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1 0.5.2 (12/??/2012):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
5 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
6 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
7 options.
8
9 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
10 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
11 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
12 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
13
14 - Added ext4fs driver!
15
16 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
17
18 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
19
20 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
21 from a program that set the resolution itself.
22
23 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
24 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
25 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
26 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
27 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
28 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
29 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
30 mode.
31
32 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
33 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
34 display even in graphics mode.
35
36 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
37 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
38
39 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
40 disables the boot options editor.
41
42 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
43 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
44
45 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
46 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
47 from the /etc/default/grub file.
48
49 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
50 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
51
52 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
53 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
54 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
55 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
56 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
57 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
58
59 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
60 on Linux systems.
61
62 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
63 ---------------------
64
65 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
66
67 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
68 -------------------
69
70 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
71 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
72 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
73 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
74
75 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
76 configuration file from a primary one.
77
78 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
79 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
80 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
81 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
82 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
83 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
84 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
85 LVM.)
86
87 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
88 on systems with Secure Boot active.
89
90 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
91 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
92 refind.conf.
93
94 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
95 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
96
97 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
98 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
99 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
100
101 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
102 ------------------
103
104 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
105 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
106 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
107 This example results in the following string being passed as an
108 option:
109 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
110
111 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
112 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
113 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
114 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
115 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
116 for them makes sense.
117
118 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
119 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
120 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
121 EFI shells are also so limited.)
122
123 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
124 were not actually edited.
125
126 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
127 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
128 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
129 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
130 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
131
132 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
133 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
134 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
135 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
136 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
137 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
138 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
139 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
140
141 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
142 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
143 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
144
145 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
146 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
147 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
148
149 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
150 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
151 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
152 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
153
154 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
155 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
156 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
157
158 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
159 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
160
161 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
162 ------------------
163
164 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
165
166 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
167 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
168 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
169
170 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
171 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
172 told isn't working as planned).
173
174 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
175 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
176 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
177 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
178
179 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
180 ------------------
181
182 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
183
184 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
185 for disks.
186
187 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
188 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
189 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
190 done this for two reasons:
191 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
192 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
193 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
194 default for them should help them.
195 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
196 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
197 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
198 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
199 default configurations.
200
201 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
202
203 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
204 ------------------
205
206 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
207
208 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
209
210 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
211 ------------------
212
213 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
214 32-bit systems.
215
216 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
217 on 32-bit systems.
218
219 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
220 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
221 loaders/OSes.
222
223 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
224
225 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
226 ------------------
227
228 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
229 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
230
231 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
232 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
233 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
234 graphics or text mode itself.)
235
236 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
237 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
238 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
239 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
240 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
241 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
242 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
243
244 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
245
246 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
247 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
248 "linux.conf" themselves.
249
250 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
251 -----------------
252
253 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
254 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
255 via rEFInd.
256
257 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
258 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
259 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
260 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
261 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
262 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
263 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
264 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
265 the boot order).
266
267 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
268 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
269
270 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
271 ------------------
272
273 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
274 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
275 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
276 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
277 system hasn't hung.
278
279 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
280 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
281
282 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
283
284 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
285 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
286 label.)
287
288 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
289 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
290
291 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
292 ------------------
293
294 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
295 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
296 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
297 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
298 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
299 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
300 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
301
302 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
303 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
304 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
305
306 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
307 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
308 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
309 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
310
311 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
312 file when launched from rEFInd.
313
314 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
315 ------------------
316
317 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
318 received reports that it's not working as intended.
319
320 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
321 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
322 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
323 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
324 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
325 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
326
327 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
328 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
329
330 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
331 -----------------
332
333 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
334 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
335 sample configuration file for a full description.
336
337 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
338 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
339 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
340 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
341 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
342
343 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
344 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
345 target).
346
347 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
348 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
349
350 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
351 -----------------
352
353 - Improved menu navigation:
354 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
355 down arrows move between rows.
356 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
357 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
358 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
359 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
360
361 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
362 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
363 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
364
365 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
366 -----------------
367
368 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
369 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
370 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
371 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
372 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
373 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
374 will fail to work.
375
376 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
377 mode.
378
379 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
380
381 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
382 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
383 options.
384
385
386 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
387 ------------------
388
389 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
390 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
391
392 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
393 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
394 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
395 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
396 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
397 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
398 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
399 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
400 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
401 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
402 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
403
404 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
405 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
406 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
407 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
408 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
409
410 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
411 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
412
413 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
414 ------------------
415
416 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
417 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
418 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
419 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
420 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
421 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
422
423 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
424 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
425 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
426 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
427 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
428 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
429 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
430 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
431 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
432 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
433 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
434 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
435 that resets the video mode.
436
437 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
438 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
439 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
440 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
441 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
442 details.
443
444 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
445 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
446 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
447 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
448 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
449 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
450
451 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
452 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
453 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
454
455 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
456 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
457 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
458 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
459
460 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
461 ------------------
462
463 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
464 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
465 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
466 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
467 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
468 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
469 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
470 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
471 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
472 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
473 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
474 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
475 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
476 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
477 installation.
478
479 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
480
481 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
482 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
483 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
484 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
485 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
486 directories you like.
487
488 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
489 ------------------
490
491 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
492 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
493 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
494 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
495 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
496 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
497 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
498 should work when a volume is unnamed.
499
500 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
501 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
502 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
503
504 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
505 -----------------
506
507 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
508 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
509
510 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
511 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
512 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
513 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
514 documented the name....
515
516 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
517 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
518 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
519
520 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
521 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
522 directory) on certain systems.
523
524 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
525 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
526
527 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
528 -----------------
529
530 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
531 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
532 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
533 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
534 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
535 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
536 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
537 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
538 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
539 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
540 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
541 to me.
542
543 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
544 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
545 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
546 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
547 simultaneously.)
548
549 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
550 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
551
552 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
553 image.
554
555 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
556 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
557 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
558 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
559 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
560
561 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
562 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
563 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
564 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
565 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
566 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
567
568 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
569 ------------------
570
571 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
572 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
573 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
574 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
575 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
576 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
577 small sample of computers.
578
579 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
580 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
581 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
582 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
583 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
584
585 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
586
587 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
588 ------------------
589
590 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
591 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
592 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
593 versionless initrd file.
594
595 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
596 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
597 continues.
598
599 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
600 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
601 than this, but such systems are very rare.
602
603 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
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605
606 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
607 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
608 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
609 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
610
611 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
612 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
613 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
614 directory as the kernel.
615
616 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
617 entries in refind.conf file.
618
619 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
620 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
621
622
623 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
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625
626 - Initial public release