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 0.5.4 is now available for download at:
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.4/
+NOTE: 0.5.4rc3 is being renamed to 0.5.4 final with no changes.
+
+This is a bugfix-only release in the 0.5.x series, plus a few protocol updates.
+
+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/v0.5.4#.tar.gz
+
+PROTOCOL UPDATES
+
+BIP 16: Special-case "pay to script hash" logic to enable minimal validation of new transactions.
+Support for validating message signatures produced with compressed public keys.
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+Build with thread-safe MingW libraries for Windows, fixing a dangerous memory corruption scenario when exceptions are thrown.
+Fix broken testnet mining.
+Stop excess inventory relay during initial block download.
+When disconnecting a node, clear the received buffer so that we do not process any already received messages.
+Yet another attempt at implementing "minimize to tray" that works on all operating systems.
+Fix Bitcoin-Qt notifications under Growl 1.3.
+Increase required age of Bitcoin-Qt's "not up to date" status from 30 to 90 minutes.
+Implemented missing verifications that led to crash on entering some wrong passphrases for encrypted wallets.
+Fix default filename suffixes in GNOME save dialog.
+Make the "Send coins" tab use the configured unit type, even on the first attempt.
+Print detailed wallet loading errors to debug.log when it is corrupt.
+Allocate exactly the amount of space needed for signing transactions, instead of a fixed 10k buffer.
+Workaround for improbable memory access violation.
+Check wallet's minimum version before trying to load it.
+Remove wxBitcoin properly when installing Bitcoin-Qt over it. (Windows)
+Detail reorganization information better in debug log.
+Use a messagebox to display the error when -server is provided without configuring a RPC password.
+Testing suite build now honours provided CXXFLAGS.
+Removed an extraneous line-break in mature transaction tooltips.
+Fix some grammatical errors in translation process documentation.