Update NEWS for 1.7.0

Author: wismill

NEWS

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+libxkbcommon 1.7.0 - XXX
+==================
+
+TODO: date
+
+API
+---
+
+### New
+
+- Added early detection of invalid encodings and BOM detection for keymaps, rules
+  & Compose. Also added a hint that the expected encoding must be UTF-8 compatible.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Updated keysyms using latest [xorgproto] (commit: `cd33097fc779f280925c6d6bbfbd5150f93ca5bc`):
+
+  For the sake of compatibility, this reintroduces some deleted keysyms and
+  postpones the effective deprecation of others that landed in xkbcommon 1.6.0.
+
+  - Additions (reverted removal):
+
+    - `XKB_KEY_dead_lowline`
+    - `XKB_KEY_dead_aboveverticalline`
+    - `XKB_KEY_dead_belowverticalline`
+    - `XKB_KEY_dead_longsolidusoverlay`
+
+  - The following keysyms names remain deprecated, but are set again (i.e. as
+    before xkbcommon 1.6.0) as the reference names for their respective keysyms,
+    in order to ensure the transition to the newer names that replace them. This
+    affects functions such as `xkb_keymap_key_get_name` and `xkb_keymap_get_as_string`.
+
+    - `XKB_KEY_masculine`: is deprecated in favor of `XKB_KEY_ordmasculine`
+    - `XKB_KEY_guillemotleft`: is deprecated in favor of `XKB_KEY_guillemetleft`
+    - `XKB_KEY_guillemotright`: is deprecated in favor of `XKB_KEY_guillemetright`
+    - `XKB_KEY_dead_small_schwa`: is deprecated in favor of `XKB_KEY_dead_schwa`
+    - `XKB_KEY_dead_capital_schwa`: is deprecated in favor of `XKB_KEY_dead_SCHWA`
+
+  Relevant upstream merge requests: [xorgproto-83], [xorgproto-84].
+
+[xorgproto-83]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/merge_requests/83
+[xorgproto-84]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/merge_requests/84
+
+- Keysyms: Fixed case mapping for 3 Latin 1 keysyms:
+
+  - `XKB_KEY_ydiaeresis`
+  - `XKB_KEY_mu`
+  - `XKB_KEY_ssharp`
+
+- Keysyms: Fixed `xkb_keysym_is_modifier` to detect also the following keysyms:
+
+  - `XKB_KEY_ISO_Level5_Shift`
+  - `XKB_KEY_ISO_Level5_Latch`
+  - `XKB_KEY_ISO_Level5_Lock`
+
+- Prevent recursive includes of keymap components.
+
+- Compose: Fixed a segfault with `xkb_compose_table_iterator_next` when used on an
+  empty table.
+
+- Compose: Added check to ensure to open only regular files, not e.g. directories.
+
+- Registry: Updated the DTD and always parse the “popularity” attribute.
+
+- Fixed parsing of empty symbol declaration. The following erroneous syntax is now
+  correctly rejected: `xkb_symbols { key <SPC> {, [Space] }; };`.
+
+- Fixed a few memory leaks.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Added documentation for the keymap format about multiple keysyms per level.
+- Added documentation to `XkbToControl`.
+
+Tools
+---
+
+### New
+
+- `xkbcli compile-compose`: added new CLI utility to test Compose files.
+- `xkbcli interactive-x11`: added support for Compose
+- `xkbcli interactive-wayland`: added support for Compose
+
+### Fixes
+
+- `xkbcli interactive-evdev`: fixed help.
+- Bash completion:
+  - Fixed permissions: removed unnecessary execution permission.
+  - Fixed completion in some corner cases.
+
+
 libxkbcommon 1.6.0 - 2023-10-08
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