Announce the user visible changes for frame/thread apply in NEWS.

'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and [FLAG]... arg for thread apply.

gdb/ChangeLog
2018-07-12  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>

	* NEWS: Mention new commands.  Mention change to 'thread apply'.

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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2018-07-12  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
+
+       * NEWS: Mention new commands. Mention change to 'thread apply'.
+
 2018-07-12  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
 
        * thread.c (thr_try_catch_cmd): New function.

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   can be passed using the '[ADDRESS]:PORT' notation, or the regular
   'ADDRESS:PORT' method.
 
+* New commands
+
+frame apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT | level LEVEL...] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+  Apply a command to some frames.
+  FLAG arguments allow to control what output to produce and how to handle
+  errors raised when applying COMMAND to a frame.
+
+taas COMMAND
+  Apply a command to all threads (ignoring errors and empty output).
+  Shortcut for 'thread apply all -s COMMAND'.
+
+faas COMMAND
+  Apply a command to all frames (ignoring errors and empty output).
+  Shortcut for 'frame apply all -s COMMAND'.
+
+tfaas COMMAND
+  Apply a command to all frames of all threads (ignoring errors and empty
+  output).
+  Shortcut for 'thread apply all -s frame apply all -s COMMAND'.
+
+* Changed commands
+
+thread apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+  The 'thread apply' command accepts new FLAG arguments.
+  FLAG arguments allow to control what output to produce and how to handle
+  errors raised when applying COMMAND to a thread.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.2
 
 * The 'set disassembler-options' command now supports specifying options