WT-9494 Remove references of NEWS file from dist scripts and changlog…

… from documentation (#8066)

dist/s_docs

@@ -21,16 +21,6 @@ export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 
 e=0
 
-changelog()
-{
-	# convert the top-level NEWS file into a change log page in the docs
-	(echo "WiredTiger Change Log"
-	 echo "====================="
-	 echo
-	 sed -e 's, \([0-9a-f]\{7\}\) , [\1](https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger/commit/\1) ,g' \
-	     -e 's,\(\(WT\|SERVER\)-[0-9]*\),[\1](https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/\1),g' ../NEWS) > ../src/docs/changelog.md
-}
-
 wtperf_config()
 {
 	# The Linux ed command writes line numbers to stderr, redirect both
@@ -244,9 +234,6 @@ while :
 	esac
 done
 
-# Generate the change log
-changelog
-
 # Generate the list of wtperf configuration options.
 wtperf_config
 

dist/s_release

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ echo "Packing release into $RELEASE_DIR/$PKG.tar.bz2"
 (cd "$RELEASE_DIR" && tar cf - $PKG | bzip2 -9 > $PKG.tar.bz2)
 
 echo "Packing documentation into $RELEASE_DIR/$PKG-docs.tar.bz2"
-(cd "$RELEASE_DIR" && tar cf - $PKG/LICENSE $PKG/NEWS $PKG/README $PKG/docs | \
+(cd "$RELEASE_DIR" && tar cf - $PKG/LICENSE $PKG/README $PKG/docs | \
     bzip2 -9 > $PKG-docs.tar.bz2)
 
 rm -r $DEST

dist/s_string

@@ -75,10 +75,4 @@ for f in $l; do
 	check "--mode=ccpp" $f
 done
 
-l="NEWS"
-# Check other files.
-for f in $l; do
-	check "" $f
-done
-
 exit 0

src/docs/introduction.dox

@@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ For more information about administrating WiredTiger databases, see:
 - @subpage command_line
 - @subpage admin
 
-For release change logs and upgrading information, see:
+For release upgrading information, see:
 
-- @subpage md_changelog
 - @subpage upgrading
 
 WiredTiger is distributed under Open Source licenses; for more information, see: