Update ChangeLog for beta.8 release (#5006)

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+redistributables
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+WiX
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+CDXML
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+CI
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+CodeMethod
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+CommandNotFoundException
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+GitCommitId
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+HelpersCommon.psm1
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+LDSpits
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+LoadFrom
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+ProductVersion
+PRs
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+PSVersion
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+Raspbian
+README.md
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+SemVer
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+showwindow
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+startuptype
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+Travis
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 #endregion
 
 #region docs/testing-guidelines/PowerShellCoreTestStatus.md Overrides

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## v6.0.0-beta.8 - 2017-10-05
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+* Changed `New-Service` to return error when given unsupported `-StartupType` and fixed `Set-Service` icon failing test. (#4802)
+* Allow `*` to be used in registry path for `Remove-Item`. (#4866)
+* Remove unsupported `-ShowWindow` switch from `Get-Help`. (#4903)
+* Fix incorrect position of a parameter which resulted in the args passed as input instead of as args for `InvokeScript()`. (#4963)
+
+### Engine updates and fixes
+
+* Make calls to `void CodeMethod` work. (#4850) (Thanks @powercode)
+* Get `PSVersion` and `GitCommitId` from the `ProductVersion` attribute of assembly (#4863) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* Fix `powershell -version` and built-in help for `powershell.exe` to align with other native tools. (#4958 & #4931) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* Load assemblies with `Assembly.LoadFrom` before `Assembly.Load` when the file path is given. (#4196)
+* Add a generic file watcher function in `HelpersCommon.psm1`. (#4775)
+* Update old links and fix broken links in `docs/host-powershell/README.md`. (#4877)
+* Fix when importing remote modules using version filters (and added tests). (#4900)
+* Enable transcription of native commands on non-Windows platforms. (#4871)
+* Add a new line to `CommandNotFoundException` error string. (#4934 & #4991)
+* Fix bug where PowerShell would exit with an error within an SSH remoting connection on Linux. (#4993)
+* Fix issues with expression redirected to file. (#4847)
+
+### General cmdlet updates and fixes
+
+* Added `Remove-Service` to Management module. (#4858) (Thanks @joandrsn)
+* Added functionality to set credentials on `Set-Service` command. (#4844) (Thanks @joandrsn)
+* Fix `Select-String` to exclude directories (as opposed to individual files) discovered from `-Path`. (#4829) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* `Get-Date` now supports more argument completion scenarios by adding `ArgumentCompletionsAttribute`. (#4835) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* Exclude `-ComObject` parameter of `New-Object` on unsupported (currently non-Windows) platforms. (#4922) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* Updated default `ModuleVersion` in `New-ModuleManifest` to `0.0.1` to align with SemVer. (#4842) (Thanks @LDSpits)
+* Add Multipart support to web cmdlets. (#4782) (Thanks @markekraus)
+* Add `-ResponseHeadersVariable` to `Invoke-RestMethod` to enable the capture of response headers. (#4888) (Thanks @markekraus)
+* Initialize web cmdlets headers dictionary only once. (#4853) (Thanks @markekraus)
+* Change web cmdlets `UserAgent` from `WindowsPowerShell` to `PowerShell`. (#4914) (Thanks @markekraus)
+
+### Build and Packaging Improvements
+
+* Make the build output the WiX compilation log if it failed. (#4831) (Thanks @bergmeister)
+* Use a simple file based check in the MSI for the VC++ 2015 redistributables. (#4745) (Thanks @bergmeister)
+* New icon for PowerShell Core. (#4848)
+* Build Powershell Core using the generic RID `linux-x64`. (#4841)
+* Create generic Linux-x64 packages that are portable to all supported RPM Linux distros (and more similar for Debian based distros). (#4902 & #4994)
+* Suppress the output of building test tools in `Compress-TestContent`. (#4957)
+* Remove unnecessary error messages from output. (#4954)
+* Update Travis CI script so that PRs can fail due to Pester tests. (#4830)
+* Move release build definition into PowerShell. (#4884)
+* Fix credential scan issues. (#4927 & #4935)
+* Enable security flags in native compiler. (#4933)
+* Add VS 2017 solution file for `powershell-win-core`. (#4748)
+
+### Code Cleanup
+
+* Remove remainder of `Utility.Activities` (Workflow code). (#4880)
+* Remove `Microsoft.PowerShell.CoreCLR.AssemblyLoadContext.dll`. (#4868)
+* Enable auto EOL on Git repo side, fix some character encoding issues. (#4912)
+* Updated EOL for all files to be LF in the repository. (#4943 & #4956)
+* Removed leading whitespace. (#4991)
+
+### DSC Language
+
+* Update version of `PSDesiredStateConfiguration` in project files to fix complication of MOF files with the `Configuration` keyword. (#4979)
+
+### Test
+
+* Replace httpbin.org tests with `WebListener`. (Thanks @markekraus)
+    * headers (#4799)
+    * user-agent (#4798)
+    * redirect (#4852)
+    * encoding (#4869)
+    * delay (#4905)
+    * gzip & enable deflate (#4948)
+    * related changes and fixes (#4920)
+* Port tests for constrained language mode. (#4816)
+* Enable `Select-String` test from a network path. (#4921) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* Reformat `Measure-Object` test. (#4972) (Thanks @iSazonov)
+* Mitigate intermittent failures in access denied tests. (#4788)
+* Fix tests that incorrectly use `ShouldBeErrorId`. (#4793)
+* Fix a test issue that causes tests to be skipped in Travis CI run (#4891)
+* Skip web cmdlet certificate authentication tests on CentOS and Mac. (#4822)
+* Validate product resource strings against resx files. (#4811 & #4861)
+* Add source files for coverage run. (#4925)
+* Add the UTC offset correctly in tests for CDXML cmdlets. (#4867)
+* Be sure to change `PSDefaultParameterValue` in the global scope. (#4977 & #4892)
+* Reduce output of Pester for CI. (#4855)
+* Add tests for
+    * `Get-Content` (#4723) (Thanks @sarithsutha)
+    * Remoting and Jobs (#4928)
+    * `Get-Help` (#4895)
+    * `Get-Command -ShowCommandInfo` (#4906)
+    * `Get-Content -Tail` (#4790)
+    * `Get-Module` over remoting (#4787)
+    * `Start/Stop/Suspend/Resume/Restart-Service` cmdlets (#4774)
+    * WSMan Config provider tests (#4756)
+    * CDXML CIM `DateTime` test (#4796)
+
+### Documentation and Graphics
+
+* Sort `.spelling` (Thanks @markekraus)
+* Improve the guideline for performance consideration. (#4824)
+* Add setup steps for MacOS to use PSRP over SSH. (#4872)
+* Instructions to demo PowerShell Core on Raspbian. (#4882)
+* Added instructions to get permission to use PowerShell image assets. (#4938)
+* Added demo for using Windows PowerShell modules. (#4886)
+
 ## v6.0.0-beta.7 - 2017-09-13
 
 ### Breaking change