NEWS: add old entry about Type=ether

Apparently it's an important feature for some folks: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/\~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkdMACMatchesWidely. I think we considered this more of a bugfix, but it's somewhere on the border. Let's add this it's easier to discover.
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          for the [RoutingPolicyRule] section of .network files to configure
          source routing based on UID ranges and prefix length, respectively.

+        * The Type= match property of .link files has been generalized to
+          always match the device type shown by 'networkctl status', even for
+          devices where udev does not set DEVTYPE=. This allows e.g. Type=ether
+          to be used.
+
        * sd-bus gained a new API call sd_bus_message_sensitive() that marks a
          D-Bus message object as "sensitive". Those objects are erased from
          memory when they are freed. This concept is intended to be used for