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1 0.10.3 (?/??/2016):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Added refind-mkdefault script to simplify resetting rEFInd as the default
5 boot program in Linux. The intent is to run this after GRUB, Windows, OS
6 X, or some other tool takes over as the primary boot manager. It can be
7 called from a startup script to handle this task automatically.
8
9 0.10.2 (1/26/2016):
10 -------------------
11
12 - Fixed bug in refind-install that caused mountesp to be installed as a FILE
13 called /usr/local/bin on OS X if the /usr/local/bin directory did not
14 already exist.
15
16 - Fixed bug in mvrefind that caused it to fail to move bootmgfw.efi in
17 some situations, and another that caused it to give the resulting NVRAM
18 entry the default rEFInd name of "rEFInd Boot Manager," rather than the
19 intended "Windows Boot Manager" (to work around bugs in some EFIs).
20
21 - Worked around bug/quirk in some EFIs (in HP ProBook 6470b laptop, at
22 least) that prevented EFI filesystem drivers from working. (Drivers would
23 load but not provide access to filesystems.)
24
25 - Fixed refind-install bug that caused --usedefault option to not work in OS
26 X. (This bug did not affect Linux.)
27
28 - Improved Secure Boot detection in refind-install in Linux.
29
30 - Fixed bug that caused custom volume badges (vol_*.png) to be read only
31 from default location ("icons" subdirectory), effectively eliminating the
32 ability to adjust them.
33
34 - Added centos.crt and centos.cer public key files.
35
36 0.10.1 (12/12/2015):
37 --------------------
38
39 - Change to PPA version: Installing the PPA now queries the user about
40 whether to install to the ESP. Upgrades will remember the initial
41 selection.
42
43 - Modified time-based sorting of loaders in a single directory to push
44 anything starting with "vmlinuz-0-rescue" to the end of the list. Fedora
45 gives its rescue kernels filenames that begin with that string, and if
46 such a kernel happens to be the most recent, treating it normally will
47 cause it to become the default when kernel folding is in use. This is
48 almost certainly undesirable, so this change keeps the rescue kernel at
49 the end of the list instead, which is saner.
50
51 - Significantly reworked the project's Makefiles. This should have no
52 impact on ordinary users, and even most developers should barely notice
53 it; but it should make future extensions to additional platforms or
54 building in different environments easier.
55
56 - Added workaround to gptsync for issue with some Macs' EFIs that caused
57 the program to skip through all prompts, thus accepting the default
58 option. This would normally cause gptsync to do nothing.
59
60 - Added type code 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage,
61 gdisk type AF05) to list of partition types recognized by gptsync.
62
63 - Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source;
64 and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.
65
66 - Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This
67 works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is
68 currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer
69 to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real
70 computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial
71 terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran
72 rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs
73 driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync,
74 although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are
75 meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared
76 toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and
77 enable_and_lock_vmx.
78
79 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on
80 removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback
81 filename.
82
83 - Moved detailed descriptions of refind-install from installing.html to
84 a refind-install man page. To keep this information Web-accessible, I've
85 also created HTML versions of the three man pages and linked them into
86 the HTML documentation.
87
88 - Updated LodePNG to latest version (20151024).
89
90 - Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel
91 options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble
92 conditions:
93 - Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in
94 /proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the
95 case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not
96 true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.)
97 The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before
98 discarding this first option.
99 - These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the
100 call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This
101 usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line;
102 but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost.
103
104 - Added "kernel*" as a matching pattern for Linux kernels, since this is
105 what Gentoo uses by default.
106
107 - The refind-install script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux.
108 This enables creating a /usr/sbin/refind-install link in Linux packages,
109 with the binaries stashed wherever the package system likes them. This
110 feature does NOT work in OS X, but there's relatively little need for it
111 there.
112
113 0.10.0 (11/8/2015):
114 -------------------
115
116 - Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it
117 should under OS X.
