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+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.
+
+- rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
+  offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
+  driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
+
+- Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
+  Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
+  under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
+  licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
+  was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
+  code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
+  change its license to a BSD license.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
+  them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
+  the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
+
+- Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
+  and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
+  affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
+  out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
+  kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
+  "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
+  now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
+  kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
+  support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
+  kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
+  and ensure it's set to "false".
+
+0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
+-------------------
+
+- Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
+  key to appear at rEFInd startup.
+
+0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
+  previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
+  boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
+  default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
+  of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
+  systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
+  loader in the
+  /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
+  variable under Linux.
+
+- Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
+
+- Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
+  manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
+
+- I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
+  and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
+
+- Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
+  does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
+  loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
+  uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
+  boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
+  the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
+  override a setting in the main file).
+
 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
 ------------------