Update NEWS and ChangeLogs for 2.5.0 release

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NEWS

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+ 2.5.0 - 30 Mar 2013
 
+         The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.5.0,
+	 the first release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 2.6.0.
+
+	 This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
+
+	 Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the ledger
+	 (Gnucash's primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel
+	 (select "register 2" from the menu) as well as a new CSV
+	 import/export facility for account trees.
+
+	 Gnucash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed
+	 most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project
+	 Ridley and will in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the
+	 GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means
+	 that Gnucash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the
+	 more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
+
+	 Gnucash now works with Guile-2.0.
+
+	 The business module has been revamped and we introduce a new
+	 feature, Credit Notes. It is now possible to import customers
+	 and vendors from a CSV file as well.
+
+	 The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than
+	 per-transaction.
+
+	 When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of
+	 opening it read-only. Note that Gnucash is still a
+	 single-user program and that the databaase backends are still
+	 used only as a data store.
+
+	 Gnucash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that
+	 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
+
+	 By agreement of all authors we have relicensed Gnucash to the
+	 Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.
+
+ 2.4.12  30 Mar 2013
+       2.4.12 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.11  14 Jul 2012
+       2.4.11 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.10  10 Feb 2012
+       2.4.10 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.9 - 10 Jan 2012
+       2.4.9 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.8 - 20 Oct 2011
+       2.4.8 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.7 - 01 Jul 2011
+       2.4.7 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.6 - 28 May 2011
+       2.4.6 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.5 - 04 Apr 2011
+       2.4.5 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.4 - 13 Mar 2011
+       2.4.4 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.3 - 26 Feb 2011
+       2.4.3 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.2 - 06 Feb 2011
+       2.4.2 is a bugfix release. Please see the Changelog for details
+ 2.4.1 - 04 Feb 2011
+
+       2.4.1 Had to be pulled before the release was completed because
+       some critical problems would have resulted in severe data loss
+       for users.
+
+ 2.4.0 - 20 Dec 2010
+
+       The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.0,
+       the latest stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting
+       Software. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL
+       database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on
+       GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.
+
+       Major changes in the 2.4.0 release include
+
+       * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a
+         SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the data. This
+         is a new implementation using libdbi. It supports all
+         features including the business features.  In order to build
+         with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command.  In
+         addition to the libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you
+         will also need the appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package
+         for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql.
+
+       * As a replacement for the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to
+         display reports and graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is
+         the engine used by Google Chrome on Windows and Safari on
+         Apple.  In order to build with this, add
+         --with-html-engine=webkit to the configure command.  You will
+         need an appropriate webkit-dev package.  On win32, you will
+         need to download the webkit-1.1.90-win32.zip file from the
+         source repository and put it into the downloads directory of
+         your gnucash build area.
+
+       * Updated AqBanking on Win32.</li>
+ 
  2.3.0 - 14 May 2009
  	 o Welcome to GnuCash 2.3.0 the first of several unstable releases of
 	 the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead