gzip: remove --__bindir

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@@ -2,6 +2,39 @@ GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** Changes in behavior
+
+  The GZIP environment variable is now obsolescent; gzip now warns if
+  it is used, and rejects attempts to use dangerous options or operands.
+  You can use an alias or script instead.
+
+  Installed programs like 'zgrep' now use the PATH environment variable
+  as usual to find subsidiary programs like 'gzip' and 'grep'.
+  Previously they prepended the installation directory to the PATH,
+  which sometimes caused 'make check' to test the wrong gzip executable.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.13]
+
+** New features
+
+  gzip now accepts the --synchronous option, which causes it to use
+  fsync and similar primitives to transfer output data to the output
+  file's storage device when the file system supports this.  Although
+  this option makes gzip safer in the presence of system crashes, it
+  can make gzip considerably slower.
+
+  gzip now accepts the --rsyncable option. This option is accepted in
+  all modes, but has effect only when compressing: it makes the resulting
+  output more amenable to efficient use of rsync.  For example, when a
+  large input file gets a small change, a gzip --rsyncable image of
+  that file will remain largely unchanged, too.  Without --rsyncable,
+  even a tiny change in the input could result in a totally different
+  gzip-compressed output file.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -k -v no longer reports that files are replaced.
+  [bug present since the beginning]
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2013-06-09) [stable]
 
@@ -20,9 +53,6 @@ GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   on some platforms when compiled with optimization.
   [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.6]
 
-  gzip -k -v no longer reports that files are replaced.
-  [bug present since the beginning]
-
   zgrep no longer malfunctions with a multi-digit context option like -15.
   Now, it passes that option to grep (equivalent to -C15) just as it does
   for single-digit options. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.12]
@@ -436,7 +466,7 @@ Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6:
 
 ========================================================================
 
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2014 Free Software Foundation,
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2016 Free Software Foundation,
 Inc.
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly