Add some more NEWS updates.

Author: daviesrob

NEWS

@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ Noteworthy changes in release a.b
 * The missing, but trivial, `le_to_u8()` function has been added to hts_endian.
   (PR#1494, Thanks to John Marshall)
 
+* bcf_format_gt() now works properly on big-endian platforms.
+  (PR#1495, Thanks to John Marshall)
+
 Build changes
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@@ -82,11 +85,11 @@ These are compiler, configuration and makefile based changes.
 * Update htscodecs to version 1.3.0 for new SIMD code + various fixes.
   Updates the htscodecs submodule and adds changes necessary to make HTSlib
   build the new SIMD codec implementations.
-  (PR#1438, PR#1489)
+  (PR#1438, PR#1489, PR#1500)
 
 * Fix clang builds under mingw.  Under mingw, clang requires dllexport to be
   applied to both function declarations and function definitions.
-  (PR#1435, fixes #1433.  Reported by teepean)
+  (PR#1435, PR#1497, PR#1498 fixes #1433.  Reported by teepean)
 
 * Fix curl type warning with gcc 12.1 on Windows.
   (PR#1443)
@@ -99,6 +102,11 @@ These are compiler, configuration and makefile based changes.
   systems that don't use HTSlib's or htscodecs' build infrastructure. (PR#1485.
   Thanks to John Marshall)
 
+* Fixed some Makefile dependency issues for the "check"/"test" targets
+  and plugins.  In particular, "make check" will now build the "all" target,
+  if not done already, before running the tests.
+  (PR#1496)
+
 Bug fixes
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