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1 0.8.6 (?/??/2016):
2 ------------------
3
4 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
5 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
6 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
7 used universally.
8
9 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
10 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
11 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
12 unclutter the display on systems that contain NTFS data partitions.
13
14 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
15 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
16 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
17
18 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
19 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
20
21 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
22 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
23
24 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
25 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
26 selection images to fail to load.
27
28 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
29 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
30
31 - Fixed install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of the ESP on
32 disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
33
34
35 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
36 -----------------
37
38 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
39
40 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
41
42 - Changes to
43
44 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
45
46 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
47 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
48 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
49 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
50 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
51 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
52 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
53 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
54
55 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
56
57 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
58 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
59 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
60 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
61 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
62
63 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
64 from other than the first hard disk.
65
66
67 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
68 ------------------
69
70 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
71 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
72 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
73
74 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
75
76 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
77 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
78 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
79 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
80
81 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
82 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
83 mode.
84
85 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
86 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
87 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
88 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
89
90 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
91 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
92 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
93
94 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
95 building and basic use instructions).
96
97 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
98 -----------------
99
100 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
101 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
102 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
103 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
104 is displayed.
105
106 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
107 distribution.
108
109 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
110 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
111 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
112
113 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
114 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
115 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
116 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
117 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
118 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
119 change its license to a BSD license.
120
121 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
122 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
123 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
124
125 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
126 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
127 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
128 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
129 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
130 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
131 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
132 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
133 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
134 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
135 and ensure it's set to "false".
136
137 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
138 -------------------
139
140 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
141 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
142
143 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
144 -----------------
145
146 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
147 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
148 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
149 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
150 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
151 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
152 loader in the
153 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
154 variable under Linux.
155
156 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
157
158 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
159 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
160
161 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
162 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
163
164 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
165 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
166 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
167 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
168 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
169 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
170 override a setting in the main file).
171
172 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
173 ------------------
174
175 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
176 on the root directory of a partition.
177
178 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
179 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
180
181 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
182 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
183 second.
184
185 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
186 screens.
187
188 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
189 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
190 firmware).
191
192 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
193 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
194 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
195 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
196 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
197 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
198 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
199 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
200
201 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
202 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
203 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
204 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
205 volume and is used by OS X.
206
207 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
208 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
209
210 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
211 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
212
213 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
214 -----------------
215
216 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
217 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
218 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
219 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
220 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
221
222 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
223
224 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
225 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
226 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
227 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
228
229 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
230 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
231 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
232 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
233 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
234 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
235
236 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
237 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
238 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
239
240 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
241 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
242
243 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
244 ------------------
245
246 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
247 some Macs.
248
249 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
250 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
251 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
252
253 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
254 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
255
256 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
257
258 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
259 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
260 drivers.
261
262 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
263 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
264 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
265
266 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
267 utility."
268
269
270 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
271 -----------------
272
273 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
274 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
275 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
276 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
277 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
278 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
279 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
280
281 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
282 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
283 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
284 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
285 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
286 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
287 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
288 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
289
290 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
291 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
292 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
293 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
294 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
295 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
296
297 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
298 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
299 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
300 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
301 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
302
303 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
304 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
305 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
306 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
307 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
308 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
309 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
310 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
311 problems might arise.
312
313 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
314 -----------------
315
316 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
317 dont_scan_files.
318
319 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
320
321 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
322 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
323 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
324 utility on the second row of icons.
325
326 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
327 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
328 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
329 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
330 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
331
332 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
333 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
334 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
335
336 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
337 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
338 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
339 UUID.
340
341 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
342 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
343
344 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
345 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
346 under some circumstances.
347
348 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
349 -------------------
350
351 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
352 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
353 default_selection "fred,ginger"
354 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
355 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
356
357 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
358 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
359 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
360 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
361 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
362 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
363 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
364 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
365 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
366 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
367 depending on your computer.
