maint: summarize gnulib changes

* NEWS: Provide a blurb about recent gnulib improvements.  Fix typo
in readlink blurb.

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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,15 +16,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   when the color of a more specific type is disabled.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.90]
 
-** Changes in behavior
+** Portability
 
-  canonicalize -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the
-  last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created,
-  since mkdir will succeed in that case.
+  On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as
+  file.  Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX
+  rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a
+  directory or a symlink to a directory.
+
+** Changes in behavior
 
   id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
   environment variable is set.
 
+  readlink -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the
+  last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created,
+  since mkdir will succeed in that case.
+
 ** Improvements
 
   rm: rewrite to use gnulib's fts