add release notes for 0.4.15

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# go-ipfs changelog
## 0.4.15-rc1 2018-04-24
## 0.4.15 2018-05-09
This release is significantly smaller than the last as much of the work on
improving our datastores, and other libraries libp2p has yet to be merged.
However, it still includes many welcome improvements.
As with 0.4.12 and 0.4.14 (0.4.13 was a patch), this release has a negative
diff-stat. Unfortunately, much of this code isn't actually going away but at
least it's being moved out into separate repositories.
Much of the work that made it into this release is under the hood. We've cleaned
up some code, extracted several packages into their own repositories, and made
some long neglected optimizations (e.g., handling of sharded directories).
Additionally, this release includes a bunch of tests for our CLI commands that
should help us avoid some of the issues we've seen in the past few releases.
More visibly, thanks to @djdv's efforts, this release includes some significant
Windows improvements (with more on the way). Specifically, this release includes
better handling of repo lockfiles (no more `ipfs repo fsck`), stdin command-line
support, and, last but not least, IPFS no longer writes random files with scary
garbage in the drive root. To read more about future windows improvements, take
a look at this [blog post](https://blog.ipfs.io/36-a-look-at-windows/).
To better support low-power devices, we've added a low-power config profile.
This can be enabled when initializing a repo by running `ipfs init` with the
`--profile=lowpower` flag or later by running `ipfs config profile apply lowpower`.
Finally, with this release we have begun distributing self-contained source
archives of go-ipfs and its dependencies. This should be a welcome improvement
for both packagers and those living in countries with harmonized internet
access.
- Features:
- Add options for record count and timeout for resolving DHT paths ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4733](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4733))