368
369 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
370 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
371 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
372 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
373 screensaver will be disabled.
374
375 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
376 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
377 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
378 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
379 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
380
381 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
382 -------------------
383
384 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
385 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
386
387 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
388 versions of OS X to fail.
389
390 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
391 drivers were present.
392
393 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
394 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
395 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
396 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
397 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
398 black a second or so later.
399
400 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
401 --------------------
402
403 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
404 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
405 problem.
406
407 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
408 ------------------
409
410 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
411 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
412 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
413
414 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
415 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
416 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
417 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
418 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
419 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
420 default.
421
422 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
423 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
424 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
425 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
426
427 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
428 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
429 known case, but there may be others.)
430
431 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
432 -----------------
433
434 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
435 loaders on Macs.
436
437 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
438
439 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
440 -----------------
441
442 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
443 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
444
445 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
446 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
447
448 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
449 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
450
451 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
452 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
453 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
454 HashTool-signed.efi".
455
456 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
457
458 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
459 was broken.
460
461 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
462 was broken.
463
464 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
465 -----------------
466
467 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
468
469 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
470 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
471 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
472
473 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
474 volume specification, if present.
475
476 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
477
478 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
479 ------------------
480
481 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
482 type for volumes that lack labels.
483
484 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
485 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
486 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
487 though.
488
489 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
490 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
491 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
492 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
493 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
494 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
495 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
496 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
497
498 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
499 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
500 non-EFI loaders, etc.
501
502 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
503 code.
504
505 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
506 -------------------
507
508 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
509 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
510
511 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
512 script.
513
514 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
515 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
516 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
517 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
518
519 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
520 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
521 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
522 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
523
524 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
525 -------------------
526
527 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
528 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
529 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
530 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
531
532 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
533
534 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
535 directory names that contain spaces.
536
537 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
538 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
539 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
540 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
541 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
542
543 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
544 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
545
546 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
547 Utility" in menu.
548
549 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
550 partitions to fill the MBR.
551
552 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
553 ------------------
554
555 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
556 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
557 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
558 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
559
560 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
561 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
562 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
563 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
564 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
565
566 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
567 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
568 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
569 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
570 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
571 is quietly ignored.
572
573 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
574 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
575
576 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
577 encountered when saving a screen shot.
578
579 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
580 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
581 sequence number, starting with "001".
582
583 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
584 ------------------
585
586 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
587 Kemperman.
588
589 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
590 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
591
592 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
593 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
594 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
595
596 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
597 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
598 accidentally trash their systems.
599
600 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
601 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
602 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
603
604 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
605 ------------------
606
607 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
608 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
609
610 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
611 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
612
613 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
614 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
615
616 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
617
618 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
619 -----------------
620
621 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
622 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
623
624 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
625 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
626 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
627 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
628
629 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
630 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
631
632 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
633 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
634
635 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
636 also_scan_dirs list.
637
638 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
639
640 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
641 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
642 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
643
644 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
645 ------------------
646
647 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
648 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
649 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
650 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
651 loader under the fallback name.
652
653 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
654 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
655 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
656 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
657 of 96 glyphs.
658
659 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
660 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
661
662 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
663 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
664
665 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
666 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
667 commented out or empty.
668
669 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
670 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
671
672 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
673 manual boot stanzas.
674
675 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
676 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
677
678 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
679 ------------------
680
681 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
682 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
683
684 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
685
686 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
687
688 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
689 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
690
691 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
692
693 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
694 sized to cover these areas.
695
696 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
697 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
698 resolution!
699
700 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
701 -----------------
702
703 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
704 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
705 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
706 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
707
708 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
709 startup on some systems.
710
711 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
712 -----------------
713
714 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
715 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
716
717 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
718 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
719
720 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
721 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
722 burned to USB flash disks.
723
724 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
725 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
726 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
727
728 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
729 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
730 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
731 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
732 from that installation.
733
734 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
735 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
736 than in EFI/refind.
