X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/b72a91c9b51a3c6761db777f3e2818d240adf62e..10335a19c6c23286bfe5908081d515b22d5ad41a:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 68e771c..016b9a5 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,8 +1,123 @@ -0.6.10 (?/??/2013): +0.7.2 (?/??/2013): +------------------ + +- Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when + using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token. + +- Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs. + (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.) + +- Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list; + it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi, + ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi, + HashTool-signed.efi". + +- Added icon for Funtoo Linux. + +- Fixed reading of volume icons from user-specified icons directory, which + was broken. + +- Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which + was broken. + +0.7.1 (7/8/2013): +----------------- + +- Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2. + +- Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader + (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for + bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label. + +- Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore + volume specification, if present. + +- Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes. + +0.7.0 (6/27/2013): +------------------ + +- Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem + type for volumes that lack labels. + +- Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit. + This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems + that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested, + though. + +- Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the + filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in + VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real" + computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox: + Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but + now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much + less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because + of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself. + +- 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). - ChromeOS reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user + 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.