Convert CHANGELOG to Markdown

All this does is convert the version sections into headers. The list
items shouldn't really be indented by two spaces, but it makes no
difference to the rendering and this way we retain authorship history
for the actual changes.

Related to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-tools/merge_requests/29

5 files changed, 267 insertions, 137 deletions

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 17cbaa5eef5..ab791a4cd6c 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-CHANGELOG merge=union
+CHANGELOG.md merge=union
 *.js.es6 gitlab-language=javascript
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG.md
index e3201cd2250..46f718fc88a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
-v 8.13.0 (unreleased)
+## 8.13.0 (2016-10-22)
+
   - Improve Merge When Build Succeeds triggers and execute on pipeline success. (!6675)
   - Respond with 404 Not Found for non-existent tags (Linus Thiel)
   - Truncate long labels with ellipsis in labels page
@@ -120,14 +121,17 @@ v 8.13.0 (unreleased)
   - Add docs for request profiling
   - Make guests unable to view MRs on private projects
 
-v 8.12.7
+## 8.12.7
+
   - Use gitlab-markup gem instead of github-markup to fix `.rst` file rendering. !6659
   - Fix GFM autocomplete setup being called several times
 
-v 8.12.6
+## 8.12.6
+
   - Update mailroom to 0.8.1 in Gemfile.lock  !6814
 
-v 8.12.5
+## 8.12.5
+
   - Switch from request to env in ::API::Helpers. !6615
   - Update the mail_room gem to 0.8.1 to fix a race condition with the mailbox watching thread. !6714
   - Improve issue load time performance by avoiding ORDER BY in find_by call. !6724
@@ -135,7 +139,8 @@ v 8.12.5
   - Don't send Private-Token (API authentication) headers to Sentry
   - Share projects via the API only with groups the authenticated user can access
 
-v 8.12.4
+## 8.12.4
+
   - Fix "Copy to clipboard" tooltip to say "Copied!" when clipboard button is clicked. !6294 (lukehowell)
   - Fix padding in build sidebar. !6506
   - Changed compare dropdowns to dropdowns with isolated search input. !6550
@@ -150,10 +155,12 @@ v 8.12.4
   - Set GitLab project exported file permissions to owner only
   - Improve the way merge request versions are compared with each other
 
-v 8.12.3
+## 8.12.3
+
   - Update Gitlab Shell to support low IO priority for storage moves
 
-v 8.12.2
+## 8.12.2
+
   - Fix Import/Export not recognising correctly the imported services.
   - Fix snippets pagination
   - Fix "Create project" button layout when visibility options are restricted
@@ -169,11 +176,13 @@ v 8.12.2
   - Fix resolve discussion buttons endpoint path
   - Refactor remnants of CoffeeScript destructured opts and super !6261
 
-v 8.12.1
+## 8.12.1
+
   - Fix a memory leak in HTML::Pipeline::SanitizationFilter::WHITELIST
   - Fix issue with search filter labels not displaying
 
-v 8.12.0
+## 8.12.0 (2016-09-22)
+
   - Removes inconsistency regarding tagging immediatelly as merged once you create a new branch. !6408
   - Update the rouge gem to 2.0.6, which adds highlighting support for JSX, Prometheus, and others. !6251
   - Only check :can_resolve permission if the note is resolvable
@@ -363,23 +372,27 @@ v 8.12.0
   - Fix non-master branch readme display in tree view
   - Add UX improvements for merge request version diffs
 
-v 8.11.9
+## 8.11.9
+
   - Don't send Private-Token (API authentication) headers to Sentry
   - Share projects via the API only with groups the authenticated user can access
 
-v 8.11.8
+## 8.11.8
+
   - Respect the fork_project permission when forking projects
   - Set a restrictive CORS policy on the API for credentialed requests
   - API: disable rails session auth for non-GET/HEAD requests
   - Escape HTML nodes in builds commands in CI linter
 
-v 8.11.7
+## 8.11.7
+
   - Avoid conflict with admin labels when importing GitHub labels. !6158
   - Restores `fieldName` to allow only string values in `gl_dropdown.js`. !6234
   - Allow the Rails cookie to be used for API authentication.
   - Login/Register UX upgrade !6328
 
-v 8.11.6
+## 8.11.6
+
   - Fix unnecessary horizontal scroll area in pipeline visualizations. !6005
   - Make merge conflict file size limit 200 KB, to match the docs. !6052
   - Fix an error where we were unable to create a CommitStatus for running state. !6107
@@ -389,7 +402,8 @@ v 8.11.6
   - Fix DB schema to match latest migration. !6256
   - Exclude some pending or inactivated rows in Member scopes.
 
