[PATCH] D12368: Add a clang release note about raising the minimum Windows version for the next major release

[Greg Bedwell via cfe-commits]

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This is a clang release note to match the LLVM release note in D12367.

As we're planning on raising the minimum Windows version to Windows 7 for LLVM 3.8 as per this discussion (there have been no objections I'm aware of so far even after advertising the discussion in LLVM weekly):
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-July/087993.html
I'd like to add a release note to mention this fact. 

http://reviews.llvm.org/D12368

Files:
  docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

Index: docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
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--- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -243,6 +243,12 @@
   boolean constants and simplifies them to use the appropriate boolean
   expression directly (``if (x == true) ... -> if (x)``, etc.)
 
+Last release which will run on Windows XP and Windows Vista
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+This is expected to the be the last major release of Clang that will support
+running on Windows XP and Windows Vista.  For the next major release the
+minimum Windows version requirement will be Windows 7.
 
 Additional Information
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