Add changes file for 5.9.0

Listing important changes and bug-fixes.

Change-Id: Ia9a95ddde0633cf3fa2ed015af44d84121a64063
Reviewed-by: Miikka Heikkinen <miikka.heikkinen@qt.io>

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+Qt 5.9 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+over the 5.8.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
+included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:
+
+http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html
+
+The Qt version 5.9 series is binary compatible with the 5.8.x series.
+Applications compiled for 5.8 will continue to run with 5.9.
+
+Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
+corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:
+
+https://bugreports.qt.io/
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
+information about a particular change.
+
+New features
+------------
+- [QTBUG-50682] Added a possibility to change legend marker shape
+- [QTBUG-52379] Added support for more than one bar series
+- [QTBUG-51612] Added minor ticks support for QLogValueAxis
+
+Fixed issues
+------------
+- [QTBUG-52442] Optimized barcharts painting
+- [QTBUG-56238] Removed 200x200 minimum size from chart
+- [QTBUG-57328] Fixed crash when log axis range is initialized to contain no ticks
+- [QTBUG-57351] Fixed domain ranges when attaching new axis that changes domain type
+- [QTBUG-59835] Fixed some series blocking mouse events from series items
+- Fixed reversing logarithmic y axis
+- Fixed crash when animating axes with polar charts
+- Fixed some issues with syncing item and series visibility
+