diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
index 445d6868..a741868e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+o Version 2.8 (2016.03.??)
+    Enable listing of non-USB card readers (EXPERIMENTAL)
+    Major speed improvements for checksum computation
+    Fix UI flicker during progress report
+    Fix computation of FAT size for Large FAT32 (with thanks to Ady)
+    Syslinux improvements
+    Update GRUB to 2.02~beta3
+    Switch to https when downloading updates
+
 o Version 2.7 (2016.02.14)
     Add Thai translation, courtesy of Sippapas Wangsri
     Add Drag and Drop support, courtesy of SeymourApps
diff --git a/src/registry.h b/src/registry.h
index 24df9244..b6458f4b 100644
--- a/src/registry.h
+++ b/src/registry.h
@@ -54,13 +54,14 @@ static __inline BOOL DeleteRegistryKey(HKEY key_root, const char* key_name)
    the application and create the app subkey if required */
 static __inline BOOL _GetRegistryKey(HKEY key_root, const char* key_name, DWORD reg_type, LPBYTE dest, DWORD dest_size)
 {
+	const char software_prefix[] = "SOFTWARE\\";
+	char long_key_name[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
 	BOOL r = FALSE;
-	size_t i = 0;
+	size_t i;
 	LONG s;
 	HKEY hSoftware = NULL, hApp = NULL;
 	DWORD dwDisp, dwType = -1, dwSize = dest_size;
-	// VS Code Analysis complains if we don't break our initialization into chars
-	char long_key_name[256] = { 0 };
+
 	memset(dest, 0, dest_size);
 
 	if (key_name == NULL)
@@ -72,9 +73,15 @@ static __inline BOOL _GetRegistryKey(HKEY key_root, const char* key_name, DWORD
 	}
 
 	if (i != 0) {
-		strcpy(long_key_name, "SOFTWARE\\");
-		safe_strcat(long_key_name, sizeof(long_key_name), key_name);
-		long_key_name[sizeof("SOFTWARE\\") + i-1] = 0;
+		// Prefix with "SOFTWARE" if needed
+		if (_strnicmp(key_name, software_prefix, sizeof(software_prefix) - 1) != 0) {
+			strcpy(long_key_name, software_prefix);
+			safe_strcat(long_key_name, sizeof(long_key_name), key_name);
+			long_key_name[sizeof(software_prefix) + i - 1] = 0;
+		} else {
+			safe_strcpy(long_key_name, sizeof(long_key_name), key_name);
+			long_key_name[i] = 0;
+		}
 		i++;
 		if (RegOpenKeyExA(key_root, long_key_name, 0, KEY_READ, &hApp) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
 			hApp = NULL;
@@ -108,25 +115,54 @@ out:
 /* Write a generic registry key value (create the key if it doesn't exist) */
 static __inline BOOL _SetRegistryKey(HKEY key_root, const char* key_name, DWORD reg_type, LPBYTE src, DWORD src_size)
 {
+	const char software_prefix[] = "SOFTWARE\\";
+	char long_key_name[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
 	BOOL r = FALSE;
-	HKEY hSoftware = NULL, hApp = NULL;
+	size_t i;
+	HKEY hRoot = NULL, hApp = NULL;
 	DWORD dwDisp, dwType = reg_type;
 
-	if (RegOpenKeyExA(key_root, "SOFTWARE", 0, KEY_READ|KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY, &hSoftware) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
-		hSoftware = NULL;
-		goto out;
-	}
-	if (RegCreateKeyExA(hSoftware, COMPANY_NAME "\\" APPLICATION_NAME, 0, NULL, 0,
-		KEY_SET_VALUE|KEY_QUERY_VALUE|KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY, NULL, &hApp, &dwDisp) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
-		hApp = NULL;
+	if (RegOpenKeyExA(key_root, NULL, 0, KEY_READ|KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY, &hRoot) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
+		hRoot = NULL;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	r = (RegSetValueExA(hApp, key_name, 0, dwType, src, src_size) == ERROR_SUCCESS);
+	// Find if we're dealing with a short key
+	for (i = safe_strlen(key_name); i>0; i--) {
+		if (key_name[i] == '\\')
+			break;
+	}
+
+	if (i == 0) {
+		// If this is a short key name, store the value under our app sub-hive
+		if (RegCreateKeyExA(hRoot, "SOFTWARE\\" COMPANY_NAME "\\" APPLICATION_NAME, 0, NULL, 0,
+			KEY_SET_VALUE | KEY_QUERY_VALUE | KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY, NULL, &hApp, &dwDisp) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
+			hApp = NULL;
+			goto out;
+		}
+	} else {
+		// Prefix with "SOFTWARE" if needed
+		if (_strnicmp(key_name, software_prefix, sizeof(software_prefix) - 1) != 0) {
+			strcpy(long_key_name, software_prefix);
+			safe_strcat(long_key_name, sizeof(long_key_name), key_name);
+			long_key_name[sizeof(software_prefix) + i - 1] = 0;
+		} else {
+			safe_strcpy(long_key_name, sizeof(long_key_name), key_name);
+			long_key_name[i] = 0;
+		}
+		i++;
+		if (RegCreateKeyExA(hRoot, long_key_name, 0, NULL, 0,
+			KEY_SET_VALUE | KEY_QUERY_VALUE | KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY, NULL, &hApp, &dwDisp) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
+			hApp = NULL;
+			goto out;
+		}
+	}
+
+	r = (RegSetValueExA(hApp, &key_name[i], 0, dwType, src, src_size) == ERROR_SUCCESS);
 
 out:
-	if (hSoftware != NULL)
-		RegCloseKey(hSoftware);
+	if (hRoot != NULL)
+		RegCloseKey(hRoot);
 	if (hApp != NULL)
 		RegCloseKey(hApp);
 	return r;
diff --git a/src/rufus.rc b/src/rufus.rc
index fc5bc990..b9b75900 100644
--- a/src/rufus.rc
+++ b/src/rufus.rc
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
 IDD_DIALOG DIALOGEX 12, 12, 242, 376
 STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_CENTER | WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
 EXSTYLE WS_EX_ACCEPTFILES
-CAPTION "Rufus 2.8.882"
+CAPTION "Rufus 2.8.883"
 FONT 8, "Segoe UI Symbol", 400, 0, 0x0
 BEGIN
     LTEXT           "Device",IDS_DEVICE_TXT,9,6,200,8
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ END
 //
 
 VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
- FILEVERSION 2,8,882,0
- PRODUCTVERSION 2,8,882,0
+ FILEVERSION 2,8,883,0
+ PRODUCTVERSION 2,8,883,0
  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
 #ifdef _DEBUG
  FILEFLAGS 0x1L
@@ -338,13 +338,13 @@ BEGIN
         BEGIN
             VALUE "CompanyName", "Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)"
             VALUE "FileDescription", "Rufus"
-            VALUE "FileVersion", "2.8.882"
+            VALUE "FileVersion", "2.8.883"
             VALUE "InternalName", "Rufus"
             VALUE "LegalCopyright", "© 2011-2016 Pete Batard (GPL v3)"
             VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
             VALUE "OriginalFilename", "rufus.exe"
             VALUE "ProductName", "Rufus"
-            VALUE "ProductVersion", "2.8.882"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion", "2.8.883"
         END
     END
     BLOCK "VarFileInfo"