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