-0.5.0 (??/??/2012):
+0.10.2 (?/??/2016):
-------------------
+- Fixed bug that caused custom volume badges (vol_????.png) to be read only
+ from default location ("icons" subdirectory), effectively eliminating the
+ ability to adjust them.
+
+- Added centos.crt and centos.cer public key files.
+
+0.10.1 (12/12/2015):
+--------------------
+
+- Change to PPA version: Installing the PPA now queries the user about
+ whether to install to the ESP. Upgrades will remember the initial
+ selection.
+
+- Modified time-based sorting of loaders in a single directory to push
+ anything starting with "vmlinuz-0-rescue" to the end of the list. Fedora
+ gives its rescue kernels filenames that begin with that string, and if
+ such a kernel happens to be the most recent, treating it normally will
+ cause it to become the default when kernel folding is in use. This is
+ almost certainly undesirable, so this change keeps the rescue kernel at
+ the end of the list instead, which is saner.
+
+- Significantly reworked the project's Makefiles. This should have no
+ impact on ordinary users, and even most developers should barely notice
+ it; but it should make future extensions to additional platforms or
+ building in different environments easier.
+
+- Added workaround to gptsync for issue with some Macs' EFIs that caused
+ the program to skip through all prompts, thus accepting the default
+ option. This would normally cause gptsync to do nothing.
+
+- Added type code 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage,
+ gdisk type AF05) to list of partition types recognized by gptsync.
+
+- Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source;
+ and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.
+
+- Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This
+ works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is
+ currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer
+ to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real
+ computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial
+ terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran
+ rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs
+ driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync,
+ although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are
+ meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared
+ toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and
+ enable_and_lock_vmx.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on
+ removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback
+ filename.
+
+- Moved detailed descriptions of refind-install from installing.html to
+ a refind-install man page. To keep this information Web-accessible, I've
+ also created HTML versions of the three man pages and linked them into
+ the HTML documentation.
+
+- Updated LodePNG to latest version (20151024).
+
+- Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel
+ options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble
+ conditions:
+ - Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in
+ /proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the
+ case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not
+ true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.)
+ The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before
+ discarding this first option.
+ - These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the
+ call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This
+ usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line;
+ but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost.
+
+- Added "kernel*" as a matching pattern for Linux kernels, since this is
+ what Gentoo uses by default.
+
+- The refind-install script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux.
+ This enables creating a /usr/sbin/refind-install link in Linux packages,
+ with the binaries stashed wherever the package system likes them. This
+ feature does NOT work in OS X, but there's relatively little need for it
+ there.
+
+0.10.0 (11/8/2015):
+-------------------
+
+- Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it
+ should under OS X.
+
+- Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as
+ source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the
+ --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use
+ /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this
+ change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline
+ when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be
+ used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot
+ options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB
+ files is the best bet for getting close to the right options.
+
+- Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels
+ show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when
+ the Btrfs driver is loaded.
+
+- Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs
+ running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except
+ on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it,
+ you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values"
+ item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too,
+ if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on
+ "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that
+ define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new
+ shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined
+ value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds.
+
+- Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to
+ "About" display.
+
+- Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
+
+- Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
+ mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
+
+- New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
+ particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
+ (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
+ then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
+ Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
+ copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
+ OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
+ instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
+ you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
+ to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
+ in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
+
+- Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
+ because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
+ tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
+ .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
+
+- Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
+ to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
+ rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
+ instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
+ suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
+ installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
+ installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
+ update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
+ to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
+
+- Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
+ (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
+ to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
+ launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
+ initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
+ on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
+ unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
+
+- Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
+ seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
+ (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
+ the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
+ graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
+ background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
+ floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
+ crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
+ though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
+ integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
+ workaround.)
+
+- Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
+ help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
+ since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
+ rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
+ boot.
+
+0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
+------------------
+
+- Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
+ to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
+ when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
+ also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
+ Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
+ Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
+ refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
+ but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
+ directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
+ conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
+ and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
+
+- Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
+ authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
+ installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
+ launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
+ Secure Boot db list.
