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1 0.10.1 (??/??/201?):
2 --------------------
3
4 - Significantly reworked the project's Makefiles. This should have no
5 impact on ordinary users, and even most developers should barely notice
6 it; but it should make future extensions to additional platforms or
7 building in different environments easier.
8
9 - Added type code 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage,
10 gdisk type AF05) to list of partition types recognized by gptsync.
11
12 - Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source;
13 and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.
14
15 - Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This
16 works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is
17 currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer
18 to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real
19 computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial
20 terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran
21 rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs
22 driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync,
23 although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are
24 meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared
25 toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and
26 enable_and_lock_vmx.
27
28 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on
29 removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback
30 filename.
31
32 - Moved detailed descriptions of refind-install from installing.html to
33 a refind-install man page. To keep this information Web-accessible, I've
34 also created HTML versions of the three man pages and linked them into
35 the HTML documentation.
36
37 - Updated LodePNG to latest version (20151024).
38
39 - Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel
40 options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble
41 conditions:
42 - Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in
43 /proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the
44 case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not
45 true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.)
46 The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before
47 discarding this first option.
48 - These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the
49 call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This
50 usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line;
51 but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost.
52
53 - Added "kernel*" as a matching pattern for Linux kernels, since this is
54 what Gentoo uses by default.
55
56 - The refind-install script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux.
57 This enables creating a /usr/sbin/refind-install link in Linux packages,
58 with the binaries stashed wherever the package system likes them. This
59 feature does NOT work in OS X, but there's relatively little need for it
60 there.
61
62 0.10.0 (11/8/2015):
63 -------------------
64
65 - Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it
66 should under OS X.
67
68 - Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as
69 source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the
70 --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use
71 /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this
72 change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline
73 when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be
74 used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot
75 options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB
76 files is the best bet for getting close to the right options.
77
78 - Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels
79 show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when
80 the Btrfs driver is loaded.
81
82 - Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs
83 running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except
84 on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it,
85 you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values"
86 item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too,
87 if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on
88 "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that
89 define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new
90 shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined
91 value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds.
92
93 - Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to
94 "About" display.
95
96 - Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
97
98 - Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
99 mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
100
101 - New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
102 particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
103 (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
104 then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
105 Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
106 copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
107 OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
108 instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
109 you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
110 to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
111 in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
112
113 - Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
114 because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
115 tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
116 .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
117
118 - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
119 to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
120 rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
121 instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
122 suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
123 installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
124 installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
125 update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
126 to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
127
128 - Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
129 (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
130 to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
131 launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
132 initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
133 on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
134 unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
135
136 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
137 seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
138 (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
139 the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
140 graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
141 background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
142 floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
143 crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
144 though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
145 integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
146 workaround.)
147
148 - Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
149 help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
150 since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
151 rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
152 boot.
153
154 0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
155 ------------------
156
157 - Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
158 to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
159 when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
160 also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
161 Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
162 Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
163 refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
164 but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
165 directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
166 conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
167 and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
168
169 - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
170 authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
171 installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
172 launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
173 Secure Boot db list.
174
175 0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
176 ------------------
177
178 - When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
179 Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
180 partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
181 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
182 - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
183 or "ro" option to the kernel.
184 - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
185 it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
186 all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
187 system has more than one with the correct type code.
188
189 - Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
190 Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
191 file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
192 filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
193 filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
194 "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
195 (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
196 rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
197 Discoverable Partitions Specification.
198
199 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
200 continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
201 Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
202 was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
203
204 - Added icon for Elementary OS.
205
206 - Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
207 distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
208 better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
209 closely-related distributions.
210
211 - Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
212 are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
213 blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
214 keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
215 many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
216 lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
217 though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
218 firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
219 potentially buggy system calls.
220
221 0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
222 ------------------
223
224 - New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
225
226 - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
227 with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
228 EDK2.)
229
230 - Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
231 active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
232 single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
233 stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
234 or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
235 submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
236 false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
237 is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
238
239 - Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
240 Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
241 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
242 If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
243 partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
244 found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
245 options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
246 one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
247 help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
248
249 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
250 file was encountered.
251
252 - The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
253 should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
254 under OS X.
