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 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
+2/1/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.5</p>
 
 
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 	upper-left corner of the screen. Having an option to support a
 	transparent background is desirable to some users.</li>
 
-    </ul></li> <!-- Improvements -->
+    <li>When delivering rEFInd as a boot loader from a network server,
+	rEFInd is limited to its default options and can boot only local
+	OSes, not network OSes. The cause is that the server delivers a
+	single file, so rEFInd is divorced from its configuration and
+	support files.</li>
+
+    <li>A way to identify specific Windows versions and present unique
+	icons or change the text is desirable. Currently, a crude
+	distinction of XP and earlier vs. Vista and later is possible for
+	BIOS-booting on Macs, but no such distinction is made for EFI-mode
+	booting, and nothing finer-grained is attempted. Improvements will
+	probably require identifying unique features of each version's boot
+	loader files or boot sector code.</li>
+
+</ul></li> <!-- Improvements -->
 
 <li><b>Known bugs that need squashing:</b>
 
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 	have the equipment and skill to do so, I'd be interested in
 	receiving a patch.</li>
 
+    <li>If you use a true MBR disk on a Mac to boot Windows or some other
+	BIOS-only OS, and if that disk has an extended partition, that
+	partition may show up in rEFInd as a bootable FAT partition. The
+	reason is twofold: FAT doesn't contain a simple "magic" signature
+	like most filesystems, so it's easy to misidentify something else
+	as FAT; and it's hard to positively identify boot code vs. other
+	random data.</li>
+
     <li>The re-scan feature occasionally produces odd results, such as
 	ignoring new media or keeping old media that have been ejected.
 	This should be investigated and fixed.</li>
@@ -307,9 +329,6 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
     <ul>
 
-    <li>EFI supports network boots. rEFInd doesn't, but it would be nice if
-	it would.</li>
-
     <li>There's currently no way to create a manual boot stanza for a
 	BIOS-booted OS. This isn't a big priority for me personally, but I
 	can see how it could be for some people.</li>
@@ -329,6 +348,21 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 	stanzas override auto-detected boot loader definitions for the same
 	boot loader file.</li>
 
+    <li>Along similar lines, some users have asked for a way to take
+	detected boot programs and create a set of manual boot stanzas for
+	them, so that they can be modified manually.</li>
+
+    <li>Support for touchscreens and/or configurable buttons for rEFInd's
+	actions would enable use of rEFInd on tablet computers that lack
+	complete keyboards.</li>
+
+    <li>GRUB provides a configuration-file command called <tt>outb</tt>
+	that enables manipulating hardware registers. Something similar,
+	via the <tt>mm</tt> command, can be done in the EFI shell. I'd like
+	to add such a feature to rEFInd, since it enables doing things like
+	disabling one or another video output on Macs with two video
+	cards.</li>
+
     <li>I have thoughts about creating an EFI configuration tool and
 	information utility&mdash;something to tell you about your hard
 	disks, enable you to manage MOKs, adjust boot loader priority in
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 	that there were problems with the installation, although this isn't
 	really the case.</li>
 
+    <li>rEFInd's support for network booting is primitive and relies on the
+	external iPXE package. In my own testing, iPXE retrieves the
+	BIOS-mode boot loader from some servers that offer both, which
+	makes it useless on those networks.</li>
+
     <li>A Mac-specific package is highly desirable.</li>
 
     </ul></li>