+
+0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
+------------------
+
+- When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
+ Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
+ partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
+ - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
+ or "ro" option to the kernel.
+ - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
+ it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
+ all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
+ system has more than one with the correct type code.
+
+- Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
+ Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
+ file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
+ filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
+ filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
+ "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
+ (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
+ rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
+ Discoverable Partitions Specification.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
+ continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
+ Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
+ was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
+
+- Added icon for Elementary OS.
+
+- Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
+ distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
+ better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
+ closely-related distributions.
+
+- Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
+ are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
+ blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
+ keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
+ many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
+ lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
+ though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
+ firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
+ potentially buggy system calls.
+
+0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
+------------------
+
+- New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
+
+- Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
+ with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
+ EDK2.)
+
+- Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
+ active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
+ single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
+ stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
+ or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
+ submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
+ false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
+ is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
+
+- Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
+ Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
+ (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
+ If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
+ partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
+ found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
+ options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
+ one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
+ help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
+ file was encountered.
+
+- The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
+ should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
+ under OS X.
+
+- rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
+ when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
+ may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
+
+- Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
+ a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
+ IA32.
+
+- Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
+ if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
+ if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
+ Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
+ to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
+ consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
+
+0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
+-----------------
+
+- Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
+ name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
+ the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
+
+- Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
+
+- More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
+ identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
+ device rather than the correct filesystem type.
+
+- Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
+ occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
+
+- I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
+ they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
+ might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
+ Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
+ meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
+ labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
+
+- Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
+ rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
+ FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
+ code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
+ generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
+
+- Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
+ (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
+ support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
+ such as the ASUS T100.)
+
+- Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
+ is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
+ of the efitools package.
+
+- Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
+
+- Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
+
+- install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
+ itself.
+
+0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
+-----------------
+
+- Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
+ old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
+ long since been updated to deliver a real name.
+
+- Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
+ new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
+ used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
+ used universally.
+
+- If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
+ the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
+ lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
+ unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
+ volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
+ and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
+
+- Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
+ ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
+
+- Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
+ option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
+
+- Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
+ BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
+ selection images to fail to load.
+
+- Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
+ directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
+
+- Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
+ the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
+
+
+0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
+-----------------
+
+- Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
+
+- Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
+
+- Changes to
+
+- Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
+
+- Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
+ install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
+ installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
+ blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
+ installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
+ which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
+ an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
+ had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
+
+- Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
+
+- Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
+ height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
+ commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
+ forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
+ under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
+
+- Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
+ from other than the first hard disk.
+
+
+0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
+------------------
+
+- Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
+ better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
+ result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
+
+- Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
+
+- Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
+ Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
+ work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
+ but some (such as most Macs) don't.
+
+- If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
+ specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
+ mode.
+
+- If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
+ OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
+ provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
+ a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
+
+- Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
+ boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
+ the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
+
+- Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
+ building and basic use instructions).
+
+0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
+ immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
+ when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
+ shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
+ is displayed.
+
+- Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
+ distribution.
+
+- rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
+ offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
+ driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
+
+- Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
+ Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
+ under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
+ licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
+ was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
+ code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
+ change its license to a BSD license.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
+ them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
+ the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
+
+- Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
+ and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
+ affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
+ out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
+ kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
+ "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
+ now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
+ kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
+ support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
+ kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
+ and ensure it's set to "false".
+
+0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
+-------------------
+
+- Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
+ key to appear at rEFInd startup.
+
+0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
+ previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
+ boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
+ default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
+ of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
+ systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
+ loader in the
+ /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
+ variable under Linux.
+
+- Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
+
+- Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
+ manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
+
+- I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
+ and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
+
+- Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
+ does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
+ loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
+ uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
+ boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
+ the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
+ override a setting in the main file).
+
+0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
+------------------
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
+ on the root directory of a partition.
+
+- Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
+ and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
+
+- Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
+ now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
+ second.
+
+- Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
+ screens.
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
+ device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
+ firmware).
