Update NEWS for 3.0 release.

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 Version 3.0.0 - April 22nd, 2013
 - Remove all CPU mining code.
 - compile on win32
 - Update SCRYPT README with improved hashrates for 7970.
 - Use copy_time helper throughout cgminer.c
 - Provide wrappers for commonly used timer routines with API stats.
 - Avoid one cgtime call in sole_hash_work.
 - Fulltest is true if value is <= target.
 - Use system host to endian functions for clarity in fulltest.
 - Provide endian_flipX functions to avoid special casing big endian in cgminer.c
 - Provide a flip128 helper to simplify big endian flipping.
 - Use flip helpers to simplify code for calculation of midstate.
 - Use flip32 function instead of open coding it in gen_stratum_work.
 - Move util.c exports to util.h
 - Fix warning on building avalon on win32
 - Use cgtime in driver-avalon.c
 - Use cgtime in driver-icarus.c
 - Use cgtime in driver-bitforce.c
 - Use cgtime in logging.c
 - Use cgtime in usbutils.c
 - Use cgtime in driver-opencl.c
 - Use cgtime wrapper in driver-modminer.c
 - Use cgtime in driver-ztex.c
 - Use cgtime in compat.h
 - Use cgtime instead of gettimeofday in fpgautils.c
 - Replace gettimeofday usage in cgminer.c with cgtime
 - Create a cgminer specific gettimeofday wrapper that is always called with tz
 set to NULL and increases the resolution on windows.
 - Add high resolution to nmsleep wrapper on windows.
 - Set default ocl work size for scrypt to 256.
 - define le32toh if needed
 - fliter out the wrong result from adjust fan code
 - compile avalon driver on win32 and win64
 - Restart threads on the rare chance we found the block ourselves.
 - Add more FAQs about crossfire.
 - Set last device valid work on adding device.
 - Increment last device valid work count in submit_nonce to cover scrypt.
 - Set opt_scrypt drv max diff for correctness.
 - Make scrypt submission use the submit_nonce code, with nonces matching
 endianness.
 - Do testing for HW errors on submit nonce for both scrypt and sha.
 - Increment hardware error count from the one site.
 - Rename scrypt regenhash function for consistency.
 - Add new best share info to verbose logging.
 - Add notice for when network diff is changed.
 - Convert error getting device IDs in ocl code to info log level only since
 multiple platforms may be installed and the error is harmless there.
 - Unnecessary extra array in ocl code.
 - Further driver FAQs.
 - Add MAC FAQ.
 - Add more FAQ details.
 - Check for work restart after disable in the hash queued work loop since it may
 be a long time before we re-enable a device.
 - Unconditionally test for many wrong results on avalon and reset to avoid
 passing a corrupt avalon result to temperature code.
 - build out of source dir
 - Set device_diff for queued work or there will be no diff1 share count.
 - Only reset an avalon device with no results when there are no results
 consecutively.
 - More FAQs.
 - More FAQs.
 - Cleanup when stratum curl fails to initialise.
 - Avoid applog in recalloc_sock.
 - Avoid applog under stratum_lock in recv_line.
 - Avoid applog under stratum_lock in __stratum_send.
 - Put spacing around locking in util.c for clarity.
 - Avoid applog under cg_wlock.
 - Put spacing around locking code for clarity.
 - Avoid applog under pool_lock.
 - Avoid more recursive locks.
 - Avoid applog while ch_lock is held.
 - Avoid recursive locks in fill_queue.
 - Variable is already initialised in global scope.
 - More GPU faqs.
 - More README faqs.
 - Yet more README faqs.
 - Add more faqs to README.
 - Merge branch 'master' into avalon-dev
 - Wrap result wrong tests in avalon scanhash in unlikely() and only consider a
 hash count of zero wrong if a restart wasn't issued.
 - avalon: if result_wrong >= get_work_count jump out the read loop
 - Fix warning on 32bit.
 - Fix warning on 32bit.
 - Avoid curl_easy_cleanup on old curl versions in setup_stratum_curl as well.
