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Update NEWS for 4.0.0 release

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Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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4.0.0 - well-integrated and powerful signed packages and databases
support in pacman, the library, and scripts (FS#5331)
- over 800 commits to pacman.git since 3.5.4 release
- many code cleanup commits across library/binaries/scripts
- many performance improvement commits across library/binaries
- add new -S --recursive operation to upgrade a full dep chain
- report upgrade size on sync operations (FS#12566)
- early terminal input is flushed before question prompts
- remove duplicate code shared in sync and upgrade operations
- remove ShowSize; replaced with VerbosePkgLists (FS#15772)
- print callback (warning, error) messages to stderr (FS#25099)
- download progress callback has more room for filenames
- fix selection entry for long values (FS#25253)
- make config parsing two-pass process, enhance error messages
- print helpful tips on -Qi <filename> or -S <filename>
- replace libfetch with libcurl for backend download library
- timeout when mirror is not responding (FS#15369)
- full HTTPS protocol support (FS#22435)
- support of non-traditional/redirected URLs (FS#22645)
- ensure downloads are only resumed if appropriate (FS#23803)
- only remove empty directories if no remaining owner (FS#25141)
- better cache directory choosing and honor $TMPDIR (FS#25435)
- replaces are parsed as dependency-style strings (FS#23410)
- split package verification and load stages
- sync database reading refactor for performance
- filelists now have a dedicated type with metadata
- diskspace check no longer requires iterating package archives
- update and add checksum routines from PolarSSL
- validate sync database sha256sum if available
- correctly parse sizes in database > 2GiB
- API: several type renames from pm* to alpm_* prefix
- API: several enum constant renames from PM to ALPM_* prefix
- API: several types are now public exposed structs
- API: handle is no longer a single global variable
- API: more changes than can be mentioned here, see README
- much improved API documentation for use by Doxygen
- pactest: several performance/checking improvements
- scripts:
- refactor some common components into shared bash library
- split translations into pacman-scripts catalog (FS#15148)
- makepkg:
- allow signing packages after creation
- allow verifying source file signatures (FS#20448)
- support UPX compression of executables (FS#17213)
- allow usage of an alternate build directory (FS#22308)
- cleancache option has been removed; use shell instead
- improved variable sanity checking (FS#16004)
- better handling of package extensions (.tar.Z or invalid)
- allow PKGEXT/SRCEXT environment overrides (FS#19860)
- only check for writable PKGDEST if necessary (FS#24735)
- check_software function exits early if missing req'd binaries
- do source packaging in fakeroot (FS#24330)
- be more POSIX-compatible in use of `ln` (FS#24893)
- handle spaces with filenames in noextract (FS#25100)
- pacman-key: new keyring management tool for signed data
- pacsort: new utility, sort version numbers as pacman does
- pactree: support sync databases with -s option
- pkgdelta: add a manpage
- repo-add:
- handle and include package signatures in databases
- verify database signature before modification
- sign database after creation/modification
- general script cleanup and bash-ification
- add sha256sums to database (FS#23103)
- contrib/bacman: code cleanups and small bug fixes
- contrib/bash_completion: updates for new options/commands
- contrib/paccache: new, pacman cache cleanup script
- contrib/paclist: rewrite using bash
- contrib/paclog-pkglist: new, recover from missing local DB
- documentation: extensive updates to all manpages
- translations: extensive updates, new languages: lt, zh_TW
3.5.4 - fix display of lists on non-TTYs and other output fixes
- fix group selection entry for large inputs (FS#24253)
- fix divide by zero when downloading zero length files