-v 8.11.5
+## 8.11.5
+
   - Optimize branch lookups and force a repository reload for Repository#find_branch. !6087
   - Fix member expiration date picker after update. !6184
   - Fix suggested colors options for new labels in the admin area. !6138
@@ -402,7 +416,8 @@ v 8.11.5
   - Fix confidential issues being exposed as public using gitlab.com export
   - Use oj gem for faster JSON processing
 
-v 8.11.4
+## 8.11.4
+
   - Fix resolving conflicts on forks. !6082
   - Fix diff commenting on merge requests created prior to 8.10. !6029
   - Fix pipelines tab layout regression. !5952
@@ -419,7 +434,8 @@ v 8.11.4
   - Remove gitorious. !5866
   - Allow compare merge request versions
 
-v 8.11.3
+## 8.11.3
+
   - Allow system info page to handle case where info is unavailable
   - Label list shows all issues (opened or closed) with that label
   - Don't show resolve conflicts link before MR status is updated
@@ -430,17 +446,20 @@ v 8.11.3
   - Automatically expand hidden discussions when accessed by a permalink !5585 (Mike Greiling)
   - Issues filters reset button
 
-v 8.11.2
+## 8.11.2
+
   - Show "Create Merge Request" widget for push events to fork projects on the source project. !5978
   - Use gitlab-workhorse 0.7.11 !5983
   - Does not halt the GitHub import process when an error occurs. !5763
   - Fix file links on project page when default view is Files !5933
   - Fixed enter key in search input not working !5888
 
-v 8.11.1
+## 8.11.1
+
   - Pulled due to packaging error.
 
-v 8.11.0
+## 8.11.0 (2016-08-22)
+
   - Use test coverage value from the latest successful pipeline in badge. !5862
   - Add test coverage report badge. !5708
   - Remove the http_parser.rb dependency by removing the tinder gem. !5758 (tbalthazar)
@@ -593,48 +612,58 @@ v 8.11.0
   - Update gitlab_git gem to 10.4.7
   - Simplify SQL queries of marking a todo as done
 
-v 8.10.12
+## 8.10.12
+
   - Don't send Private-Token (API authentication) headers to Sentry
   - Share projects via the API only with groups the authenticated user can access
 
-v 8.10.11
+## 8.10.11
+
   - Respect the fork_project permission when forking projects
   - Set a restrictive CORS policy on the API for credentialed requests
   - API: disable rails session auth for non-GET/HEAD requests
   - Escape HTML nodes in builds commands in CI linter
 
-v 8.10.10
+## 8.10.10
+
   - Allow the Rails cookie to be used for API authentication.
 
-v 8.10.9
+## 8.10.9
+
   - Exclude some pending or inactivated rows in Member scopes
 
-v 8.10.8
+## 8.10.8
+
   - Fix information disclosure in issue boards.
   - Fix privilege escalation in project import.
 
-v 8.10.7
+## 8.10.7
+
   - Upgrade Hamlit to 2.6.1. !5873
   - Upgrade Doorkeeper to 4.2.0. !5881
 
-v 8.10.6
+## 8.10.6
+
   - Upgrade Rails to 4.2.7.1 for security fixes. !5781
   - Restore "Largest repository" sort option on Admin > Projects page. !5797
   - Fix privilege escalation via project export.
   - Require administrator privileges to perform a project import.
 
-v 8.10.5
+## 8.10.5
+
   - Add a data migration to fix some missing timestamps in the members table. !5670
   - Revert the "Defend against 'Host' header injection" change in the source NGINX templates. !5706
   - Cache project count for 5 minutes to reduce DB load. !5746 & !5754
 
-v 8.10.4
+## 8.10.4
+
   - Don't close referenced upstream issues from a forked project.
   - Fixes issue with dropdowns `enter` key not working correctly. !5544
   - Fix Import/Export project import not working in HA mode. !5618
   - Fix Import/Export error checking versions. !5638
 
-v 8.10.3
+## 8.10.3
+
   - Fix Import/Export issue importing milestones and labels not associated properly. !5426
   - Fix timing problems running imports on production. !5523
   - Add a log message when a project is scheduled for destruction for debugging. !5540
@@ -645,7 +674,8 @@ v 8.10.3
   - Trim extra displayed carriage returns in diffs and files with CRLFs. !5588
   - Fix label already exist error message in the right sidebar.
 
-v 8.10.2
+## 8.10.2
+
   - User can now search branches by name. !5144
   - Page is now properly rendered after committing the first file and creating the first branch. !5399
   - Add branch or tag icon to ref in builds page. !5434
@@ -666,7 +696,8 @@ v 8.10.2
   - Fix missing schema update for `20160722221922`. !5512
   - Update `gitlab-shell` version to 3.2.1 in the 8.9->8.10 update guide. !5516
 
-v 8.10.1
+## 8.10.1
+
   - Refactor repository storages documentation. !5428
   - Gracefully handle case when keep-around references are corrupted or exist already. !5430
   - Add detailed info on storage path mountpoints. !5437
@@ -675,7 +706,8 @@ v 8.10.1
   - Ignore invalid trusted proxies in X-Forwarded-For header. !5454
   - Add links to the real markdown.md file for all GFM examples. !5458
 
-v 8.10.0
+## 8.10.0 (2016-07-22)
+
   - Fix profile activity heatmap to show correct day name (eanplatter)
   - Speed up ExternalWikiHelper#get_project_wiki_path
   - Expose {should,force}_remove_source_branch (Ben Boeckel)
@@ -839,26 +871,32 @@ v 8.10.0
   - Show tooltip on GitLab export link in new project page
   - Fix import_data wrongly saved as a result of an invalid import_url !5206
 
-v 8.9.11
+## 8.9.11
+
   - Respect the fork_project permission when forking projects
   - Set a restrictive CORS policy on the API for credentialed requests
   - API: disable rails session auth for non-GET/HEAD requests
   - Escape HTML nodes in builds commands in CI linter
 
-v 8.9.10
+## 8.9.10
+
   - Allow the Rails cookie to be used for API authentication.
 
