On Monday, January 25, 2016 04:05:59 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:
> I don't have time to work on the release notes right now, but if someone
> else wants to contribute that'd be awesome.

I cooked my first pull request to resolve this:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7416

Thanks for all the explanations you folks provided! :)