X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/afd7092d8a0f062ba23337228502ac5aa85b4ed6..e0f6b77e5692ec112bb803202ae27f8c5d55de50:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 3fdb726..c721998 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,185 @@ -0.3.5 (?/??/2012): +0.4.8 (??/??/2012): +------------------- + +- 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. + +- 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 + 32-bit systems. + +- Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers + on 32-bit systems. + +- Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options + to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot + loaders/OSes. + +- Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X. + +0.4.3 (6/21/2012): +------------------ + +- rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2 + development kit in addition to GNU-EFI. + +- Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in + graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most + systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set + graphics or text mode itself.) + +- Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd + background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages. + The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps + other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this + effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears + the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the + "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting. + +- Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs. + +- Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf" + for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use + "linux.conf" themselves. + +0.4.2 (6/3/2012): +----------------- + +- Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update + the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes + via rEFInd. + +- Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on + Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to + determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename + portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the + script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is + not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one + (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does + not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in + the boot order). + +- Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories + to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders. + +0.4.1 (5/25/2012): ------------------ +- Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function + (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to + be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of + access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the + system hasn't hung. + +- Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if + present, to ask the user if it should be removed. + +- Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers. + +- Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than + an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume + label.) + +- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after + running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders. + +0.4.0 (5/20/2012): +------------------ + +- Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of + these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to + have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't + included these drivers previously because the build process proved + challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because + the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the + EFI 1.x that Apple uses. + +- Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of + the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32"). + Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory. + +- Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to + eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it + relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even + implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs). + +- Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration + file when launched from rEFInd. + +0.3.5 (5/15/2012): +------------------ + +- Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've + received reports that it's not working as intended. + - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable