X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/228291e22c232b9d428feefcd3a1a4b4081ae795..2f0e524a93415ad4a3128320dfc043841c3a0da8:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 985837f..a71278f 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,3 +1,183 @@ +0.8.8 (6/??/2015): +------------------ + +- 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): -----------------