Squashed commit of the following:

commit 53c612015bd1acbb54f189800c62f48c48744ca7
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Wed Oct 8 14:27:22 2014 +0300

    ChangeLog heading to the github time

commit af070de7f5246f53e732d6ca86c9137aa2cc77be
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Wed Oct 8 14:19:08 2014 +0300

    compile ChangeLog from git logs, long afterwards

    I am not sure if we need to keep ChangeLog. This needs a bit care,
    because ChangeLog is essentially linear and git is a web. However,
    I collected major changes from git logs to still have a ChangeLog
    of major events.

commit a143de91c4d840952bdcb638119bfb9245b148f1
Author: Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date:   Wed Oct 8 11:05:18 2014 +0300

    more NEWS picked from the ChangeLog

git-svn-id: svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/vegan@2896 edb9625f-4e0d-4859-8d74-9fd3b1da38cb