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Updates NEWS for the 1.1.1 release 

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7164)
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Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0i and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [in pre-release]
o Support for TLSv1.3 added
o Complete rewrite of the OpenSSL random number generator to introduce the
following capabilities
o The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1.
o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
operation
o Support for various new cryptographic algorithms including:
o SHA3
o SHA512/224 and SHA512/256
o EdDSA (including Ed25519 and Ed448)
o X448 (adding to the existing X25519 support in 1.1.0)
o Multi-prime RSA
o SM2
o SM3
o SM4
o SipHash
o ARIA (including TLS support)
o Significant Side-Channel attack security improvements
o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
o A new STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
objects.
o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm.
o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
o Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support
o Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
o Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
o Add ARIA support
o Add SHA3
o Rewrite of devcrypto engine
o Add support for SipHash
o Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.0i [under development]