+
+- Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
+ this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
+ PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
+ particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
+ their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
+ not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
+ The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
+ for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
+
+- Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
+ for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
+ makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
+ name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
+ volume and is used by OS X.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
+ precedence in icon setting for OS X.
+
+- Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
+ rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
+
+0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
+ volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
+ match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
+ matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
+ you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
+
+- Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
+
+- rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
+ system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
+ one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
+ information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
+
+- rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
+ structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
+ be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
+ names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
+ "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
+ (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
+
+- It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
+ manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
+ awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
+
+- Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
+ and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
+
+0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
+------------------
+
+- Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
+ some Macs.
+
+- Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
+ active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
+ kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
+ if the dmraid utility was not installed.
+
+- The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
+
+- Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
+ some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
+ drivers.
+
+- Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
+ active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
+ EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
+
+- Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
+ utility."
+
+
+0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
+ packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
+ any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
+ hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
+ install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
+ references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
+ concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
+
+- Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
+ the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
+ The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
+ badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
+ 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
+ the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
+ rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
+ to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
+
+- rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
+ This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
+ can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
+ graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
+ scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
+ OS icon) is not likely to look good.
+
+- Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
+ Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
+ be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
+ behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
+ banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
+
+- Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
+ RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
+ existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
+ rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
+ were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
+ however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
+ The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
+ it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
+ problems might arise.
+
+0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
+ dont_scan_files.
+
+- Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
+
+- Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
+ Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
+ "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
+ utility on the second row of icons.
+
+- The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
+ and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
+ option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
+ value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
+ scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
+
+- Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
+ via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
+ foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
+
+- Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
+ duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
+ would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
+ UUID.
+
+- Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
+ in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
+
+- Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
+ and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
+ under some circumstances.
+
+0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
+-------------------
+
+- Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
+ comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
+ default_selection "fred,ginger"
+ This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
+ it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
+
+- Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
+ may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
+ has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
+ If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
+ as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
+ instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
+ from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
+ "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
+ times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
+ times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
+ depending on your computer.
+
+- Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
+ screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
+ "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
+ unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
+ screensaver will be disabled.
+
+- Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
+ to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
+ way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
+ install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
+ overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
+
+0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
+-------------------
+
+- Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
+ bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
+ versions of OS X to fail.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
+ drivers were present.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
+ with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
+ gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
+ When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
+ gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
+ black a second or so later.
+
+0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
+--------------------
+
+- My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
+ released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
+ problem.
+
+0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
+ option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
+ VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
+
+- Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
+ stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
+ or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
+ memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
+ systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
+ option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
+ default.
+
+- Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
+ to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
+ that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
+ extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
+ under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
+ known case, but there may be others.)
+
+0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
+ loaders on Macs.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
+
+0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
+ row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
+ using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
+
+- Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
+ (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
+
+- Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
+ it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
+ ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
+ HashTool-signed.efi".
+
+- Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
+
+- Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
+ was broken.
+
+- Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
+ was broken.
+
+0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
+
+- Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
+ (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
+ bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
+
+- Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
+ volume specification, if present.
+
+- Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
+
+0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
+ type for volumes that lack labels.
+
+- Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
+ This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
+ that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
+ though.
+
+- Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
+ filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
+ VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
+ computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
+ Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
+ now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
+ less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
+ of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
+
+- Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
+ kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
+ non-EFI loaders, etc.
+
+- New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
+ code.
+
+0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
+-------------------
+
+- Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
+ images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
+
+- Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
+ script.
+
+- Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
+ treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
+ --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
+ MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
+
+- Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
+ it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
+ file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
+ rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
+
+0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
+-------------------
+
+- New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
+ that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
+ distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
+ list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
+
+- Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
+
+- Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
+ directory names that contain spaces.
+
+- rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
+ filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
+ /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
+ work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
+ can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
+
+- Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
+ OpenSUSE now uses that name.
+
+- Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
+ Utility" in menu.
+
+- Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
+ partitions to fill the MBR.
+
+0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
+ causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
+ inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
+ or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
+
+- Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
+ ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
+ wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
+ directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
+ filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
+
+- Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
+ interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
+ "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
+ on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
+ when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
+ is quietly ignored.
