X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/4db5e22152813f5a21f7856f9e2121438bfab64d..45db1723901c7accd95b4cf996c2bb4bdca59fff:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index e9cd6a0..4166fd8 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,7 +1,19 @@ -0.6.13 (?/??/2013): -------------------- +0.7.0 (?/??/2013): +------------------ + +- Added a cache to all the filesystem drivers except for ext2fs. This cache + greatly improves performance in VirtualBox, and offers modest performance + improvements on a few "real" computers. The ext2fs driver loads blocks in + a strange non-linear fashion that causes the cache to degrade + performance, so I've disabled the cache for ext2fs. (Ext4fs doesn't + suffer from this problem.) +- 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): -------------------