-v 8.9.9
+## 8.9.9
+
   - Exclude some pending or inactivated rows in Member scopes
 
-v 8.9.8
+## 8.9.8
+
   - Upgrade Doorkeeper to 4.2.0. !5881
 
-v 8.9.7
+## 8.9.7
+
   - Upgrade Rails to 4.2.7.1 for security fixes. !5781
   - Require administrator privileges to perform a project import.
 
-v 8.9.6
+## 8.9.6
+
   - Fix importing of events under notes for GitLab projects. !5154
   - Fix log statements in import/export. !5129
   - Fix commit avatar alignment in compare view. !5128
@@ -867,7 +905,8 @@ v 8.9.6
   - Keeps issue number when importing from Gitlab.com
   - Add Pending tab for Builds (Katarzyna Kobierska, Urszula Budziszewska)
 
-v 8.9.5
+## 8.9.5
+
   - Add more debug info to import/export and memory killer. !5108
   - Fixed avatar alignment in new MR view. !5095
   - Fix diff comments not showing up in activity feed. !5069
@@ -882,7 +921,8 @@ v 8.9.5
   - Update RedCloth to 4.3.2 for CVE-2012-6684. !4929 (Takuya Noguchi)
   - Improve the request / withdraw access button. !4860
 
-v 8.9.4
+## 8.9.4
+
   - Fix privilege escalation issue with OAuth external users.
   - Ensure references to private repos aren't shown to logged-out users.
   - Fixed search field blur not removing focus. !4704
@@ -896,7 +936,8 @@ v 8.9.4
   - Expiry date on pinned nav cookie. !5009
   - Updated breakpoint for sidebar pinning. !5019
 
-v 8.9.3
+## 8.9.3
+
   - Fix encrypted data backwards compatibility after upgrading attr_encrypted gem. !4963
   - Fix rendering of commit notes. !4953
   - Resolve "Pin should show up at 1280px min". !4947
@@ -913,12 +954,14 @@ v 8.9.3
   - Use update_columns to bypass all the dirty code on active_record. !4985
   - Fix restore Rake task warning message output !4980
 
-v 8.9.2
+## 8.9.2
+
   - Fix visibility of snippets when searching.
   - Fix an information disclosure when requesting access to a group containing private projects.
   - Update omniauth-saml to 1.6.0 !4951
 
-v 8.9.1
+## 8.9.1
+
   - Refactor labels documentation. !3347
   - Eager load award emoji on notes. !4628
   - Fix some CI wording in documentation. !4660
@@ -962,7 +1005,8 @@ v 8.9.1
   - Add SMTP as default delivery method to match gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab!826. !4915
   - Remove duplicate 'New Page' button on edit wiki page
 
-v 8.9.0
+## 8.9.0 (2016-06-22)
+
   - Fix group visibility form layout in application settings
   - Fix builds API response not including commit data
   - Fix error when CI job variables key specified but not defined
@@ -1117,21 +1161,26 @@ v 8.9.0
   - Add tooltip to pin/unpin navbar
   - Add new sub nav style to Wiki and Graphs sub navigation
 
-v 8.8.9
+## 8.8.9
+
   - Upgrade Doorkeeper to 4.2.0. !5881
 
-v 8.8.8
+## 8.8.8
+
   - Upgrade Rails to 4.2.7.1 for security fixes. !5781
 
-v 8.8.7
+## 8.8.7
+
   - Fix privilege escalation issue with OAuth external users.
   - Ensure references to private repos aren't shown to logged-out users.
 
-v 8.8.6
+## 8.8.6
+
   - Fix visibility of snippets when searching.
   - Update omniauth-saml to 1.6.0 !4951
 
-v 8.8.5
+## 8.8.5
+
   - Import GitHub repositories respecting the API rate limit !4166
   - Fix todos page throwing errors when you have a project pending deletion !4300
   - Disable Webhooks before proceeding with the GitHub import !4470
@@ -1144,12 +1193,14 @@ v 8.8.5
   - Banzai::Filter::UploadLinkFilter use XPath instead CSS expressions
   - Banzai::Filter::ExternalLinkFilter use XPath instead CSS expressions
 
-v 8.8.4
+## 8.8.4
+
   - Fix LDAP-based login for users with 2FA enabled. !4493
   - Added descriptions to notification settings dropdown
   - Due date can be removed from milestones
 
-v 8.8.3
+## 8.8.3
+
   - Fix 404 page when viewing TODOs that contain milestones or labels in different projects. !4312
   - Fixed JS error when trying to remove discussion form. !4303
   - Fixed issue with button color when no CI enabled. !4287
@@ -1168,7 +1219,8 @@ v 8.8.3
   - Fix missing number on generated ordered list element. !4437
   - Prevent disclosure of notes on confidential issues in search results.
 
