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1 0.6.1 (12/??/2012):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
5 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
6 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
7 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
8 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
9 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
10 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
11 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
12 handle.
13
14 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
15
16 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
17 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
18 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
19 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
20 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
21 os_GENTOO.icns.
22
23 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
24 mode.
25
26 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
27 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
28 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
29 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
30
31 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
32 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
33 a boot loader launch failed.
34
35 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
36 -------------------
37
38 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
39 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
40 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
41 options.
42
43 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
44 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
45 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
46 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
47
48 - Added ext4fs driver!
49
50 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
51
52 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
53
54 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
55 from a program that set the resolution itself.
56
57 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
58 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
59 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
60 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
61 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
62 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
63 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
64 mode.
65
66 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
67 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
68 display even in graphics mode.
69
70 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
71 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
72
73 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
74 disables the boot options editor.
75
76 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
77 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
78
79 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
80 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
81 from the /etc/default/grub file.
82
83 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
84 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
85
86 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
87 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
88 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
89 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
90 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
91 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
92
93 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
94 on Linux systems.
95
96 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
97 ---------------------
98
99 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
100
101 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
102 -------------------
103
104 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
105 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
106 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
107 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
108
109 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
110 configuration file from a primary one.
111
112 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
113 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
114 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
115 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
116 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
117 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
118 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
119 LVM.)
120
121 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
122 on systems with Secure Boot active.
123
124 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
125 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
126 refind.conf.
127
128 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
129 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
130
131 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
132 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
133 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
134
135 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
136 ------------------
137
138 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
139 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
140 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
141 This example results in the following string being passed as an
142 option:
143 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
144
145 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
146 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
147 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
148 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
149 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
150 for them makes sense.
151
152 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
153 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
154 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
155 EFI shells are also so limited.)
156
157 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
158 were not actually edited.
159
160 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
161 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
162 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
163 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
164 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
165
166 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
167 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
168 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
169 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
170 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
171 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
172 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
173 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
174
175 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
176 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
177 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
178
179 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
180 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
181 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
182
183 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
184 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
185 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
186 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
187
188 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
189 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
190 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
191
192 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
193 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
194
195 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
196 ------------------
197
198 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
199
200 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
201 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
202 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
203
204 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
205 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
206 told isn't working as planned).
207
208 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
209 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
210 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
211 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
212
213 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
214 ------------------
215
216 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
217
218 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
219 for disks.
220
221 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
222 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
223 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
224 done this for two reasons:
225 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
226 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
227 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
228 default for them should help them.
229 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
230 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
231 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
232 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
233 default configurations.
234
235 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
236
237 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
238 ------------------
239
240 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
241
242 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
243
244 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
245 ------------------
246
247 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
248 32-bit systems.
249
250 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
251 on 32-bit systems.
252
253 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
254 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
255 loaders/OSes.
256
257 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
258
259 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
260 ------------------
261
262 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
263 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
264
265 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
266 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
267 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
268 graphics or text mode itself.)
269
270 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
271 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
272 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
273 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
274 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
275 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
276 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
277
278 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
279
280 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
281 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
282 "linux.conf" themselves.
283
284 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
285 -----------------
286
287 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
288 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
289 via rEFInd.
290
291 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
292 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
293 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
294 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
295 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
296 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
297 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
298 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
299 the boot order).
300
301 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
302 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
303
304 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
305 ------------------
306
307 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
308 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
309 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
310 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
311 system hasn't hung.
312
313 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
314 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
315
316 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
317
318 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
319 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
320 label.)
321
322 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
323 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
324
325 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
326 ------------------
327
328 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
329 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
330 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
331 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
332 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
333 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
334 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
335
336 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
337 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
338 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
339
340 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
341 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
342 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
343 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
344
345 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
346 file when launched from rEFInd.
347
348 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
349 ------------------
350
351 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
352 received reports that it's not working as intended.
353
354 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
355 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
356 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
357 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
358 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
359 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
360
361 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
362 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
363
364 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
365 -----------------
366
367 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
368 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
369 sample configuration file for a full description.
370
371 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
372 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
373 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
374 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
375 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
376
377 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
378 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
379 target).
380
381 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
382 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
383
384 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
385 -----------------
386
387 - Improved menu navigation:
388 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
389 down arrows move between rows.
390 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
391 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
392 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
393 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
394
395 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
396 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
397 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
398
399 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
400 -----------------
401
402 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
403 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
404 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
405 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
406 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
407 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
408 will fail to work.
409
410 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
411 mode.
412
413 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
414
415 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
416 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
417 options.
418
419
420 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
421 ------------------
422
423 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
424 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
425
426 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
427 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
428 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
429 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
430 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
431 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
432 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
433 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
434 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
435 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
436 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
437
438 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
439 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
440 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
441 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
442 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
443
444 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
445 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
446
447 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
448 ------------------
449
450 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
451 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
452 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
453 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
454 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
455 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
456
457 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
458 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
459 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
460 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
461 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
462 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
463 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
464 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
465 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
466 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
467 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
468 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
469 that resets the video mode.
470
471 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
472 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
473 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
474 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
475 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
476 details.
477
478 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
479 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
480 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
481 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
482 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
483 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
484
485 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
486 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
487 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
488
489 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
490 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
491 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
492 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
493
494 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
495 ------------------
496
497 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
498 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
499 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
500 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
501 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
502 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
503 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
504 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
505 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
506 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
507 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
508 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
509 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
510 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
511 installation.
512
513 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
514
515 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
516 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
517 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
518 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
519 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
520 directories you like.
521
522 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
523 ------------------
524
525 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
526 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
527 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
528 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
529 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
530 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
531 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
532 should work when a volume is unnamed.
533
534 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
535 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
536 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
537
538 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
539 -----------------
540
541 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
542 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
543
544 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
545 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
546 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
547 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
548 documented the name....
549
550 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
551 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
552 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
553
554 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
555 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
556 directory) on certain systems.
557
558 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
559 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
560
561 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
562 -----------------
563
564 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
565 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
566 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
567 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
568 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
569 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
570 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
571 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
572 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
573 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
574 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
575 to me.
576
577 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
578 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
579 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
580 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
581 simultaneously.)
582
583 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
584 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
585
586 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
587 image.
588
589 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
590 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
591 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
592 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
593 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
594
595 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
596 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
597 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
598 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
599 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
600 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
601
602 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
603 ------------------
604
605 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
606 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
607 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
608 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
609 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
610 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
611 small sample of computers.
612
613 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
614 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
615 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
616 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
617 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
618
619 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
620
621 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
622 ------------------
623
624 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
625 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
626 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
627 versionless initrd file.
628
629 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
630 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
631 continues.
632
633 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
634 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
635 than this, but such systems are very rare.
636
637 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
638 ------------------
639
640 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
641 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
642 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
643 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
644
645 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
646 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
647 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
648 directory as the kernel.
649
650 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
651 entries in refind.conf file.
652
653 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
654 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
655
656
657 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
658 ------------------
659
660 - Initial public release