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1 0.6.1 (12/??/2012):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
5 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
6 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
7 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
8 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
9 os_GENTOO.icns.
10
11 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
12 mode.
13
14 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
15 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
16 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
17 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
18
19 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
20 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
21 a boot loader launch failed.
22
23 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
24 -------------------
25
26 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
27 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
28 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
29 options.
30
31 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
32 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
33 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
34 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
35
36 - Added ext4fs driver!
37
38 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
39
40 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
41
42 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
43 from a program that set the resolution itself.
44
45 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
46 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
47 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
48 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
49 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
50 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
51 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
52 mode.
53
54 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
55 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
56 display even in graphics mode.
57
58 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
59 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
60
61 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
62 disables the boot options editor.
63
64 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
65 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
66
67 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
68 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
69 from the /etc/default/grub file.
70
71 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
72 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
73
74 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
75 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
76 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
77 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
78 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
79 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
80
81 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
82 on Linux systems.
83
84 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
85 ---------------------
86
87 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
88
89 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
90 -------------------
91
92 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
93 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
94 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
95 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
96
97 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
98 configuration file from a primary one.
99
100 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
101 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
102 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
103 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
104 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
105 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
106 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
107 LVM.)
108
109 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
110 on systems with Secure Boot active.
111
112 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
113 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
114 refind.conf.
115
116 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
117 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
118
119 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
120 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
121 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
122
123 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
124 ------------------
125
126 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
127 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
128 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
129 This example results in the following string being passed as an
130 option:
131 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
132
133 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
134 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
135 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
136 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
137 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
138 for them makes sense.
139
140 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
141 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
142 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
143 EFI shells are also so limited.)
144
145 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
146 were not actually edited.
147
148 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
149 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
150 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
151 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
152 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
153
154 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
155 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
156 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
157 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
158 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
159 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
160 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
161 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
162
163 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
164 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
165 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
166
167 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
168 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
169 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
170
171 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
172 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
173 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
174 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
175
176 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
177 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
178 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
179
180 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
181 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
182
183 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
184 ------------------
185
186 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
187
188 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
189 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
190 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
191
192 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
193 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
194 told isn't working as planned).
195
196 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
197 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
198 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
199 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
200
201 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
202 ------------------
203
204 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
205
206 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
207 for disks.
208
209 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
210 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
211 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
212 done this for two reasons:
213 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
214 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
215 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
216 default for them should help them.
217 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
218 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
219 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
220 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
221 default configurations.
222
223 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
224
225 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
226 ------------------
227
228 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
229
230 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
231
232 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
233 ------------------
234
235 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
236 32-bit systems.
237
238 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
239 on 32-bit systems.
240
241 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
242 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
243 loaders/OSes.
244
245 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
246
247 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
248 ------------------
249
250 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
251 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
252
253 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
254 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
255 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
256 graphics or text mode itself.)
257
258 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
259 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
260 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
261 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
262 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
263 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
264 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
265
266 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
267
268 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
269 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
270 "linux.conf" themselves.
271
272 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
273 -----------------
274
275 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
276 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
277 via rEFInd.
278
279 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
280 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
281 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
282 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
283 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
284 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
285 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
286 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
287 the boot order).
288
289 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
290 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
291
292 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
293 ------------------
294
295 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
296 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
297 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
298 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
299 system hasn't hung.
300
301 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
302 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
303
304 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
305
306 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
307 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
308 label.)
309
310 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
311 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
312
313 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
314 ------------------
315
316 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
317 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
318 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
319 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
320 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
321 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
322 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
323
324 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
325 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
326 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
327
328 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
329 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
330 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
331 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
332
333 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
334 file when launched from rEFInd.
335
336 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
337 ------------------
338
339 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
340 received reports that it's not working as intended.
341
342 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
343 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
344 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
345 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
346 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
347 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
348
349 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
350 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
351
352 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
353 -----------------
354
355 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
356 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
357 sample configuration file for a full description.
358
359 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
360 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
361 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
362 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
363 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
364
365 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
366 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
367 target).
368
369 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
370 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
371
372 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
373 -----------------
374
375 - Improved menu navigation:
376 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
377 down arrows move between rows.
378 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
379 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
380 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
381 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
382
383 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
384 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
385 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
386
387 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
388 -----------------
389
390 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
391 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
392 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
393 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
394 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
395 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
396 will fail to work.
397
398 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
399 mode.
400
401 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
402
403 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
404 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
405 options.
406
407
408 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
409 ------------------
410
411 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
412 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
413
414 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
415 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
416 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
417 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
418 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
419 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
420 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
421 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
422 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
423 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
424 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
425
426 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
427 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
428 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
429 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
430 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
431
432 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
433 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
434
435 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
436 ------------------
437
438 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
439 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
440 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
441 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
442 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
443 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
444
445 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
446 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
447 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
448 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
449 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
450 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
451 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
452 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
453 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
454 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
455 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
456 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
457 that resets the video mode.
458
459 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
460 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
461 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
462 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
463 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
464 details.
465
466 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
467 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
468 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
469 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
470 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
471 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
472
473 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
474 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
475 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
476
477 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
478 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
479 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
480 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
481
482 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
483 ------------------
484
485 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
486 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
487 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
488 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
489 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
490 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
491 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
492 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
493 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
494 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
495 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
496 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
497 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
498 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
499 installation.
500
501 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
502
503 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
504 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
505 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
506 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
507 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
508 directories you like.
509
510 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
511 ------------------
512
513 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
514 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
515 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
516 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
517 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
518 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
519 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
520 should work when a volume is unnamed.
521
522 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
523 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
524 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
525
526 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
527 -----------------
528
529 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
530 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
531
532 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
533 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
534 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
535 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
536 documented the name....
537
538 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
539 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
540 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
541
542 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
543 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
544 directory) on certain systems.
545
546 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
547 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
548
549 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
550 -----------------
551
552 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
553 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
554 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
555 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
556 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
557 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
558 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
559 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
560 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
561 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
562 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
563 to me.
564
565 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
566 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
567 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
568 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
569 simultaneously.)
570
571 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
572 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
573
574 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
575 image.
576
577 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
578 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
579 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
580 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
581 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
582
583 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
584 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
585 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
586 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
587 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
588 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
589
590 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
591 ------------------
592
593 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
594 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
595 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
596 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
597 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
598 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
599 small sample of computers.
600
601 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
602 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
603 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
604 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
605 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
606
607 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
608
609 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
610 ------------------
611
612 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
613 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
614 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
615 versionless initrd file.
616
617 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
618 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
619 continues.
620
621 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
622 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
623 than this, but such systems are very rare.
624
625 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
626 ------------------
627
628 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
629 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
630 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
631 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
632
633 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
634 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
635 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
636 directory as the kernel.
637
638 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
639 entries in refind.conf file.
640
641 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
642 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
643
644
645 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
646 ------------------
647
648 - Initial public release