make-release.py: Updated release notes and changelog for 1.0.12-rc1.

doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.12-rc1.md

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+Changelog
+=========
+
+Ariel (1):
+      add examples to z_getoperationresult
+
+Ariel Gabizon (1):
+      add load-wallet benchmark
+
+Bjorn Hjortsberg (2):
+      Do not warn on built in declaration mismatch
+      Remove deprecated exception specification
+
+Jack Grigg (20):
+      ci-workers: Enable pipelining, and use root to set admin and host details
+      Variable overrides for Arch Linux
+      Rationalize currency unit to "ZEC"
+      ci-workers: Fail if Python is not version 2.7
+      ci-workers: Variable overrides and process tweaks for CentOS 7
+      Add build progress to the release script if progressbar module is available
+      Add hotfix support to release script
+      Document the hotfix release process
+      Enforce sequential hotfix versioning
+      Benchmark time to call sendtoaddress with many UTXOs
+      Fix bug in benchmark data generation script
+      Adjust instructions for UTXO dataset creation
+      Add GitHub release notes to release process
+      Clarify branching and force-building operations in hotfix process
+      Update user guide translations as part of release process
+      make-release.py: Send stderr to stdout
+      List dependencies for release script in release process doc
+      Additional test cases for importprivkey RPC test
+      make-release.py: Versioning changes for 1.0.12-rc1.
+      make-release.py: Updated manpages for 1.0.12-rc1.
+
+Jason Davies (1):
+      Fix deprecation policy comment.
+
+Nathan Wilcox (5):
+      key_import_export rpc-test: verify that UTXO view co-evolves for nodes sharing a key.
+      Add a new rpc-test-specified requirement: `importprivkey` outputs the associated address. (Test fails.)
+      [tests pass] Output address on new key import.
+      Add a new requirement that `importprivkey` API is idempotent.
+      [tests pass] Ensure `importprivkey` outputs the address in case key is already imported.
+
+Ross Nicoll (1):
+      Rationalize currency unit to "BTC"
+
+Simon Liu (3):
+      Closes #2583. Exclude watch-only utxos from z_sendmany coin selection.
+      Set up a clean chain.     Delete redundant method wait_until_miner_sees() via use of sync_all().
+      Implement RPC shield_coinbase #2448.
+
+kpcyrd (2):
+      Fetch params from ipfs if possible
+      Prefer wget over ipfs
+