docs: incomplete beginnings of a NEWS update for v1.8β

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User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
* Release 1.8.0α (2010-07-31)
* Release 1.8.0β (2010-08-02)
** New Features
- A completely new downloader which improves performance and
robustness of downloads. It automatically fails over to alternate
servers if the servers that it is using fail or become too slow. It
also minimizes unnecessary round trips and unnecessary bytes
transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, #990)
XXX any other tickets? #809, #287, #447?
- The command-line now works on 64-bit Windows and now handles
non-ASCII command-line arguments and non-ASCII outputs on all
versions of Windows. (#1074)
** Bugfixes and Improvements
- Fix bug in WUI in Python 2.5 when the system clock is set back to
1969. (#1055)
- Many internal improvements in code organization, tests, logging, etc. (#1074, #1121 XXX YYY
* Release 1.7.1 (2010-07-18)