Added changelog for QtWaylandv5.7.0-rc1

Mention user-visible changes from 5.6.0..5.7.0 in
QtWaylandClient. Quick mention of QtWaylandCompositor
tech preview.

Change-Id: I60ced9a062420aad66b222ff3c07b82b2f7c48e2
Reviewed-by: Johan Helsing <johan.helsing@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Giulio Camuffo <giulio.camuffo@kdab.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Olav Tvete <paul.tvete@theqtcompany.com>

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+Qt 5.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+over the 5.6.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-5.7
+
+The Qt version 5.7 series is binary compatible with the 5.6.x series.
+Applications compiled for 5.6 will continue to run with 5.7.
+
+Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
+corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:
+
+  http://bugreports.qt.io/
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
+information about a particular change.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                            Qt Wayland General                            *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- Update Wayland protocol version to 1.6
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                            Qt Wayland QPA Plugin                         *
+****************************************************************************
+
+- Add IVI-shell support
+
+- Update text input support to zwp_text_input_v2
+
+- Use standard Qt input method if zwp_text_input is not available.
+
+- Filter key events through the input method
+
+- Remove the qt_sub_surface extension
+
+- Update xdg-shell version to v5
+
+- Use default size if a QWindow has no geometry
+
+- Set appId according to QGuiApplication::desktopFileName()
+
+- Add support for bitmap cursors
+
+- Create shell surface also for windows with BypassWindowManagerHint to avoid
+  the application freezing. (To enable the old behavior, set the environment
+  variable QT_WAYLAND_USE_BYPASSWINDOWMANAGERHINT.)
+
+- Experimental API for implementing Wayland extensions for Qt clients. This
+  is in tech preview and subject to change. Applications using this API will
+  not be source/binary compatible with Qt 5.8.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                       Qt Compositor API Tech Preview                     *
+****************************************************************************
+
+The previously unsupported QtCompositor module has been extensively reworked
+and renamed to QtWaylandCompositor.  It is released as a tech preview in
+Qt 5.7. This means that it is not source or binary compatible with QtCompositor
+in 5.6, and it will not be source or binary compatible with Qt 5.8.
+
+- QtWaylandCompositor libraries, plugins and examples are now built by default.
+
+- New and improved C++ API
+
+- Completely rewritten QML API, making it possible to write compositors in just
+  a few lines of pure QML.
+
+- Note: this is a tech preview, and subject to change.