118
119 - Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as
120 source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the
121 --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use
122 /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this
123 change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline
124 when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be
125 used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot
126 options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB
127 files is the best bet for getting close to the right options.
128
129 - Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels
130 show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when
131 the Btrfs driver is loaded.
132
133 - Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs
134 running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except
135 on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it,
136 you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values"
137 item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too,
138 if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on
139 "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that
140 define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new
141 shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined
142 value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds.
143
144 - Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to
145 "About" display.
146
147 - Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
148
149 - Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
150 mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
151
152 - New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
153 particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
154 (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
155 then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
156 Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
157 copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
158 OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
159 instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
160 you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
161 to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
162 in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
163
164 - Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
165 because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
166 tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
167 .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
168
169 - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
170 to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
171 rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
172 instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
173 suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
174 installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
175 installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
176 update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
177 to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
178
179 - Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
180 (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
181 to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
182 launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
183 initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
184 on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
185 unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
186
187 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
188 seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
189 (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
190 the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
191 graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
192 background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
193 floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
194 crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
195 though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
196 integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
197 workaround.)
198
199 - Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
200 help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
201 since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
202 rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
203 boot.
204
205 0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
206 ------------------
207
208 - Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
209 to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
210 when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
211 also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
212 Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
213 Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
214 refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
215 but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
216 directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
217 conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
218 and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
219
220 - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
221 authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
222 installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
223 launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
224 Secure Boot db list.
225
226 0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
227 ------------------
228
229 - When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
230 Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
231 partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
232 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
233 - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
234 or "ro" option to the kernel.
235 - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
236 it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
237 all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
238 system has more than one with the correct type code.
239
240 - Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
241 Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
242 file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
243 filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
244 filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
245 "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
246 (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
247 rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
248 Discoverable Partitions Specification.
249
250 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
251 continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
252 Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
253 was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
254
255 - Added icon for Elementary OS.
256
257 - Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
258 distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
259 better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
260 closely-related distributions.
261
262 - Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
263 are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
264 blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
265 keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
266 many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
267 lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
268 though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
269 firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
270 potentially buggy system calls.
271
272 0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
273 ------------------
274
275 - New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
276
277 - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
278 with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
279 EDK2.)
280
281 - Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
282 active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
283 single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
284 stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
285 or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
286 submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
287 false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
288 is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
289
290 - Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
291 Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
292 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
293 If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
294 partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
295 found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
296 options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
297 one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
298 help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
299
300 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
301 file was encountered.
302
303 - The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
304 should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
305 under OS X.
306
307 - rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
308 when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
309 may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
310
311 - Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
312 a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
313 IA32.
314
315 - Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
316 if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
317 if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
318 Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
319 to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
320 consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
321
322 0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
323 -----------------
324
325 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
326 name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
327 the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
328
329 - Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
330
331 - More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
332 identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
333 device rather than the correct filesystem type.
334
335 - Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
336 occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
337
338 - I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
339 they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
340 might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
341 Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
342 meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
343 labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
344
345 - Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
346 rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
347 FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
348 code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
349 generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
350
351 - Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
352 (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
353 support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
354 such as the ASUS T100.)
355
356 - Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
357 is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
358 of the efitools package.
359
360 - Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
361
362 - Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
363
364 - install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
365 itself.
366
367 0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
368 -----------------
369
370 - Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
371 old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
372 long since been updated to deliver a real name.
373
374 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
375 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
376 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
377 used universally.
378
379 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
380 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
381 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
382 unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
383
384 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
385 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
386 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
387
388 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
389 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
390
391 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
392 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
393
394 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
395 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
396 selection images to fail to load.
397
398 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
399 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
400
401 - Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
402 the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
403
404
405 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
406 -----------------
407
408 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
409
410 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
411
412 - Changes to
413
414 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
415
416 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
417 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
418 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
419 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
420 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
421 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
422 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
423 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
424
425 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
426
427 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
428 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
429 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
430 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
431 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
432
433 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
434 from other than the first hard disk.
