RC1 for 2021-08 snapshot release

RELEASE.md

@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
-OQS-OpenSSH snapshot 2020-08
-============================
-
-** TO-DO: update for 8.x branch (this is the 7.9 README) **
-
-*** TODO: to update for next release ***
+OQS-OpenSSH snapshot 2021-08-rc1
+================================
 
 About
 -----
@@ -17,16 +13,12 @@ The **Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project** has the goal of developing and prototypi
 Release notes
 =============
 
-This is the 2020-08 snapshot release of OQS-OpenSSH, released on August 11, 2020. Its release page on GitHub is https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/openssh/releases/tag/OQS-OpenSSH-snapshot-2020-08. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.4.0.
+This is release candidate 1 of the 2021-08 snapshot release of OQS-OpenSSH, released on August 8, 2021. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.0.
 
 What's New
 ----------
 
-This is the fourth snapshot release of the OQS fork of OpenSSH.  It is based on OpenSSH 8.4 portable 1.
-
-- Uses the updated NIST Round 2 submissions added to liboqs 0.4.0, as described in the [liboqs release notes](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/blob/master/RELEASE.md).
-
-Deprecations
-------------
+This is the fifth snapshot release of the OQS fork of OpenSSH.  It is based on OpenSSH 8.6 portable 1.
 
-As a result of NIST's announcement of Round 3 of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project, this is the last release of OQS-OpenSSH that contain algorithms from Round 2 that are not Round 3 finalists or alternate candidates. Those algorithms will be removed in the next release. The algorithms in question are: NewHope, ThreeBears, MQDSS, and qTesla. These algorithms are considered deprecated within OQS-OpenSSH will receive no updates after this release.
+- This is a rewrite of prior versions of OQS-OpenSSH, performed by Goutam Tamvada, Christian Paquin, and Michael Baentsch.
+- Uses the updated NIST Round 3 submissions added to liboqs 0.7.0, as described in the [liboqs release notes](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/blob/main/RELEASE.md).

version.h

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 /* $OpenBSD: version.h,v 1.90 2021/04/16 03:42:00 djm Exp $ */
 
-#define SSH_VERSION	"OQS-OpenSSH_8.6-2021-06_"
+#define SSH_VERSION	"OQS-OpenSSH_8.6-2021-08-rc1_"
 
 #define SSH_PORTABLE	"p1"
 #define SSH_RELEASE	SSH_VERSION SSH_PORTABLE