NEWS: mention auxiliary sub-function (SF) network device naming

Document user-visible effect of the new NAMING_SUBFUNC / v261 scheme.

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 261 in spe:
           GPT header (i.e. is partitioned) but the block device has partition
           table processing turned off.
 
+        * Persistent network interface naming has been extended to auxiliary
+          sub-function (SF) network devices (such as mlx5_core SFs), using an
+          "S<sfnum>" suffix appended to the parent PCI function's name (e.g.
+          "enp193s0f0S88").
+
         Changes in systemd-boot, systemd-stub, bootctl, ukify:
 
         * systemd-stub will now maintain a "boot secret" and pass it to the OS