-v 8.8.2
+## 8.8.2
+
   - Added remove due date button. !4209
   - Fix Error 500 when accessing application settings due to nil disabled OAuth sign-in sources. !4242
   - Fix Error 500 in CI charts by gracefully handling commits with no durations. !4245
@@ -1179,13 +1231,15 @@ v 8.8.2
   - When creating a .gitignore file a dropdown with templates will be provided. !4075
   - Fix concurrent request when updating build log in browser. !4183
 
-v 8.8.1
+## 8.8.1
+
   - Add documentation for the "Health Check" feature
   - Allow anonymous users to access a public project's pipelines !4233
   - Fix MySQL compatibility in zero downtime migrations helpers
   - Fix the CI login to Container Registry (the gitlab-ci-token user)
 
-v 8.8.0
+## 8.8.0 (2016-05-22)
+
   - Implement GFM references for milestones (Alejandro Rodríguez)
   - Snippets tab under user profile. !4001 (Long Nguyen)
   - Fix error when using link to uploads in global snippets
@@ -1261,34 +1315,40 @@ v 8.8.0
   - When creating a .gitignore file a dropdown with templates will be provided
   - Shows the issue/MR list search/filter form and corrects the mobile styling for guest users. #17562
 
-v 8.7.9
+## 8.7.9
+
   - Fix privilege escalation issue with OAuth external users.
   - Ensure references to private repos aren't shown to logged-out users.
 
-v 8.7.8
+## 8.7.8
+
   - Fix visibility of snippets when searching.
   - Update omniauth-saml to 1.6.0 !4951
 
-v 8.7.7
+## 8.7.7
+
   - Fix import by `Any Git URL` broken if the URL contains a space
   - Prevent unauthorized access to other projects build traces
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
   - Only show notes through JSON on confidential issues that the user has access to
 
-v 8.7.6
+## 8.7.6
+
   - Fix links on wiki pages for relative url setups. !4131 (Artem Sidorenko)
   - Fix import from GitLab.com to a private instance failure. !4181
   - Fix external imports not finding the import data. !4106
   - Fix notification delay when changing status of an issue
   - Bump Workhorse to 0.7.5 so it can serve raw diffs
 
-v 8.7.5
+## 8.7.5
+
   - Fix relative links in wiki pages. !4050
   - Fix always showing build notification message when switching between merge requests !4086
   - Fix an issue when filtering merge requests with more than one label. !3886
   - Fix short note for the default scope on build page (Takuya Noguchi)
 
-v 8.7.4
+## 8.7.4
+
   - Links for Redmine issue references are generated correctly again !4048 (Benedikt Huss)
   - Fix setting trusted proxies !3970
   - Fix BitBucket importer bug when throwing exceptions !3941
@@ -1297,20 +1357,23 @@ v 8.7.4
   - Running rake gitlab:db:drop_tables uses "IF EXISTS" as a precaution !4100
   - Use a case-insensitive comparison in sanitizing URI schemes
 
-v 8.7.3
+## 8.7.3
+
   - Emails, Gitlab::Email::Message, Gitlab::Diff, and Premailer::Adapter::Nokogiri are now instrumented
   - Merge request widget displays TeamCity build state and code coverage correctly again.
   - Fix the line code when importing PR review comments from GitHub. !4010
   - Wikis are now initialized on legacy projects when checking repositories
   - Remove animate.css in favor of a smaller subset of animations. !3937 (Connor Shea)
 
-v 8.7.2
+## 8.7.2
+
   - The "New Branch" button is now loaded asynchronously
   - Fix error 500 when trying to create a wiki page
   - Updated spacing between notification label and button
   - Label titles in filters are now escaped properly
 
-v 8.7.1
+## 8.7.1
+
   - Throttle the update of `project.last_activity_at` to 1 minute. !3848
   - Fix .gitlab-ci.yml parsing issue when hidde job is a template without script definition. !3849
   - Fix license detection to detect all license files, not only known licenses. !3878
@@ -1320,7 +1383,8 @@ v 8.7.1
   - Update width of search box to fix Safari bug. !3900 (Jedidiah)
   - Use the `can?` helper instead of `current_user.can?`
 
-v 8.7.0
+## 8.7.0 (2016-04-22)
+
   - Gitlab::GitAccess and Gitlab::GitAccessWiki are now instrumented
   - Fix vulnerability that made it possible to gain access to private labels and milestones
   - The number of InfluxDB points stored per UDP packet can now be configured
@@ -1436,12 +1500,14 @@ v 8.7.0
   - Add RAW build trace output and button on build page
   - Add incremental build trace update into CI API
 