435
436
437 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
438 ------------------
439
440 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
441 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
442 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
443
444 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
445
446 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
447 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
448 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
449 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
450
451 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
452 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
453 mode.
454
455 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
456 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
457 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
458 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
459
460 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
461 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
462 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
463
464 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
465 building and basic use instructions).
466
467 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
468 -----------------
469
470 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
471 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
472 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
473 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
474 is displayed.
475
476 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
477 distribution.
478
479 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
480 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
481 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
482
483 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
484 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
485 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
486 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
487 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
488 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
489 change its license to a BSD license.
490
491 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
492 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
493 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
494
495 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
496 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
497 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
498 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
499 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
500 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
501 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
502 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
503 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
504 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
505 and ensure it's set to "false".
506
507 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
508 -------------------
509
510 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
511 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
512
513 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
514 -----------------
515
516 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
517 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
518 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
519 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
520 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
521 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
522 loader in the
523 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
524 variable under Linux.
525
526 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
527
528 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
529 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
530
531 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
532 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
533
534 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
535 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
536 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
537 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
538 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
539 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
540 override a setting in the main file).
541
542 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
543 ------------------
544
545 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
546 on the root directory of a partition.
547
548 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
549 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
550
551 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
552 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
553 second.
554
555 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
556 screens.
557
558 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
559 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
560 firmware).
561
562 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
563 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
564 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
565 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
566 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
567 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
568 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
569 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
570
571 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
572 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
573 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
574 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
575 volume and is used by OS X.
576
577 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
578 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
579
580 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
581 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
582
583 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
584 -----------------
585
586 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
587 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
588 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
589 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
590 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
591
592 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
593
594 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
595 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
596 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
597 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
598
599 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
600 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
601 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
602 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
603 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
604 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
605
606 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
607 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
608 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
609
610 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
611 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
612
613 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
614 ------------------
615
616 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
617 some Macs.
618
619 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
620 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
621 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
622
623 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
624 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
625
626 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
627
628 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
629 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
630 drivers.
631
632 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
633 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
634 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
635
636 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
637 utility."
638
639
640 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
641 -----------------
642
643 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
644 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
645 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
646 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
647 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
648 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
649 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
650
651 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
652 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
653 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
654 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
655 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
656 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
657 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
658 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
659
660 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
661 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
662 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
663 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
664 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
665 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
666
667 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
668 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
669 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
670 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
671 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
672
673 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
674 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
675 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
676 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
677 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
678 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
679 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
680 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
681 problems might arise.
682
683 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
684 -----------------
685
686 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
687 dont_scan_files.
688
689 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
690
691 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
692 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
693 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
694 utility on the second row of icons.
695
696 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
697 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
698 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
699 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
700 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
701
702 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
703 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
704 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
705
706 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
707 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
708 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
709 UUID.
710
711 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
712 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
713
714 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
715 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
716 under some circumstances.
717
718 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
719 -------------------
720
721 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
722 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
723 default_selection "fred,ginger"
724 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
725 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
726
727 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
728 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
729 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
730 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
731 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
732 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
733 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
734 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
735 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
736 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
737 depending on your computer.
738
739 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
740 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
741 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
742 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
743 screensaver will be disabled.
744
745 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
746 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
747 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
748 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
749 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
750
751 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
752 -------------------
753
754 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
755 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
756
757 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
758 versions of OS X to fail.
759
760 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
761 drivers were present.
762
763 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
764 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
765 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
766 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
767 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
768 black a second or so later.
769
770 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
771 --------------------
772
773 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
774 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
775 problem.
776
777 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
778 ------------------
779
780 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
781 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
782 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
783
784 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
785 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
786 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
787 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
788 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
789 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
790 default.
791
792 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
793 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
794 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
795 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
796
797 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
798 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
799 known case, but there may be others.)
800
801 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
802 -----------------
803
804 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
805 loaders on Macs.
