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