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1 0.6.2 (??/??/201?):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Altered default for "textmode" option to not adjust the text mode
5 at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by default.)
6
7 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
8 -------------------
9
10 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
11 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
12 use on emergency discs.
13
14 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
15 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
16 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
17 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
18 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
19 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
20 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
21 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
22 handle.
23
24 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
25
26 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
27 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
28 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
29 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
30 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
31 os_GENTOO.icns.
32
33 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
34 mode.
35
36 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
37 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
38 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
39 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
40
41 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
42 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
43 a boot loader launch failed.
44
45 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
46 -------------------
47
48 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
49 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
50 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
51 options.
52
53 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
54 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
55 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
56 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
57
58 - Added ext4fs driver!
59
60 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
61
62 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
63
64 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
65 from a program that set the resolution itself.
66
67 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
68 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
69 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
70 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
71 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
72 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
73 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
74 mode.
75
76 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
77 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
78 display even in graphics mode.
79
80 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
81 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
82
83 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
84 disables the boot options editor.
85
86 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
87 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
88
89 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
90 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
91 from the /etc/default/grub file.
92
93 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
94 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
95
96 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
97 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
98 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
99 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
100 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
101 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
102
103 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
104 on Linux systems.
105
106 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
107 ---------------------
108
109 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
110
111 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
112 -------------------
113
114 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
115 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
116 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
117 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
118
119 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
120 configuration file from a primary one.
121
122 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
123 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
124 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
125 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
126 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
127 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
128 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
129 LVM.)
130
131 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
132 on systems with Secure Boot active.
133
134 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
135 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
136 refind.conf.
137
138 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
139 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
140
141 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
142 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
143 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
144
145 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
146 ------------------
147
148 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
149 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
150 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
151 This example results in the following string being passed as an
152 option:
153 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
154
155 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
156 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
157 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
158 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
159 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
160 for them makes sense.
161
162 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
163 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
164 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
165 EFI shells are also so limited.)
166
167 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
168 were not actually edited.
169
170 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
171 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
172 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
173 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
174 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
175
176 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
177 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
178 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
179 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
180 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
181 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
182 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
183 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
184
185 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
186 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
187 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
188
189 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
190 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
191 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
192
193 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
194 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
195 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
196 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
197
198 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
199 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
200 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
201
202 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
203 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
204
205 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
206 ------------------
207
208 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
209
210 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
211 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
212 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
213
214 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
215 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
216 told isn't working as planned).
217
218 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
219 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
220 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
221 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
222
223 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
224 ------------------
225
226 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
227
228 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
229 for disks.
230
231 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
232 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
233 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
234 done this for two reasons:
235 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
236 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
237 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
238 default for them should help them.
239 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
240 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
241 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
242 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
243 default configurations.
244
245 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
246
247 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
248 ------------------
249
250 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
251
252 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
253
254 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
255 ------------------
256
257 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
258 32-bit systems.
259
260 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
261 on 32-bit systems.
262
263 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
264 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
265 loaders/OSes.
266
267 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
268
269 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
270 ------------------
271
272 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
273 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
274
275 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
276 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
277 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
278 graphics or text mode itself.)
279
280 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
281 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
282 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
283 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
284 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
285 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
286 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
287
288 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
289
290 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
291 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
292 "linux.conf" themselves.
293
294 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
295 -----------------
296
297 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
298 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
299 via rEFInd.
300
301 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
302 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
303 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
304 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
305 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
306 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
307 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
308 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
309 the boot order).
310
311 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
312 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
313
314 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
315 ------------------
316
317 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
318 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
319 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
320 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
321 system hasn't hung.
322
323 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
324 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
325
326 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
327
328 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
329 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
330 label.)
331
332 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
333 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
334
335 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
336 ------------------
337
338 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
339 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
340 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
341 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
342 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
343 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
344 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
345
346 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
347 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
348 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
349
350 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
351 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
352 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
353 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
354
355 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
356 file when launched from rEFInd.
357
358 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
359 ------------------
360
361 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
362 received reports that it's not working as intended.
363
364 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
365 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
366 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
367 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
368 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
369 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
370
371 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
372 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
373
374 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
375 -----------------
376
377 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
378 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
379 sample configuration file for a full description.
380
381 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
382 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
383 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
384 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
385 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
386
387 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
388 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
389 target).
390
391 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
392 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
393
394 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
395 -----------------
396
397 - Improved menu navigation:
398 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
399 down arrows move between rows.
400 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
401 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
402 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
403 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
404
405 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
406 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
407 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
408
409 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
410 -----------------
411
412 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
413 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
414 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
415 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
416 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
417 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
418 will fail to work.
419
420 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
421 mode.
422
423 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
424
425 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
426 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
427 options.
428
429
430 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
431 ------------------
432
433 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
434 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
435
436 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
437 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
438 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
439 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
440 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
441 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
442 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
443 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
444 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
445 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
446 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
447
448 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
449 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
450 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
451 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
452 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
453
454 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
455 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
456
457 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
458 ------------------
459
460 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
461 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
462 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
463 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
464 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
465 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
466
467 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
468 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
469 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
470 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
471 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
472 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
473 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
474 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
475 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
476 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
477 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
478 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
479 that resets the video mode.
480
481 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
482 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
483 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
484 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
485 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
486 details.
487
488 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
489 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
490 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
491 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
492 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
493 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
494
495 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
496 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
497 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
498
499 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
500 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
501 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
502 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
503
504 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
505 ------------------
506
507 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
508 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
509 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
510 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
511 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
512 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
513 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
514 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
515 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
516 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
517 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
518 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
519 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
520 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
521 installation.
522
523 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
524
525 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
526 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
527 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
528 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
529 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
530 directories you like.
531
532 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
533 ------------------
534
535 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
536 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
537 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
538 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
539 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
540 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
541 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
542 should work when a volume is unnamed.
543
544 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
545 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
546 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
547
548 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
549 -----------------
550
551 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
552 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
553
554 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
555 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
556 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
557 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
558 documented the name....
559
560 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
561 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
562 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
563
564 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
565 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
566 directory) on certain systems.
567
568 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
569 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
570
571 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
572 -----------------
573
574 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
575 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
576 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
577 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
578 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
579 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
580 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
581 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
582 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
583 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
584 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
585 to me.
586
587 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
588 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
589 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
590 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
591 simultaneously.)
592
593 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
594 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
595
596 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
597 image.
598
599 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
600 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
601 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
602 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
603 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
604
605 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
606 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
607 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
608 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
609 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
610 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
611
612 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
613 ------------------
614
615 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
616 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
617 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
618 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
619 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
620 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
621 small sample of computers.
622
623 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
624 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
625 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
626 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
627 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
628
629 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
630
631 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
632 ------------------
633
634 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
635 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
636 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
637 versionless initrd file.
638
639 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
640 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
641 continues.
642
643 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
644 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
645 than this, but such systems are very rare.
646
647 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
648 ------------------
649
650 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
651 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
652 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
653 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
654
655 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
656 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
657 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
658 directory as the kernel.
659
660 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
661 entries in refind.conf file.
662
663 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
664 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
665
666
667 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
668 ------------------
669
670 - Initial public release