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Mention the concept of providers in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md 

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16528)

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@ -1397,6 +1397,23 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions.
*Raja Ashok*
* Added a new concept for OpenSSL plugability: providers. This
functionality is designed to replace the ENGINE API and ENGINE
implementations, and to be much more dynamic, allowing provider
authors to introduce new algorithms among other things, as long as
there's an API that supports the algorithm type.
With this concept comes a new core API for interaction between
libcrypto and provider implementations. Public libcrypto functions
that want to use providers do so through this core API.
The main documentation for this core API is found in
doc/man7/provider.pod, doc/man7/provider-base.pod, and they in turn
refer to other manuals describing the API specific for supported
algorithm types (also called operations).
*The OpenSSL team*
OpenSSL 1.1.1
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@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ OpenSSL 3.0
* All of the low-level DH, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA and RSA public key functions
have been deprecated.
* SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0.
* Added providers, a new pluggability concept that will replace the
ENGINE API and ENGINE implementations.
OpenSSL 1.1.1
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