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-Qt version 0.8.2 is now available from:
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/
+
+This is a maintenance release that fixes many bugs and includes
+a few small new features.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+  https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+
+How to Upgrade
+
+If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait
+until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older
+versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over
+/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).
+
+If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you
+run 0.8.2 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take
+anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of
+your machine.
+
+0.8.2 Release notes
+
+Fee Policy changes
+
+The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC 
+(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
+about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.
+
+Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
+(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
+costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
+cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.
+
+Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
+in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
+included in a block.
+
+The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
+command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
+with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
+0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
+the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
+
+Bitcoin-Qt changes
+
+* New icon and splash screen
+* Improve reporting of synchronization process
+* Remove hardcoded fee recommendations
+* Improve metadata of executable on MacOSX and Windows
+* Move export button to individual tabs instead of toolbar
+* Add "send coins" command to context menu in address book
+* Add "copy txid" command to copy transaction IDs from transaction overview
+* Save & restore window size and position when showing & hiding window
+* New translations: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Welsh (cy),
+  Esperanto (eo), Interlingua (la), Latvian (lv) and many improvements
+  to current translations
+
+MacOSX:
+* OSX support for click-to-pay (bitcoin:) links
+* Fix GUI disappearing problem on MacOSX (issue #1522)
+
+Linux/Unix:
+* Copy addresses to middle-mouse-button clipboard
+
+
+Command-line options
+
+* -walletnotify will call a command on receiving transactions that affect the wallet.
+* -alertnotify will call a command on receiving an alert from the network.
+* -par now takes a negative number, to leave a certain amount of cores free.
+
+JSON-RPC API changes
+
+* fixed a getblocktemplate bug that caused excessive CPU creating blocks.
+* listunspent now lists account and address infromation.
+* getinfo now also returns the time adjustment estimated from your peers.
+* getpeerinfo now returns bytessent, bytesrecv and syncnode.
+* gettxoutsetinfo returns statistics about the unspent transaction output database.
+* gettxout returns information about a specific unspent transaction output.
+
+
+Networking changes
+
+* Significant changes to the networking code, reducing latency and memory consumption.
+* Avoid initial block download stalling.
+* Remove IRC seeding support.
+* Performance tweaks.
+* Added testnet DNS seeds.
+
+Wallet compatibility/rescuing
+
+* Cases where wallets cannot be opened in another version/installation should be reduced.
+* -salvagewallet now works for encrypted wallets.
+
+
+Known Bugs
+
+* Entering the 'getblocktemplate' or 'getwork' RPC commands into the Bitcoin-Qt debug
+console will cause Bitcoin-Qt to crash. Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -server command-line
+option to workaround.
+
+Thanks to everybody who contributed to the 0.8.2 release!
+
+APerson241
+Andrew Poelstra
+Calvin Owens
+Chuck LeDuc Díaz
+Colin Dean
+David Griffith
+David Serrano
+Eric Lombrozo
+Gavin Andresen
+Gregory Maxwell
+Jeff Garzik
+Jonas Schnelli
+Larry Gilbert
+Luke Dashjr
+Matt Corallo
+Michael Ford
+Mike Hearn
+Patrick Brown
+Peter Todd
+Philip Kaufmann
+Pieter Wuille
+Richard Schwab
+Roman Mindalev
+Scott Howard
+Tariq Bashir
+Warren Togami
+Wladimir J. van der Laan
+freewil
+gladoscc
+kjj2
+mb300sd
+super3