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1 0.8.1 (5/??/2014):
2 ------------------
3
4 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
5 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
6 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
7 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
8 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
9 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
10 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
11 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
12
13 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
14 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
15 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
16 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
17 volume and is used by OS X.
18
19 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
20 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
21
22 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
23 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
24
25 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
26 -----------------
27
28 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
29 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
30 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
31 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
32 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
33
34 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
35
36 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
37 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
38 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
39 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
40
41 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
42 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
43 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
44 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
45 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
46 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
47
48 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
49 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
50 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
51
52 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
53 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
54
55 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
56 ------------------
57
58 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
59 some Macs.
60
61 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
62 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
63 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
64
65 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
66 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
67
68 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
69
70 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
71 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
72 drivers.
73
74 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
75 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
76 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
77
78 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
79 utility."
80
81
82 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
83 -----------------
84
85 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
86 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
87 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
88 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
89 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
90 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
91 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
92
93 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
94 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
95 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
96 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
97 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
98 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
99 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
100 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
101
102 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
103 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
104 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
105 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
106 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
107 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
108
109 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
110 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
111 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
112 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
113 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
114
115 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
116 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
117 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
118 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
119 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
120 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
121 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
122 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
123 problems might arise.
124
125 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
126 -----------------
127
128 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
129 dont_scan_files.
130
131 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
132
133 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
134 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
135 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
136 utility on the second row of icons.
137
138 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
139 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
140 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
141 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
142 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
143
144 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
145 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
146 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
147
148 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
149 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
150 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
151 UUID.
152
153 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
154 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
155
156 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
157 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
158 under some circumstances.
159
160 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
161 -------------------
162
163 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
164 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
165 default_selection "fred,ginger"
166 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
167 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
168
169 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
170 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
171 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
172 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
173 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
174 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
175 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
176 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
177 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
178 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
179 depending on your computer.
180
181 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
182 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
183 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
184 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
185 screensaver will be disabled.
186
187 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
188 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
189 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
190 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
191 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
192
193 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
194 -------------------
195
196 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
197 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
198
199 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
200 versions of OS X to fail.
201
202 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
203 drivers were present.
204
205 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
206 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
207 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
208 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
209 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
210 black a second or so later.
211
212 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
213 --------------------
214
215 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
216 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
217 problem.
218
219 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
220 ------------------
221
222 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
223 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
224 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
225
226 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
227 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
228 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
229 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
230 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
231 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
232 default.
233
234 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
235 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
236 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
237 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
238
239 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
240 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
241 known case, but there may be others.)
242
243 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
244 -----------------
245
246 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
247 loaders on Macs.
248
249 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
250
251 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
252 -----------------
253
254 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
255 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
256
257 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
258 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
259
260 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
261 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
262
263 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
264 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
265 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
266 HashTool-signed.efi".
267
268 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
269
270 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
271 was broken.
272
273 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
274 was broken.
275
276 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
277 -----------------
278
279 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
280
281 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
282 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
283 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
284
285 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
286 volume specification, if present.
287
288 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
289
290 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
291 ------------------
292
293 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
294 type for volumes that lack labels.
295
296 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
297 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
298 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
299 though.
300
301 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
302 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
303 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
304 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
305 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
306 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
307 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
308 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
309
310 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
311 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
312 non-EFI loaders, etc.
313
314 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
315 code.
316
317 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
318 -------------------
319
320 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
321 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
322
323 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
324 script.
325
326 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
327 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
328 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
329 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
330
331 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
332 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
333 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
334 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
335
336 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
337 -------------------
338
339 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
340 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
341 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
342 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
343
344 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
345
346 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
347 directory names that contain spaces.
348
349 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
350 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
351 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
352 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
353 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
354
355 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
356 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
357
358 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
359 Utility" in menu.
360
361 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
362 partitions to fill the MBR.
363
364 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
365 ------------------
366
367 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
368 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
369 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
370 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
371
372 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
373 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
374 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
375 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
376 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
377
378 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
379 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
380 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
381 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
382 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
383 is quietly ignored.
384
385 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
386 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
387
388 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
389 encountered when saving a screen shot.
390
391 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
392 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
393 sequence number, starting with "001".
394
395 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
396 ------------------
397
398 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
399 Kemperman.
400
401 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
402 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
403
404 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
405 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
406 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
407
408 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
409 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
410 accidentally trash their systems.
