[NEWS] Add a few notes.

Help Carl with a speedy snapshot by writing a few notes about what has been
added so far to 1.9.
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Release 1.9.2 (2008-11-08?)
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API additions:
cairo_surface_set_mime_data()
cairo_surface_get_mime_data()
Associate an alternate, compressed, representation for a surface.
Currently:
"image/jpeg" is understood by PDF,PS,SVG,win32-printing.
"image/png" is understood by SVG.
New backend:
Simple DirectMedia Layer
New utility:
cairo-trace
Generates a human-readable, replayable, compact representation of
the sequences of drawing commands made by an application.
Though currently the replay tools are out-of-tree -
people.freedesktop.org:~ickle/cairo-script,
people.freedesktop.org:~ickle/sphinx
Test suite overhaul:
The test suite is undergoing an overhaul, primarily to improve its speed
and utility.
Optimisations:
Tweaks to tessellator, allocations of patterns, delayed initialisation of
the xlib backend (reduce the cairo overhead of render_bench by ~80%).
Bug fixes:
EXTEND_PAD.
Better handling of large scale-factors on image patterns.
Emit /Interpolate for PS,PDF images.
Release 1.8.2 (2008-10-29 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
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The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.2 release of the