Add changes file for 5.8.0

Listing important changes and bug-fixes.

Change-Id: Ief57951009b59dc0c0b861315b2dfa35543dd960
Reviewed-by: Michael Brüning <michael.bruning@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>

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+Qt 5.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+over the 5.7.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
+included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:
+
+  http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html
+
+The Qt version 5.8 series is binary compatible with the 5.7.x series.
+Applications compiled for 5.7 will continue to run with 5.8.
+
+Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
+corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:
+
+  https://bugreports.qt.io/
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
+information about a particular change.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                             General                                      *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - Important Changes:
+   * The enum value ResourceTypeUnknown has changed value because there was
+     a mismatch between 5.6 and 5.7+ definitions. In general any unknown
+     ResourceType value should be handled as unknown for forward
+     compatibility, because more types are and can be added in later
+     Qt versions.
+
+ - Chromium Snapshot:
+   * The Chromium version has been updated to 53.0.2785.148.
+
+ - General:
+   * Spellchecking support has been introduced.
+   * Build time options can now be controlled via arguments to the global
+     configure script or app.
+   * [QTBUG-52999] Added focusOnNavigationEnabled setting which allows
+     controlling whether a web view will receive focus on a navigation
+     request. Previously the view always received the focus.
+   * [QTBUG-54902] Added setting to allow secure content to run insecure
+     content.
+   * [QTBUG-54918] Printing will now include the CSS background of the
+     printed elements by default. This restores the default behavior from Qt
+     WebKit. It can be controlled via the PrintElementBackgrounds web
+     setting.
+   * Some chrome:// URLs are now supported. For instance chrome://gpu.
+   * [QTBUG-53042] Pepper Flash glyph draw is now supported.
+   * A DownloadType has been added to download items.
+   * Greasemonkey attributes are now supported in user scripts.
+   * [QTBUG-55766] Added support for colored underline and background
+     to InputMethodEvent.
+   * Qt no-opengl builds are now supported.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Qt WebEngine[QML]                               *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - General:
+   * [QTBUG-53467][QTBUG-51177] Qt WebEngine (QML) now optionally uses Qt
+     Quick 2 Controls to show standard dialogs.
+   * [QTBUG-51190] Added ability to provide custom dialogs for HTTP and
+     proxy authentication, JavaScript alerts, file and color picking, and
+     form validation messages.
+   * [QTBUG-52554] Added ability to show custom context menu.
+
+ - QQuickWebEngineView:
+   * ToolTip (HTML title attributes) are now handled.
+   * View Source feature is now supported.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                        Qt WebEngineWidgets                               *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - Scenegraph Integration:
+   * Using the software rasterizing scenegraph backend is now supported.
+
+ - Printing:
+   * Enables printing QWebPage content on a QPrinter. Currently does not
+     support previewing the document. Widgets only for the moment.
+
+ - QWebEnginePage:
+   * Introduced a new save method to save a page to a predefined location.
+
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - Linux:
+   * Pepper Flash is now also searched for in /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/
+
+ - Windows:
+   * MSVC2015 and Windows 10 SDK are now required.