release notes, info on 2.0 compatibility

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@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ server is very stable, but in the latest weeks we rewrote part of the internals
 in order to use a lot less memory while the saving child process is performing
 a BGREWRITEAOF or a BGSAVE, so handle with care for a couple of weeks.
 
+Oh, and I've some very good news: the majority of apps can work if you simply replace 2.2 in your old 2.0 environment. I can't think of any breakage.
+
 WHAT'S NEW IN REDIS 2.2.x
 
 * Specially encoded data types, small lists and sets can now use up to an order of magnitude less memory.
@@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ WHAT'S NEW IN REDIS 2.2.x
 * Check-and-set (CAS) transactions with the new WATCH command.
 * Now write operations work against keys with an EXPIRE set! Imagine the possibilities.
 * New maxmemory eviction policies. It is possible to select among LRU, farest TTL expire, and other algorithms, and if when the memory limit is reached only keys with an expire set or all the keys should be expired.
+* SETBIT / GETBIT / SETRANGE / GETRANGE / STRLEN. Now your strings are your arrays!
 * Syslog support (Thanks to Jonah H. Harris)
 * Unix domain socket support.
 * New List related functions LINSERT, LPUSHX, RPUSHX (Thanks to Robey Pointer)