doc: Add historical release notes

Add all known release notes for versions since 0.3.12,
thanks to Matt Corallo for collecting them on the wiki.

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+Bitcoin version 0.5.2 is now available for download at:
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.2/
+
+This is a bugfix-only release based on 0.5.1.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
+http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.2#.tar.gz
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+Check all transactions in blocks after the last checkpoint (0.5.0 and 0.5.1 skipped checking ECDSA signatures during initial blockchain download).
+Cease locking memory used by non-sensitive information (this caused a huge performance hit on some platforms, especially noticable during initial blockchain download; this was
+not a security vulnerability).
+Fixed some address-handling deadlocks (client freezes).
+No longer accept inbound connections over the internet when Bitcoin is being used with Tor (identity leak).
+Re-enable SSL support for the JSON-RPC interface (it was unintentionally disabled for the 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 release Linux binaries).
+Use the correct base transaction fee of 0.0005 BTC for accepting transactions into mined blocks (since 0.4.0, it was incorrectly accepting 0.0001 BTC which was only meant to be relayed).
+Don't show "IP" for transactions which are not necessarily IP transactions.
+Add new DNS seeds (maintained by Pieter Wuille and Luke Dashjr).