<p class="subhead">by Roderick W. Smith, <a
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
-<p>Last Web page update: 12/12/2015</p>
+<p>Last Web page update: 10/9/2016</p>
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<ul>
+<li><b>0.10.4 (10/9/2016)</b>—The number of changes in this
+ version is modest, but some features are important to some people:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Thanks to code submitted by an anonymous contributor, rEFInd now
+ supports <i>some</i> touch screens. This feature relies on support
+ in the firmware itself, though, and even some tablets lack this
+ support, so this feature does not work on all tablets.</li>
+
+ <li>Martin Whitaker has contributed updates to the ext4fs driver to make
+ it compatible with filesystems created with 64-bit pointers. As a
+ practical matter, this is important because 64-bit pointers are now
+ being used by default in some distributions. In theory, this feature
+ may enable use on over-16TiB filesystems, but this is untested at
+ the moment.</li>
+
+ <li>GNU-EFI version 3.0.3 or 3.0.4 has made changes that caused rEFInd's
+ drivers to fail to compile. This version addresses those compilation
+ problems.</li>
+
+ <li>A rEFInd coding error manifested with previous versions of rEFInd
+ when compiled with GNU-EFI starting at version 3.0.3 or 3.0.4,
+ causing the main rEFInd binary to crash. This problem has been
+ fixed. To the best of my knowledge, this bug has never manifested
+ with earlier versions of GNU-EFI or Tianocore builds.</li>
+
+ <li>The <tt>refind-install</tt> script now does a better job of
+ detecting disks that have exotic names—those other than
+ <tt>/dev/sd?</tt> or <tt>/dev/hd?</tt>.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+</li>
+
+<li><b>0.10.3 (4/24/2016)</b>—This version features mostly modest changes and additions:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>A new Linux script, <tt>refind-mkdefault</tt>, simplifies the task of resetting rEFInd as the default boot program. It's documented <a href="refind-mkdefault.html">here.</a> I've also written a new <a href="bootcoup.html">documentation page on the problem generally,</a> which covers how to handle the problem in multiple OSes.</li>
+
+ <li>I've modified the SIP/CSR rotation code so that the SIP/CSR rotation tool will appear more reliably on Apple computers.</li>
+
+ <li>The NTFS driver has been improved to reduce the chances of it hanging randomly.</li>
+
+ <li>The code that excludes shell binaries from appearing in the main boot list has been altered to reduce the odds of an incorrect exclusion from occurring.</li>
+
+ <li>rEFInd now recognizes the <tt>fwupx64.efi</tt> program as a special case: If detected, this program is presented as a second-row option rather than as a regular boot loader. (This tool is used to update firmware on some computers.)</li>
+
+ <li>BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode OSes all now include the string <tt>Legacy</tt> in their descriptions on Macs.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+</li>
+
+<li><b>0.10.2 (1/26/2016)</b>—Changes to this version are relatively modest and focus on bug fixes:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>A bug in <tt>refind-install</tt> under OS X could cause the <tt>mountesp</tt> script to be installed as a <i>file</i> called <tt>/usr/local/bin</tt> if that directory was absent. This bug has been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>Another OS X <tt>refind-install</tt> bug caused the <tt>--usedefault</tt> option to not work properly. This has been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>A Linux <tt>refind-install</tt> bug caused Secure Boot detection to fail in some cases. This has also been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>The <tt>mvrefind</tt> script could fail to move the Windows boot loader file (<tt>bootmgfw.efi</tt>) under some circumstances. Another bug in the same script caused <tt>mvrefind</tt> to register rEFInd using its default filename (<tt>rEFInd Boot Manager</tt>) rather than the name <tt>Windows Boot Manager</tt> when moving rEFInd to the Windows boot manager's location. Both of these bugs have been squashed.</li>
+
+ <li>A long-standing but obscure bug/quirk affects some EFIs, such as that in the HP ProBook 6470b: These EFIs connect useless drivers to partitions with no known filesystems, <i>before</i> rEFInd can load filesystem drivers. The result is that drivers loaded by rEFInd could not read the partitions in question. This version of rEFInd works around this problem.</li>
+
+ <li>A bug introduced in rEFInd 0.10.1 caused custom volume badge icons (read from an icon directory specified by <tt>icons_dir</tt> in <tt>refind.conf</tt>) to be ignored. I've fixed this bug.</li>
+
+ <li>Finally, a small non-bug improvement: I've added <tt>centos.crt</tt> and <tt>centos.cer</tt> public-key files for CentOS to the <tt>keys</tt> directory.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+</li>
+
<li><b>0.10.1 (12/12/2015)</b>—This version of the program features one big change that will affect very few people, another big behind-the-scenes change, and a number of small changes that will affect more people:
<ul>
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+<p>copyright © 2012–2016 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
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