255
256 - rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
257 when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
258 may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
259
260 - Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
261 a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
262 IA32.
263
264 - Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
265 if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
266 if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
267 Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
268 to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
269 consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
270
271 0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
272 -----------------
273
274 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
275 name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
276 the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
277
278 - Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
279
280 - More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
281 identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
282 device rather than the correct filesystem type.
283
284 - Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
285 occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
286
287 - I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
288 they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
289 might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
290 Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
291 meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
292 labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
293
294 - Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
295 rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
296 FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
297 code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
298 generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
299
300 - Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
301 (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
302 support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
303 such as the ASUS T100.)
304
305 - Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
306 is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
307 of the efitools package.
308
309 - Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
310
311 - Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
312
313 - install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
314 itself.
315
316 0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
317 -----------------
318
319 - Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
320 old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
321 long since been updated to deliver a real name.
322
323 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
324 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
325 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
326 used universally.
327
328 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
329 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
330 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
331 unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
332
333 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
334 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
335 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
336
337 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
338 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
339
340 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
341 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
342
343 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
344 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
345 selection images to fail to load.
346
347 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
348 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
349
350 - Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
351 the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
352
353
354 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
355 -----------------
356
357 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
358
359 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
360
361 - Changes to
362
363 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
364
365 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
366 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
367 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
368 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
369 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
370 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
371 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
372 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
373
374 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
375
376 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
377 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
378 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
379 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
380 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
381
382 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
383 from other than the first hard disk.
384
385
386 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
387 ------------------
388
389 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
390 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
391 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
392
393 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
394
395 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
396 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
397 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
398 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
399
400 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
401 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
402 mode.
403
404 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
405 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
406 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
407 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
408
409 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
410 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
411 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
412
413 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
414 building and basic use instructions).
415
416 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
417 -----------------
418
419 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
420 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
421 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
422 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
423 is displayed.
424
425 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
426 distribution.
427
428 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
429 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
430 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
431
432 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
433 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
434 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
435 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
436 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
437 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
438 change its license to a BSD license.
439
440 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
441 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
442 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
443
444 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
445 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
446 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
447 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
448 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
449 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
450 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
451 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
452 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
453 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
454 and ensure it's set to "false".
455
456 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
457 -------------------
458
459 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
460 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
461
462 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
463 -----------------
464
465 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
466 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
467 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
468 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
469 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
470 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
471 loader in the
472 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
473 variable under Linux.
474
475 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
476
477 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
478 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
479
480 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
481 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
482
483 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
484 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
485 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
486 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
487 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
488 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
489 override a setting in the main file).
490
491 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
492 ------------------
493
494 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
495 on the root directory of a partition.
496
497 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
498 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
499
500 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
501 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
502 second.
503
504 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
505 screens.
506
507 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
508 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
509 firmware).
510
511 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
512 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
513 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
514 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
515 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
516 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
517 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
518 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
519
520 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
521 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
522 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
523 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
524 volume and is used by OS X.
525
526 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
527 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
528
529 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
530 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
531
532 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
533 -----------------
534
535 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
536 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
537 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
538 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
539 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
540
541 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
542
543 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
544 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
545 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
546 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
547
548 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
549 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
550 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
551 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
552 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
553 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
554
555 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
556 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
557 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
558
559 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
560 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
561
562 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
563 ------------------
564
565 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
566 some Macs.
567
568 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
569 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
570 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
571
572 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
573 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
574
575 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
576
577 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
578 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
579 drivers.
580
581 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
582 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
583 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
584
585 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
586 utility."
587
588
589 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
590 -----------------
591
592 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
593 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
594 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
595 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
596 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
597 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
598 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
599
600 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
601 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
602 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
603 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
604 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
605 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
606 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
607 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
608
609 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
610 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
611 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
612 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
613 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
614 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
615
616 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
617 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
618 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
619 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
620 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
621
622 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
623 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
624 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
625 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
626 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
627 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
628 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
629 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
630 problems might arise.
631
632 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
633 -----------------
634
635 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
636 dont_scan_files.
637
638 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
639
640 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
641 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
642 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
643 utility on the second row of icons.
644
645 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
646 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
647 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
648 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
649 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
650
651 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
652 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
653 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
654
655 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
656 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
657 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
658 UUID.
659
660 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
661 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
662
663 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
664 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
665 under some circumstances.
