Add changelog for the 1.16 release

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+# General
+
+* A new freedesktop module helps UNIX application developers to follow the
+  freedesktop.org guidelines.
+* The Android module now allows resourcesDir, sourcesDir and assetsDir to be
+  specified as relative paths.
+* A new ConanfileProbe allows better and more flexible integration of Qbs and
+  the Conan package manager.
+* A new hostArchitecture property has been added to the qbs module.
+
+
+# Language
+
+* List properties in modules are now merged according to inter-module
+  dependencies. This is important when flags like cpp.staticLibraries are
+  contributed by multiple modules with dependencies between each other.
+  (QBS-1517).
+* Dependency matching of multiplexed products is now less strict and does not
+  require all multiplex properties to match. For instance, if product A is
+  multiplexed over qbs.architecture and qbs.buildVariant while product B is only
+  multiplexed over one of these axes, then Qbs no longer fails (QBS-1515).
+
+
+# C/C++ Support
+
+* The Renesas RL78 architecture is now supported in GCC and IAR and the
+  toolchains are auto-detected by qbs-setup-toolchains.
+* The Renesas RX as well as the RH850, V850, 78K are now supported in IAR and
+  the toolchains are auto-detected by qbs-setup-toolchains.
+* The MPLAB X32 GCC-based toolchain is now auto-detected on Windows.
+* Multiple occurrences of static libraries on the linker command line are now
+  pruned and the last instance always wins when using GCC or LLVM-based
+  toolchains. This avoids problems with excessively long linker command lines
+  (QBS-1273).
+* Clang-cl and MSVC toolchains use the compiler frontend instead of the linker
+  when linking. The old behavior can be restored by setting cpp.linkerMode to
+  "manual". This allows to use sanitizers with clang-cl by passing
+  "-fsanitise=xxx" via cpp.driverFlags (QBS-1522).
+* The clang-cl toolchain now uses "link.exe" as the default linker.
+  "lld-link.exe" can be explicitly selected by setting cpp.linkerVariant to
+  "lld" (QBS-1522).
+* The MSVC, clang-cl and MinGW toolchains are now automatically detected if the
+  profile does not set an explicit installation location, for instance because
+  no profile was given.
+* Installation of separate debug information can now be enabled and configured
+  by simply setting the installDebugInformation and debugInformationInstallDir
+  properties in the Application and Library convenience items. This works for
+  toolchains based upon GCC, MSVC or clang-cl.
+* Xcode version 11.4 is now supported on macOS.
+
+
+# Qt Support
+
+* Qbs now supports Qt 5.14 for Android which comes as a multi-architecture
+  package. The qbs-setup-android tool has been updated accordingly (QBS-1497).
+* JSON metatype files generated by moc (Qt >= 5.15) are supported by setting
+  Qt.core.generateMetaTypesFile and Qt.core.metaTypesInstallDir (QBS-1531).
+* Pure debug builds of Qt (>= 5.14) with MinGW are now properly supported. They
+  don't have the 'd' suffix (QTBUG-80792).
+* The QML type declaration mechanism introduced in Qt 5.15 is now supported by
+  the Qt.qml module (QBS-1531).
+* Generated qmltypes files are now named according to the product's targetName
+  property (QTBUG-82710).
+
+
+# Documentation
+
+* The how-to chapter has been extended with sections about debugging Qbs files
+  and about building separate debug information in C++ projects.
+* The item and module reference documentation has been improved for the
+  cpp.libraryPaths, cpp.dynamicLibraries (QBS-1516), qbs.toolchainType and
+  qbs.toolchain properties as well as the Export item and the Library
+  convenience item.
+* Documentation for various path probes has been added (QBS-1187).
+* The README was extended and a CONTRIBUTING file has been added which provides
+  useful information for potential contributors. This is important for people
+  looking at our github mirror.
+
+
+# Infrastructure
+
+* The Debian Docker image has been removed.
+* We are now using ccache and clcache in our CI pipelines to shrink the build
+  time.
+* Clang-tidy is now used to identify potential problems in the code base and a
+  lot of action was taken upon a lot of findings.
+* A Docker image for testing Qbs with Android and Qt has been added.
+
+
+# Important Bug Fixes
+
+* Fix nullpointer access and heap-use-after-free error (QBS-1485).
+* Select the right instance when Depends.profiles is used on a dependency with
+  an aggregator product (QBS-1513).
+* Fix crash when specifying a non-existing profile in Depends.profiles
+  (QBS-1514).
+* Try harder to detect GCC toolchains in qbs-setup-toolchains (QBS-1524).
+* Code signing for Core Foundation Bundles on macOS has been fixed.
+* Automatic artifact scanning now prefers artifacts from product dependencies if
+  multiple candidates are found. This improves dependency tracking in complex
+  projects (QBS-1532).
+* The grpcIncludePath property in the probufcpp module has been fixed
+  (QBS-1542).
+* Qbs does no longer crash when accessing a property of a non-existent module in
+  "IDE mode".
+
+
+# Contributors
+
+* Alberto Mardegan
+* Björn Schäpers
+* BogDan Vatra
+* Christian Kandeler
+* Christian Stenger
+* Denis Shienkov
+* Ivan Komissarov
+* Jochen Ulrich
+* Joerg Bornemann
+* Leon Buckel
+* Marius Sincovici
+* Maximilian Goldstein
+* Mitch Curtis
+* Oliver Wolff
+* Orgad Shaneh
+* Raphaël Cotty
+* Richard Weickelt