 - fix the fan control on max temp2/3
 - for some reason network down. one simple cgminer command:   "cgminer -o
 127.0.0.1:8888 -O fa:ke --avalon-options 115200:32:10:50:256" can idle the
 avalon for safe power and protect chip
 - if hash_count == 0; reinit avalon, fix the 0MHS bug use the max value of temp1
 and temp2 for fan control
 - Reinstate the matching_work_count per subdevice on avalon based on the work
 subid.
 - Avalon driver is missing the drv_id.
 - Rationalise and simplify the share diff and block solve detection to a common
 site.
 - Rationalise and simplify the share diff and block solve detection to a common
 site.
 - Make the avalon array size a macro.
 - Use replacement of work items in the avalon buffer as needed instead of
 flushing them.
 - Reinstate wrong work count to reset avalon regardless and display number of
 wrong results.
 - Revert "The result_wrong measurement for avalon is continually leading to
 false positives so remove it."
 - select() on serial usb in avalon does not work properly with zero timeout.
 - The result_wrong measurement for avalon is continually leading to false
 positives so remove it.
 - Revert "Use only 2 queued work arrays in avalon."
 - Use no timeout on further reads in avalon_gets
 - Do sequential reads in avalon_get_reset to cope with partial reads.
 - Show read discrepancy in avalon_get_reset.
 - Reuse avalon_get_work_count variable.
 - Check for AVA_GETS_RESTART when deciding if avalon has messed up.
 - Make the detection of all wrong results on avalon much more conservative to
 avoid false positives on work restarts.
 - Show error codes on select and read fail in avalon.
 - If we get a restart message in avalon_gets still check if there's a receive
 message to parse first without a timeout before returning AVA_GETS_RESTART.
 - Use only 2 queued work arrays in avalon.
 - avalon_gets is always called from the one call site so inline it.
 - The read_count is unused by the avalon get result code and no longer required
 for avalon reset so simplify code removing it.
 - Use a separate avalon_get_reset function for resetting avalon instead of using
 avalon_get_result.
 - The current hash count returned by avalon scanhash is just an obfuscated
 utility counter so make it explicit.
 - Check for a restart before a timeout in message parsing code in avalon.
 - We should check for a restart message before checking for a timeout in avalon
 scanhash.
 - Store the subid for the work item in avalon.
 - usbutils more stats for bflsc
 - Fix record_temp_fan function in avalon driver. Patch by Xiangfu
 <xiangfu@openmobilefree.net>
 - Remove inappropriate memset of struct avalon result which was corrupting fan
 values.
 - Fix warning with no curses built in.
 - Bump version to 2.11.4
 - Fix warning with no curses built in.
 - Bump version to 2.11.4
 - Add API support for Avalon.
 - Only do_avalon_close once on multiple errors.
 - Reset the result_wrong count on block change in avalon scanhash to prevent
 false positives for all nonces failed.
 - Small timeouts on select() instead of instant timeout increase reliability of
 socket reads and writes.
 - Only get extra work in fill_queue if we don't have any unqueued work in the
 list.
 - Small timeouts on select() instead of instant timeout increase reliability of
 socket reads and writes.
 - Rotate the avalon work array and free work on AVA_SEND_BUFFER_EMPTY as well.
 - Only get extra work in fill_queue if we don't have any unqueued work in the
 list.
 - Don't get any work if our queue is already full in avalon_fill.
 - Differentiate socket closed from socket error in recv_line.
 - Differentiate socket closed from socket error in recv_line.
 - Free avalon->works in the event we call avalon_prepare on failure to
 initialise.
 - Fix warnings.
 - Create an array of 4 lots of work for avalon and cycle through them.
 - Remove unused per unit matching work count for avalon.
 - Rename the confusing avalon_info pointer.
 - Simplify avalon scanhash code using the new find_queued_work_bymidstate
 function. Partially works only.
 - Members of cgpu_info for avalon are not meant to be in the union.
 - Use correct struct device_drv for avalon_drv.
 - cgminer.c -S help to only say Icarus
 - Check enough work is queued before queueing more in avalon_fill.
 - Actually put the work in the avalon queue.
 - Rneame avalon_api to avalon_drv.
 - First draft of port of avalon driver to new cgminer queued infrastructure.
 - Add Makefile entry for driver-avalon.
 - Add configure support for avalon.
 Version 2.11.4 - April 5th, 2013
 - Remove bfl-sc option  from configure for 2.11 branch.