[1.11 BACKPORT] NEWS update

[Omair Majid]

On 01/12/2012 12:15 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Following the release of 1.8.12, 1.9.12 and 1.10.5, the NEWS file
> needs to be updated to include these releases and remove the
> fixes published in them from the list for 1.11.
>
> I've already done this on HEAD with the attached patch.  Is this
> ok for 1.11?
>

Looks fine to me. Thanks for doing this!

Cheers,
Omair