release: Update NEWS file and add out of date notice to ChangeLog

Might not be the final NEWS file but a start which includes all
noteworthy changes since 1.8.0. Adding a note to the ChangeLog so
people know it will no longer get updated.

Also clarify README that libvlc >= 2.0 is needed.

3 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2d381b5..b1c5ebd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,3 +3,10 @@
 	* Created the project based on previous
 	emotion/src/generic_players, as it was removed when Emotion was
 	merged into EFL single-tree.
+
+
+OUT OF DATE NOTICE:
+-------------------
+With the start of the 1.9.x release cycle we now longer update the ChangeLog and rely on git log for
+this functionality. We keep however a NEWS files for a high level overview of changes in a new
+release which will be filled at the end of the release cycle.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e69de29..d6812d2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Emotion Generic Players 1.9.0
+
+Changes since Emotion Generic Players 1.8.0:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Improvements:
+
+   * Emotion VLC player: debug++
+   * Emotion VLC: cleanup: only changed function order in file.
+   * Simplify player version dir fallback to match efl 1.9 simplification changes
+   * Emotion_generic_players - commented out unused func.
+
+Fixes:
+
+   * Emotion VLC backend: fix pause/stop to work again.
+     The EM_CMD_STOP command do not have any parameter so it must be
+     handled in the first call of the pipe.
+   * Check for libvlc >= 2.0 as a minimum as we use 2.x funcs
diff --git a/README b/README
index 698ec51..783fe37 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ conflicting licenses with GPL, LGPL or even proprietary code.
 REQUIREMENTS
 ------------
 
-  * vlc (libvlc)
+  * vlc (libvlc >= 2.0)
 
 
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