666
667 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
668 -------------------
669
670 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
671 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
672 default_selection "fred,ginger"
673 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
674 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
675
676 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
677 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
678 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
679 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
680 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
681 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
682 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
683 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
684 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
685 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
686 depending on your computer.
687
688 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
689 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
690 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
691 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
692 screensaver will be disabled.
693
694 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
695 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
696 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
697 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
698 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
699
700 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
701 -------------------
702
703 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
704 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
705
706 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
707 versions of OS X to fail.
708
709 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
710 drivers were present.
711
712 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
713 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
714 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
715 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
716 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
717 black a second or so later.
718
719 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
720 --------------------
721
722 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
723 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
724 problem.
725
726 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
727 ------------------
728
729 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
730 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
731 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
732
733 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
734 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
735 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
736 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
737 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
738 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
739 default.
740
741 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
742 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
743 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
744 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
745
746 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
747 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
748 known case, but there may be others.)
749
750 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
751 -----------------
752
753 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
754 loaders on Macs.
755
756 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
757
758 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
759 -----------------
760
761 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
762 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
763
764 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
765 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
766
767 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
768 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
769
770 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
771 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
772 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
773 HashTool-signed.efi".
774
775 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
776
777 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
778 was broken.
779
780 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
781 was broken.
782
783 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
784 -----------------
785
786 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
787
788 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
789 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
790 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
791
792 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
793 volume specification, if present.
794
795 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
796
797 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
798 ------------------
799
800 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
801 type for volumes that lack labels.
802
803 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
804 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
805 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
806 though.
807
808 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
809 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
810 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
811 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
812 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
813 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
814 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
815 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
816
817 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
818 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
819 non-EFI loaders, etc.
820
821 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
822 code.
823
824 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
825 -------------------
826
827 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
828 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
829
830 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
831 script.
832
833 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
834 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
835 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
836 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
837
838 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
839 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
840 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
841 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
842
843 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
844 -------------------
845
846 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
847 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
848 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
849 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
850
851 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
852
853 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
854 directory names that contain spaces.
855
856 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
857 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
858 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
859 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
860 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
861
862 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
863 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
864
865 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
866 Utility" in menu.
867
868 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
869 partitions to fill the MBR.
870
871 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
872 ------------------
873
874 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
875 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
876 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
877 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
878
879 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
880 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
881 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
882 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
883 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
884
885 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
886 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
887 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
888 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
889 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
890 is quietly ignored.
891
892 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
893 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
894
895 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
896 encountered when saving a screen shot.
897
898 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
899 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
900 sequence number, starting with "001".
901
902 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
903 ------------------
904
905 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
906 Kemperman.
907
908 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
909 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
910
911 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
912 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
913 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
914
915 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
916 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
917 accidentally trash their systems.
918
919 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
920 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
921 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
922
923 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
924 ------------------
925
926 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
927 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
928
929 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
930 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
931
932 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
933 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
934
935 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
936
937 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
938 -----------------
939
940 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
941 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
942
943 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
944 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
945 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
946 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
947
948 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
949 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
950
951 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
952 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
953
954 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
955 also_scan_dirs list.
956
957 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
958
959 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
960 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
961 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
962
963 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
964 ------------------
965
966 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
967 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
968 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
969 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
970 loader under the fallback name.
971
972 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
973 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
974 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
975 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
976 of 96 glyphs.
977
978 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
979 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
980
981 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
982 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
983
984 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
985 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
986 commented out or empty.
987
988 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
989 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
990
991 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
992 manual boot stanzas.
993
994 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
995 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
996
997 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
998 ------------------
999
1000 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
1001 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
1002
1003 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
1004
1005 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
1006
1007 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
1008 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
1009
1010 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
1011
1012 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
1013 sized to cover these areas.
1014
1015 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
1016 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
1017 resolution!
1018
1019 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
1020 -----------------
1021
1022 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
1023 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
1024 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
1025 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
1026
1027 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
1028 startup on some systems.
1029
1030 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
1031 -----------------
1032
1033 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
1034 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
1035
1036 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
1037 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
1038
1039 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
1040 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
1041 burned to USB flash disks.
1042
1043 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
1044 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
1045 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
1046
1047 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1048 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
1049 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
1050 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
1051 from that installation.
