doc: mention new SIGPIPE behavior in 1.6 release notes

Update #11845.

Change-Id: I1c248dc48abc62e51836b9ba50d6deb89706c730
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18226
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>

diff --git a/doc/go1.6.html b/doc/go1.6.html
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--- a/doc/go1.6.html
+++ b/doc/go1.6.html
@@ -747,6 +747,26 @@ now return correct results when inquiring about an
 <a href="/pkg/os/#SyscallError"><code>SyscallError</code></a>.
 </li>
 
+<li>
+On Unix-like systems, when a write
+to <a href="/pkg/os/#pkg-variables"><code>os.Stdout</code>
+or <code>os.Stderr</code></a> (more precisely, an <code>os.File</code>
+opened for file descriptor 1 or 2) fails due to a broken pipe error,
+the program will raise a <code>SIGPIPE</code> signal.
+By default this will cause the program to exit; this may be changed by
+calling the
+<a href="/pkg/os/signal"><code>os/signal</code></a>
+<a href="/pkg/os/signal/#Notify"><code>Notify</code></a> function
+for <code>syscall.SIGPIPE</code>.
+A write to a broken pipe on a file descriptor other 1 or 2 will simply
+return <code>syscall.EPIPE</code> (possibly wrapped in
+<a href="/pkg/os#PathError"><code>os.PathError</code></a>
+and/or <a href="/pkg/os#SyscallError"><code>os.SyscallError</code></a>)
+to the caller.
+The old behavior of raising an uncatchable <code>SIGPIPE</code> signal
+after 10 consecutive writes to a broken pipe no longer occurs.
+</li>
+
 <li>
 In the <a href="/pkg/os/exec/"><code>os/exec</code></a> package,
 <a href="/pkg/os/exec/#Cmd"><code>Cmd</code></a>'s