Complete update of the NEWS and README for 1.8.5

NEWS

@@ -73,20 +73,16 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
   source of the problem.
 - Fixed several Valgrind warnings.  Thanks for Lisandro Dalcin for
   contributing a patch fixing some one-sided code paths.
-- (**** Ralph, need some text about the oob version number change, and
-  the ABI break it caused.  ALSO need to put notice of ABI breakage in
-  README).
+- Fixed version compatibility test in OOB that broke ABI within the
+  1.8 series. NOTE: this will not resolve the problem between pre-1.8.5
+  versions, but will fix it going forward.
 - Fix some issues related to running on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
-  (*** ^Ralph, please verify -- this is in regards to
-  fd322444438ebea6cb797e30bdbe00e5eb166d5a)
-- Opprotunistically switch away from using GNU Libtool's libltdl
+- Opportunistically switch away from using GNU Libtool's libltdl
   library when possible (by default).
 - Fix some VampirTrace errors.  Thanks to Paul Hargrove for reporting
   the issues.
 - Correct default binding patterns when --use-hwthread-cpus was
   specified and nprocs <= 2.
-  (*** ^Ralph, please verify)
-(*** Ralph, are there any other user-noticable changes/fixes for ORTE?)
 - Remove warnings about -finline-functions when compiling with clang.
 - Updated the embedded hwloc with several bug fixes, including the
   "duplicate Lhwloc1 symbol" that multiple users reported on some
@@ -142,7 +138,7 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 - Fixed a number of minor issues with CUDA support, including
   registering of shared memory and supporting reduction support for
   GPU buffers.
-- Improved support for Cray platforms.
+- Improved support for building OMPI on Cray platforms.
 - Fixed performance regression introduced by the inadvertent default
   enabling of MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE support.
 

README

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2007      Myricom, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2008      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2010      Oak Ridge National Labs.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2011      University of Houston. All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Intel, Inc. All rights reserved
+Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Intel, Inc. All rights reserved
 $COPYRIGHT$
 
 Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -1634,6 +1634,13 @@ release series.  For example, the same MPI application from above
 (linked against Open MPI v1.7.2 shared libraries) will likely *not*
 work with Open MPI v1.9 shared libraries.
 
+NOTE: The 1.8 series suffered an inadvertent break in ABI compatibility
+prior to release 1.8.5 due to a test that rejected TCP connections from
+processes compiled against another version. The test incorrectly checked
+all three parts of the version number, thus preventing a process compiled
+against 1.8.3 from connecting to one compiled against 1.8.4. This was fixed
+in 1.8.5, so ABI will be maintained from there forward.
+
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