README and NEWS for the release

NEWS

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+midPoint 3.0 "Newton"
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+
+* Generic synchronization: synchronize almost any type of object to the resource
+* Entitlement management support allows management of resource groups, privileges and roles in a native and convenient way.
+* Delegated Administration: ability to define fine-grained authorizations scoped to a specific organizational unit. Attribute-level authorizations.
+* REST API
+* Improved reporting (based on Jasper Reports)
+* Performance improvements
+* Bulk actions: Ability to execute an action on all users/accounts (or subset).
+* GUI improvements: Improved GUI design and ergonomics, ability to conveniently adjust some aspects of GUI look&feel
+* Switch to common OpenICF/ConnId 1.4 framework
+* Schema and interface cleanup
+* Scripting Hooks
+* Schema documentation automatically generated from the definition (schemadoc)
+* Higher-order inducements
+* New expression evaluators for assignments and entitlement associations
+* Iteration support for focal objects (e.g. users)
+* New administration GUI pages
+* Partial multi-tenancy support
+* Support for resource read-only mode
+* Extended function libraries for expressions
+* Support for time-based mappings in object template
+* Improved synchronization reaction configuration options
+* Improved reconciliation and synchronization performance
+* Support for filters in protected accounts specification
+* Support for binary attribute values
+* Support for user photo
+* Schema improvements
+* Improved logging messages
+

README

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+midPoint 3.0 "Newton"
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+
 General informations:
 
-midPoint is a tool that synchronizes several identity repositories, manages them
-and makes them available in unified form. It belongs to the user provisioning 
-category of the enterprise identity management field. The basic features include:
+MidPoint is a comprehensive identity provisioning system. MidPoint can synchronize several
+identity repositories, manage and transform data in these repostories to keep them synchronized.
+MidPoint also makes the data available in unified form. 
 
+The most important features of midPoint are:
    - User provisioning and deprovisioning
    - Integration of Identity Connector Framework
    - Administration GUI
    - Identity repository implemention (SQL)
    - Custom schema extensibility
    - Identity synchronization (liveSync, reconciliation, discovery, import)
    - Support for expressions in synchronization mappings (Groovy, JavaScript, XPathv2)
-   - Advanced RBAC support
+   - Advanced RBAC support with temporal constraints
    - Identity management process automation (workflow, notifications)
    - Password policies
+   - Generic synchronization
+   - Entitlements
+   - Support for ConnId and OpenICF connectors
    - Provisioning consistency and error handling
    - Segregation of Duties (SoG)
    - Support for security auditing and reporting
-   - Local Java APIs
-   - Remote web service interface
+   - Workflow
+   - Reporting
+   - Notifications
+   - Local Java APIs, Remote web service interface (SOAP), REST API
    - High availablity (HA) support