Will installing OS X Yosemite ruin my Windows 8.1 Boot Camp partition?

Hey everyone,
The question is pretty self explanatory. I've got a MBA running on latest version of Mavericks, and I'm wanting to update to Yosemite.
I have a Windows 8.1 partition created with Boot Camp, and I'm just wondering if installing Yosemite will wipe the partition or cause it to not be able to used - because I've seen that some people have had issues with this in the past with the beta test version of Yosemite.
Has anyone given it a shot? Had any issues?
TIA

I Have a windows partition as well as a ubuntu partition. When I installed ubuntu, the same thing happened that a lot of people are describing. My windows partition disappeared, but my system files were still there. This was because once anything messes with the existing partitions, the built in boot manager no longer recognizes your partitions. I have a boot manager (rEFInd) that I installed that I use to recognize and boot all my partitions now. Now I want to update the OSX partition and it's giving me warnings that this will negate the bootcamp boot manager (which is why I have rEFInd in the first place), and I just want a way to bypass the warning

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