[m-rev.] for review: NEWS file for 11.07.2

[Peter Ross]

Hi,

I generated this news file by looking at the following diff on the
version_11_07-branch

# cvs diff -r version_11_07_1 

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Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Branches: 11.07

NEWS:
	Upgrade the news file to reflect the changes made since 11.07.1.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.587.2.15
diff -u -r1.587.2.15 NEWS
--- NEWS	29 Feb 2012 01:22:02 -0000	1.587.2.15
+++ NEWS	16 Jul 2012 11:26:15 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,44 @@
+NEWS for Mercury 11.07.2
+------------------------
+
+This is a bug-fix release.
+
+It fixes the following problems
+
+* Recognize the C# compilers used by newer versions of Mono
+
+* Distinguish between the MS C# compiler and the Chicken Scheme
+  compiler.
+
+* Improved Mac OS X support for thread local storage
+
+* Solaris 10 build issues
+
+* Fix handling of --erlang option
+
+* Output #line directives in C# generated code
+
+* Fix opening of binary mode files with MSVC CRT.
+
+* Fix tokenisation of binary, octal and hexadecimal integer literals in
+  strings.
+
+* Make unsafe array2d call use the unsafe array access methods
+
+* Fix version_hash_table throwing "Not yet implemented" exceptions in
+  the C# and Java grades.
+
+Changes to the Mercury standard library:
+
+* Add additional modes to map.foldr/4, map.foldr/6 etc.
+
+* Let float_literal, float_literal_as_string accept an optional plus
+  sign in the exponent.
+
+* Remove obsolete methods string.remove_suffix_det/2 and
+  string.index_det/2.
+
+
 NEWS for Mercury 11.07.1
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