update NEWS

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: Rserve
-Version: 1.7
-Title: Binary R server
+Version: 1.8
+Title: Versatile R Server
 Author: Simon Urbanek <[email protected]>
 Maintainer: Simon Urbanek <[email protected]>
 Depends: R (>= 1.5.0)
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ Description: Rserve acts as a socket server (TCP/IP or local sockets)
 	     any application to use facilities of R without the need of
 	     linking to R code. Rserve supports remote connection,
 	     user authentication and file transfer. A simple R client
-	     is included in this package as well.
+	     is included in this package as well. In addition, it can
+	     also act as a secure WebSockets and HTTP/HTTPS server.
 License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE
 URL: http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/
+BugReports: https://github.com/s-u/Rserve
 Biarch: true

NEWS

@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ NOTE: Rserve 1.8 series has many new features, but it has also removed
       whether they may be resurrected for the 1.9 series. If you don't
       know what it means, just ignore this note.
 
+1.8-14
+    o	Windows: use pkg-config if available (many thanks to Tomas
+	Kalibera for the work on the toolchain!)
+
+    o	Close listening socket when re-attaching session. (#155)
+
+    o	Fixes to the sample C++ client.
+
+
 1.8-13	2023-11-28
     o	replace sprintf with snprintf even in safe cases to avoid
 	compiler warnings.