X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/f71354b4045b0ca79f108c01fdde9afa020a500f..278bed1cfa0a2bc31db18617cad24170014c05b3:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 870a886..58c4f47 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,251 @@ -0.9.3 (??/??/2015): +0.10.5 (??/??/2017): +-------------------- + +- Add new key mappings: Backspace (Delete on Mac keyboards) works the same + as Esc, and Tab works the same as F2/Insert/+. This is done for the + benefit of new Apple laptops that lack physical Esc and function keys. + +- Fix to refind-install to work better with disks other than /dev/sd? and + /dev/hd? devices. + +- Fixes to touch/tablet support to improve reliability. + +0.10.4 (10/9/2016): +------------------- + +- Fixed compile problem for drivers with recent versions of GNU-EFI + (3.0.4, maybe 3.0.3). + +- Fixed bug that could cause program crash on startup. (In practice, it + manifested with GNU-EFI starting with version 3.0.3 or 3.0.4.) + +- An anonymous contributor has provided support for touch screens. This + support requires that the "enable_touch" token be used in refind.conf. + Note, however, that not all tablet computers have EFIs that provide the + necessary support in the firmware. + +- Martin Whitaker contributed 64-bit support to the ext4fs driver, which + makes it compatible with ext4fs as written by some recent Linux + distributions. + +- Tweaked refind-install to do a better job of detecting disks other + than /dev/sd? and /dev/hd? devices. + +0.10.3 (4/24/2016): +------------------- + +- Altered RPM & Debian installation scripts so as to NOT call sbsign if + Secure Boot is disabled. This is a response to Ubuntu bug #1574372 + (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sbsigntool/+bug/1574372): In + Ubuntu 16.04, the sbsign program is segfaulting randomly, which prevents + proper installation of the program. This change at least permits proper + installation IF Secure Boot is disabled. + +- Changed description of BIOS/CSM/legacy OS loaders on Macs to include the + string "(Legacy)", so as to more easily identify BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode OSes + in the rEFInd main menu. + +- Added recognition of the fwupx64.efi file as a firmware update tool. + This filename is excluded from the first-row launchers, and is instead + presented on the second row, controlled by the "fwupdate" item on the + "showtools" option line. It's enabled by default. Note that it's still a + bit unclear to me how this tool is supposed to be used. rEFInd launches it + with no options, but if it should take options, this will have to be + changed in the future. + +- Tightened exclusion of shell binary filenames from boot loader scan. + Previously, any filename containing the substring "shell" was excluded + from scans. Now it's tighter; only files matching one of the filenames in + the constant SHELL_NAMES in main.c are excluded. This change will enable + programs with names that include "shell", but that aren't in rEFInd's + SHELL_NAMES list, such as "shelly.efi", to be shown in the rEFInd main + menu. + +- Fixed bug in NTFS driver that caused it to hang (and thus hang the + computer) in some situations, particularly when a file on an NTFS volume + had many fragments and when the computer's CSM was activated. (Fix + courtesy of "S L.") + +- Modified SIP/CSR rotation code: If the csr-active-config EFI variable is + missing AND the firmware is Apple (as identified by the string "Apple" + being present in the ST->FirmwareVendor string), rEFInd treats the + computer as one on which SIP is available and set to the "enabled" state + (0x10). The upshot is that the SIP/CSR tool will appear if the showtools + and csr_values options are set appropriately in refind.conf, even if the + csr-active-config variable is missing from the NVRAM. The point of this + change is that I've received reports of some Macs that run OS X 10.11 but + that lack this variable. OS X acts as if SIP were enabled, but rEFInd is + then unable to disable SIP. This change gives rEFInd the ability to + disable SIP on such systems. The drawback is that the variable might be + set on some systems that don't run OS X 10.11. This should be harmless + from a technical point of view, but the presence of SIP indicators in + rEFInd could be confusing. + +- Added refind-mkdefault script to simplify resetting rEFInd as the default + boot program in Linux. The intent is to run this after GRUB, Windows, OS + X, or some other tool takes over as the primary boot manager. It can be + called from a startup script to handle this task automatically. + +0.10.2 (1/26/2016): ------------------- +- Fixed bug in refind-install that caused mountesp to be installed as a FILE + called /usr/local/bin on OS X if the /usr/local/bin directory did not + already exist. + +- Fixed bug in mvrefind that caused it to fail to move bootmgfw.efi in + some situations, and another that caused it to give the resulting NVRAM + entry the default rEFInd name of "rEFInd Boot Manager," rather than the + intended "Windows Boot Manager" (to work around bugs in some EFIs). + +- Worked around bug/quirk in some EFIs (in HP ProBook 6470b laptop, at + least) that prevented EFI filesystem drivers from working. (Drivers would + load but not provide access to filesystems.) + +- Fixed refind-install bug that caused --usedefault option to not work in OS + X. (This bug did not affect Linux.) + +- Improved Secure Boot detection in refind-install in Linux. + +- Fixed bug that caused custom volume badges (vol_*.png) to be read only + from default location ("icons" subdirectory), effectively eliminating the + ability to adjust them. + +- Added centos.crt and centos.cer public key files. + +0.10.1 (12/12/2015): +-------------------- + +- Change to PPA version: Installing the PPA now queries the user about + whether to install to the ESP. Upgrades will remember the initial + selection. + +- Modified time-based sorting of loaders in a single directory to push + anything starting with "vmlinuz-0-rescue" to the end of the list. Fedora + gives