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-0.8.8 (3/??/2015):
+0.9.1 (?/??/2015):
 ------------------
 
+- Added icon for Elementary OS.
+
+- Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
+  distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
+  better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
+  closely-related distributions.
+
+- Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
+  are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
+  blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
+  keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
+  many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
+  lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
+  though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
+  firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
+  potentially buggy system calls.
+
+0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
+------------------
+
+- New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
+
+- Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
+  with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
+  EDK2.)
+
+- Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
+  active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
+  single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
+  stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
+  or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
+  submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
+  false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
+  is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
+
+- Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
+  Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
+  (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
+  If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
+  partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
+  found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
+  options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
+  one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
+  help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
+
 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
   file was encountered.