Add missing NEWS items

Add NEWS items for the two new pthreads implementations, i.e. the
condition variables algorithms and the pthread_rwlock algorithms.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-02-05  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
+
+       * NEWS: Add missing news items.
+
 2017-02-04  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
 
        * elf/tst-env-setuid.c (do_execve): Return EXIT_UNSUPPORTED in

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ Version 2.25
   flag.  The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
   instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
 
+* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
+  the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
+  guarantees.
+
+* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
+  scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
+  make state changes.
+
 Security related changes:
 
 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which