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documentation: Add epicsThreadHooks info to RELEASE NOTES

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Ralph Lange
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@@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ EPICS Base 3.15.0.x releases are not intended for use in production systems.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.14.x and 3.15.0.x</h2>
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<h3>New API to hook into thread creation and deletion</h3>
<p>A hook API has been added allowing user-supplied functions to be called
whenever a thread starts or exits. The calls are made from the thread's
context, and can be used to control additional thread properties not handled
inside EPICS base, e.g. setting the scheduling policy or CPU affinity (on SMP
systems).</p>
<p>The API also supports a mapping operation, calling a user-supplied function
for every thread that is currently running.</p>
<h3>New scan rate units</h3>
<p>Scan rates defined in the menuScan.dbd file may now be specified in seconds,