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1 0.9.3 (??/??/2015):
2 -------------------
3
4 - New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
5 particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
6 (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
7 then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
8 Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
9 copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
10 OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
11 instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
12 you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
13 to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
14 in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
15
16 - Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
17 because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
18 tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
19 .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
20
21 - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
22 to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
23 rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
24 instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
25 suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
26 installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
27 installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
28 update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
29 to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
30
31 - Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
32 (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
33 to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
34 launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
35 initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
36 on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
37 unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
38
39 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
40 seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
41 (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
42 the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
43 graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
44 background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
45 floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
46 crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
47 though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
48 integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
49 workaround.)
50
51 - Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
52 help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
53 since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
54 rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
55 boot.
56
57 0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
58 ------------------
59
60 - Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
61 to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
62 when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
63 also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
64 Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
65 Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
66 refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
67 but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
68 directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
69 conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
70 and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
71
72 - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
73 authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
74 installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
75 launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
76 Secure Boot db list.
77
78 0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
79 ------------------
80
81 - When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
82 Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
83 partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
84 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
85 - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
86 or "ro" option to the kernel.
87 - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
88 it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
89 all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
90 system has more than one with the correct type code.
91
92 - Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
93 Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
94 file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
95 filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
96 filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
97 "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
98 (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
99 rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
100 Discoverable Partitions Specification.
101
102 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
103 continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
104 Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
105 was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
106
107 - Added icon for Elementary OS.
108
109 - Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
110 distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
111 better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
112 closely-related distributions.
113
114 - Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
115 are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
116 blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
117 keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
118 many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
119 lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
120 though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
121 firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
122 potentially buggy system calls.
123
124 0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
125 ------------------
126
127 - New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
128
129 - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
130 with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
131 EDK2.)
132
133 - Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
134 active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
135 single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
136 stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
137 or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
138 submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
139 false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
140 is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
141
142 - Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
143 Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
144 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
145 If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
146 partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
147 found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
148 options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
149 one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
150 help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
151
152 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
153 file was encountered.
154
155 - The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
156 should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
157 under OS X.
158
159 - rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
160 when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
161 may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
162
163 - Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
164 a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
165 IA32.
166
167 - Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
168 if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
169 if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
170 Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
171 to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
172 consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
173
174 0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
175 -----------------
176
177 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
178 name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
179 the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
180
181 - Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
182
183 - More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
184 identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
185 device rather than the correct filesystem type.
186
187 - Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
188 occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
189
190 - I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
191 they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
192 might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
193 Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
194 meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
195 labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
196
197 - Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
198 rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
199 FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
200 code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
201 generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
202
203 - Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
204 (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
205 support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
206 such as the ASUS T100.)
207
208 - Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
209 is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
210 of the efitools package.
211
212 - Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
213
214 - Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
215
216 - install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
217 itself.
218
219 0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
220 -----------------
221
222 - Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
223 old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
224 long since been updated to deliver a real name.
225
226 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
227 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
228 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
229 used universally.
230
231 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
232 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
233 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
234 unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
235
236 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
237 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
238 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
239
240 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
241 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
242
243 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
244 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
245
246 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
247 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
248 selection images to fail to load.
249
250 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
251 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
252
253 - Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
254 the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
255
256
257 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
258 -----------------
259
260 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
261
262 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
263
264 - Changes to
265
266 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
267
268 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
269 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
270 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
271 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
272 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
273 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
274 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
275 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
276
277 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
278
279 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
280 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
281 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
282 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
283 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
284
285 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
286 from other than the first hard disk.
287
288
289 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
290 ------------------
291
292 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
293 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
294 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
295
296 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
297
298 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
299 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
300 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
301 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
302
303 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
304 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
305 mode.
306
307 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
308 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
309 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
310 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
311
312 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
313 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
314 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
315
316 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
317 building and basic use instructions).
318
319 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
320 -----------------
321
322 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
323 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
324 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
325 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
326 is displayed.
327
328 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
329 distribution.
330
331 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
332 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
333 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
334
335 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
336 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
337 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
338 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
339 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
340 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
341 change its license to a BSD license.
342
343 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
344 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
345 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
346
347 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
348 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
349 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
350 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
351 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
352 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
353 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
354 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
355 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
356 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
357 and ensure it's set to "false".
358
359 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
360 -------------------
361
362 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
363 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
364
365 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
366 -----------------
367
368 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
369 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
370 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
371 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
372 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
373 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
374 loader in the
375 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
376 variable under Linux.
377
378 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
379
380 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
381 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
382
383 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
384 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
385
386 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
387 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
388 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
389 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
390 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
391 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
392 override a setting in the main file).
393
394 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
395 ------------------
396
397 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
398 on the root directory of a partition.
