Update NEWS for 1.9.8 release, bump version

Also require a newer cairo (1.10.0)

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 09094be..4e8372f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,27 @@
+1.9.8 (unstable):
 
+* Surface:
+  - added create() for creating a sub-surface representing a rectangle on a
+    target surface
+  - PDF versioning API: get_versions(), restrict_to_version(),
+    version_to_string()
+  - add get_device()
+  - add new surface type enum values
+* Device
+  - add acquire() and release() functions
+  - Add Device::Lock convenience class
+* Region
+  - UNSTABLE API CHANGE: Fix do_union(), subtract(), intersect() to throw
+    exceptions instead of returning error statuses to be consistent with the
+    rest of the cairomm API
+  - add xor() functions
+  - add API for creating a region from a list of rectangles
+  - implement copy()
 * Documentation:
   - Context::arc(): Fix bug #31345 (Christopher Head) about bad math in arc()
-	documentation. (Murray Cumming)
+    documentation. (Murray Cumming)
+  - Add documentation for Device class
+  - Add documentation for Region class
 
 1.9.6 (unstable):