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-0.4.6 (10/??/2012):
+0.5.0 (??/??/2012):
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+- Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
+  option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
+  program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
+  increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
+  EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
+  for them makes sense.
+
+- Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
+  as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
+  restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
+  EFI shells are also so limited.)
+
+- Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
+  were not actually edited.
+
+- Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
+  Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
+  launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
+  launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
+  MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
+
+- Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
+  refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
+  blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
+  I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
+  blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
+  scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
+  ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
+  three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
+
+- Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
+  works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
+  entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
+
+- Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
+  Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
+  SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
+
+- Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
+  icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
+  setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
+  "apple_recovery" option from that line.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
+  menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
+  compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
+
+- Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
+  install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp". 
+
+0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
+------------------
+
+- Added an icon for gummiboot.
+
+- Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
+  tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
+  options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
+
+- Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
+  which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
+  told isn't working as planned).
+
+- Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
+  launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
+  present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
+  booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
+
+0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
+------------------
+
+- Fixed some minor memory management issues.
+
 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
   for disks.