-v 8.6.9
+## 8.6.9
+
   - Prevent unauthorized access to other projects build traces
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
   - Only show notes through JSON on confidential issues that the user has access to
 
-v 8.6.8
+## 8.6.8
+
   - Prevent privilege escalation via "impersonate" feature
   - Prevent privilege escalation via notes API
   - Prevent privilege escalation via project webhook API
@@ -1454,12 +1520,14 @@ v 8.6.8
   - Prevent information disclosure via project labels
   - Prevent information disclosure via new merge request page
 
-v 8.6.7
+## 8.6.7
+
   - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper
   - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in Label and Milestone dropdowns
   - Fix vulnerability that made it possible to enumerate private projects belonging to group
 
-v 8.6.6
+## 8.6.6
+
   - Expire the exists cache before deletion to ensure project dir actually exists (Stan Hu). !3413
   - Fix error on language detection when repository has no HEAD (e.g., master branch) (Jeroen Bobbeldijk). !3654
   - Fix revoking of authorized OAuth applications (Connor Shea). !3690
@@ -1467,7 +1535,8 @@ v 8.6.6
   - Issuable header is consistent between issues and merge requests
   - Improved spacing in issuable header on mobile
 
-v 8.6.5
+## 8.6.5
+
   - Fix importing from GitHub Enterprise. !3529
   - Perform the language detection after updating merge requests in `GitPushService`, leading to faster visual feedback for the end-user. !3533
   - Check permissions when user attempts to import members from another project. !3535
@@ -1476,11 +1545,13 @@ v 8.6.5
   - Unblock user when active_directory is disabled and it can be found !3550
   - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.
 
-v 8.6.4
+## 8.6.4
+
   - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu)
   - Redesign the Labels page
 
-v 8.6.3
+## 8.6.3
+
   - Mentions on confidential issues doesn't create todos for non-members. !3374
   - Destroy related todos when an Issue/MR is deleted. !3376
   - Fix error 500 when target is nil on todo list. !3376
@@ -1493,7 +1564,8 @@ v 8.6.3
   - Fix issue with dropdowns not selecting values. !3478
   - Update gitlab-shell version and doc to 2.6.12. gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!280
 
-v 8.6.2
+## 8.6.2
+
   - Fix dropdown alignment. !3298
   - Fix issuable sidebar overlaps on tablet. !3299
   - Make dropdowns pixel perfect. !3337
@@ -1515,7 +1587,8 @@ v 8.6.2
   - Gracefully handle notes on deleted commits in merge requests (Stan Hu). !3402
   - Fixed issue with notification settings not saving. !3452
 
-v 8.6.1
+## 8.6.1
+
   - Add option to reload the schema before restoring a database backup. !2807
   - Display navigation controls on mobile. !3214
   - Fixed bug where participants would not work correctly on merge requests. !3329
@@ -1530,7 +1603,8 @@ v 8.6.1
   - Fixes issue with assign milestone not loading milestone list. !3346
   - Fix an issue causing the Dashboard/Milestones page to be blank. !3348
 
-v 8.6.0
+## 8.6.0 (2016-03-22)
+
   - Add ability to move issue to another project
   - Prevent tokens in the import URL to be showed by the UI
   - Fix bug where wrong commit ID was being used in a merge request diff to show old image (Stan Hu)
@@ -1595,11 +1669,13 @@ v 8.6.0
   - Trigger a todo for mentions on commits page
   - Let project owners and admins soft delete issues and merge requests
 
-v 8.5.13
+## 8.5.13
+
   - Prevent unauthorized access to other projects build traces
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
 
-v 8.5.12
+## 8.5.12
+
   - Prevent privilege escalation via "impersonate" feature
   - Prevent privilege escalation via notes API
   - Prevent privilege escalation via project webhook API
@@ -1610,41 +1686,51 @@ v 8.5.12
   - Prevent information disclosure via project labels
   - Prevent information disclosure via new merge request page
 
-v 8.5.11
+## 8.5.11
+
   - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper
 
-v 8.5.10
+## 8.5.10
+
   - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.
 
-v 8.5.9
+## 8.5.9
+
   - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu).
 
-v 8.5.8
+## 8.5.8
+
   - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.4
 
-v 8.5.7
+## 8.5.7
+
   - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.3
 
-v 8.5.6
+## 8.5.6
+
   - Obtain a lease before querying LDAP
 
-v 8.5.5
+## 8.5.5
+
   - Ensure removing a project removes associated Todo entries
   - Prevent a 500 error in Todos when author was removed
   - Fix pagination for filtered dashboard and explore pages
   - Fix "Show all" link behavior
 
-v 8.5.4
+## 8.5.4
+
   - Do not cache requests for badges (including builds badge)
 
-v 8.5.3
+## 8.5.3
+
   - Flush repository caches before renaming projects
   - Sort starred projects on dashboard based on last activity by default
   - Show commit message in JIRA mention comment
   - Makes issue page and merge request page usable on mobile browsers.
   - Improved UI for profile settings
 