1052
1053 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
1054 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
1055 than in EFI/refind.
1056
1057 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
1058 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
1059
1060 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
1061 -------------------
1062
1063 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
1064 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
1065 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
1066
1067 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
1068 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
1069 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
1070 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
1071 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
1072
1073 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
1074 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
1075 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
1076 Linux with the "make" command.
1077
1078 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
1079 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
1080
1081 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
1082 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
1083 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
1084 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
1085 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
1086 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
1087 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
1088 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
1089
1090 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
1091 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
1092 default.)
1093
1094 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
1095 -------------------
1096
1097 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
1098 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
1099 use on emergency discs.
1100
1101 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
1102 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
1103 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
1104 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
1105 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
1106 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
1107 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
1108 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
1109 handle.
1110
1111 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
1112
1113 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
1114 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
1115 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
1116 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
1117 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
1118 os_GENTOO.icns.
1119
1120 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
1121 mode.
1122
1123 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
1124 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
1125 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
1126 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
1127
1128 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
1129 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
1130 a boot loader launch failed.
1131
1132 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
1133 -------------------
1134
1135 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
1136 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
1137 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
1138 options.
1139
1140 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
1141 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
1142 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
1143 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
1144
1145 - Added ext4fs driver!
1146
1147 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
1148
1149 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
1150
1151 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
1152 from a program that set the resolution itself.
1153
1154 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
1155 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
1156 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
1157 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
1158 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
1159 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
1160 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
1161 mode.
1162
1163 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
1164 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
1165 display even in graphics mode.
1166
1167 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
1168 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
1169
1170 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
1171 disables the boot options editor.
1172
1173 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
1174 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
1175
1176 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
1177 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
1178 from the /etc/default/grub file.
1179
1180 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
1181 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
1182
1183 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
1184 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
1185 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
1186 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
1187 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
1188 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
1189
1190 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
1191 on Linux systems.
1192
1193 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
1194 ---------------------
1195
1196 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
1197
1198 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
1199 -------------------
1200
1201 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
1202 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
1203 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
1204 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
1205
1206 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
1207 configuration file from a primary one.
1208
1209 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
1210 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
1211 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
1212 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
1213 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
1214 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
1215 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
1216 LVM.)
1217
1218 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
1219 on systems with Secure Boot active.
1220
1221 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
1222 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
1223 refind.conf.
1224
1225 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
1226 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
1227
1228 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
1229 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
1230 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
1231
1232 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
1233 ------------------
1234
1235 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
1236 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
1237 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
1238 This example results in the following string being passed as an
1239 option:
1240 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
1241
1242 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
1243 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
1244 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
1245 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
1246 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
1247 for them makes sense.
1248
1249 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
1250 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
1251 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
1252 EFI shells are also so limited.)
1253
1254 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
1255 were not actually edited.
1256
1257 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
1258 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
1259 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
1260 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
1261 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
1262
1263 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
1264 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
1265 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
1266 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
1267 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
1268 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
1269 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
1270 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
1271
1272 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
1273 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
1274 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1275
1276 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
1277 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
1278 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
1279
1280 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
1281 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
1282 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
1283 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
1284
1285 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
1286 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
1287 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
1288
1289 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
1290 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
1291
1292 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
1293 ------------------
1294
1295 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
1296
1297 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
1298 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
1299 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
1300
1301 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
1302 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
1303 told isn't working as planned).
1304
1305 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
1306 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
1307 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
1308 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
1309
1310 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
1311 ------------------
1312
1313 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
1314
1315 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
1316 for disks.
1317
1318 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1319 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1320 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1321 done this for two reasons:
1322 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1323 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1324 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1325 default for them should help them.
1326 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1327 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1328 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1329 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1330 default configurations.
1331
1332 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1333
1334 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1335 ------------------
1336
1337 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1338
1339 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1340
1341 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1342 ------------------
1343
1344 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1345 32-bit systems.
1346
1347 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1348 on 32-bit systems.
1349
1350 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1351 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1352 loaders/OSes.
1353
1354 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1355
1356 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1357 ------------------
1358
1359 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1360 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1361
1362 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1363 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1364 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1365 graphics or text mode itself.)
1366
1367 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1368 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1369 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1370 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1371 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1372 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1373 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1374
1375 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1376
1377 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1378 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1379 "linux.conf" themselves.