806
807 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
808
809 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
810 -----------------
811
812 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
813 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
814
815 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
816 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
817
818 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
819 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
820
821 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
822 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
823 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
824 HashTool-signed.efi".
825
826 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
827
828 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
829 was broken.
830
831 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
832 was broken.
833
834 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
835 -----------------
836
837 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
838
839 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
840 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
841 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
842
843 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
844 volume specification, if present.
845
846 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
847
848 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
849 ------------------
850
851 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
852 type for volumes that lack labels.
853
854 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
855 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
856 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
857 though.
858
859 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
860 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
861 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
862 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
863 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
864 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
865 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
866 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
867
868 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
869 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
870 non-EFI loaders, etc.
871
872 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
873 code.
874
875 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
876 -------------------
877
878 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
879 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
880
881 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
882 script.
883
884 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
885 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
886 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
887 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
888
889 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
890 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
891 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
892 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
893
894 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
895 -------------------
896
897 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
898 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
899 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
900 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
901
902 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
903
904 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
905 directory names that contain spaces.
906
907 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
908 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
909 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
910 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
911 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
912
913 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
914 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
915
916 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
917 Utility" in menu.
918
919 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
920 partitions to fill the MBR.
921
922 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
923 ------------------
924
925 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
926 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
927 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
928 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
929
930 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
931 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
932 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
933 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
934 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
935
936 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
937 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
938 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
939 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
940 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
941 is quietly ignored.
942
943 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
944 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
945
946 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
947 encountered when saving a screen shot.
948
949 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
950 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
951 sequence number, starting with "001".
952
953 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
954 ------------------
955
956 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
957 Kemperman.
958
959 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
960 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
961
962 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
963 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
964 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
965
966 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
967 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
968 accidentally trash their systems.
969
970 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
971 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
972 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
973
974 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
975 ------------------
976
977 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
978 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
979
980 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
981 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
982
983 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
984 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
985
986 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
987
988 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
989 -----------------
990
991 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
992 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
993
994 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
995 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
996 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
997 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
998
999 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
1000 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
1001
1002 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
1003 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1004
1005 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
1006 also_scan_dirs list.
1007
1008 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
1009
1010 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
1011 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
1012 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
1013
1014 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
1015 ------------------
1016
1017 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1018 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
1019 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
1020 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
1021 loader under the fallback name.
1022
1023 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
1024 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
1025 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
1026 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
1027 of 96 glyphs.
1028
1029 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
1030 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
1031
1032 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
1033 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
1034
1035 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
1036 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
1037 commented out or empty.
1038
1039 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
1040 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
1041
1042 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
1043 manual boot stanzas.
1044
1045 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
1046 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
1047
1048 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
1049 ------------------
1050
1051 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
1052 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
1053
1054 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
1055
1056 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
1057
1058 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
1059 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
1060
1061 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
1062
1063 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
1064 sized to cover these areas.
1065
1066 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
1067 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
1068 resolution!
1069
1070 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
1071 -----------------
1072
1073 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
1074 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
1075 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
1076 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
1077
1078 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
1079 startup on some systems.
1080
1081 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
1082 -----------------
1083
1084 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
1085 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
1086
1087 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
1088 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
1089
1090 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
1091 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
1092 burned to USB flash disks.
1093
1094 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
1095 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
1096 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
1097
1098 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1099 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
1100 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
1101 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
1102 from that installation.
1103
1104 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
1105 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
1106 than in EFI/refind.
1107
1108 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
1109 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
1110
1111 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
1112 -------------------
1113
1114 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
1115 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
1116 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
1117
1118 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
1119 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
1120 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
1121 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
1122 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
1123
1124 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
1125 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
1126 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
1127 Linux with the "make" command.
1128
1129 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
1130 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
1131
1132 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
1133 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
1134 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
1135 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
1136 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
1137 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
1138 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
1139 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
1140
1141 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
1142 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
1143 default.)
1144
1145 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
1146 -------------------
1147
1148 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
1149 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
1150 use on emergency discs.