-v 8.5.2
+## 8.5.2
+
   - Fix sidebar overlapping content when screen width was below 1200px
   - Don't repeat labels listed on Labels tab
   - Bring the "branded appearance" feature from EE to CE
@@ -1661,7 +1747,8 @@ v 8.5.2
   - Don't show "Welcome to GitLab" when the search didn't return any projects
   - Add Todos documentation
 
-v 8.5.1
+## 8.5.1
+
   - Fix group projects styles
   - Show Crowd login tab when sign in is disabled and Crowd is enabled (Peter Hudec)
   - Fix a set of small UI glitches in project, profile, and wiki pages
@@ -1681,7 +1768,8 @@ v 8.5.1
   - Add build coverage in project's builds page (Steffen Köhler)
   - Changed # to ! for merge requests in activity view
 
-v 8.5.0
+## 8.5.0 (2016-02-22)
+
   - Fix duplicate "me" in tooltip of the "thumbsup" awards Emoji (Stan Hu)
   - Cache various Repository methods to improve performance
   - Fix duplicated branch creation/deletion Webhooks/service notifications when using Web UI (Stan Hu)
@@ -1760,11 +1848,13 @@ v 8.5.0
   - Show label row when filtering issues or merge requests by label (Nuttanart Pornprasitsakul)
   - Add Todos
 
-v 8.4.11
+## 8.4.11
+
   - Prevent unauthorized access to other projects build traces
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
 
-v 8.4.10
+## 8.4.10
+
   - Prevent privilege escalation via "impersonate" feature
   - Prevent privilege escalation via notes API
   - Prevent privilege escalation via project webhook API
@@ -1775,28 +1865,35 @@ v 8.4.10
   - Prevent information disclosure via project labels
   - Prevent information disclosure via new merge request page
 
-v 8.4.9
+## 8.4.9
+
   - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper
 
-v 8.4.8
+## 8.4.8
+
   - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.
 
-v 8.4.7
+## 8.4.7
+
   - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu).
 
-v 8.4.6
+## 8.4.6
+
   - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.4
 
-v 8.4.5
+## 8.4.5
+
   - No CE-specific changes
 
-v 8.4.4
+## 8.4.4
+
   - Update omniauth-saml gem to 1.4.2
   - Prevent long-running backup tasks from timing out the database connection
   - Add a Project setting to allow guests to view build logs (defaults to true)
   - Sort project milestones by due date including issue editor (Oliver Rogers / Orih)
 
-v 8.4.3
+## 8.4.3
+
   - Increase lfs_objects size column to 8-byte integer to allow files larger
     than 2.1GB
   - Correctly highlight MR diff when MR has merge conflicts
@@ -1807,7 +1904,8 @@ v 8.4.3
     performance monitoring
   - Allow autosize textareas to also be manually resized
 
-v 8.4.2
+## 8.4.2
+
   - Bump required gitlab-workhorse version to bring in a fix for missing
     artifacts in the build artifacts browser
   - Get rid of those ugly borders on the file tree view
@@ -1820,14 +1918,16 @@ v 8.4.2
   - Fix method undefined when using external commit status in builds
   - Fix highlighting in blame view.
 
-v 8.4.1
+## 8.4.1
+
   - Apply security updates for Rails (4.2.5.1), rails-html-sanitizer (1.0.3),
     and Nokogiri (1.6.7.2)
   - Fix redirect loop during import
   - Fix diff highlighting for all syntax themes
   - Delete project and associations in a background worker
 
-v 8.4.0
+## 8.4.0 (2016-01-22)
+
   - Allow LDAP users to change their email if it was not set by the LDAP server
   - Ensure Gravatar host looks like an actual host
   - Consider re-assign as a mention from a notification point of view
@@ -1900,11 +2000,13 @@ v 8.4.0
   - Add IP check against DNSBLs at account sign-up
   - Added cache:key to .gitlab-ci.yml allowing to fine tune the caching
 
-v 8.3.10
+## 8.3.10
+
   - Prevent unauthorized access to other projects build traces
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
 
-v 8.3.9
+## 8.3.9
+
   - Prevent privilege escalation via "impersonate" feature
   - Prevent privilege escalation via notes API
   - Prevent privilege escalation via project webhook API
@@ -1913,22 +2015,28 @@ v 8.3.9
   - Prevent information disclosure via project labels
   - Prevent information disclosure via new merge request page
 
-v 8.3.8
+## 8.3.8
+
   - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper
 
-v 8.3.7
+## 8.3.7
+
   - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.
 
-v 8.3.6
+## 8.3.6
+
   - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu).
 
