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