Things to add to the release notes for the next full release:
-Backward incompatibilities:
--- Changed exit status of each nmh command's -version and -help
- switches from 1 to 0.
+------------
+NEW FEATURES
+------------
+- builds use OpenSSL if available.
+- post now defaults to port 587 on 'smtp' message submission.
+
+-----------------
+OBSOLETE FEATURES
+-----------------
+
+- The undocumented -queue switch to post was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was
+ removed in this release.
+- conflict(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- mhtest(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- msh(1) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group (everyone) was
+ deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+
+-------------------
+DEPRECATED FEATURES
+-------------------
+
+- Support for the MHPDEBUG environment variable is deprecated and will be
+ removed from a future nmh release. Instead, use the -debug switch to pick.
+
+---------
+BUG FIXES
+---------