X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/1a20b0a72c2e35ab33246c6886d39e8e0d0c10d7..c6381afaa9463643273b4527c64d26ff7415b7e8:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 139dd2b..1b9a439 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,4 +1,210 @@ -0.6.3 (?/?/2013): +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 @@ -12,7 +218,7 @@ burned to USB flash disks. - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard - location (typically EFI/refind) or one of the fallback locations + 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