get whatsnew changes from Z.X branches

some minor backport releases got changelog updates without pushing those changelogs to master

I grabbed the updates with `git checkout [branch] whatsnew/X`

docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-1.0.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,105 b''
 Issues closed in the 1.0 development cycle
 ==========================================
 
+
+Issues closed in 1.2
+--------------------
+
+GitHub stats for 2013/09/09 - 2014/02/21
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+The following 13 authors contributed 84 commits.
+
+* Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
+* Daryl Herzmann
+* Doug Blank
+* Fernando Perez
+* James Porter
+* Juergen Hasch
+* Julian Taylor
+* Kyle Kelley
+* Lawrence Fu
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* Paul Ivanov
+* Pascal Schetelat
+* Puneeth Chaganti
+* Takeshi Kanmae
+* Thomas Kluyver
+
+We closed a total of 55 issues, 38 pull requests and 17 regular issues;
+this is the full list (generated with the script :file:`tools/github_stats.py`):
+
+Pull Requests (38):
+
+1.2.1:
+
+* :ghpull:`4372`: Don't assume that SyntaxTB is always called with a SyntaxError
+* :ghpull:`5166`: remove mktemp usage
+* :ghpull:`5163`: Simplify implementation of TemporaryWorkingDirectory.
+* :ghpull:`5105`: add index to format to support py2.6
+
+1.2.0:
+
+* :ghpull:`4972`: Work around problem in doctest discovery in Python 3.4 with PyQt
+* :ghpull:`4934`: `ipython profile create` respects `--ipython-dir`
+* :ghpull:`4845`: Add Origin Checking.
+* :ghpull:`4928`: use importlib.machinery when available
+* :ghpull:`4849`: Various unicode fixes (mostly on Windows)
+* :ghpull:`4880`: set profile name from profile_dir
+* :ghpull:`4908`: detect builtin docstrings in oinspect
+* :ghpull:`4909`: sort dictionary keys before comparison, ordering is not guaranteed
+* :ghpull:`4903`: use https for all embeds
+* :ghpull:`4868`: Static path fixes
+* :ghpull:`4820`: fix regex for cleaning old logs with ipcluster
+* :ghpull:`4840`: Error in Session.send_raw()
+* :ghpull:`4762`: whitelist alphanumeric characters for cookie_name
+* :ghpull:`4748`: fix race condition in profiledir creation.
+* :ghpull:`4720`: never use ssh multiplexer in tunnels
+* :ghpull:`4738`: don't inject help into user_ns
+* :ghpull:`4722`: allow purging local results as long as they are not outstanding
+* :ghpull:`4668`: Make non-ASCII docstring unicode
+* :ghpull:`4639`: Minor import fix to get qtconsole with --pylab=qt working
+* :ghpull:`4453`: Play nice with App Nap
+* :ghpull:`4609`: Fix bytes regex for Python 3.
+* :ghpull:`4488`: fix typo in message spec doc
+* :ghpull:`4346`: getpass() on Windows & Python 2 needs bytes prompt
+* :ghpull:`4230`: Switch correctly to the user's default matplotlib backend after inline.
+* :ghpull:`4214`: engine ID metadata should be unicode, not bytes
+* :ghpull:`4232`: no highlight if no language specified
+* :ghpull:`4218`: Fix display of SyntaxError when .py file is modified
+* :ghpull:`4217`: avoid importing numpy at the module level
+* :ghpull:`4213`: fixed dead link in examples/notebooks readme to Part 3
+* :ghpull:`4183`: ESC should be handled by CM if tooltip is not on
+* :ghpull:`4193`: Update for #3549: Append Firefox overflow-x fix
+* :ghpull:`4205`: use TextIOWrapper when communicating with pandoc subprocess
+* :ghpull:`4204`: remove some extraneous print statements from IPython.parallel
+* :ghpull:`4201`: HeadingCells cannot be split or merged
+
+1.2.1:
+
+* :ghissue:`5101`: IPython 1.2.0: notebook fail with "500 Internal Server Error"
+
+1.2.0:
+
+* :ghissue:`4892`: IPython.qt test failure with python3.4
+* :ghissue:`4810`: ipcluster bug in clean_logs flag
+* :ghissue:`4765`: missing build script for highlight.js
+* :ghissue:`4761`: ipv6 address triggers cookie exception
+* :ghissue:`4721`: purge_results with jobid crashing - looking for insight
+* :ghissue:`4602`: "ipcluster stop" fails after "ipcluster start --daemonize" using python3.3
+* :ghissue:`3386`: Magic %paste not working in Python 3.3.2. TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
+* :ghissue:`4485`: Incorrect info in "Messaging in IPython" documentation. 
+* :ghissue:`4351`: /parallel/apps/launcher.py error
+* :ghissue:`4334`: NotebookApp.webapp_settings static_url_prefix causes crash
+* :ghissue:`4039`: Celltoolbar example issue
+* :ghissue:`4256`: IPython no longer handles unicode file names 
+* :ghissue:`4122`: Nbconvert [windows]: Inconsistent line endings in markdown cells exported to latex 
+* :ghissue:`3819`: nbconvert add extra blank line to code block on Windows.
+* :ghissue:`4203`: remove spurious print statement from parallel annoted functions
+* :ghissue:`4200`: Notebook: merging a heading cell and markdown cell cannot be undone
+
+
 Issues closed in 1.1
 --------------------
 

docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-2.0.rst

@@ -3,11 +3,16 b''
 Issues closed in the 2.x development cycle
 ==========================================
 
