Update NEWS file for release 2.8

Signed-off-by: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>

NEWS

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 Barman News - History of user-visible changes
 Copyright (C) 2011-2019 2ndQuadrant Limited
 
+Version 2.8 - 17 May 2019
+
+-   Add support for reuse_backup in geo-redundancy for incremental
+    backup copy in passive nodes
+
+-   Improve performance of rsync based copy by using strptime instead of
+    the more generic dateutil.parser (#210)
+
+-   Add ‘–test’ option to barman-wal-archive and barman-wal-restore to
+    verify the connection with the Barman server
+
+-   Complain if backup_options is not explicitly set, as the future
+    default value will change from exclusive_backup to concurrent_backup
+    when PostgreSQL 9.5 will be declared EOL by the PGDG
+
+-   Display additional settings in the show-server and diagnose
+    commands: archive_timeout, data_checksums, hot_standby,
+    max_wal_senders, max_replication_slots and wal_compression.
+
+-   Merge the barman-cli project in Barman
+
+-   Bug fixes:
+
+    -   Fix encoding error in get-wal on Python 3 (Jeff Janes, #221)
+    -   Fix exclude_and_protect_filter (Jeff Janes, #217)
+    -   Remove spurious message when resetting WAL (Jeff Janes, #215)
+    -   Fix sync-wals error if primary has WALs older than the first
+        backup
+    -   Support for double quotes in synchronous_standby_names setting
+
+-   Minor changes:
+
+    -   Improve messaging of check --nagios for inactive servers
+    -   Log remote SSH command with recover command
+    -   Hide logical decoding connections in replication-status command
+
+This release officially supports Python 3 and deprecates Python 2 (which
+might be discontinued in future releases).
+
+PostgreSQL 9.3 and older is deprecated from this release of Barman.
+Support for backup from standby is now limited to PostgreSQL 9.4 or
+higher and to WAL shipping from the standby (please refer to the
+documentation for details).
+
 Version 2.7 - 21 Mar 2019
 
 -   Fix error handling during the parallel backup. Previously an

README.rst

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 -  TODO : our wishlist for Barman
 -  barman : sources in Python
 -  doc : tutorial and man pages
--  rpm : SPEC files for RHEL distributions
 -  scripts : auxiliary scripts
 -  tests : unit tests
 

TODO

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 Barman TODO - Backlog of features for Barman
-Copyright (C) 2011-2018 2ndQuadrant Limited
+Copyright (C) 2011-2019 2ndQuadrant Limited
 
 * Cluster-awareness
-* Barman passive nodes (for asynchronous geographical redundancy)
 * TAR copy method
 * TAR storage strategy for backups
 * Centralised WAL hub capability (streaming server)
-* Hook scripts for backup delete, WAL archiving, etc.
 * Export/Import of backups
 * External backup sources (e.g. S3)
 * Improve recovery support
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 * WAL retention policies
 * Grandfather-Father-Son backup
 * JSON output for full automation
-* Backup validation
+* Deep Backup validation
 * SSH only connections
-* Windows support
 * ...