Create Markdown versions of README and NEWS and update for release

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>

README

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-README                                          -*-text-*-
-
-This is a line editing library.  It can be linked into almost any program to
-provide command-line editing and history.  It is call-compatible with the FSF
-readline library, but is a fraction of the size (and offers fewer features).
-
-The editline library was created by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz back in 1992.
-At the time they chose to distribute the code under a "C News-like" copyright,
-see the file LICENSE for details.
-
-The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (no ncurses needed!) and the free
-license should make this library interesting to many embedded developers.
-
-Configuration is made by supplying different options to the GNU configure
-script.  In the examples/ directory you can find some small code snippets used
-for testing.
-
-This version of the editline library is a fork off the Minix3 sources. Other
-know versions, often based off of the original comp.sources.unix posting are:
-
-   * Debian libeditline, http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/editline.html
-   * Heimdal, http://www.h5l.org
-   * Festival speech-tools, http://festvox.org/festival/
-   * Steve Tell's editline patches, http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tell/dist.html
-
-The most intersting patches and bug fixes from each fork have been merged here.
-Outstanding issues are listed in the TODO file.
-
-An explanation of the version numbering may be in order.  I didn't know about
-the Debian version for quite some time, so I kept a different name for the
-package and a different versioning scheme.  In June 2009, I decided to line up
-alongside Debian, with the intent of merging the efforts.
-
-Enjoy,
-	Joachim Nilsson <troglobit()gmail!com>
-

README

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+README.md