[m-rev.] for review: announce back-end deletions and deprecations

[Julien Fischer]

Announce back-end deletions and deprecations.

NEWS:
    As above.

Julien.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f8f05a4..68cd0dd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1219,6 +1219,10 @@ Changes to the Mercury compiler

  * The Java back-end now bootstraps.

+* The old IL back-end has been deleted.
+
+* The Erlang backend is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+
  * Class files generated for executables in the Java grade are now automatically
    packaged up into Java archives (JARs).