Document Vintage parallel execution support

This updates the user guide and release notes with details on concurrent test execution. Issue: junit-team#2229
l0s · Oct 18, 2020 · 28c96e7 · 28c96e7
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diff --git a/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/release-notes/release-notes-5.8.0-M1.adoc b/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/release-notes/release-notes-5.8.0-M1.adoc
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 ==== New Features and Improvements
 
+* Tests can now be run in parallel by setting the appropriate `junit.jupiter.execution.parallel`
+  parameters. This is compatible with the Maven Surefire and Failsafe plugins.
 * ❓
diff --git a/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/user-guide/migration-from-junit4.adoc b/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/user-guide/migration-from-junit4.adoc
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ developers have plenty of time to migrate to JUnit Jupiter on their own schedule
 
 Just make sure that the `junit-vintage-engine` artifact is in your test runtime path. In
 that case JUnit 3 and JUnit 4 tests will automatically be picked up by the JUnit Platform
-launcher.
+launcher. Limited parallel execution is supported by setting the
+`junit.jupiter.execution.parallel.enabled` configuration parameter to `true`. In addition, the
+JUnit concurrency settings in `junit.jupiter.execution.parallel.config.*` are also supported.
 
 See the example projects in the {junit5-samples-repo}[`junit5-samples`] repository to
 find out how this is done with Gradle and Maven.