399
400 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
401 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
402
403 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
404 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
405 second.
406
407 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
408 screens.
409
410 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
411 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
412 firmware).
413
414 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
415 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
416 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
417 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
418 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
419 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
420 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
421 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
422
423 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
424 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
425 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
426 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
427 volume and is used by OS X.
428
429 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
430 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
431
432 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
433 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
434
435 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
436 -----------------
437
438 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
439 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
440 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
441 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
442 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
443
444 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
445
446 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
447 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
448 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
449 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
450
451 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
452 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
453 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
454 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
455 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
456 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
457
458 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
459 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
460 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
461
462 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
463 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
464
465 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
466 ------------------
467
468 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
469 some Macs.
470
471 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
472 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
473 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
474
475 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
476 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
477
478 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
479
480 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
481 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
482 drivers.
483
484 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
485 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
486 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
487
488 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
489 utility."
490
491
492 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
493 -----------------
494
495 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
496 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
497 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
498 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
499 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
500 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
501 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
502
503 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
504 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
505 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
506 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
507 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
508 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
509 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
510 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
511
512 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
513 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
514 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
515 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
516 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
517 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
518
519 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
520 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
521 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
522 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
523 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
524
525 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
526 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
527 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
528 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
529 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
530 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
531 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
532 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
533 problems might arise.
534
535 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
536 -----------------
537
538 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
539 dont_scan_files.
540
541 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
542
543 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
544 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
545 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
546 utility on the second row of icons.
547
548 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
549 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
550 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
551 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
552 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
553
554 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
555 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
556 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
557
558 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
559 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
560 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
561 UUID.
562
563 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
564 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
565
566 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
567 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
568 under some circumstances.
569
570 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
571 -------------------
572
573 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
574 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
575 default_selection "fred,ginger"
576 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
577 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
578
579 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
580 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
581 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
582 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
583 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
584 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
585 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
586 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
587 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
588 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
589 depending on your computer.
590
591 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
592 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
593 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
594 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
595 screensaver will be disabled.
596
597 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
598 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
599 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
600 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
601 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
602
603 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
604 -------------------
605
606 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
607 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
608
609 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
610 versions of OS X to fail.
611
612 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
613 drivers were present.
614
615 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
616 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
617 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
618 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
619 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
620 black a second or so later.
621
622 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
623 --------------------
624
625 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
626 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
627 problem.
628
629 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
630 ------------------
631
632 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
633 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
634 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
635
636 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
637 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
638 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
639 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
640 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
641 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
642 default.
643
644 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
645 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
646 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
647 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
648
649 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
650 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
651 known case, but there may be others.)
652
653 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
654 -----------------
655
656 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
657 loaders on Macs.
658
659 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
660
661 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
662 -----------------
663
664 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
665 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
666
667 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
668 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
669
670 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
671 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
672
673 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
674 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
675 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
676 HashTool-signed.efi".
677
678 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
679
680 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
681 was broken.
682
683 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
684 was broken.
685
686 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
687 -----------------
688
689 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
690
691 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
692 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
693 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
694
695 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
696 volume specification, if present.
697
698 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
699
700 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
701 ------------------
702
703 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
704 type for volumes that lack labels.
705
706 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
707 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
708 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
709 though.
710
711 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
712 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
713 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
714 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
715 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
716 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
717 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
718 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
719
720 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
721 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
722 non-EFI loaders, etc.
723
724 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
725 code.
726
727 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
728 -------------------
729
730 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
731 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
732
733 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
734 script.
735
736 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
737 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
738 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
739 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
740
741 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
742 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
743 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
744 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
745
746 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
747 -------------------
748
749 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
750 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
751 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
752 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
753
754 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
755
756 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
757 directory names that contain spaces.
758
759 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
760 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
761 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
762 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
763 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
764
765 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
766 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
767
768 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
769 Utility" in menu.
770
771 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
772 partitions to fill the MBR.
773
774 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
775 ------------------
776
777 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
778 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
779 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
780 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
781
782 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
783 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
784 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
785 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
786 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
787
788 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
789 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
790 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
791 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
792 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
793 is quietly ignored.
794
795 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
796 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
797
798 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
799 encountered when saving a screen shot.
800
801 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
802 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
803 sequence number, starting with "001".
804
805 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
806 ------------------
807
808 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
809 Kemperman.
810
811 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
812 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
813
814 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
815 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
816 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
817
818 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
819 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
820 accidentally trash their systems.
821
822 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
823 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
824 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
825
826 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
827 ------------------
828
829 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
830 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
831
832 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
833 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
834
835 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
836 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
837
838 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
839
840 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
841 -----------------
842
843 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
844 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
845
846 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
847 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
848 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
849 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
850
851 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
852 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
853
854 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
855 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
856
857 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
858 also_scan_dirs list.