-v 8.3.5
+## 8.3.5
+
   - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.4
 
-v 8.3.4
+## 8.3.4
+
   - Use gitlab-workhorse 0.5.4 (fixes API routing bug)
 
-v 8.3.3
+## 8.3.3
+
   - Preserve CE behavior with JIRA integration by only calling API if URL is set
   - Fix duplicated branch creation/deletion events when using Web UI (Stan Hu)
   - Add configurable LDAP server query timeout
@@ -1944,17 +2052,20 @@ v 8.3.3
   - Fix: maintain milestone filter between Open and Closed tabs (Greg Smethells)
   - Fix missing artifacts and build traces for build created before 8.3
 
-v 8.3.2
+## 8.3.2
+
   - Disable --follow in `git log` to avoid loading duplicate commit data in infinite scroll (Stan Hu)
   - Add support for Google reCAPTCHA in user registration
 
-v 8.3.1
+## 8.3.1
+
   - Fix Error 500 when global milestones have slashes (Stan Hu)
   - Fix Error 500 when doing a search in dashboard before visiting any project (Stan Hu)
   - Fix LDAP identity and user retrieval when special characters are used
   - Move Sidekiq-cron configuration to gitlab.yml
 
-v 8.3.0
+## 8.3.0 (2015-12-22)
+
   - Bump rack-attack to 4.3.1 for security fix (Stan Hu)
   - API support for starred projects for authorized user (Zeger-Jan van de Weg)
   - Add open_issues_count to project API (Stan Hu)
@@ -2022,11 +2133,13 @@ v 8.3.0
   - Expose Git's version in the admin area
   - Show "New Merge Request" buttons on canonical repos when you have a fork (Josh Frye)
 
-v 8.2.6
+## 8.2.6
+
   - Prevent unauthorized access to other projects build traces
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
 
-v 8.2.5
+## 8.2.5
+
   - Prevent privilege escalation via "impersonate" feature
   - Prevent privilege escalation via notes API
   - Prevent privilege escalation via project webhook API
@@ -2034,10 +2147,12 @@ v 8.2.5
   - Prevent information disclosure via project labels
   - Prevent information disclosure via new merge request page
 
-v 8.2.4
+## 8.2.4
+
   - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.4
 
-v 8.2.3
+## 8.2.3
+
   - Fix application settings cache not expiring after changes (Stan Hu)
   - Fix Error 500s when creating global milestones with Unicode characters (Stan Hu)
   - Update documentation for "Guest" permissions
@@ -2046,7 +2161,8 @@ v 8.2.3
   - Webhook payload has an added, modified and removed properties for each commit
   - Fix 500 error when creating a merge request that removes a submodule
 
-v 8.2.2
+## 8.2.2
+
   - Fix 404 in redirection after removing a project (Stan Hu)
   - Ensure cached application settings are refreshed at startup (Stan Hu)
   - Fix Error 500 when viewing user's personal projects from admin page (Stan Hu)
@@ -2056,11 +2172,13 @@ v 8.2.2
   - Make current user the first user in assignee dropdown in issues detail page (Stan Hu)
   - Fix: duplicate email notifications on issue comments
 
-v 8.2.1
+## 8.2.1
+
   - Forcefully update builds that didn't want to update with state machine
   - Fix: saving GitLabCiService as Admin Template
 
-v 8.2.0
+## 8.2.0 (2015-11-22)
+
   - Improved performance of finding projects and groups in various places
   - Improved performance of rendering user profile pages and Atom feeds
   - Expose build artifacts path as config option
@@ -2120,19 +2238,22 @@ v 8.2.0
   - Prevent the last owner of a group from being able to delete themselves by 'adding' themselves as a master (James Lopez)
   - Add Award Emoji to issue and merge request pages
 
-v 8.1.4
+## 8.1.4
+
   - Fix bug where manually merged branches in a MR would end up with an empty diff (Stan Hu)
   - Prevent redirect loop when home_page_url is set to the root URL
   - Fix incoming email config defaults
   - Remove CSS property preventing hard tabs from rendering in Chromium 45 (Stan Hu)
 
-v 8.1.3
+## 8.1.3
+
   - Force update refs/merge-requests/X/head upon a push to the source branch of a merge request (Stan Hu)
   - Spread out runner contacted_at updates
   - Use issue editor as cross reference comment author when issue is edited with a new mention
   - Add Facebook authentication
 
-v 8.1.2
+## 8.1.2
+
   - Fix cloning Wiki repositories via HTTP (Stan Hu)
   - Add migration to remove satellites directory
   - Fix specific runners visibility
@@ -2142,10 +2263,12 @@ v 8.1.2
   - Fix CI badge
   - Allow developer to manage builds
 
-v 8.1.1
+## 8.1.1
+
   - Removed, see 8.1.2
 
-v 8.1.0
+## 8.1.0 (2015-10-22)
+
   - Ensure MySQL CI limits DB migrations occur after the fields have been created (Stan Hu)
   - Fix duplicate repositories in GitHub import page (Stan Hu)
   - Redirect to a default path if HTTP_REFERER is not set (Stan Hu)
@@ -2230,11 +2353,13 @@ v 8.1.0
   - Fix padding of outdated discussion item.
   - Animate the logo on hover
 
-v 8.0.5
+## 8.0.5
+
   - Correct lookup-by-email for LDAP logins
   - Fix loading spinner sometimes not being hidden on Merge Request tab switches
 