411
412 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
413 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
414 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
415
416 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
417 ------------------
418
419 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
420 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
421
422 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
423 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
424
425 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
426 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
427
428 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
429
430 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
431 -----------------
432
433 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
434 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
435
436 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
437 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
438 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
439 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
440
441 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
442 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
443
444 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
445 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
446
447 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
448 also_scan_dirs list.
449
450 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
451
452 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
453 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
454 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
455
456 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
457 ------------------
458
459 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
460 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
461 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
462 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
463 loader under the fallback name.
464
465 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
466 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
467 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
468 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
469 of 96 glyphs.
470
471 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
472 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
473
474 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
475 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
476
477 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
478 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
479 commented out or empty.
480
481 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
482 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
483
484 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
485 manual boot stanzas.
486
487 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
488 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
489
490 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
491 ------------------
492
493 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
494 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
495
496 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
497
498 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
499
500 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
501 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
502
503 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
504
505 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
506 sized to cover these areas.
507
508 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
509 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
510 resolution!
511
512 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
513 -----------------
514
515 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
516 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
517 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
518 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
519
520 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
521 startup on some systems.
522
523 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
524 -----------------
525
526 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
527 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
528
529 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
530 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
531
532 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
533 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
534 burned to USB flash disks.
535
536 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
537 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
538 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
539
540 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
541 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
542 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
543 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
544 from that installation.
545
546 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
547 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
548 than in EFI/refind.
549
550 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
551 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
552
553 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
554 -------------------
555
556 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
557 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
558 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
559
560 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
561 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
562 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
563 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
564 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
565
566 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
567 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
568 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
569 Linux with the "make" command.
570
571 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
572 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
573
574 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
575 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
576 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
577 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
578 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
579 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
580 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
581 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
582
583 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
584 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
585 default.)
586
587 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
588 -------------------
589
590 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
591 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
592 use on emergency discs.
593
594 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
595 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
596 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
597 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
598 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
599 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
600 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
601 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
602 handle.
603
604 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
605
606 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
607 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
608 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
609 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
610 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
611 os_GENTOO.icns.
612
613 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
614 mode.
615
616 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
617 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
618 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
619 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
620
621 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
622 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
623 a boot loader launch failed.
624
625 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
626 -------------------
627
628 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
629 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
630 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
631 options.
632
633 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
634 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
635 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
636 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
637
638 - Added ext4fs driver!
639
640 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
641
642 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
643
644 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
645 from a program that set the resolution itself.
646
647 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
648 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
649 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
650 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
651 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
652 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
653 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
654 mode.
655
656 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
657 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
658 display even in graphics mode.
659
660 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
661 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
662
663 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
664 disables the boot options editor.
665
666 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
667 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
668
669 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
670 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
671 from the /etc/default/grub file.
672
673 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
674 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
675
676 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
677 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
678 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
679 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
680 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
681 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
682
683 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
684 on Linux systems.
685
686 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
687 ---------------------
688
689 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
690
691 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
692 -------------------
693
694 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
695 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
696 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
697 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
698
699 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
700 configuration file from a primary one.
701
702 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
703 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
704 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
705 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
706 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
707 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
708 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
709 LVM.)
710
711 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
712 on systems with Secure Boot active.
713
714 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
715 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
716 refind.conf.
717
718 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
719 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
720
721 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
722 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
723 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
724
725 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
726 ------------------
727
728 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
729 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
730 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
731 This example results in the following string being passed as an
732 option:
733 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
734
735 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
736 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
737 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
738 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
739 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
740 for them makes sense.
741
742 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
743 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
744 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
745 EFI shells are also so limited.)
746
747 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
748 were not actually edited.
749
750 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
751 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
752 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
753 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
754 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
755
756 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
757 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
758 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
759 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
760 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
761 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
762 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
763 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
764
765 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
766 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
767 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
768
769 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
770 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
771 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
772
773 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
774 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
775 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
776 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
777
778 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
779 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
780 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
781
782 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
783 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
784
785 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
786 ------------------
787
788 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
789
790 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
791 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
792 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
793
794 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
795 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
796 told isn't working as planned).
797
798 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
799 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
800 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
801 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
802
803 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
804 ------------------
805
806 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
807
808 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
809 for disks.
810
811 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
812 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
813 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
814 done this for two reasons:
815 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
816 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
817 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
818 default for them should help them.
819 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
820 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
821 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
822 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
823 default configurations.
824
825 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
826
827 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
828 ------------------
829
830 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
831
832 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
833
834 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
835 ------------------
836
837 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
838 32-bit systems.
