Revert "fix for mingw-w64"

This reverts commit 32b13ccb46eb2607c5fd40052318fcdbd8d32dca.

Reported by Wolf0 (aka wolf9466) to not break MinGW 64-bit compilation
with GCC 4.8.2 (latest stable).
misc: update NEWS.md with reference to mailing lists and duplicate entry removal.