X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/f0db0ad762ff705bf5663b2ee1356508f7fc9265..75afe82dbf9803baa447499a1e7942a4ca342535:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 0412d80..f2d1578 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,158 @@ -0.6.1 (12/??/2012): +0.6.7 (?/??/2013): +------------------ + +- Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified + icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory + would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory. + +0.6.6 (1/26/2013): +------------------ + +- rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or + EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on + the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on + systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot + loader under the fallback name. + +- Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in + the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the + 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus + a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total + of 96 glyphs. + +- Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased + version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point. + +- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files + included via the "include" token in refind.conf. + +- Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a + crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was + commented out or empty. + +- Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on + screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode. + +- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf + manual boot stanzas. + +- Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update + drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/. + +0.6.5 (1/16/2013): +------------------ + +- Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light + backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds. + +- Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors. + +- Added icon for ALT Linux. + +- Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into + safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi). + +- Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns). + +- Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is + sized to cover these areas. + +- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's + too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen + resolution! + +0.6.4 (1/8/2013): +----------------- + +- Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for + ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links + from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs + on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot. + +- Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at + startup on some systems. + +0.6.3 (1/6/2013): +----------------- + +- Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the + "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens. + +- Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists + if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk. + +- Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than + 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images + burned to USB flash disks. + +- New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard + location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations + (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations. + +- The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or + EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is + intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should + a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd + from that installation. + +- The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation + and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather + than in EFI/refind. + +- New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated + installations (as from an RPM or Debian package). + +0.6.2 (12/30/2012): +------------------- + +- Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM + distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit + rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there.... + +- The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as + well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on + how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect + users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux + distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems. + +- Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore + EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under + Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under + Linux with the "make" command. + +- Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd + was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2. + +- Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's + PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching + just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable + with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64 + systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which + to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before + -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch + programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs. + +- Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not + adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by + default.) + +0.6.1 (12/21/2012): ------------------- +- Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd + to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for + use on emergency discs. + +- Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg" + filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This + feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time + by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using + "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with + resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on + ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now + handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't + handle. + - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs. - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,