+
+- Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
+ restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
+
+- Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
+ encountered when saving a screen shot.
+
+- Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
+ "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
+ sequence number, starting with "001".
+
+0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
+ Kemperman.
+
+- Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
+ to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
+
+- Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
+ gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
+ searched only for gptsync.efi.)
+
+- Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
+ improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
+ accidentally trash their systems.
+
+- Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
+ disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
+ a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
+
+0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
+ Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
+
+- Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
+ (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
+ 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
+
+0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
+ a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
+
+- Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
+ home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
+ can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
+ program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
+
+- Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
+ managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
+ Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
+ also_scan_dirs list.
+
+- Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
+
+- Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
+ icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
+ would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
+
+0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
+------------------
+
+- rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
+ EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
+ the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
+ systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
+ loader under the fallback name.
+
+- Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
+ the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
+ 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
+ a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
+ of 96 glyphs.
+
+- Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
+ version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
+ included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
+ crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
+ commented out or empty.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
+ screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
+ manual boot stanzas.
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
+ drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
+
+0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
+ backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
+
+- Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
+
+- Added icon for ALT Linux.
+
+- Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
+ safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
+
+- Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
+
+- Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
+ sized to cover these areas.
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
+ too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
+ resolution!
+
+0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
+ ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
+ from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
+ on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
+
+- Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
+ startup on some systems.
+
+0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
+ "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
+
+- Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
+ if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
+
+- Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
+ 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
+ burned to USB flash disks.
+
+- New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
+ location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
+ (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
+
+- The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
+ EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
+ intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
+ a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
+ from that installation.
+
+- The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
+ and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
+ than in EFI/refind.
+
+- New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
+ installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
+
+0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
+-------------------
+
+- Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
+ distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
+ rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
+
+- The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
+ well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
+ how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
+ users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
+ distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
+
+- Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
+ EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
+ Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
+ Linux with the "make" command.
+
+- Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
+ was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
+
+- Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
+ PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
+ just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
+ with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
+ systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
+ to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
+ -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
+ programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
+
+- Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
+ adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
+ default.)
+
+0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
+-------------------
+
+- Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
+ to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
+ use on emergency discs.
+
+- Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
+ filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
+ feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
+ by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
+ "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
+ resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
+ ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
+ handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
+ handle.
+
+- Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
+
+- Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
+ dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
+ For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
+ os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
+ os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
+ os_GENTOO.icns.
+
+- Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
+ mode.
+
+- Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
+ none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
+ "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
+ EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
+
+- Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
+ message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
+ a boot loader launch failed.
+
+0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
+-------------------
+
+- Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
+ specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
+ "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
+ options.
+
+- Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
+ specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
+ This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
+ particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
+
+- Added ext4fs driver!
+
+- Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
+
+- Added identifying screen header to line editor.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
+ from a program that set the resolution itself.
+
+- Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
+ a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
+ (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
+ same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
+ monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
+ mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
+ horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
+ mode.
+
+- Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
+ text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
+ display even in graphics mode.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
+ highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
+
+- Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
+ disables the boot options editor.
+
+- Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
+ by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
+
+- Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
+ generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
+ from the /etc/default/grub file.
+
+- Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
+ Boot/shim keys from known sources.
+
+- Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
+ --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
+ driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
+ separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
+ and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
+ mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
+ on Linux systems.
+
+0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
+---------------------
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
+
+0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
+-------------------
+
+- Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
+ to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
+ including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
+ new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
+
+- Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
+ configuration file from a primary one.
+
+- Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
+ /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
+ Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
+ ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
+ is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
+ configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
+ options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
+ LVM.)
+
+- Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
+ on systems with Secure Boot active.
+
+- Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
+ recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
+ refind.conf.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
+ when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
+
+- Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
+ This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
+ too, but I don't know of any specifics.
+
+0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
+------------------
+
+- Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
+ refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
+ "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
+ This example results in the following string being passed as an
+ option:
+ ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
+
+- Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
+ option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
+ program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
+ increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
+ EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
+ for them makes sense.
+
- Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my