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1 0.8.2 (5/??/2014):
2 ------------------
3
4 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
5 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
6
7 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
8 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
9
10 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
11 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
12 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
13 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
14 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
15 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
16 override a setting in the main file).
17
18 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
19 ------------------
20
21 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
22 on the root directory of a partition.
23
24 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
25 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
26
27 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
28 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
29 second.
30
31 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
32 screens.
33
34 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
35 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
36 firmware).
37
38 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
39 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
40 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
41 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
42 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
43 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
44 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
45 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
46
47 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
48 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
49 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
50 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
51 volume and is used by OS X.
52
53 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
54 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
55
56 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
57 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
58
59 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
60 -----------------
61
62 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
63 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
64 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
65 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
66 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
67
68 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
69
70 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
71 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
72 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
73 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
74
75 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
76 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
77 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
78 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
79 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
80 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
81
82 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
83 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
84 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
85
86 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
87 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
88
89 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
90 ------------------
91
92 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
93 some Macs.
94
95 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
96 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
97 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
98
99 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
100 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
101
102 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
103
104 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
105 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
106 drivers.
107
108 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
109 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
110 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
111
112 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
113 utility."
114
115
116 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
117 -----------------
118
119 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
120 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
121 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
122 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
123 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
124 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
125 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
126
127 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
128 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
129 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
130 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
131 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
132 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
133 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
134 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
135
136 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
137 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
138 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
139 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
140 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
141 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
142
143 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
144 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
145 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
146 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
147 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
148
149 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
150 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
151 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
152 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
153 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
154 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
155 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
156 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
157 problems might arise.
158
159 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
160 -----------------
161
162 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
163 dont_scan_files.
164
165 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
166
167 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
168 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
169 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
170 utility on the second row of icons.
171
172 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
173 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
174 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
175 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
176 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
177
178 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
179 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
180 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
181
182 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
183 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
184 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
185 UUID.
186
187 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
188 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
189
190 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
191 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
192 under some circumstances.
193
194 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
195 -------------------
196
197 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
198 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
199 default_selection "fred,ginger"
200 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
201 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
202
203 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
204 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
205 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
206 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
207 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
208 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
209 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
210 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
211 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
212 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
213 depending on your computer.
214
215 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
216 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
217 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
218 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
219 screensaver will be disabled.
220
221 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
222 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
223 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
224 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
225 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
226
227 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
228 -------------------
229
230 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
231 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
232
233 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
234 versions of OS X to fail.
235
236 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
237 drivers were present.
238
239 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
240 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
241 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
242 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
243 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
244 black a second or so later.
245
246 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
247 --------------------
248
249 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
250 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
251 problem.
252
253 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
254 ------------------
255
256 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
257 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
258 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
259
260 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
261 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
262 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
263 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
264 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
265 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
266 default.
267
268 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
269 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
270 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
271 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
272
273 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
274 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
275 known case, but there may be others.)
276
277 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
278 -----------------
279
280 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
281 loaders on Macs.
282
283 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
284
285 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
286 -----------------
287
288 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
289 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
290
291 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
292 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
293
294 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
295 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
296
297 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
298 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
299 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
300 HashTool-signed.efi".
301
302 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
303
304 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
305 was broken.
306
307 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
308 was broken.
309
310 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
311 -----------------
312
313 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
314
315 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
316 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
317 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
318
319 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
320 volume specification, if present.
321
322 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
323
324 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
325 ------------------
326
327 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
328 type for volumes that lack labels.
329
330 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
331 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
332 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
333 though.
334
335 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
336 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
337 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
338 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
339 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
340 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
341 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
342 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
343
344 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
345 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
346 non-EFI loaders, etc.
347
348 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
349 code.
350
351 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
352 -------------------
353
354 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
355 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
356
357 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
358 script.
359
360 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
361 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
362 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
363 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
364
365 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
366 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
367 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
368 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
369
370 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
371 -------------------
372
373 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
374 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
375 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
376 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
377
378 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
379
380 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
381 directory names that contain spaces.
382
383 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
384 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
385 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
386 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
387 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
388
389 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
390 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
391
392 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
393 Utility" in menu.
394
395 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
396 partitions to fill the MBR.
397
398 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
399 ------------------
400
401 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
402 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
403 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
404 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
405
406 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
407 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
408 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
409 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
410 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
411
412 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
413 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
414 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
415 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
416 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
417 is quietly ignored.
418
419 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
420 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
421
422 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
423 encountered when saving a screen shot.
424
425 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
426 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
427 sequence number, starting with "001".