859
860 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
861
862 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
863 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
864 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
865
866 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
867 ------------------
868
869 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
870 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
871 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
872 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
873 loader under the fallback name.
874
875 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
876 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
877 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
878 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
879 of 96 glyphs.
880
881 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
882 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
883
884 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
885 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
886
887 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
888 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
889 commented out or empty.
890
891 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
892 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
893
894 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
895 manual boot stanzas.
896
897 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
898 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
899
900 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
901 ------------------
902
903 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
904 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
905
906 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
907
908 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
909
910 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
911 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
912
913 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
914
915 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
916 sized to cover these areas.
917
918 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
919 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
920 resolution!
921
922 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
923 -----------------
924
925 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
926 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
927 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
928 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
929
930 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
931 startup on some systems.
932
933 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
934 -----------------
935
936 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
937 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
938
939 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
940 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
941
942 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
943 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
944 burned to USB flash disks.
945
946 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
947 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
948 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
949
950 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
951 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
952 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
953 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
954 from that installation.
955
956 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
957 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
958 than in EFI/refind.
959
960 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
961 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
962
963 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
964 -------------------
965
966 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
967 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
968 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
969
970 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
971 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
972 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
973 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
974 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
975
976 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
977 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
978 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
979 Linux with the "make" command.
980
981 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
982 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
983
984 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
985 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
986 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
987 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
988 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
989 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
990 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
991 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
992
993 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
994 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
995 default.)
996
997 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
998 -------------------
999
1000 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
1001 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
1002 use on emergency discs.
1003
1004 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
1005 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
1006 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
1007 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
1008 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
1009 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
1010 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
1011 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
1012 handle.
1013
1014 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
1015
1016 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
1017 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
1018 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
1019 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
1020 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
1021 os_GENTOO.icns.
1022
1023 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
1024 mode.
1025
1026 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
1027 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
1028 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
1029 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
1030
1031 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
1032 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
1033 a boot loader launch failed.
1034
1035 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
1036 -------------------
1037
1038 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
1039 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
1040 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
1041 options.
1042
1043 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
1044 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
1045 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
1046 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
1047
1048 - Added ext4fs driver!
1049
1050 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
1051
1052 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
1053
1054 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
1055 from a program that set the resolution itself.
1056
1057 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
1058 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
1059 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
1060 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
1061 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
1062 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
1063 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
1064 mode.
1065
1066 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
1067 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
1068 display even in graphics mode.
1069
1070 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
1071 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
1072
1073 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
1074 disables the boot options editor.
1075
1076 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
1077 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
1078
1079 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
1080 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
1081 from the /etc/default/grub file.
1082
1083 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
1084 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
1085
1086 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
1087 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
1088 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
1089 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
1090 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
1091 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
1092
1093 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
1094 on Linux systems.
1095
1096 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
1097 ---------------------
1098
1099 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
1100
1101 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
1102 -------------------
1103
1104 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
1105 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
1106 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
1107 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
1108
1109 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
1110 configuration file from a primary one.
1111
1112 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
1113 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
1114 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
1115 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
1116 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
1117 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
1118 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
1119 LVM.)
1120
1121 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
1122 on systems with Secure Boot active.
1123
1124 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
1125 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
1126 refind.conf.
1127
1128 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
1129 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
1130
1131 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
1132 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
1133 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
1134
1135 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
1136 ------------------
1137
1138 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
1139 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
1140 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
1141 This example results in the following string being passed as an
1142 option:
1143 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
1144
1145 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
1146 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
1147 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
1148 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
1149 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
1150 for them makes sense.
1151
1152 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
1153 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
1154 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
1155 EFI shells are also so limited.)
1156
1157 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
1158 were not actually edited.
1159
1160 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
1161 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
1162 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
1163 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
1164 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
1165
1166 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
1167 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
1168 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
1169 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
1170 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
1171 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
1172 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
1173 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
1174
1175 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
1176 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
1177 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1178
1179 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
1180 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
1181 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
1182
1183 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
1184 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
1185 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
1186 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
1187
1188 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
1189 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
1190 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
1191
1192 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
1193 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
1194
1195 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
1196 ------------------
1197
1198 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
1199
1200 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
1201 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
1202 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
1203
1204 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
1205 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
1206 told isn't working as planned).
1207
1208 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
1209 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
1210 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
1211 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
1212
1213 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
1214 ------------------
1215
1216 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
1217
1218 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
1219 for disks.
1220
1221 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1222 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1223 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1224 done this for two reasons:
1225 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1226 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1227 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1228 default for them should help them.
1229 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1230 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1231 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1232 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1233 default configurations.
