Version bump for 2.8 rc3

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-Version 2.8.0 rc1
+Version 2.8.0 rc3
 -----------------
 
-*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
+*(Released Tue, 17 Sep 2013)*
+
 
 Incompatible/important changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -71,6 +72,17 @@ New features
   It's set to true by default.
 - Instance failover now supports a ``--cleanup`` parameter for fixing previous
   failures.
+- Support 'viridian' parameter in Xen HVM
+- Support DSA SSH keys in bootstrap
+- To simplify the work of packaging frameworks that want to add the needed users
+  and groups in a split-user setup themselves, at build time three files in
+  ``doc/users`` will be generated. The ``groups`` files contains, one per line,
+  the groups to be generated, the ``users`` file contains, one per line, the
+  users to be generated, optionally followed by their primary group, where
+  important. The ``groupmemberships`` file contains, one per line, additional
+  user-group membership relations that need to be established. The syntax of
+  these files will remain stable in all future versions.
+
 
 New dependencies
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -84,8 +96,44 @@ For Python:
 - The minimum Python version needed to run Ganeti is now 2.6.
 - ``yaml`` library (only for running the QA).
 
-Since 2.8.0 beta1
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Since 2.8.0 rc2
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- To simplify the work of packaging frameworks that want to add the needed users
+  and groups in a split-user setup themselves, at build time three files in
+  ``doc/users`` will be generated. The ``groups`` files contains, one per line,
+  the groups to be generated, the ``users`` file contains, one per line, the
+  users to be generated, optionally followed by their primary group, where
+  important. The ``groupmemberships`` file contains, one per line, additional
+  user-group membership relations that need to be established. The syntax of
+  these files will remain stable in all future versions.
+- Add a default to file-driver when unspecified over RAPI (Issue 571)
+- Mark the DSA host pubkey as optional, and remove it during config downgrade
+  (Issue 560)
+- Some documentation fixes
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 rc2
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 27 Aug 2013)*
+
+The second release candidate of the 2.8 series. Since 2.8.0. rc1:
+
+- Support 'viridian' parameter in Xen HVM (Issue 233)
+- Include VCS version in ``gnt-cluster version``
+- Support DSA SSH keys in bootstrap (Issue 338)
+- Fix batch creation of instances
+- Use FQDN to check master node status (Issue 551)
+- Make the DRBD collector more failure-resilient
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 rc1
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
+
+The first release candidate of the 2.8 series. Since 2.8.0 beta1:
 
 - Fix upgrading/downgrading from 2.7
 - Increase maximum RAPI message size