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-0.8.3 (?/??/2014):
+0.8.6 (?/??/2016):
 ------------------
 
+- Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
+  new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
+  used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
+  used universally.
+
+- If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
+  the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
+  lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
+  unclutter the display on systems that contain NTFS data partitions.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
+  volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
+  and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
+
+- Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
+  ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
+
+- Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
+  option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
+
+- Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
+  BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
+  selection images to fail to load.
+
+- Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
+  directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
+
+- Fixed install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of the ESP on
+  disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
+
+
+0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
+-----------------
+
+- Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
+
+- Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
+
+- Changes to 
+
+- Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
+
+- Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
+  install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
+  installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
+  blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
+  installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
+  which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
+  an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
+  had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
+
+- Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
+
+- Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
+  height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
+  commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
+  forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
+  under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
+
+- Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
+  from other than the first hard disk.
+
+
+0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
+------------------
+
+- Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
+  better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
+  result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
+
+- Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
+
+- Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
+  Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
+  work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
+  but some (such as most Macs) don't.
+
+- If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
+  specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
+  mode.
+
+- If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
+  OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
+  provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
+  a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
+
+- Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
+  boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
+  the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
+
+- Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
+  building and basic use instructions).
+
+0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
+  immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
+  when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
+  shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
+  is displayed.
+
 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
   distribution.