add blurb about analytics to the release notes

GMOD · Jun 11, 2012 · 58f85e4 · 58f85e4
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    to the JBrowse root directory.  Makes it easier to get started
    with more advanced JBrowse configuration.
 
+ * JBrowse instances now report usage statistics to the JBrowse
+   developers.  This data is very important to the JBrowse project,
+   since it is used to make the case to grant agencies for continuing
+   to fund JBrowse development.  No research data is transmitted, the
+   data collected is limited to standard Google Analytics, along with
+   a count of how many tracks the JBrowse instance has, how many
+   reference sequences are present, their average length, and what
+   types of tracks (wiggle, feature, etc) are present.  Users can
+   disable usage statistics by setting "suppressUsageStatistics: true"
+   in the JBrowse configuration.
+
 1.3.1     2012-04-19 17:55:44 America/New_York
 
  * Fixed memory-management bug that caused way too much RAM to be used