Bump version and start preparing docs for release of 1.8

Renamed ChangeLog to NEWS and fixed doc style to use ReST, like the
README and TODO files.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>

ChangeLog

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-1.7 (20121008)
-	- Show __FILE__ in _d() debug messages, useful for plugins with
-	  similarily named callbacks. Also, only in debug mode anyway
-	- Make sure to cleanup recorded PID when a service is lost.
-	  Required by service plugins for their callbacks to work.
-	- Bugfix: Do not free() static string in finit.conf parser
-	- Only clear screen when in verbose mode. Maybe this should
-	  be removed altogether?
-
-1.6 (20121006)
-	- Skip . and .. in plugin loader and display error on failed plugins
-	- Support for overriding /etc/finit.d with "runparts DIR" in finit.conf
-	- Revoke support for starting services not starting with a slash.
-	- Prevent endless restart of non-existing services in finit.conf
-	- Support for sysvinit style startstop scripts in /etc/finit.d
-	- Minor fix to alsa-utils plugin to silence on non-existing cards
-
-1.5 (20121003)
-	- Use bootmisc plugin to setup standard FHS 2.3 structure in /var
-	- Added FLOG_WARN() syslog macro, for plugins
-	- Add plugin dependency resolver. Checks plugin_t for .depends
-
-1.4 (20121002)
-	- Fix I/O plugin watcher and load plugins earlier for a new hook
-	- Start refactoring helpers.c into a libite.so (-lite).  This
-	  means other user space applications/daemons can make use of
-	  the neat toolbox available in finit
-	- Use short-form -s/-w -u to work with BusyBox hwclock as well
-	- Use RTLD_GLOBAL flag to tell dynamic loader to load dependent
-	  .so files as well.  Lets other plugins use global symbols.
-	- Greatly simplify svc hook for external plugins and cleanup
-	  the plugin API.
-	- And more... see the GIT log for more details.
-
-1.3 (20120928)
-	- Cleanup public plugin API a bit and add new pid/pidfile funcs
-	- Add plugin hook to end of service startup
-	- Remove finit.h from svc.h, plugins should not need this.
-	- Move utility macros etc. to helpers.h
-	- Make finit.h daemon internal, only
-	- Move defines of FIFO, conf and rcS.d to Makefile => correct paths
-	- Add support for installing required headers in system include dir
-	- Better support for distributions and packagers with install-exec,
-	  install-data, and install-dev targets in Makefile.  Useful if you
-	  want to call targets with different $DESTDIR!
-	- Makefile fixes for installation, paths encoded wrong
-	- Strip binaries + .so files, support for $(CROSS) toolchain strip
-	- Default install is now to /sbin/finit and /usr/
-	- Note change in $PLUGIN_DIR environemnt variable to $plugindir
-
-1.2 (20120927)
-	- Fix installation paths encoded in finit binary
-	- Update README with section on building and enviroment variables
-
-1.1 (20120927)
-	- Build fixes for ARM eabi/uClibc
-	- Rename signal.[ch]-->sig.[ch] to avoid name clash w/ system headers
-
-1.0 (20120926)
-	- New plugin based system for all odd extensions
-	- New service monitor that restarts services if they die
-	- New maintainer at GitHub http://github.com/troglobit/finit
-	- Add standard LICENSE and AUTHORS files
-	- New focus: embedded systems and small headless servers
-
-0.6 (20100614)
-	- don't start consolekit manually, dbus starts it (rtp)
-	- unmount all filesystems before rebooting
-	- disable USE_VAR_RUN_RESOLVCONF for Mandriva
-	- unset terminal type in Mandriva before running X
-	- remove extra sleep in finit-alt before calling services.sh (caio)
-
-0.5 (20080821)
-	- add option to start dbus and consolekit before the X server
-	- finit-alt listens to /dev/initctl to work with reboot(8) (smurfy)
-	- write runlevel to utmp, needed by Printerdrake (Pascal Terjan)
-	- fix ownership of /var/run/utmp (reported by Pascal Terjan)
-	- remove obsolete code to load AGP drivers
-	- conditional build of /etc/resolveconf/run support
-	- add support to /var/run/resolvconf in Mandriva (blino)
-
-O.4 (20080516)
-	- default username for finit-alt configurable in Makefile
-	- create loopback device node in finit-alt (for squashfs)
-	- add option to use built-in run-parts instead of /bin/run-parts
-	- ignore signal instead of setting to an empty handler (Metalshark)
-	- handle pam_console permissions in finit-alt for Mandriva
-	- add services.sh example and nash-hotplug patch for Mandriva
-	- mount /proc/bus/usb in Mandriva
-	- add runtime debug to finit-alt if finit_debug parameter is specified
-	- read configuration from /etc/finit.conf
-	- run getty with openvt on the virtual terminal
-
-0.3 (20080223)
-	- Change poweroff method to reboot(RB_POWER_OFF) (Metalshark)
-	- Remove duplicate unionctl() reimplementation error
-	- Fix string termination in path creation
-	- Mount /var/lock and /var/run as tmpfs
-
-0.2 (20080219)
-	- replace system("touch") with touch() in finit-mod (Metalshark)
-	- disable NO_HCTOSYS by default to match stock Eeepc kernel
-	- drop system("rm -f") to clean /tmp, its a fresh mounted tmpfs
-	- write ACPI sleep state to /sys/power/state instead of
-	  /proc/acpi/sleep (Metalshark)
-	- use direct calls to set loopback instead of system("ifconfig")
-	- replace system("cat") and system("dd") with C implementation
-	- moved finit-mod and finit-alt helpers to helpers.c
-	- replace system("echo;cat") to draw shutdown splash with C calls
-
-0.1 (20080214)
-	- initial release