Add auto-install description to 4.8.0 news page

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@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 <a href="#tag-A15">Displaying a blunder graph</a>
 </li><li>
 <a href="#tag-A14">Slicing up a PGN database</a>
+</li><li>
+<a href="#tag-A16">Auto-install of engines</a>
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@@ -389,7 +391,7 @@ command-line option.
 
 <h3><a name="tag-A14">Selecting from a PGN database</a></h3>
 <p>
-There is a new item in the File menu: Save Selected Games.
+There is a new item in the File menu: Save Selected Games.k
 This will cause all games currently selected for display in the Game List
 (through applying a text filter, or using the Find Position button)
 to be appended to a file.
@@ -399,6 +401,40 @@ selected for display into account.
 This should offer you more control over what you include in the book.
 </p>
 
+<h3><a name="tag-A15">Automatically adding new engines to XBoard's engine list</a></h3>
+<p>
+To efficiently use engine, e.g. being able to select them from the Load Engine dialog's listbox,
+or as tournament participant, the engine had to be first installed in XBoard's engine list.
+Just installing the engine package on your machine was not enough.
+This has now been changed, with the aid of a new Linux standard for 'AI plugins'.
+Engines compliant with this standard will install a tiny file to announce their presence
+in a system's standard plugin directory for the communication protocol they understand.
+GUIs that support that protocol can then hunt for new arrivals there,
+and the file will contain the essential info needed to run the engine.
+(E.g. the command needed to launch it for use with that protocol.)
+</p>
+<p>
+XBoard now has a persistent string option -autoInstall, which activates this feature when set to a non-empty string.
+Any time XBoard is launched it will then examine the contents of the plugin directories for XBoard and UCI protocol,
+and if it finds any engines there newer than the the persistent settings file
+(meaning this user sees them for the first time)
+it will add the required command to its engine list.
+In the future the standard will be further developed so the plugin files will also contain information
+on what variants the engine plays,
+so that the user can filter these automatic installs by the value set for the -autoInstall option.
+E.g. -autoInstall "shogi,xiangqi" would only automatically install new engines that play Shogi or Xiangqi,
+and ignore engines that play only Chess.
+</p>
+<p>
+XBoard also supports a new standard for engine logos:
+engine packages can install a png image derived from their name (e.g. fairymax.png)
+of their logo in a standard plugin-logos system directory.
+XBoard's -autoLogo option now also searches for engine logos in those standard places,
+after having tried the configured -logoDir and the directory specified for the engine
+(with -fd or -sd options; it searches for a file named logo.pgn there).
+For user logos it will also try ~/.logo.png.
+</p>
+
 <a name="tag-B"><h2>New variants and general variant support</h2></a>
 
 <h3><a name="tag-B1">ASEAN Chess: a new Chess variant</a></h3>
@@ -648,7 +684,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
 
 <p>Updated:
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-$Date: 2014/10/18 05:13:47 $
+$Date: 2014/10/18 05:13:57 $
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