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Add NEWS item about mpileup zero coverage '*' fixes
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Mention the output changes due to b4e452c
(see PR samtools#537); they're surely minor, but it turns out they've been noticed:
https://sourceforge.net/p/samtools/mailman/message/35102141/ (samtools-help,
"Question relating to samtools mpileup output", 2016-05-19).
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Expand Up @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ Noteworthy changes in samtools:
sites with zero depth; repeating the option as -aa or -a -a additionally
shows reference sequences without any reads mapped to them (#496).

* The mpileup text output no longer contains empty columns at zero coverage
positions. Previously it would output "...0\t\t..." in some circumstances
(zero coverage due to being below a minumum base quality); this has been
fixed to output as "...0\t*\t*..." with placeholder '*' characters as in
other zero coverage circumstances (see PR #537).

* To stop it from creating too many temporary files, samtools sort
will now not run unless its per-thread memory limit (-m) is set to
at least 1 megabyte (#547).
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