Add release text for Cygwin 2.6.0

Move release/2.5.3 to release/2.6.0.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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What's new:
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What changed:
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- Drop support for very old SUNWNFS filesystem.
- Raise number of supported partitions per disk (for raw access) to 63.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00136.html
Bug Fixes
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- Fix strace timer output in child process.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00067.html
- Change blkcnt_t to signed type per POSIX.
- Fix definition of SSIZE_MAX on 32-bit systems.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00179.html
- Fix transposing invalid chars in Windows filenames on relative paths.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00193.html
- Fix truncl which was using the wrong FPU rounding mode.
Addresses: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128665

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What's new:
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- Support for POSIX-1.2008 locale objects and per-thread locales.
New API: newlocale, freelocale, duplocale, uselocale,
isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isascii_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l, isgraph_l,
islower_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isspace_l, isupper_l, iswalnum_l,
iswalpha_l, iswblank_l, iswcntrl_l, iswctype_l, iswdigit_l, iswgraph_l,
iswlower_l, iswprint_l, iswpunct_l, iswspace_l, iswupper_l, iswxdigit_l,
isxdigit_l, toascii_l, tolower_l, toupper_l, towctrans_l, towlower_l,
towupper_l, wctrans_l, wctype_l, strcasecmp_l, strcoll_l, strfmon_l,
strftime_l, strncasecmp_l, strxfrm_l, wcscasecmp_l, wcscoll_l,
wcstrncasecmp_l, wcstrxfrm_l, strtod_l, strtof_l, strtol_l, strtold_l,
strtoll_l, strtoul_l, strtoull_l, wcstod_l, wcstof_l, wcstol_l, wcstold_l,
wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l, wcstoull_l.
What changed:
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- Drop support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2.
- Drop support for very old SUNWNFS filesystem.
- Further header file improvements in terms of feature test macros.
- Raise number of supported partitions per disk (for raw access) to 63.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00136.html
- Add a workaround for filesystems not supporting the FileAllInformation
info class.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00350.html
- "nobody" account support for WinFSP.
Bug Fixes
---------
- Make sure ldd(1) does not exit prematurely when enumerating DLLs.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-05/msg00185.html
- Fix strace timer output in child process.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00067.html
- Change blkcnt_t to signed type per POSIX.
- Fix definition of SSIZE_MAX on 32-bit systems.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00179.html
- Fix transposing invalid chars in Windows filenames on relative paths.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00193.html
- Don't raise SIGTTIN from select(2)/poll(2).
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-07/msg00004.html
- Fix truncl which was using the wrong FPU rounding mode.
Addresses: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128665
- Fix a regression in ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, ...) introduced in Cygwin 2.5.0.
This only affects 64 bit Cygwin.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00001.html
- Handle "clear screen" escpae sequence in console window more reliable.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00310.html
- Allow kill(pid, <anysig>) on zombies to return successfully, rather than
only kill(pid, 0), to align behaviour with POSIX requirements.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00188.html
behaviour.

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<sect1 id="ov-new"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin</title>
<sect2 id="ov-new2.6"><title>What's new and what changed in 2.6</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem><para>
Support for POSIX-1.2008 locale objects and per-thread locales.
New API: newlocale, freelocale, duplocale, uselocale,
isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isascii_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l, isgraph_l,
islower_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isspace_l, isupper_l, iswalnum_l,
iswalpha_l, iswblank_l, iswcntrl_l, iswctype_l, iswdigit_l, iswgraph_l,
iswlower_l, iswprint_l, iswpunct_l, iswspace_l, iswupper_l, iswxdigit_l,
isxdigit_l, toascii_l, tolower_l, toupper_l, towctrans_l, towlower_l,
towupper_l, wctrans_l, wctype_l, strcasecmp_l, strcoll_l, strfmon_l,
strftime_l, strncasecmp_l, strxfrm_l, wcscasecmp_l, wcscoll_l,
wcstrncasecmp_l, wcstrxfrm_l, strtod_l, strtof_l, strtol_l, strtold_l,
strtoll_l, strtoul_l, strtoull_l, wcstod_l, wcstof_l, wcstol_l, wcstold_l,
wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l, wcstoull_l.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Drop support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Drop support for very old SUNWNFS filesystem.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Raise number of supported partitions per disk (for raw access) to 63.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Further header file improvements in terms of feature test macros.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Add a workaround for filesystems not supporting the FileAllInformation
info class.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
"nobody" account support for WinFSP.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new2.5"><title>What's new and what changed in 2.5</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">