-Issues closed in 2.4.0
+Issues closed in 2.4.1
 ----------------------
 
 GitHub stats for 2014/11/01 - 2015/01/30
 
+.. note::
+
+    IPython 2.4.0 was released without a few of the backports listed below.
+    2.4.1 has the correct patches intended for 2.4.0.
+
 These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
 
 The following 7 authors contributed 35 commits.
@@ -31,7 +36,7 b' Pull Requests (10):'
 * :ghpull:`6778`: backport nbformat v4 to 2.x
 * :ghpull:`6761`: object_info_reply field is oname, not name
 * :ghpull:`6653`: Fix IPython.utils.ansispan() to ignore stray [0m
-* :ghpull:`6706`: Correctly display prompt numbers that are 'None'
+* :ghpull:`6706`: Correctly display prompt numbers that are ``None``
 * :ghpull:`6634`: don't use contains in SelectWidget item_query
 * :ghpull:`6593`: note how to start the qtconsole
 * :ghpull:`6281`: more minor fixes to release scripts

docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-3.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,55 b''
 Issues closed in the 3.x development cycle
 ==========================================
 
+
+Issues closed in 3.2.1
+----------------------
+
+GitHub stats for 2015/06/22 - 2015/07/12 (since 3.2)
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 1 issue and merged 3 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/milestones/3.2.1>`_
+
+The following 5 authors contributed 9 commits.
+
+* Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* Nitin Dahyabhai
+* Sebastiaan Mathot
+* Thomas Kluyver
+
+
+Issues closed in 3.2
+--------------------
+
+GitHub stats for 2015/04/03 - 2015/06/21 (since 3.1)
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 7 issues and merged 30 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/milestones/3.2>`_
+
+The following 15 authors contributed 74 commits.
+
+* Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
+* Brian Gough
+* Damián Avila
+* Ian Barfield
+* Jason Grout
+* Jeff Hussmann
+* Jessica B. Hamrick
+* Kyle Kelley
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* Nicholas Bollweg
+* Randy Lai
+* Scott Sanderson
+* Sylvain Corlay
+* Thomas A Caswell
+* Thomas Kluyver
+
+
 Issues closed in 3.1
 --------------------
 

docs/source/whatsnew/version2.0.rst

@@ -5,10 +5,15 b''
 Release 2.4
 ===========
 
-January, 2015
+January, 2014
+
+.. note::
+
+    Some of the patches marked for 2.4 were left out of 2.4.0.
+    Please use 2.4.1.
 
 - backport read support for nbformat v4 from IPython 3
-- support for PyQt5
+- support for PyQt5 in the kernel (not QtConsole)
 - support for Pygments 2.0
 
 For more information on what fixes have been backported to 2.4,

docs/source/whatsnew/version3.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,48 b''
  3.x Series
 ============
 
+IPython 3.2.3
+=============
+
+Fixes compatibility with Python 3.4.4.
+
+IPython 3.2.2
+=============
+
+Address vulnerabilities when files have maliciously crafted filenames (CVE-2015-6938),
+or vulnerability when opening text files with malicious binary content (CVE pending).
+
+Users are **strongly** encouraged to upgrade immediately.
+There are also a few small unicode and nbconvert-related fixes.
+
+
+IPython 3.2.1
+=============
+
+IPython 3.2.1 is a small bugfix release, primarily for cross-site security fixes in the notebook.
+Users are **strongly** encouraged to upgrade immediately.
+There are also a few small unicode and nbconvert-related fixes.
+
+See :ref:`issues_list_3` for details.
+
+
+IPython 3.2
+===========
+
+IPython 3.2 contains important security fixes. Users are **strongly** encouraged to upgrade immediately.
+
+Highlights:
+
+- Address cross-site scripting vulnerabilities CVE-2015-4706, CVE-2015-4707
+- A security improvement that set the secure attribute to login cookie to prevent them to be sent over http
+- Revert the face color of matplotlib axes in the inline backend to not be transparent.
+- Enable mathjax safe mode by default
+- Fix XSS vulnerability in JSON error messages
+- Various widget-related fixes
+
+See :ref:`issues_list_3` for details.
+
+
 IPython 3.1
 ===========