Split log.txt into individual release notes. Integrate most of the

relevant contents from the pyblosxom news site into said relnotes.
DRY suggests having only one form of release notes, and having it in
the public source repo.

Also some updates for the allocator changes.

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+Version 1.9.16, 2011-04-11
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* Second release candidate for 1.10.0
+
+* The documentation, previously written in LaTeX, is now in
+  reStructuredText suitable for processing by `Sphinx
+  <http://sphinx.pocoo.org>`_, which can generate nicely formatted
+  HTML and PDFs. The documentation has also been greatly updated and
+  expanded.
+
+* The class ``EC_Domain_Params`` has been renamed ``EC_Group``, with a
+  typedef for backwards compatability.
+
+* ``EC_Group``'s string constructor didn't understand the standard
+  names like "secp160r1", forcing use of the OIDs.
+
+* Two constructors for ECDSA private keys, the one that creates a new
+  random key, and the one that provides a preset private key as a
+  ``BigInt``, have been merged. This matches the existing interface
+  for DSA and DH keys. If you previously used the version taking a
+  ``BigInt`` private key, you'll have to additionally pass in a
+  ``RandomNumberGenerator`` object starting in this release.
+
+* It is now possible to create ECDH keys with a preset ``BigInt``
+  private key; previously no method for this was available.
+
+* The overload of ``generate_passhash9`` that takes an explicit
+  algorithm identifier has been merged with the one that does not.
+  The algorithm identifier code has been moved from the second
+  parameter to the fourth. See :ref:`passhash9` for details.
+
+* Change shared library versioning to match the normal Unix
+  conventions. Instead of ``libbotan-X.Y.Z.so``, the shared lib is
+  named ``libbotan-X.Y.so.Z``; this allows the runtime linker to do
+  its runtime linky magic. It can be safely presumed that any change
+  in the major or minor version indicates ABI incompatability.
+
+* Remove the socket wrapper code; it was not actually used by anything
+  in the library, only in the examples, and you can use whatever kind
+  of (blocking) socket interface you like with the SSL/TLS code. It's
+  available as socket.h in the examples directory if you want to use
+  it.
+
+* Disable the by-default 'strong' checking of private keys that are
+  loaded from storage. You can always request key material sanity
+  checking using Private_Key::check_key.
+
+* Bring back removed functions ``min_keylength_of``,
+  ``max_keylength_of``, ``keylength_multiple_of`` in ``lookup.h`` to
+  avoid breaking applications written against 1.8
+