Document the major user-visible developments.

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     FILES
         BUGS.markdown
         LICENSE
+        NEWS.markdown
         README.markdown
         TODO.markdown
     DESTINATION doc)

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+This file lists the major user visible improvments.  For a full list of changes
+and their authors see the git history.
+
+
+Recent developments
+===================
+
+* Flush/sync trace file only when there is an uncaught signal/exception,
+  yielding a 5x speed up while tracing.
+
+* Employ [snappy compression library](http://code.google.com/p/snappy/) instead
+  of zlib, yielding a 2x speed up while tracing.
+
+* Implement and advertise `GL_GREMEDY_string_marker` and
+  `GL_GREMEDY_frame_terminator` extensions.
+
+* Mac OS X support.
+
+* Support up-to OpenGL 4.2 calls.
+
+
+Version 1.0
+===========
+
+* Qt GUI, capable of visualizing the calls, the state, and editing the state.
+
+
+Pre-history
+===========
+
+* OpenGL retrace support.