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Add more NEWS items for 2.18


I've applied this patch to add more NEWS items for 2.18, based on 
examining the ChangeLogs.  Feel free to refine these entries or add 
further entries for other new features meriting such entries.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7fa47f1..9d37d10 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,21 @@ Version 2.18
 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
   non-x86 architectures.
 
+* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
+
+* Optimized string functions for AArch64.  Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
+
+* Optimized string functions for ARM.  Implemented by Will Newton and
+  Richard Henderson.
+
+* Optimized libm functions for SPARC.  Implemented by David S. Miller.
+
+* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code.  Implemented by
+  Richard Henderson.
+
+* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code.  Implemented by
+  Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
+
 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
 
 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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