1234
1235 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1236
1237 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1238 ------------------
1239
1240 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1241
1242 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1243
1244 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1245 ------------------
1246
1247 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1248 32-bit systems.
1249
1250 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1251 on 32-bit systems.
1252
1253 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1254 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1255 loaders/OSes.
1256
1257 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1258
1259 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1260 ------------------
1261
1262 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1263 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1264
1265 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1266 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1267 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1268 graphics or text mode itself.)
1269
1270 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1271 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1272 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1273 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1274 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1275 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1276 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1277
1278 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1279
1280 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1281 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1282 "linux.conf" themselves.
1283
1284 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1285 -----------------
1286
1287 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1288 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1289 via rEFInd.
1290
1291 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1292 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1293 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1294 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1295 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1296 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1297 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1298 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1299 the boot order).
1300
1301 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1302 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1303
1304 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1305 ------------------
1306
1307 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1308 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1309 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1310 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1311 system hasn't hung.
1312
1313 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1314 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1315
1316 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1317
1318 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1319 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1320 label.)
1321
1322 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1323 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1324
1325 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1326 ------------------
1327
1328 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1329 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1330 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1331 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1332 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1333 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1334 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1335
1336 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1337 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1338 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1339
1340 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1341 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1342 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1343 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1344
1345 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1346 file when launched from rEFInd.
1347
1348 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1349 ------------------
1350
1351 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1352 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1353
1354 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1355 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1356 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1357 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1358 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1359 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1360
1361 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1362 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1363
1364 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1365 -----------------
1366
1367 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1368 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1369 sample configuration file for a full description.
1370
1371 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1372 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1373 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1374 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1375 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1376
1377 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1378 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1379 target).
1380
1381 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1382 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1383
1384 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1385 -----------------
1386
1387 - Improved menu navigation:
1388 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1389 down arrows move between rows.
1390 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1391 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1392 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1393 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1394
1395 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1396 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1397 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1398
1399 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1400 -----------------
1401
1402 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1403 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1404 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1405 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1406 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1407 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1408 will fail to work.
1409
1410 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1411 mode.
1412
1413 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1414
1415 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1416 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1417 options.
1418
1419
1420 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1421 ------------------
1422
1423 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1424 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1425
1426 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1427 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1428 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1429 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1430 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1431 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1432 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1433 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1434 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1435 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1436 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1437
1438 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1439 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1440 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1441 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1442 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1443
1444 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1445 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1446
1447 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1448 ------------------
1449
1450 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1451 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1452 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1453 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1454 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1455 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1456
1457 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1458 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1459 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1460 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1461 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1462 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1463 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1464 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1465 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1466 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1467 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1468 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1469 that resets the video mode.
1470
1471 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1472 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1473 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1474 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1475 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1476 details.
1477
1478 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1479 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1480 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1481 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1482 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1483 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1484
1485 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1486 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1487 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1488
1489 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1490 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1491 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1492 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1493
1494 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1495 ------------------
1496
1497 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1498 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1499 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1500 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1501 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1502 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1503 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1504 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1505 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1506 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1507 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1508 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1509 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1510 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1511 installation.
1512
1513 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1514
1515 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1516 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1517 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1518 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1519 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1520 directories you like.
1521
1522 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1523 ------------------
1524
1525 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1526 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1527 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1528 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1529 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1530 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1531 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1532 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1533
1534 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1535 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1536 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1537
1538 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1539 -----------------
1540
1541 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1542 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1543
1544 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1545 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1546 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1547 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1548 documented the name....
1549
1550 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1551 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1552 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1553
1554 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1555 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1556 directory) on certain systems.
1557
1558 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1559 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1560
1561 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1562 -----------------
1563
1564 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1565 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1566 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1567 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1568 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1569 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1570 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1571 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1572 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1573 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1574 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1575 to me.
1576
1577 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1578 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1579 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1580 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1581 simultaneously.)
1582
1583 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1584 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1585
1586 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1587 image.
1588
1589 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1590 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1591 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1592 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1593 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1594
1595 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1596 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1597 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1598 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1599 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1600 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1601
1602 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1603 ------------------
1604
1605 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1606 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1607 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1608 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1609 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1610 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1611 small sample of computers.
1612
1613 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1614 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1615 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1616 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1617 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1618
1619 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1620
1621 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1622 ------------------
1623
1624 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1625 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1626 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1627 versionless initrd file.
1628
1629 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1630 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1631 continues.
1632
1633 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1634 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1635 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1636
1637 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1638 ------------------
1639
1640 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1641 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1642 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1643 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1644
1645 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1646 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1647 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1648 directory as the kernel.
1649
1650 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1651 entries in refind.conf file.
1652
1653 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1654 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1655
1656
1657 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1658 ------------------
1659
1660 - Initial public release