X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/9ddca21dde439f353f85362e7a084fa999764497..ec097428f9fb581bb0842bb840b5713e176dd0f4:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 30b57fe..534c400 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,4 +1,228 @@ -0.4.4 (6/??/2012): +0.6.1 (12/??/2012): +------------------- + +- Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text + mode. + +- Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has + none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in + "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot + EFI\foo\bar.efi from". + +- Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error + message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when + a boot loader launch failed. + +0.6.0 (12/16/2012): +------------------- + +- Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when + specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes", + "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf + options. + +- Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is + specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds. + This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be + particularly helpful to Arch Linux users. + +- Added ext4fs driver! + +- Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs". + +- Added identifying screen header to line editor. + +- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return + from a program that set the resolution itself. + +- Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER + a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number + (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the + same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate, + monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the + mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using + horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered + mode. + +- Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in + text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff + display even in graphics mode. + +- Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were + highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed. + +- Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which + disables the boot options editor. + +- Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled + by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. + +- Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file + generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted + from the /etc/default/grub file. + +- Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure + Boot/shim keys from known sources. + +- Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new + --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one + driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a + separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver, + and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you + mount a separate /boot partition at that location. + +- Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file + on Linux systems. + +0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012): +--------------------- + +- Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X. + +0.5.1 (12/11/2012): +------------------- + +- Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels" + to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for + including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the + new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file. + +- Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary + configuration file from a primary one. + +- Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in + /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from + Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or + ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result + is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further + configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel + options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use + LVM.) + +- Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup + on systems with Secure Boot active. + +- Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on + recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in + refind.conf. + +- Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang + when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular). + +- Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active. + This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode, + too, but I don't know of any specifics. + +0.5.0 (12/6/2012): +------------------ + +- Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and + refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in: + "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it""" + This example results in the following string being passed as an + option: + ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it" + +- 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. + +- Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either + internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or + internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've + done this for two reasons: + - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs + reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode), + since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as + default for them should help them. + - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot + stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the + "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created + or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working + default configurations. + +- Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs. + +0.4.5 (8/12/2012): +------------------ + +- Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs. + +- Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser. + +0.4.4 (6/23/2012): ------------------ - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on