X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/a9871b0532ef974ab83c95a62ff70dcb979c99b4..45db1723901c7accd95b4cf996c2bb4bdca59fff:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 3b5ad23..4166fd8 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,115 @@ -0.6.9 (?/??/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): +------------------- + +- Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive + images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command. + +- Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation + script. + +- Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's + treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now, + --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than + MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately. + +- Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if + it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf + file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any + rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems. + +0.6.11 (5/13/2013): +------------------- + +- New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems + that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some + distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader + list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories. + +- Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu. + +- Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with + directory names that contain spaces. + +- rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel + filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in + /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to + work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd + can't find anything substantive enough for a guess. + +- Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since + OpenSUSE now uses that name. + +- Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup + Utility" in menu. + +- Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT + partitions to fill the MBR. + +0.6.10 (5/5/2013): +------------------ + +- Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this + causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of + inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt, + or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout. + +- Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory). + ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user + wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT + directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback + filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS. + +- Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user + interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the + "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works + on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and + when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive + is quietly ignored. + +- Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and + restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades. + +- Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is + encountered when saving a screen shot. + +- Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots + "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a + sequence number, starting with "001". + +0.6.9 (4/25/2013): +------------------ + +- Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik + Kemperman. + +- Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8 + to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs). + +- Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and + gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions + searched only for gptsync.efi.) + +- Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to + improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will + accidentally trash their systems. + - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.