Add changelog for 5.6.0 version

Change-Id: I5557b7651f96bd83a9665eee1b792d6e2b9d2409
Reviewed-by: Sergey Belyashov <Sergey.Belyashov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn@theqtcompany.com>

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+QtSerialPort 5.6 introduces a few 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 QtSerialPort 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:
+
+  http://bugreports.qt.io/
+
+Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
+information about a particular change.
+
+****************************************************************************
+*                          Library                                         *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ - Improved the documentation:
+   * [QTBUG-45391] Fixed the examples link.
+   * [QTBUG-43810] Improved the references to the readyRead() signal for
+     some examples.
+   * [QTBUG-48736] Fixed the examplesinstallpath variable in .qdocconf file.
+   * [QTBUG-44994] Fixed warning about supported directions on Windows(CE).
+
+ - QSerialPortInfo:
+   * Added enumeration of virtual tty0tty devices, which are provided by the
+     http://sourceforge.net/p/tty0tty/wiki/Home/ driver.
+   * Fixed detection of 8250 serial port types with the udev backend.
+   * [QTBUG-50223] Now it enumerates the ttyTHSx devices, which are provided
+     by the 'Tegra Jetson TK1' board, when no udev or sysfs backends are
+     available.
+
+ - QSerialPort:
+   * Added handling of the ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND error code on Windows, which
+     now is interpreted as QSP::DeviceNotFoundError.
+   * Fixed the QSP::clear() method that caused "The parameter is incorrect"
+     error on Windows.
+   * [QTBUG-48094] Added support of the termios v2 feature to configure a
+     custom baud rate on Linux.
+   * Custom speed configuration for one direction is not allowed on Linux.
+     Trying to do this will lead to QSP::UnsupportedOperationError.
+   * Now any attempt to change the policy to anything else than QSP::IgnorePolicy
+     will fail with QSerialPoirt::UnsupportedOperationError.
+   * Fixed stalling of reading with the limited buffer size on *nix.
+   * Improved the console warning message when a suitable custom baud rate
+     divisor is not found.
+   * [QTBUG-50052] Fixed recursion issue that is caused because of an error
+     in QSP::close().