737
738 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
739 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
740
741 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
742 -------------------
743
744 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
745 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
746 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
747
748 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
749 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
750 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
751 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
752 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
753
754 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
755 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
756 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
757 Linux with the "make" command.
758
759 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
760 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
761
762 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
763 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
764 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
765 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
766 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
767 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
768 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
769 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
770
771 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
772 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
773 default.)
774
775 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
776 -------------------
777
778 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
779 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
780 use on emergency discs.
781
782 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
783 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
784 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
785 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
786 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
787 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
788 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
789 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
790 handle.
791
792 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
793
794 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
795 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
796 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
797 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
798 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
799 os_GENTOO.icns.
800
801 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
802 mode.
803
804 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
805 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
806 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
807 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
808
809 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
810 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
811 a boot loader launch failed.
812
813 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
814 -------------------
815
816 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
817 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
818 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
819 options.
820
821 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
822 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
823 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
824 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
825
826 - Added ext4fs driver!
827
828 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
829
830 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
831
832 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
833 from a program that set the resolution itself.
834
835 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
836 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
837 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
838 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
839 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
840 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
841 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
842 mode.
843
844 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
845 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
846 display even in graphics mode.
847
848 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
849 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
850
851 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
852 disables the boot options editor.
853
854 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
855 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
856
857 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
858 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
859 from the /etc/default/grub file.
860
861 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
862 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
863
864 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
865 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
866 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
867 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
868 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
869 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
870
871 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
872 on Linux systems.
873
874 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
875 ---------------------
876
877 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
878
879 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
880 -------------------
881
882 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
883 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
884 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
885 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
886
887 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
888 configuration file from a primary one.
889
890 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
891 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
892 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
893 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
894 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
895 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
896 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
897 LVM.)
898
899 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
900 on systems with Secure Boot active.
901
902 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
903 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
904 refind.conf.
905
906 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
907 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
908
909 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
910 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
911 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
912
913 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
914 ------------------
915
916 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
917 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
918 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
919 This example results in the following string being passed as an
920 option:
921 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
922
923 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
924 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
925 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
926 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
927 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
928 for them makes sense.
929
930 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
931 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
932 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
933 EFI shells are also so limited.)
934
935 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
936 were not actually edited.
937
938 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
939 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
940 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
941 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
942 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
943
944 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
945 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
946 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
947 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
948 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
949 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
950 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
951 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
952
953 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
954 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
955 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
956
957 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
958 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
959 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
960
961 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
962 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
963 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
964 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
965
966 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
967 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
968 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
969
970 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
971 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
972
973 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
974 ------------------
975
976 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
977
978 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
979 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
980 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
981
982 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
983 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
984 told isn't working as planned).
985
986 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
987 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
988 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
989 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
990
991 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
992 ------------------
993
994 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
995
996 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
997 for disks.
998
999 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1000 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1001 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1002 done this for two reasons:
1003 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1004 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1005 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1006 default for them should help them.
1007 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1008 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1009 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1010 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1011 default configurations.
1012
1013 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1014
1015 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1016 ------------------
1017
1018 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1019
1020 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1021
1022 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1023 ------------------
1024
1025 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1026 32-bit systems.
1027
1028 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1029 on 32-bit systems.
1030
1031 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1032 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1033 loaders/OSes.
1034
1035 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1036
1037 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1038 ------------------
1039
1040 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1041 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1042
1043 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1044 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1045 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1046 graphics or text mode itself.)
1047
1048 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1049 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1050 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1051 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1052 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1053 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1054 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1055
1056 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1057
1058 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1059 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1060 "linux.conf" themselves.
1061
1062 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1063 -----------------
1064
1065 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1066 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1067 via rEFInd.
1068
1069 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1070 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1071 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1072 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1073 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1074 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1075 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1076 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1077 the boot order).
1078
1079 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1080 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1081
1082 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1083 ------------------
1084
1085 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1086 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1087 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1088 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1089 system hasn't hung.
