-0.6.2 (12/??/2012):
+0.7.7 (12/??/2013):
-------------------
+- 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. The basic features are the same as
- before, though -- 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 to not adjust the text mode
- at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by default.)
+ 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):
-------------------