WT-3391 Add release notes for the WiredTiger 2.9.3 release (#3481)

* Add release notes for the WiredTiger 2.9.3 release

* Update doc landing page

4 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 380db269523..ffcefd5f8c1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,30 @@
 Ticket reference tags refer to tickets in the MongoDB JIRA tracking system:
 https://jira.mongodb.org
 
+WiredTiger release 2.9.3, 2017-06-27
+------------------------------------
+
+See the upgrading documentation for details of API and behavior changes.
+
+Significant changes:
+* WT-2972       Add an interface allowing partial updates to existing values
+* WT-3063       Add an interface allowing reservation of records for read-modify-write
+* WT-3142       Add a workload generator application
+* WT-3160       Improve eviction of internal pages from idle trees
+* WT-3245       Avoid hangs on shutdown when a utility thread encounters an error
+* WT-3258       Improve visibility into thread wait time due to pages exceeding memory_page_max
+* WT-3263       Allow archive on restart/recovery if clean shutdown
+* WT-3287       Review WiredTiger internal panic checks
+* WT-3292       Review/cleanup full-barrier calls in WiredTiger
+* WT-3296       LAS table fixes/improvements
+* WT-3327       Checkpoints can hang if time runs backward
+* WT-3345       Improve rwlock scaling
+* WT-3373       Access violation due to a bug in internal page splitting
+* WT-3379       Change when pages can be split to avoid excessively slowing some operations
+
+See JIRA changelog for a full listing:
+https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/WT/fixforversion/18291
+
 WiredTiger release 2.9.2, 2017-05-25
 ------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index eb5324eb4d1..db51b69d91b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-WiredTiger 2.9.3: (May 27, 2017)
+WiredTiger 2.9.3: (June 26, 2017)
 
 This is version 2.9.3 of WiredTiger.
 
diff --git a/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4 b/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4
index bbf8547e548..07765503294 100644
--- a/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4
+++ b/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl build by dist/s_version
 VERSION_MAJOR=2
 VERSION_MINOR=9
 VERSION_PATCH=3
-VERSION_STRING='"WiredTiger 2.9.3: (May 27, 2017)"'
+VERSION_STRING='"WiredTiger 2.9.3: (June 26, 2017)"'
 
 AC_SUBST(VERSION_MAJOR)
 AC_SUBST(VERSION_MINOR)
diff --git a/src/docs/top/main.dox b/src/docs/top/main.dox
index 6b28bd0062f..1bfb623c0a0 100644
--- a/src/docs/top/main.dox
+++ b/src/docs/top/main.dox
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ WiredTiger is an high performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL,
 @section releases Releases
 
 <table>
-@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.9.2</b> (current),
+@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.9.3</b> (current),
+	<a href="releases/wiredtiger-2.9.3.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>,
+	<a href="2.9.3/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}
+@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.9.2</b> (previous),
 	<a href="releases/wiredtiger-2.9.2.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>,
 	<a href="2.9.2/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}
-@row{<b>WiredTiger 2.8.0</b> (previous),
-	<a href="releases/wiredtiger-2.8.0.tar.bz2"><b>[Release package]</b></a>,
-	<a href="2.8.0/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}
 @row{<b>Development branch</b>,
 	<a href="https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger"><b>[Source code]</b></a>,
 	<a href="develop/index.html"><b>[Documentation]</b></a>}