428
429 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
430 ------------------
431
432 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
433 Kemperman.
434
435 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
436 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
437
438 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
439 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
440 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
441
442 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
443 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
444 accidentally trash their systems.
445
446 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
447 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
448 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
449
450 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
451 ------------------
452
453 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
454 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
455
456 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
457 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
458
459 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
460 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
461
462 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
463
464 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
465 -----------------
466
467 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
468 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
469
470 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
471 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
472 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
473 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
474
475 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
476 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
477
478 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
479 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
480
481 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
482 also_scan_dirs list.
483
484 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
485
486 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
487 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
488 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
489
490 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
491 ------------------
492
493 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
494 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
495 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
496 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
497 loader under the fallback name.
498
499 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
500 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
501 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
502 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
503 of 96 glyphs.
504
505 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
506 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
507
508 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
509 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
510
511 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
512 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
513 commented out or empty.
514
515 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
516 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
517
518 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
519 manual boot stanzas.
520
521 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
522 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
523
524 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
525 ------------------
526
527 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
528 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
529
530 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
531
532 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
533
534 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
535 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
536
537 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
538
539 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
540 sized to cover these areas.
541
542 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
543 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
544 resolution!
545
546 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
547 -----------------
548
549 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
550 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
551 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
552 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
553
554 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
555 startup on some systems.
556
557 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
558 -----------------
559
560 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
561 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
562
563 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
564 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
565
566 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
567 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
568 burned to USB flash disks.
569
570 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
571 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
572 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
573
574 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
575 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
576 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
577 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
578 from that installation.
579
580 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
581 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
582 than in EFI/refind.
583
584 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
585 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
586
587 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
588 -------------------
589
590 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
591 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
592 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
593
594 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
595 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
596 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
597 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
598 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
599
600 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
601 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
602 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
603 Linux with the "make" command.
604
605 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
606 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
607
608 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
609 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
610 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
611 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
612 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
613 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
614 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
615 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
616
617 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
618 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
619 default.)
620
621 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
622 -------------------
623
624 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
625 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
626 use on emergency discs.
627
628 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
629 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
630 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
631 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
632 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
633 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
634 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
635 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
636 handle.
637
638 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
639
640 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
641 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
642 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
643 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
644 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
645 os_GENTOO.icns.
646
647 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
648 mode.
649
650 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
651 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
652 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
653 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
654
655 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
656 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
657 a boot loader launch failed.
658
659 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
660 -------------------
661
662 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
663 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
664 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
665 options.
666
667 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
668 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
669 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
670 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
671
672 - Added ext4fs driver!
673
674 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
675
676 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
677
678 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
679 from a program that set the resolution itself.
680
681 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
682 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
683 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
684 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
685 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
686 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
687 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
688 mode.
689
690 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
691 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
692 display even in graphics mode.
693
694 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
695 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
696
697 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
698 disables the boot options editor.
699
700 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
701 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
702
703 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
704 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
705 from the /etc/default/grub file.
706
707 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
708 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
709
710 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
711 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
712 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
713 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
714 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
715 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
716
717 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
718 on Linux systems.
719
720 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
721 ---------------------
722
723 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
724
725 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
726 -------------------
727
728 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
729 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
730 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
731 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
732
733 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
734 configuration file from a primary one.
735
736 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
737 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
738 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
739 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
740 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
741 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
742 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
743 LVM.)
744
745 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
746 on systems with Secure Boot active.
747
748 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
749 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
750 refind.conf.
751
752 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
753 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
754
755 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
756 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
757 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
758
759 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
760 ------------------
761
762 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
763 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
764 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
765 This example results in the following string being passed as an
766 option:
767 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
768
769 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
770 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
771 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
772 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
773 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
774 for them makes sense.
775
776 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
777 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
778 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
779 EFI shells are also so limited.)
780
781 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
782 were not actually edited.
783
784 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
785 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
786 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
787 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
788 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
789
790 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
791 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
792 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
793 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
794 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
795 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
796 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
797 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
798
799 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
800 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
801 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
802
803 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
804 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
805 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
806
807 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
808 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
809 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
810 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
811
812 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
813 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
814 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
815
816 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
817 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
818
819 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
820 ------------------
821
822 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
823
824 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
825 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
826 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
827
828 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
829 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
830 told isn't working as planned).
831
832 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
833 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
834 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
835 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
836
837 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
838 ------------------
839
840 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
841
842 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
843 for disks.
844
845 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
846 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
847 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
848 done this for two reasons:
849 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
850 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
851 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
852 default for them should help them.
853 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
854 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
855 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
856 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
857 default configurations.
