X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/f27ce23381e3d1c3bc4f37d74fb6e70a3babc5dd..e71f070b28bf167ea4c236aa271c21ea7b2f5128:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 5ef467f..3d23137 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,24 @@ -0.8.4 (11/??/2014): +0.8.5 (??/??/2015): ------------------- +- Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to + install on Macs. + +- Added missing check of architecture type for several tools. + +- Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative + height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This + commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I + forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build + under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version. + +- Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots + from other than the first hard disk. + + +0.8.4 (12/8/2014): +------------------ + - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs. @@ -12,6 +30,22 @@ work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities, but some (such as most Macs) don't. +- If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one + specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only + mode. + +- If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's + OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not + provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided + a generic loader icon for GRUB.) + +- Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case + boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to + the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi). + +- Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for + building and basic use instructions). + 0.8.3 (7/6/2014): -----------------