its rescue kernels filenames that begin with that string, and if + such a kernel happens to be the most recent, treating it normally will + cause it to become the default when kernel folding is in use. This is + almost certainly undesirable, so this change keeps the rescue kernel at + the end of the list instead, which is saner. + +- Significantly reworked the project's Makefiles. This should have no + impact on ordinary users, and even most developers should barely notice + it; but it should make future extensions to additional platforms or + building in different environments easier. + +- Added workaround to gptsync for issue with some Macs' EFIs that caused + the program to skip through all prompts, thus accepting the default + option. This would normally cause gptsync to do nothing. + +- Added type code 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage, + gdisk type AF05) to list of partition types recognized by gptsync. + +- Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source; + and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono. + +- Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This + works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is + currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer + to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real + computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial + terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran + rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs + driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync, + although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are + meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared + toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and + enable_and_lock_vmx. + +- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on + removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback + filename. + +- Moved detailed descriptions of refind-install from installing.html to + a refind-install man page. To keep this information Web-accessible, I've + also created HTML versions of the three man pages and linked them into + the HTML documentation. + +- Updated LodePNG to latest version (20151024). + +- Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel + options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble + conditions: + - Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in + /proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the + case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not + true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.) + The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before + discarding this first option. + - These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the + call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This + usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line; + but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost. + +- Added "kernel*" as a matching pattern for Linux kernels, since this is + what Gentoo uses by default. + +- The refind-install script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux. + This enables creating a /usr/sbin/refind-install link in Linux packages, + with the binaries stashed wherever the package system likes them. This + feature does NOT work in OS X, but there's relatively little need for it + there. + +0.10.0 (11/8/2015): +------------------- + +- Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it + should under OS X. + +- Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as + source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the + --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use + /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this + change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline + when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be + used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot + options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB + files is the best bet for getting close to the right options. + +- Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels + show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when + the Btrfs driver is loaded. + +- Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs + running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except + on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it, + you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values" + item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too, + if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on + "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that + define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new + shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined + value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds. + +- Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to + "About" display. + +- Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP. + +- Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to + mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf. + +- New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles, + particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set + (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons, + then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for + Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of + copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for + OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for + instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons, + you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup + to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line + in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory. + +- Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this + because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and + tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip, + .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages. + - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief