docs: adjust NEWS file for kmscon-8

Mostly build-tool changes and code removal. Everything else bug fixes,
fixes, fixes, ...

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
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= KMSCON Release News =
CHANGES WITH 8:
* Several build-tools changes. Please adjust your build-scripts
accoringly:
- xz instead of bz2 tarballs
- tarballs moved to: www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases
- linking with ld.gold now supported
- libtsm was extracted into a separate library, available at:
www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm
- Several dependencies are mandatory now. See README.
- --prefix=/usr is no longer the default. You need to pass it
yourself!
* Removed wlterm. A GTK+ variant of wlterm is now available at:
www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/wlterm
* Removed uvtd and uvt. They were unused.
* Removed cdev-sessions
* Removed freetype2 font-backend
* Removed cairo text renderer
* eloop and uterm are now linked statically
* Dynamic font resizing is now supported. Use ctrl+'+' and ctrl+'-' as
default shortcuts to resize your font on-the-fly.
* Lots of bug-fixes!
CHANGES WITH 7:
* TSM, font and text subsystems have been extended to support
multi-width fonts (via wcwidth(3)). This allows using CJK characters