1151
1152 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
1153 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
1154 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
1155 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
1156 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
1157 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
1158 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
1159 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
1160 handle.
1161
1162 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
1163
1164 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
1165 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
1166 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
1167 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
1168 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
1169 os_GENTOO.icns.
1170
1171 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
1172 mode.
1173
1174 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
1175 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
1176 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
1177 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
1178
1179 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
1180 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
1181 a boot loader launch failed.
1182
1183 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
1184 -------------------
1185
1186 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
1187 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
1188 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
1189 options.
1190
1191 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
1192 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
1193 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
1194 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
1195
1196 - Added ext4fs driver!
1197
1198 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
1199
1200 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
1201
1202 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
1203 from a program that set the resolution itself.
1204
1205 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
1206 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
1207 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
1208 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
1209 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
1210 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
1211 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
1212 mode.
1213
1214 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
1215 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
1216 display even in graphics mode.
1217
1218 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
1219 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
1220
1221 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
1222 disables the boot options editor.
1223
1224 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
1225 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
1226
1227 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
1228 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
1229 from the /etc/default/grub file.
1230
1231 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
1232 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
1233
1234 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
1235 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
1236 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
1237 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
1238 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
1239 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
1240
1241 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
1242 on Linux systems.
1243
1244 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
1245 ---------------------
1246
1247 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
1248
1249 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
1250 -------------------
1251
1252 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
1253 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
1254 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
1255 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
1256
1257 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
1258 configuration file from a primary one.
1259
1260 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
1261 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
1262 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
1263 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
1264 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
1265 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
1266 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
1267 LVM.)
1268
1269 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
1270 on systems with Secure Boot active.
1271
1272 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
1273 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
1274 refind.conf.
1275
1276 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
1277 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
1278
1279 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
1280 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
1281 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
1282
1283 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
1284 ------------------
1285
1286 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
1287 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
1288 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
1289 This example results in the following string being passed as an
1290 option:
1291 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
1292
1293 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
1294 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
1295 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
1296 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
1297 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
1298 for them makes sense.
1299
1300 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
1301 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
1302 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
1303 EFI shells are also so limited.)
1304
1305 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
1306 were not actually edited.
1307
1308 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
1309 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
1310 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
1311 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
1312 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
1313
1314 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
1315 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
1316 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
1317 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
1318 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
1319 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
1320 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
1321 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
1322
1323 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
1324 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
1325 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1326
1327 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
1328 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
1329 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
1330
1331 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
1332 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
1333 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
1334 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
1335
1336 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
1337 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
1338 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
1339
1340 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
1341 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
1342
1343 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
1344 ------------------
1345
1346 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
1347
1348 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
1349 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
1350 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
1351
1352 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
1353 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
1354 told isn't working as planned).
1355
1356 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
1357 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
1358 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
1359 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
1360
1361 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
1362 ------------------
1363
1364 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
1365
1366 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
1367 for disks.
1368
1369 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1370 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1371 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1372 done this for two reasons:
1373 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1374 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1375 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1376 default for them should help them.
1377 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1378 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1379 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1380 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1381 default configurations.
1382
1383 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1384
1385 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1386 ------------------
1387
1388 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1389
1390 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1391
1392 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1393 ------------------
1394
1395 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1396 32-bit systems.
1397
1398 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1399 on 32-bit systems.
1400
1401 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1402 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1403 loaders/OSes.
1404
1405 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1406
1407 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1408 ------------------
1409
1410 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1411 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1412
1413 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1414 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1415 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1416 graphics or text mode itself.)
1417
1418 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1419 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1420 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1421 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1422 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1423 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1424 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1425
1426 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1427
1428 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1429 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1430 "linux.conf" themselves.
1431
1432 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1433 -----------------
1434
1435 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1436 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1437 via rEFInd.
1438
1439 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1440 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1441 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1442 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1443 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1444 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1445 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1446 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1447 the boot order).
