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@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ fresh import of any program you will continue to reverse engineer to see if the
 provides better results.
 
 ## Bitfields
+The Decompiler now recovers and displays the names of **bitfield** components in structured 
+data-types, when analyzing code that manipulates them.
+
+Low-level details of how code isolates an individual bitfield are simplified away in Decompiler 
+output. Instead, the bitfield is displayed as a single logical value, by name, using standard field
+access notation. Both expressions that *read from* or *write to* a bitfield can be recovered.
+
+Many optimized expressions that read, write, or compare multiple bitfields at once can also be
+broken out so that the individual bitfields are visible.
 
 ## Objective-C
 The old Objective-C analyzers: