Add changes file for 5.8.0

Change-Id: Ifbf824e130a64cbfeeab4f0fde2edaef4f862d11
Reviewed-by: Paolo Angelelli <paolo.angelelli@qt.io>

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+Qt 5.8 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+over the 5.7.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 5.8 series is binary compatible with the 5.7.x series.
+Applications compiled for 5.7 will continue to run with 5.8.
+
+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                                        *
+****************************************************************************
+
+QtLocation
+-----------
+
+ - Added geoservices plugin to support ESRI mapping, geocoding and routing
+   services.
+ - Improved HERE geoservice plugin code base (improved warning) and converted
+   the HERE endpoints to newer versions (away from Nokia endpoints. At the same time
+   China specific URLs were removed.
+ - Improved Mapbox plugin to cater for better cache customization and
+   to support the standard box map modes.
+ - Renamed various internal C++ functions to improve code readability
+ - Added better high DPI support in the various geoservice provider plugins.
+   For more details see QTBUG-53318, QTBUG-48868 and QTBUG-36949.
+ - [QTBUG-45284] Added offline data support and improved cache handling in OSM
+   geoservice plugin
+ - Added routing support to Mapbox plugin
+ - Added server side provider support for QtLocation. This enables the quicker
+   selection of alternative providers by already deployed OSM applications in case
+   an OSM based default provider changes T&Cs.
+ - Removed QtSystemInfo dependency from QtLocation
+ - [QTBUG-56213] Adapted map related mouse/touch behavior following
+   changes to general mouse/touch handling in Qt QML
+ - Adapted QtLocation and QtPositioning to the Qt Lite related build system changes
+ - Marked QGeoMapPrivate as private export
+ - Added support for unitary tile caching. This enables use cases whereby the cache
+   size can be defined in number of tiles rather then bytes.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                      Platform Specific Changes                           *
+****************************************************************************
+
+Android
+-------
+
+ - [QTBUG-55988] Added capability to ask for Location permissions at runtime. This is
+   required since Android 7.0.
+
+WinRT
+-----
+
+ - Fixed a name space related compile problem in the positioning plugin for WinRT
+ - Migrated the QtLocation rendering code to the new scenegraph changes enabling
+   Direct3D 12
+ - [QTBUG-54474] Added GeolocationAccessStatus existence check
+ - [QTBUG-56340] Added direction information to position updates
+ - [QTBUG-56623] Changed positioning plugin to use the platforms positioning time
+   stamp rather than a programmatically acquired time stamp at the time of the callback.
+   Effectively, this forwards time stamps from the GPS satellite to the user application.
+ - [QTBUG-53925] Enabled WinRT positioning backend for MSVC2013/2015