Spelling Fix.
Add NEWS entry.
Merge branch 'python2.6'

* python2.6:
  Add NEWS entry.
  Spelling Fix.
  Don't use ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True) as it's not supported on Python2.6
  Add unittest2 to tests_require on python2.6
  Fix version check.
  Fix travis on python2.6
  Reintroduce Python2.6 support.