[04/10] incubator-brooklyn git commit: start fleshing out release notes, including reference to the new parameters example

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start fleshing out release notes, including reference to the new parameters example


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/commit/624cf2ac
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/tree/624cf2ac
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/diff/624cf2ac

Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: 624cf2ac0f7e5353f685bcdba296f329bceeebf2
Parents: 411d3f8
Author: Alex Heneveld <al...@cloudsoftcorp.com>
Authored: Thu Jan 21 13:34:02 2016 +0000
Committer: Alex Heneveld <al...@cloudsoftcorp.com>
Committed: Thu Jan 21 13:55:53 2016 +0000

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 brooklyn-docs/guide/misc/release-notes.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/blob/624cf2ac/brooklyn-docs/guide/misc/release-notes.md
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diff --git a/brooklyn-docs/guide/misc/release-notes.md b/brooklyn-docs/guide/misc/release-notes.md
index 3661ab1..ef79155 100644
--- a/brooklyn-docs/guide/misc/release-notes.md
+++ b/brooklyn-docs/guide/misc/release-notes.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ title: Release Notes
 
 ### Introduction
 
-Version 0.8.0 is [TODO add description] 
+Version 0.9.0 is [TODO add description] 
 
 Thanks go to our community for their improvements, feedback and guidance, and
 to Brooklyn's commercial users for funding much of this development.
@@ -24,7 +24,21 @@ to Brooklyn's commercial users for funding much of this development.
 
 ### New Features
 
-[TODO]
+1. Parameters (config keys) can now be defined in YAML, using `brooklyn.parameters`.
+This allows YAML entities to advertise how they should be parameterized,
+for use in the UI and in documentation tools, and do coercion on these values.
+For a good demonstration, see the "Custom Entities" section of the YAML chapter of the user guide. 
+
+[ TODO - 
+restructuring and graduation; 
+the `br` client CLI tool;
+test framework;
+`$brooklyn:external(...)` extension for taking values from other sources is supported in more places;
+better YAML editor in the UI;
+OSGi-native mode using Karaf, to simplify packaging of blueprints;
+a new pure-java WinRM client (winrm4j), hugely reducing the number of dependencies and distro size;
+several version bumps (jclouds) and performance and reliability improvements
+]
  
 
 ### Backwards Compatibility
@@ -49,10 +63,10 @@ parent or application root in YAML. Related to this, tags from referencing specs
 and the referencing catalog item ID also takes priority; this has no effect in most cases, but if you have a chain of
 referenced types blueprint plan source code and the catalog item ID are now set correctly. 
 
-For changes in prior versions, please refer to the release notes for 
-[0.8.0](/v/0.8.0-incubating/misc/release-notes.html).
-
 3. Task cancellation is now propagated to dependent submitted tasks, including backgrounded tasks if they are transient.
 Previously when a task was cancelled the API did not guarantee semantics but the behaviour was to cancel sub-tasks only 
 in very limited cases. Now the semantics are more precise and controllable, and more sub-tasks are cancelled.
 This can prevent some leaked waits on `attributeWhenReady`.
+
+For changes in prior versions, please refer to the release notes for 
+[0.8.0](/v/0.8.0-incubating/misc/release-notes.html).