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diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,27 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
+
+Theano 0.8.2 (21th of April, 2016)
+==================================
+
+This is a point release with only the support for cudnn v5 convolution
+and minor fixes.
+
+Highlights:
+- cuDNN v5 convolution support (cuDNN v3 isn't supported anymore)
+- A few crash fixes
+
+
+Theano 0.8.1 (29th of March, 2016)
+==================================
+
+This is a point release without any new feature.
+
+It fixes compilation issues on MacOS X with the command line tools for
+XCode 7.3, which was released shortly after Theano 0.8.0.
+
+
 Theano 0.8 (21th of March, 2016)
 ================================
 

diff --git a/doc/citation.txt b/doc/citation.txt
@@ -7,13 +7,30 @@ Theano Citation Policy
 ======================
 
 If you use Theano for academic research, you are highly encouraged (though not
-required) to cite the following two papers:
+required) to cite the following paper:
+
+* Theano Development Team. `"Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions"
+  <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02688.pdf>`_.
+  (:download:`short BibTeX <theano-short.bib>`, :download:`full BibTeX <theano-full.bib>`)
+
+Theano is primarily developed by academics, and so citations matter a lot to
+us. As an added benefit, you increase Theano's exposure and potential user
+(and developer) base, which is to the benefit of all users of Theano. Thanks
+in advance!
+
+Previously, we asked users of Theano to cite the two papers below.
+However, many members of our community have contributed to Theano in the
+meantime, and it is inconvenient to cite multiple papers. We intend to
+introduce new papers periodically, and only ask for users to cite the
+single most recent paper with the most comprehensive author list.
+
+Earlier articles:
 
 * F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R. Pascanu, J. Bergstra, I. Goodfellow,
   A. Bergeron, N. Bouchard, D. Warde-Farley and Y. Bengio.
   `"Theano: new features and speed improvements"
   <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.5590.pdf>`_.
-  NIPS 2012 deep learning workshop. (`BibTex
+  NIPS 2012 deep learning workshop. (`BibTeX
   <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/export/publication/551/bibtex>`__)
 
 * J. Bergstra, O. Breuleux, F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R.
@@ -23,20 +40,3 @@ required) to cite the following two papers:
   *Proceedings of the Python for Scientific Computing Conference (SciPy)
   2010. June 30 - July 3, Austin, TX* (`BibTeX
   <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/export/publication/461/bibtex>`__)
-
-Theano is primarily developed by academics, and so citations matter a lot to
-us. As an added benefit, you increase Theano's exposure and potential user
-(and developer) base, which is to the benefit of all users of Theano. Thanks
-in advance!
-
-Previously, we only asked users of Theano to cite the original 2010 paper. However,
-this policy did not give appropriate credit to the many members of our community
-who have contributed to Theano in the meantime.
-
-In the future, we intend to introduce new papers periodically (hopefully approximately
-once per year) with a comprehensive author list. As soon as one of these papers is
-prepared, we will only ask for users to cite the single most recent paper with the
-most comprehensive author list.
-
-
-
diff --git a/doc/index.txt b/doc/index.txt
@@ -21,11 +21,17 @@ learning/machine learning <http://www.mila.umontreal.ca/Home/courses>`_ classes)
 News
 ====
 
-* Theano 0.8 was released 21th March 2016. Everybody is encouraged to update.
+* 2016/05/09: New technical report on Theano:
+  `Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions <http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02688>`_.
+  This is the new preferred reference.
 
-* Multi-GPU.
+* 2016/04/21: Release of Theano 0.8.2, adding support for :ref:`CuDNN v5 <libdoc_cuda_dnn>`.
+
+* 2016/03/29: Release of Theano 0.8.1, fixing a compilation issue on MacOS X with XCode 7.3.
 
-* We added support for :ref:`CuDNN v5 <libdoc_cuda_dnn>`.
+* 2016/03/21: Release of Theano 0.8. Everybody is encouraged to update.
+
+* Multi-GPU.
 
 * We added support for :attr:`CNMeM <config.lib.cnmem>` to speed up
   the GPU memory allocation.
@@ -98,22 +104,11 @@ Citing Theano
 ==============
 
 If you use Theano for academic research, you are highly encouraged (though not
-required) to cite the following two papers:
-
-* F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R. Pascanu, J. Bergstra, I. Goodfellow,
-  A. Bergeron, N. Bouchard, D. Warde-Farley and Y. Bengio.
-  `"Theano: new features and speed improvements"
-  <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.5590.pdf>`_.
-  NIPS 2012 deep learning workshop. (`BibTex
-  <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/export/publication/551/bibtex>`__)
-
-* J. Bergstra, O. Breuleux, F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R.
-  Pascanu, G. Desjardins, J. Turian, D. Warde-Farley and Y.
-  Bengio. `"Theano: A CPU and GPU Math Expression Compiler"
-  <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/pointeurs/theano_scipy2010.pdf>`_.
-  *Proceedings of the Python for Scientific Computing Conference (SciPy)
-  2010. June 30 - July 3, Austin, TX* (`BibTeX
-  <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/export/publication/461/bibtex>`__)
+required) to cite the following, most recent paper:
+
+* Theano Development Team. `"Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions"
+  <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02688.pdf>`_.
+  (:download:`short BibTeX <theano-short.bib>`, :download:`full BibTeX <theano-full.bib>`)
 
