* MIPS EJTAG 1.5/2.0 support
+	* MIPS speed improvements
+	* Cortex-M, Cortex-A (MEM-AP, APB-AP) targets working with BE
+	  hosts now
+	* XScale vector_catch support, reset fixes
+	* dsp563xx ad-hoc breakpoint/watchpoint support
+	* RTOS support for embKernel
+	* Target profiling improvements
+	* Memory access functions testbench
+
+Flash Layer:
+	* STM32 family sync with reference manuals, other bugfixes
+	* STM32F401, STM32F07x support
+	* Atmel SAM4L, SAMG5x support
+	* at91sam3sd8{a,b}, at91sam3s8{a,b,c}, at91sam4s,
+	  at91sam3n0{a,b,0a,0b} support, bugfixes
+	* Atmel SAMD support
+	* Milandr 1986ВЕ* support
+	* Kinetis KL, K21 support
+	* Nuvoton NuMicro MINI5{1,2,4} support
+	* Nuvoton NUC910 series support
+	* NXP LPC43xx, LPC2000 fixes
+	* NXP LPC800, LPC810 support
+	* More ATmega parts supported
+	* Fujitsu MB9Ax family support
+	* EFM32 Wonder Gecko family support
+	* Nordic nRF51 support
+
+Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
+	* STM32W108xx generic target config
+	* STM32F429 discovery board config
+	* STM32 Nucleo boards configs
+	* DENX M53EVK board config
+	* Altera Cyclone V SoC, SoCkit config
+	* New TI Launchpads board configs
+	* TI am43xx devices, AM437x GP EVM, AM438x ePOS EVM board
+	  configs
+	* Marvell Armada 370 family initial support
+	* TI TMDX570LS31USB (TMS570, Cortex-R4) support scripts
+	* Freescale FRDM-KL25Z, KL46Z board configs
+	* Digilent Zedboard config
+	* Asus RT-N16, Linksys WRT54GL, BT HomeHub board configs
+	* Atmel Xplained initial support
+	* Broadcom bcm28155_ap board config
+	* TUMPA, TUMPA Lite interface configs
+	* Digilent JTAG-SMT2 interface config
+	* New RAM testing functions
+	* Easy-to-use firmware recovery helpers targetting ordinary
+	  users with common equipment
+
+Server Layer:
+	* Auto-generation of GDB target description for ARMv7-M,
+	  ARM4, nds32, OR1K, Quark
+	* GDB File-I/O Remote Protocol extension support
+	* Default GDB flashing events handlers to initialise and reset
+	  the target automatically when "load" is used
+
+Documentation:
+	* Extensive README* changes
+	* The official User's Guide was proofread
+	* Example cross-build script
+	* RTOS documentation improvements
+	* Tcl RPC documentation and examples added
+
+Build and Release:
+	* *BSD, OS X, clang, ARM, windows build fixes
+	* New pkg-config support changes the way libusb (and other
+	  dependencies) are handled. Many adapter drivers are now
+	  selected automatically during the configure stage.
+
+
+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/v0.8.0/log/?path=
+
+
+For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release
+(i.e. NEWS-<version>).
+
+For more information about contributing test reports, bug fixes, or new
+features and device support, please read the new Developer Manual (or
+the BUGS and PATCHES.txt files in the source archive).