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