-v 8.0.4
+## 8.0.4
+
   - Fix Message-ID header to be RFC 2111-compliant to prevent e-mails being dropped (Stan Hu)
   - Fix referrals for :back and relative URL installs
   - Fix anchors to comments in diffs
@@ -2243,13 +2368,15 @@ v 8.0.4
   - Fix search in Files
   - Add full project namespace to payload of system webhooks (Ricardo Band)
 
-v 8.0.3
+## 8.0.3
+
   - Fix URL shown in Slack notifications
   - Fix bug where projects would appear to be stuck in the forked import state (Stan Hu)
   - Fix Error 500 in creating merge requests with > 1000 diffs (Stan Hu)
   - Add work_in_progress key to MR webhooks (Ben Boeckel)
 
-v 8.0.2
+## 8.0.2
+
   - Fix default avatar not rendering in network graph (Stan Hu)
   - Skip check_initd_configured_correctly on omnibus installs
   - Prevent double-prefixing of help page paths
@@ -2263,10 +2390,12 @@ v 8.0.2
   - Add option to use StartTLS with Reply by email IMAP server.
   - Allow AWS S3 Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys for backups (Paul Beattie)
 
-v 8.0.1
+## 8.0.1
+
   - Improve CI migration procedure and documentation
 
-v 8.0.0
+## 8.0.0 (2015-09-22)
+
   - Fix Markdown links not showing up in dashboard activity feed (Stan Hu)
   - Remove milestones from merge requests when milestones are deleted (Stan Hu)
   - Fix HTML link that was improperly escaped in new user e-mail (Stan Hu)
@@ -2331,5 +2460,6 @@ v 8.0.0
   - Redirect from incorrectly cased group or project path to correct one (Francesco Levorato)
   - Removed API calls from CE to CI
 
-v 7.14.3 through 0.8.0
-  - See changelogs/archive.md
+## 7.14.3 through 0.8.0
+
+- See [changelogs/archive.md](changelogs/archive.md)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 0cdcb54b0ae..b4635e50c28 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ request is as follows:
 1. Fork the project into your personal space on GitLab.com
 1. Create a feature branch, branch away from `master`
 1. Write [tests](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit#running-the-tests) and code
-1. Add your changes to the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG):
+1. Add your changes to the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md):
   1. If you are fixing a ~regression issue, you can add your entry to the next
      patch release (e.g. `8.12.5` if current version is `8.12.4`)
   1. Otherwise, add your entry to the next minor release (e.g. `8.13.0` if
diff --git a/doc/workflow/gitlab_flow.md b/doc/workflow/gitlab_flow.md
index 7c0eb90d540..2215f37b81a 100644
--- a/doc/workflow/gitlab_flow.md
+++ b/doc/workflow/gitlab_flow.md
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ We'll discuss the three reasons to merge in master: leveraging code, merge confl
 If you need to leverage some code that was introduced in master after you created the feature branch you can sometimes solve this by just cherry-picking a commit.
 If your feature branch has a merge conflict, creating a merge commit is a normal way of solving this.
 You can prevent some merge conflicts by using [gitattributes](http://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes) for files that can be in a random order.
-For example in GitLab our changelog file is specified in .gitattributes as `CHANGELOG merge=union` so that there are fewer merge conflicts in it.
+For example in GitLab our changelog file is specified in .gitattributes as `CHANGELOG.md merge=union` so that there are fewer merge conflicts in it.
 The last reason for creating merge commits is having long lived branches that you want to keep up to date with the latest state of the project.
 Martin Fowler, in [his article about feature branches](http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html) talks about this Continuous Integration (CI).
 At GitLab we are guilty of confusing CI with branch testing. Quoting Martin Fowler: "I've heard people say they are doing CI because they are running builds, perhaps using a CI server, on every branch with every commit.
diff --git a/scripts/lint-doc.sh b/scripts/lint-doc.sh
index fb4d8463981..7c4e8276902 100755
--- a/scripts/lint-doc.sh
+++ b/scripts/lint-doc.sh
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-# Ensure that the CHANGELOG does not contain duplicate versions
-DUPLICATE_CHANGELOG_VERSIONS=$(grep --extended-regexp '^v [0-9.]+' CHANGELOG | sed 's| (unreleased)||' | sort | uniq -d)
+# Ensure that the CHANGELOG.md does not contain duplicate versions
+DUPLICATE_CHANGELOG_VERSIONS=$(grep --extended-regexp '^## .+' CHANGELOG.md | sed -E 's| \(.+\)||' | sort -r | uniq -d)
 if [ "${DUPLICATE_CHANGELOG_VERSIONS}" != "" ]
 then
-  echo '✖ ERROR: Duplicate versions in CHANGELOG:' >&2
+  echo '✖ ERROR: Duplicate versions in CHANGELOG.md:' >&2
   echo "${DUPLICATE_CHANGELOG_VERSIONS}" >&2
   exit 1
 fi