NEWS,md: Add introductory text for v0.5.7.

Of course this text should have been added before v0.5.7 was released,
but somehow it got lost.

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 0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density"
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 0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density"
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+
+Mostly a bug fix release, and a bunch of internal improvements.
+The only user-visible changes are the sanity checks for the touch
+command and the new options to the ls command.
+

 - Speedup of the base64 decoder.
 - One of the two source browsers has been removed from the web pages.
   The doxygen API reference still contains an HTML version of each
 - Speedup of the base64 decoder.
 - One of the two source browsers has been removed from the web pages.
   The doxygen API reference still contains an HTML version of each