 Theano is primarily developed by academics, and so citations matter a lot to
 us. As an added benefit, you increase Theano's exposure and potential user

diff --git a/doc/theano-full.bib b/doc/theano-full.bib
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+@ARTICLE{2016arXiv160502688full,
+   author = {
+     Rami Al-Rfou and
+     Guillaume Alain and
+     Amjad Almahairi and
+     Christof Angermueller and
+     Dzmitry Bahdanau and
+     Nicolas Ballas and
+     Fr\'ed\'eric Bastien and
+     Justin Bayer and
+     Anatoly Belikov and
+     Alexander Belopolsky and
+     Yoshua Bengio and
+     Arnaud Bergeron and
+     James Bergstra and
+     Valentin Bisson and
+     Josh {Bleecher Snyder} and
+     Nicolas Bouchard and
+     Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski and
+     Xavier Bouthillier and
+     Alexandre de Br\'ebisson and
+     Olivier Breuleux and
+     Pierre-Luc Carrier and
+     Kyunghyun Cho and
+     Jan Chorowski and
+     Paul Christiano and
+     Tim Cooijmans and
+     Marc-Alexandre C\^ot\'e and
+     Myriam C\^ot\'e and
+     Aaron Courville and
+     Yann N. Dauphin and
+     Olivier Delalleau and
+     Julien Demouth and
+     Guillaume Desjardins and
+     Sander Dieleman and
+     Laurent Dinh and
+     M\'elanie Ducoffe and
+     Vincent Dumoulin and
+     Samira {Ebrahimi Kahou} and
+     Dumitru Erhan and
+     Ziye Fan and
+     Orhan Firat and
+     Mathieu Germain and
+     Xavier Glorot and
+     Ian Goodfellow and
+     Matt Graham and
+     Caglar Gulcehre and
+     Philippe Hamel and
+     Iban Harlouchet and
+     Jean-Philippe Heng and
+     Bal\'azs Hidasi and
+     Sina Honari and
+     Arjun Jain and
+     S\'ebastien Jean and
+     Kai Jia and
+     Mikhail Korobov and
+     Vivek Kulkarni and
+     Alex Lamb and
+     Pascal Lamblin and
+     Eric Larsen and
+     C\'esar Laurent and
+     Sean Lee and
+     Simon Lefrancois and
+     Simon Lemieux and
+     Nicholas L\'eonard and
+     Zhouhan Lin and
+     Jesse A. Livezey and
+     Cory Lorenz and
+     Jeremiah Lowin and
+     Qianli Ma and
+     Pierre-Antoine Manzagol and
+     Olivier Mastropietro and
+     Robert T. McGibbon and
+     Roland Memisevic and
+     Bart van Merri\"enboer and
+     Vincent Michalski and
+     Mehdi Mirza and
+     Alberto Orlandi and
+     Christopher Pal and
+     Razvan Pascanu and
+     Mohammad Pezeshki and
+     Colin Raffel and
+     Daniel Renshaw and
+     Matthew Rocklin and
+     Adriana Romero and
+     Markus Roth and
+     Peter Sadowski and
+     John Salvatier and
+     Fran\c{c}ois Savard and
+     Jan Schl\"uter and
+     John Schulman and
+     Gabriel Schwartz and
+     Iulian Vlad Serban and
+     Dmitriy Serdyuk and
+     Samira Shabanian and
+     \'Etienne Simon and
+     Sigurd Spieckermann and
+     S. Ramana Subramanyam and
+     Jakub Sygnowski and
+     J\'er\'emie Tanguay and
+     Gijs van Tulder and
+     Joseph Turian and
+     Sebastian Urban and
+     Pascal Vincent and
+     Francesco Visin and
+     Harm de Vries and
+     David Warde-Farley and
+     Dustin J. Webb and
+     Matthew Willson and
+     Kelvin Xu and
+     Lijun Xue and
+     Li Yao and
+     Saizheng Zhang and
+     Ying Zhang},
+ collaboration = {Theano Development Team},
+    title = "{Theano: A {Python} framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions}",
+  journal = {arXiv e-prints},
+   volume = {abs/1605.02688},
+ primaryClass = "cs.SC",
+ keywords = {Computer Science - Symbolic Computation, Computer Science - Learning, Computer Science - Mathematical Software},
+     year = 2016,
+    month = may,
+      url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02688},
+}
diff --git a/doc/theano-short.bib b/doc/theano-short.bib
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+@ARTICLE{2016arXiv160502688short,
+   author = {{Theano Development Team}},
+    title = "{Theano: A {Python} framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions}",
+  journal = {arXiv e-prints},
+   volume = {abs/1605.02688},
+ primaryClass = "cs.SC",
+ keywords = {Computer Science - Symbolic Computation, Computer Science - Learning, Computer Science - Mathematical Software},
+     year = 2016,
+    month = may,
+      url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02688},
+}