1380
1381 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1382 -----------------
1383
1384 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1385 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1386 via rEFInd.
1387
1388 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1389 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1390 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1391 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1392 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1393 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1394 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1395 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1396 the boot order).
1397
1398 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1399 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1400
1401 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1402 ------------------
1403
1404 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1405 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1406 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1407 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1408 system hasn't hung.
1409
1410 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1411 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1412
1413 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1414
1415 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1416 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1417 label.)
1418
1419 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1420 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1421
1422 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1423 ------------------
1424
1425 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1426 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1427 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1428 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1429 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1430 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1431 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1432
1433 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1434 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1435 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1436
1437 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1438 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1439 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1440 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1441
1442 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1443 file when launched from rEFInd.
1444
1445 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1446 ------------------
1447
1448 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1449 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1450
1451 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1452 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1453 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1454 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1455 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1456 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1457
1458 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1459 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1460
1461 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1462 -----------------
1463
1464 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1465 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1466 sample configuration file for a full description.
1467
1468 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1469 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1470 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1471 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1472 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1473
1474 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1475 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1476 target).
1477
1478 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1479 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1480
1481 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1482 -----------------
1483
1484 - Improved menu navigation:
1485 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1486 down arrows move between rows.
1487 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1488 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1489 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1490 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1491
1492 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1493 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1494 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1495
1496 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1497 -----------------
1498
1499 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1500 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1501 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1502 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1503 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1504 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1505 will fail to work.
1506
1507 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1508 mode.
1509
1510 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1511
1512 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1513 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1514 options.
1515
1516
1517 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1518 ------------------
1519
1520 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1521 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1522
1523 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1524 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1525 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1526 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1527 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1528 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1529 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1530 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1531 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1532 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1533 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1534
1535 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1536 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1537 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1538 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1539 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1540
1541 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1542 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1543
1544 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1545 ------------------
1546
1547 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1548 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1549 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1550 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1551 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1552 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1553
1554 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1555 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1556 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1557 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1558 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1559 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1560 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1561 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1562 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1563 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1564 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1565 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1566 that resets the video mode.
1567
1568 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1569 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1570 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1571 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1572 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1573 details.
1574
1575 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1576 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1577 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1578 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1579 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1580 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1581
1582 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1583 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1584 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1585
1586 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1587 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1588 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1589 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1590
1591 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1592 ------------------
1593
1594 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1595 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1596 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1597 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1598 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1599 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1600 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1601 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1602 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1603 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1604 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1605 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1606 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1607 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1608 installation.
1609
1610 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1611
1612 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1613 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1614 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1615 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1616 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1617 directories you like.
1618
1619 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1620 ------------------
1621
1622 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1623 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1624 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1625 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1626 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1627 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1628 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1629 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1630
1631 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1632 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1633 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1634
1635 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1636 -----------------
1637
1638 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1639 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1640
1641 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1642 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1643 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1644 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1645 documented the name....
1646
1647 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1648 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1649 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1650
1651 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1652 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1653 directory) on certain systems.
1654
1655 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1656 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1657
1658 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1659 -----------------
1660
1661 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1662 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1663 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1664 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1665 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1666 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1667 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1668 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1669 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1670 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1671 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1672 to me.
1673
1674 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1675 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1676 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1677 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1678 simultaneously.)
1679
1680 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1681 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1682
1683 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1684 image.
1685
1686 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1687 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1688 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1689 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1690 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1691
1692 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1693 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1694 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1695 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1696 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1697 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1698
1699 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1700 ------------------
1701
1702 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1703 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1704 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1705 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1706 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1707 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1708 small sample of computers.
1709
1710 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1711 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1712 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1713 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1714 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1715
1716 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1717
1718 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1719 ------------------
1720
1721 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1722 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1723 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1724 versionless initrd file.
1725
1726 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1727 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1728 continues.
1729
1730 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1731 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1732 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1733
1734 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1735 ------------------
1736
1737 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1738 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1739 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1740 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1741
1742 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1743 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1744 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1745 directory as the kernel.
1746
1747 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1748 entries in refind.conf file.
1749
1750 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1751 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1752
1753
1754 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1755 ------------------
1756
1757 - Initial public release