1090
1091 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1092 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1093
1094 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1095
1096 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1097 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1098 label.)
1099
1100 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1101 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1102
1103 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1104 ------------------
1105
1106 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1107 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1108 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1109 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1110 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1111 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1112 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1113
1114 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1115 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1116 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1117
1118 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1119 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1120 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1121 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1122
1123 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1124 file when launched from rEFInd.
1125
1126 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1127 ------------------
1128
1129 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1130 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1131
1132 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1133 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1134 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1135 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1136 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1137 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1138
1139 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1140 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1141
1142 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1143 -----------------
1144
1145 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1146 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1147 sample configuration file for a full description.
1148
1149 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1150 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1151 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1152 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1153 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1154
1155 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1156 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1157 target).
1158
1159 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1160 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1161
1162 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1163 -----------------
1164
1165 - Improved menu navigation:
1166 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1167 down arrows move between rows.
1168 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1169 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1170 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1171 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1172
1173 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1174 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1175 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1176
1177 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1178 -----------------
1179
1180 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1181 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1182 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1183 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1184 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1185 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1186 will fail to work.
1187
1188 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1189 mode.
1190
1191 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1192
1193 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1194 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1195 options.
1196
1197
1198 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1199 ------------------
1200
1201 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1202 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1203
1204 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1205 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1206 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1207 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1208 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1209 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1210 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1211 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1212 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1213 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1214 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1215
1216 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1217 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1218 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1219 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1220 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1221
1222 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1223 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1224
1225 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1226 ------------------
1227
1228 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1229 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1230 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1231 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1232 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1233 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1234
1235 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1236 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1237 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1238 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1239 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1240 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1241 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1242 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1243 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1244 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1245 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1246 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1247 that resets the video mode.
1248
1249 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1250 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1251 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1252 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1253 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1254 details.
1255
1256 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1257 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1258 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1259 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1260 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1261 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1262
1263 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1264 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1265 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1266
1267 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1268 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1269 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1270 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1271
1272 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1273 ------------------
1274
1275 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1276 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1277 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1278 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1279 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1280 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1281 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1282 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1283 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1284 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1285 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1286 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1287 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1288 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1289 installation.
1290
1291 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1292
1293 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1294 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1295 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1296 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1297 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1298 directories you like.
1299
1300 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1301 ------------------
1302
1303 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1304 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1305 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1306 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1307 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1308 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1309 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1310 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1311
1312 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1313 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1314 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1315
1316 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1317 -----------------
1318
1319 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1320 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1321
1322 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1323 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1324 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1325 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1326 documented the name....
1327
1328 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1329 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1330 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1331
1332 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1333 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1334 directory) on certain systems.
1335
1336 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1337 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1338
1339 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1340 -----------------
1341
1342 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1343 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1344 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1345 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1346 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1347 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1348 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1349 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1350 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1351 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1352 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1353 to me.
1354
1355 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1356 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1357 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1358 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1359 simultaneously.)
1360
1361 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1362 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1363
1364 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1365 image.
1366
1367 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1368 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1369 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1370 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1371 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1372
1373 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1374 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1375 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1376 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1377 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1378 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1379
1380 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1381 ------------------
1382
1383 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1384 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1385 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1386 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1387 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1388 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1389 small sample of computers.
1390
1391 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1392 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1393 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1394 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1395 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1396
1397 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1398
1399 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1400 ------------------
1401
1402 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1403 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1404 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1405 versionless initrd file.
1406
1407 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1408 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1409 continues.
1410
1411 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1412 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1413 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1414
1415 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1416 ------------------
1417
1418 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1419 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1420 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1421 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1422
1423 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1424 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1425 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1426 directory as the kernel.
1427
1428 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1429 entries in refind.conf file.
1430
1431 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1432 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1433
1434
1435 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1436 ------------------
1437
1438 - Initial public release