839
840 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
841 on 32-bit systems.
842
843 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
844 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
845 loaders/OSes.
846
847 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
848
849 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
850 ------------------
851
852 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
853 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
854
855 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
856 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
857 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
858 graphics or text mode itself.)
859
860 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
861 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
862 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
863 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
864 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
865 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
866 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
867
868 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
869
870 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
871 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
872 "linux.conf" themselves.
873
874 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
875 -----------------
876
877 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
878 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
879 via rEFInd.
880
881 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
882 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
883 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
884 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
885 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
886 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
887 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
888 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
889 the boot order).
890
891 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
892 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
893
894 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
895 ------------------
896
897 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
898 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
899 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
900 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
901 system hasn't hung.
902
903 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
904 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
905
906 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
907
908 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
909 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
910 label.)
911
912 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
913 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
914
915 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
916 ------------------
917
918 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
919 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
920 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
921 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
922 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
923 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
924 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
925
926 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
927 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
928 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
929
930 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
931 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
932 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
933 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
934
935 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
936 file when launched from rEFInd.
937
938 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
939 ------------------
940
941 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
942 received reports that it's not working as intended.
943
944 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
945 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
946 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
947 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
948 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
949 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
950
951 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
952 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
953
954 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
955 -----------------
956
957 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
958 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
959 sample configuration file for a full description.
960
961 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
962 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
963 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
964 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
965 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
966
967 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
968 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
969 target).
970
971 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
972 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
973
974 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
975 -----------------
976
977 - Improved menu navigation:
978 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
979 down arrows move between rows.
980 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
981 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
982 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
983 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
984
985 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
986 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
987 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
988
989 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
990 -----------------
991
992 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
993 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
994 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
995 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
996 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
997 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
998 will fail to work.
999
1000 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1001 mode.
1002
1003 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1004
1005 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1006 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1007 options.
1008
1009
1010 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1011 ------------------
1012
1013 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1014 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1015
1016 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1017 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1018 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1019 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1020 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1021 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1022 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1023 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1024 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1025 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1026 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1027
1028 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1029 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1030 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1031 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1032 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1033
1034 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1035 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1036
1037 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1038 ------------------
1039
1040 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1041 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1042 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1043 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1044 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1045 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1046
1047 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1048 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1049 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1050 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1051 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1052 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1053 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1054 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1055 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1056 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1057 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1058 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1059 that resets the video mode.
1060
1061 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1062 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1063 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1064 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1065 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1066 details.
1067
1068 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1069 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1070 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1071 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1072 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1073 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1074
1075 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1076 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1077 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1078
1079 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1080 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1081 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1082 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1083
1084 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1085 ------------------
1086
1087 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1088 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1089 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1090 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1091 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1092 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1093 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1094 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1095 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1096 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1097 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1098 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1099 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1100 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1101 installation.
1102
1103 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1104
1105 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1106 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1107 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1108 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1109 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1110 directories you like.
1111
1112 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1113 ------------------
1114
1115 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1116 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1117 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1118 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1119 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1120 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1121 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1122 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1123
1124 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1125 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1126 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1127
1128 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1129 -----------------
1130
1131 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1132 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1133
1134 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1135 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1136 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1137 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1138 documented the name....
1139
1140 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1141 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1142 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1143
1144 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1145 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1146 directory) on certain systems.
1147
1148 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1149 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1150
1151 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1152 -----------------
1153
1154 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1155 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1156 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1157 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1158 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1159 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1160 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1161 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1162 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1163 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1164 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1165 to me.
1166
1167 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1168 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1169 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1170 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1171 simultaneously.)
1172
1173 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1174 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1175
1176 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1177 image.
1178
1179 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1180 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1181 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1182 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1183 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1184
1185 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1186 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1187 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1188 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1189 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1190 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1191
1192 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1193 ------------------
1194
1195 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1196 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1197 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1198 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1199 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1200 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1201 small sample of computers.
1202
1203 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1204 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1205 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1206 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1207 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1208
1209 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1210
1211 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1212 ------------------
1213
1214 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1215 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1216 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1217 versionless initrd file.
1218
1219 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1220 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1221 continues.
1222
1223 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1224 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1225 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1226
1227 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1228 ------------------
1229
1230 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1231 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1232 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1233 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1234
1235 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1236 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1237 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1238 directory as the kernel.
1239
1240 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1241 entries in refind.conf file.
1242
1243 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1244 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1245
1246
1247 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1248 ------------------
1249
1250 - Initial public release