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1 0.7.10 (?/??/2014):
2 -------------------
3
4 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
5 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
6 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
7 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
8 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
9 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
10
11 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
12 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
13 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
14
15 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
16 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
17
18 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
19 ------------------
20
21 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
22 some Macs.
23
24 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
25 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
26 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
27
28 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
29 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
30
31 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
32
33 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
34 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
35 drivers.
36
37 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
38 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
39 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
40
41 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
42 utility."
43
44
45 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
46 -----------------
47
48 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
49 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
50 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
51 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
52 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
53 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
54 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
55
56 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
57 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
58 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
59 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
60 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
61 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
62 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
63 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
64
65 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
66 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
67 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
68 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
69 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
70 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
71
72 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
73 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
74 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
75 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
76 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
77
78 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
79 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
80 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
81 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
82 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
83 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
84 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
85 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
86 problems might arise.
87
88 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
89 -----------------
90
91 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
92 dont_scan_files.
93
94 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
95
96 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
97 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
98 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
99 utility on the second row of icons.
100
101 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
102 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
103 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
104 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
105 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
106
107 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
108 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
109 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
110
111 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
112 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
113 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
114 UUID.
115
116 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
117 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
118
119 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
120 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
121 under some circumstances.
122
123 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
124 -------------------
125
126 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
127 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
128 default_selection "fred,ginger"
129 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
130 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
131
132 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
133 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
134 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
135 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
136 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
137 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
138 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
139 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
140 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
141 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
142 depending on your computer.
143
144 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
145 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
146 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
147 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
148 screensaver will be disabled.
149
150 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
151 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
152 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
153 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
154 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
155
156 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
157 -------------------
158
159 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
160 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
161
162 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
163 versions of OS X to fail.
164
165 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
166 drivers were present.
167
168 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
169 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
170 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
171 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
172 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
173 black a second or so later.
174
175 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
176 --------------------
177
178 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
179 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
180 problem.
181
182 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
183 ------------------
184
185 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
186 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
187 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
188
189 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
190 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
191 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
192 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
193 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
194 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
195 default.
196
197 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
198 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
199 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
200 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
201
202 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
203 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
204 known case, but there may be others.)
205
206 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
207 -----------------
208
209 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
210 loaders on Macs.
211
212 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
213
214 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
215 -----------------
216
217 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
218 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
219
220 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
221 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
222
223 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
224 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
225
226 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
227 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
228 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
229 HashTool-signed.efi".
230
231 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
232
233 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
234 was broken.
235
236 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
237 was broken.
238
239 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
240 -----------------
241
242 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
243
244 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
245 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
246 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
247
248 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
249 volume specification, if present.
250
251 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
252
253 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
254 ------------------
255
256 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
257 type for volumes that lack labels.
258
259 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
260 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
261 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
262 though.
263
264 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
265 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
266 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
267 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
268 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
269 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
270 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
271 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
272
273 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
274 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
275 non-EFI loaders, etc.
276
277 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
278 code.
279
280 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
281 -------------------
282
283 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
284 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
285
286 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
287 script.
288
289 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
290 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
291 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
292 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
293
294 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
295 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
296 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
297 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
298
299 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
300 -------------------
301
302 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
303 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
304 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
305 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
306
307 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
308
309 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
310 directory names that contain spaces.
311
312 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
313 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
314 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
315 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
316 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
317
318 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
319 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
320
321 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
322 Utility" in menu.
323
324 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
325 partitions to fill the MBR.
326
327 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
328 ------------------
329
330 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
331 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
332 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
333 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
334
335 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
336 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
337 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
338 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
339 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
340
341 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
342 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
343 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
344 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
345 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
346 is quietly ignored.
347
348 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
349 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
350
351 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
352 encountered when saving a screen shot.
353
354 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
355 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
356 sequence number, starting with "001".
357
358 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
359 ------------------
360
361 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
362 Kemperman.
363
364 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
365 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
366
367 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
368 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
369 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
370
371 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
372 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
373 accidentally trash their systems.
374
375 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
376 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
377 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
378
379 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
380 ------------------
381
382 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
383 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
384
385 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
386 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
387
388 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
389 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
390
391 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
392
393 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
394 -----------------
395
396 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
397 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
398
399 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
400 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
401 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
402 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
403
404 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
405 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
406
407 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
408 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
409
410 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
411 also_scan_dirs list.
