Add 5.6.0 change log for QtLocation and QtPositioningv5.6.0-rc1

Change-Id: I16b07f0d84d34665f6f7159046e94aad2392c8fb
Reviewed-by: Paolo Angelelli <paolo.angelelli@theqtcompany.com>
Reviewed-by: Maurice Kalinowski <maurice.kalinowski@theqtcompany.com>

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+Qt 5.6 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+over the 5.5.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 5.6 series is binary compatible with the 5.5.x series.
+Applications compiled for 5.5 will continue to run with 5.6.
+
+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.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                           Library                                        *
+****************************************************************************
+
+QtPositioning
+-------------
+
+ - Removed Blackberry 10 support.
+ - [QTBUG-40702] Removed dependency towards libgeoclue. The plugin uses the
+   GeoClue DBus interface.
+ - Enabled Position plugin for OS X. Previously only the plugin was only working
+   for iOS.
+ - [QTBUG-48082] Added QtSerialPort based NMEA position plugin for Windows.
+ - Improved and fixed the WinRT position backend. Various changes on the WinRT
+   platform caused the necessity for such and update.
+ - Fixed endless requests towards Android's LocationManager when stopUpdates() was not
+   called in pair with startUpdates().
+
+QtLocation
+----------
+
+ - First stable release of the Qt Location API. The QML API changed significantly
+   compared to the Qt 5.5 release. The changes are documented in the official
+   module documentation under "API changes".
+ - Improved the Flick and Pinch implementation for QML Map.
+ - [QTBUG-44809] Fixed tile version handling
+ - Fixed crash during Map.setVisibleRegion while no plugin has been set.
+ - Improved error reporting in map, geocoding and routing model APIs.
+ - QTBUG[36919] Added means to prevent stealing  of mouse/touch grabs on map.
+ - Improved coordinate related animation handling. Previously an animation along
+   the longitude always used a shortest path direction. Now it is possible to set
+   the direction for the animation.
+ - [QTBUG-46147] Fixed crash in QML Map element.
+ - [QTBUG-44311] Fixed bouncing Map flick on zoom level 2.
+ - [QTBUG-47020] & [QTBUG-47019] Improved Mouse and keyboard integration of QML Map
+ - [QTBUG-46388] Fixed Pinch when no MouseArea overlaps QML Map element.
+ - Fixed various unit test.
+ - Fixed a variety of minor documentation issues.
+ - Fixed dysfunctional tile cache for OSM plugin due to the server delivering JPEG
+   file when PNG files were expected.
+ - [QTBUG-41187] Unified the default tile cache location on disk.
+ - Fixed crash in gesture area while receiving wheel events.
+ - Fixed route requests with excluded areas for HERE plugin.
+ - Added support for custom map background color.
+ - Improved Map rendering performance throughout the QML API.
+ - [QTBUG-49772] Fixed weatherinfo example due to missing appid handling for
+   openweatermap.org.
+ - [QTBUG-47292] Added ability to clear the map cache.
+ - [QTBUG-50060] Improved performance of QML MapPolyline.
+ - [QTBUG-50240] Fixed OSM routing to handle changed server status code for a
+   successful route retrieval.
+ - [QTBUG-50519] Fixed map in mapviewer example when displaying the minimap.