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+0.2.8 (?/??/2012):
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+
+- Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
+  filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
+  field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
+  situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
+
+0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
+------------------
+
+- After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
+  enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
+  original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
+  compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
+  Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
+  on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
+  "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
+  always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
+  the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
+  filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
+  compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
+  necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
+  currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
+  know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
+  installation.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
+
+- Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
+  EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
+  subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
+  directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
+  list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
+  directories you like.
+
+0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
+------------------
+
+- Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
+  option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
+  "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
+  FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
+  followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
+  filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
+  on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
+  should work when a volume is unnamed.
+
+- Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
+  mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
+  least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
+
 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
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