1448
1449 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1450 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1451
1452 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1453 ------------------
1454
1455 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1456 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1457 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1458 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1459 system hasn't hung.
1460
1461 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1462 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1463
1464 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1465
1466 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1467 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1468 label.)
1469
1470 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1471 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1472
1473 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1474 ------------------
1475
1476 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1477 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1478 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1479 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1480 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1481 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1482 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1483
1484 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1485 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1486 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1487
1488 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1489 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1490 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1491 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1492
1493 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1494 file when launched from rEFInd.
1495
1496 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1497 ------------------
1498
1499 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1500 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1501
1502 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1503 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1504 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1505 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1506 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1507 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1508
1509 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1510 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1511
1512 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1513 -----------------
1514
1515 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1516 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1517 sample configuration file for a full description.
1518
1519 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1520 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1521 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1522 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1523 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1524
1525 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1526 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1527 target).
1528
1529 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1530 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1531
1532 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1533 -----------------
1534
1535 - Improved menu navigation:
1536 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1537 down arrows move between rows.
1538 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1539 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1540 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1541 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1542
1543 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1544 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1545 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1546
1547 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1548 -----------------
1549
1550 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1551 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1552 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1553 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1554 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1555 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1556 will fail to work.
1557
1558 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1559 mode.
1560
1561 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1562
1563 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1564 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1565 options.
1566
1567
1568 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1569 ------------------
1570
1571 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1572 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1573
1574 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1575 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1576 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1577 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1578 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1579 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1580 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1581 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1582 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1583 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1584 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1585
1586 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1587 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1588 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1589 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1590 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1591
1592 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1593 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1594
1595 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1596 ------------------
1597
1598 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1599 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1600 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1601 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1602 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1603 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1604
1605 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1606 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1607 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1608 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1609 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1610 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1611 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1612 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1613 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1614 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1615 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1616 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1617 that resets the video mode.
1618
1619 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1620 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1621 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1622 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1623 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1624 details.
1625
1626 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1627 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1628 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1629 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1630 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1631 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1632
1633 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1634 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1635 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1636
1637 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1638 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1639 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1640 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1641
1642 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1643 ------------------
1644
1645 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1646 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1647 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1648 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1649 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1650 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1651 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1652 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1653 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1654 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1655 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1656 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1657 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1658 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1659 installation.
1660
1661 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1662
1663 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1664 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1665 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1666 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1667 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1668 directories you like.
1669
1670 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1671 ------------------
1672
1673 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1674 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1675 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1676 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1677 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1678 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1679 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1680 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1681
1682 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1683 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1684 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1685
1686 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1687 -----------------
1688
1689 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1690 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1691
1692 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1693 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1694 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1695 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1696 documented the name....
1697
1698 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1699 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1700 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1701
1702 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1703 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1704 directory) on certain systems.
1705
1706 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1707 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1708
1709 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1710 -----------------
1711
1712 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1713 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1714 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1715 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1716 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1717 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1718 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1719 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1720 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1721 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1722 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1723 to me.
1724
1725 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1726 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1727 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1728 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1729 simultaneously.)
1730
1731 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1732 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1733
1734 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1735 image.
1736
1737 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1738 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1739 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1740 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1741 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1742
1743 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1744 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1745 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1746 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1747 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1748 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1749
1750 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1751 ------------------
1752
1753 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1754 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1755 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1756 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1757 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1758 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1759 small sample of computers.
1760
1761 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1762 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1763 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1764 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1765 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1766
1767 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1768
1769 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1770 ------------------
1771
1772 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1773 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1774 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1775 versionless initrd file.
1776
1777 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1778 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1779 continues.
1780
1781 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1782 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1783 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1784
1785 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1786 ------------------
1787
1788 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1789 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1790 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1791 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1792
1793 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1794 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1795 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1796 directory as the kernel.
1797
1798 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1799 entries in refind.conf file.
1800
1801 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1802 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1803
1804
1805 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1806 ------------------
1807
1808 - Initial public release