Add a note about --rebuilt-binaries. (trunk r15411)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=15632

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 8807d8f9e430ed09fbfe8f72af34c1a1ba22ea66..26c8b51421349ad06875dd931ea8990b958e7355 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-2.1.8
+==================================
+* The new --rebuilt-binaries option will replace installed packages with binary
+  packages that have been rebuilt. Rebuilds are detected by comparison of
+  BUILD_TIME package metadata. This option is enabled automatically when using
+  binary packages (--usepkg or --getbinpkg) together with --update and --deep.
+
 portage-2.1.7
 ==================================
 * Default behavior for emerge commands has changed so that packages are only