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