858
859 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
860
861 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
862 ------------------
863
864 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
865
866 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
867
868 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
869 ------------------
870
871 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
872 32-bit systems.
873
874 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
875 on 32-bit systems.
876
877 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
878 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
879 loaders/OSes.
880
881 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
882
883 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
884 ------------------
885
886 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
887 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
888
889 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
890 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
891 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
892 graphics or text mode itself.)
893
894 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
895 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
896 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
897 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
898 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
899 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
900 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
901
902 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
903
904 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
905 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
906 "linux.conf" themselves.
907
908 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
909 -----------------
910
911 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
912 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
913 via rEFInd.
914
915 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
916 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
917 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
918 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
919 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
920 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
921 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
922 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
923 the boot order).
924
925 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
926 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
927
928 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
929 ------------------
930
931 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
932 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
933 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
934 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
935 system hasn't hung.
936
937 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
938 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
939
940 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
941
942 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
943 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
944 label.)
945
946 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
947 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
948
949 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
950 ------------------
951
952 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
953 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
954 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
955 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
956 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
957 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
958 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
959
960 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
961 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
962 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
963
964 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
965 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
966 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
967 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
968
969 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
970 file when launched from rEFInd.
971
972 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
973 ------------------
974
975 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
976 received reports that it's not working as intended.
977
978 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
979 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
980 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
981 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
982 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
983 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
984
985 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
986 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
987
988 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
989 -----------------
990
991 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
992 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
993 sample configuration file for a full description.
994
995 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
996 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
997 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
998 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
999 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1000
1001 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1002 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1003 target).
1004
1005 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1006 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1007
1008 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1009 -----------------
1010
1011 - Improved menu navigation:
1012 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1013 down arrows move between rows.
1014 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1015 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1016 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1017 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1018
1019 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1020 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1021 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1022
1023 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1024 -----------------
1025
1026 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1027 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1028 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1029 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1030 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1031 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1032 will fail to work.
1033
1034 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1035 mode.
1036
1037 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1038
1039 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1040 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1041 options.
1042
1043
1044 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1045 ------------------
1046
1047 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1048 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1049
1050 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1051 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1052 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1053 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1054 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1055 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1056 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1057 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1058 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1059 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1060 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1061
1062 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1063 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1064 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1065 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1066 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1067
1068 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1069 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1070
1071 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1072 ------------------
1073
1074 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1075 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1076 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1077 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1078 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1079 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1080
1081 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1082 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1083 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1084 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1085 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1086 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1087 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1088 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1089 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1090 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1091 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1092 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1093 that resets the video mode.
1094
1095 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1096 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1097 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1098 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1099 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1100 details.
1101
1102 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1103 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1104 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1105 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1106 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1107 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1108
1109 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1110 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1111 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1112
1113 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1114 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1115 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1116 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1117
1118 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1119 ------------------
1120
1121 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1122 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1123 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1124 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1125 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1126 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1127 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1128 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1129 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1130 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1131 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1132 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1133 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1134 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1135 installation.
1136
1137 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1138
1139 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1140 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1141 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1142 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1143 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1144 directories you like.
1145
1146 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1147 ------------------
1148
1149 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1150 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1151 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1152 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1153 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1154 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1155 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1156 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1157
1158 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1159 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1160 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1161
1162 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1163 -----------------
1164
1165 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1166 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1167
1168 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1169 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1170 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1171 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1172 documented the name....
1173
1174 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1175 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1176 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1177
1178 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1179 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1180 directory) on certain systems.
1181
1182 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1183 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1184
1185 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1186 -----------------
1187
1188 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1189 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1190 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1191 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1192 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1193 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1194 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1195 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1196 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1197 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1198 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1199 to me.
1200
1201 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1202 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1203 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1204 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1205 simultaneously.)
1206
1207 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1208 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1209
1210 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1211 image.
1212
1213 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1214 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1215 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1216 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1217 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1218
1219 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1220 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1221 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1222 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1223 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1224 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1225
1226 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1227 ------------------
1228
1229 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1230 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1231 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1232 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1233 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1234 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1235 small sample of computers.
1236
1237 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1238 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1239 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1240 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1241 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1242
1243 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1244
1245 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1246 ------------------
1247
1248 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1249 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1250 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1251 versionless initrd file.
1252
1253 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1254 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1255 continues.
1256
1257 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1258 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1259 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1260
1261 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1262 ------------------
1263
1264 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1265 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1266 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1267 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1268
1269 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1270 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1271 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1272 directory as the kernel.
1273
1274 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1275 entries in refind.conf file.
1276
1277 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1278 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1279
1280
1281 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1282 ------------------
1283
1284 - Initial public release