[librsvg: 4/6] Update NEWS

[Marge Bot <marge-bot src gnome org>]

commit 12c8c18857920b55fd36c942136ad7d459812d5e
Author: Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>
Date:   Fri Jan 7 17:23:47 2022 -0600

    Update NEWS
    
    Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/merge_requests/652>

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+==============
+Version 2.53.0
+==============
+
+This is the first release in the new development series.  There are no
+new features, just changes to how the documentation is built.
+
+The man page for rsvg-convert is now generated from a reStructuredText
+document, and the C API reference is generated using gi-docgen.
+
+Please make sure you install python3-docutils (for rst2man) and
+gi-docgen before compiling librsvg from a tarball.
+
+- #755 - rsvg-convert's man page is now generated from reStructuredText.
+
+- #827 - Move C API reference to gi-docgen.
+
+- Test suite updates (Michael Howell).
+
+- Link against bcrypt for Visual Studio builds (Martin Hertz).
+
 ==============
 Version 2.52.5
 ==============