Add Nix 2.1 release notes

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<xi:include href="rl-2.1.xml" />
<xi:include href="rl-2.0.xml" />
<xi:include href="rl-1.11.10.xml" />
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-2.1">
<title>Release 2.1 (2018-08-??)</title>
<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also reduces memory
consumption in certain situations. In addition, it has the following
new features:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>New builtin functions:
<literal>builtins.bitAnd</literal>,
<literal>builtins.bitOr</literal>,
<literal>builtins.bitXor</literal>,
<literal>builtins.fromTOML</literal>,
<literal>builtins.concatMap</literal>,
<literal>builtins.mapAttrs</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The S3 binary cache store now supports uploading NARs larger
than 5 GiB.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The flag <option>--fallback</option> is no longer required
to recover from disappeared NARs in binary caches.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix-daemon</command> now respects
<option>--store</option>, so it can be run as a non-root
user.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This release has contributions from TODO.
</para>
</section>