412
413 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
414
415 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
416 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
417 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
418
419 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
420 ------------------
421
422 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
423 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
424 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
425 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
426 loader under the fallback name.
427
428 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
429 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
430 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
431 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
432 of 96 glyphs.
433
434 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
435 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
436
437 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
438 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
439
440 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
441 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
442 commented out or empty.
443
444 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
445 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
446
447 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
448 manual boot stanzas.
449
450 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
451 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
452
453 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
454 ------------------
455
456 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
457 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
458
459 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
460
461 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
462
463 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
464 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
465
466 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
467
468 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
469 sized to cover these areas.
470
471 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
472 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
473 resolution!
474
475 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
476 -----------------
477
478 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
479 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
480 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
481 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
482
483 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
484 startup on some systems.
485
486 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
487 -----------------
488
489 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
490 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
491
492 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
493 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
494
495 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
496 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
497 burned to USB flash disks.
498
499 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
500 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
501 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
502
503 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
504 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
505 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
506 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
507 from that installation.
508
509 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
510 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
511 than in EFI/refind.
512
513 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
514 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
515
516 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
517 -------------------
518
519 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
520 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
521 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
522
523 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
524 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
525 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
526 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
527 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
528
529 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
530 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
531 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
532 Linux with the "make" command.
533
534 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
535 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
536
537 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
538 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
539 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
540 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
541 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
542 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
543 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
544 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
545
546 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
547 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
548 default.)
549
550 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
551 -------------------
552
553 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
554 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
555 use on emergency discs.
556
557 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
558 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
559 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
560 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
561 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
562 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
563 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
564 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
565 handle.
566
567 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
568
569 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
570 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
571 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
572 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
573 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
574 os_GENTOO.icns.
575
576 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
577 mode.
578
579 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
580 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
581 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
582 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
583
584 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
585 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
586 a boot loader launch failed.
587
588 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
589 -------------------
590
591 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
592 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
593 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
594 options.
595
596 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
597 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
598 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
599 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
600
601 - Added ext4fs driver!
602
603 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
604
605 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
606
607 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
608 from a program that set the resolution itself.
609
610 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
611 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
612 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
613 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
614 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
615 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
616 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
617 mode.
618
619 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
620 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
621 display even in graphics mode.
622
623 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
624 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
625
626 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
627 disables the boot options editor.
628
629 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
630 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
631
632 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
633 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
634 from the /etc/default/grub file.
635
636 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
637 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
638
639 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
640 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
641 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
642 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
643 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
644 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
645
646 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
647 on Linux systems.
648
649 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
650 ---------------------
651
652 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
653
654 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
655 -------------------
656
657 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
658 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
659 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
660 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
661
662 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
663 configuration file from a primary one.
664
665 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
666 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
667 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
668 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
669 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
670 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
671 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
672 LVM.)
673
674 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
675 on systems with Secure Boot active.
676
677 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
678 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
679 refind.conf.
680
681 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
682 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
683
684 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
685 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
686 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
687
688 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
689 ------------------
690
691 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
692 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
693 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
694 This example results in the following string being passed as an
695 option:
696 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
697
698 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
699 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
700 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
701 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
702 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
703 for them makes sense.
704
705 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
706 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
707 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
708 EFI shells are also so limited.)
709
710 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
711 were not actually edited.
712
713 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
714 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
715 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
716 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
717 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
718
719 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
720 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
721 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
722 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
723 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
724 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
725 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
726 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
727
728 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
729 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
730 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
731
732 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
733 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
734 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
735
736 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
737 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
738 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
739 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
740
741 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
742 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
743 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
744
745 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
746 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
747
748 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
749 ------------------
750
751 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
752
753 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
754 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
755 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
756
757 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
758 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
759 told isn't working as planned).
760
761 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
762 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
763 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
764 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
765
766 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
767 ------------------
768
769 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
770
771 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
772 for disks.
773
774 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
775 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
776 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
777 done this for two reasons:
778 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
779 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
780 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
781 default for them should help them.
782 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
783 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
784 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
785 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
786 default configurations.
787
788 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
789
790 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
791 ------------------
792
793 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
794
795 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
796
797 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
798 ------------------
799
800 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
801 32-bit systems.
802
803 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
804 on 32-bit systems.
805
806 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
807 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
808 loaders/OSes.
809
810 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
811
812 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
813 ------------------
814
815 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
816 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
817
818 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
819 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
820 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
821 graphics or text mode itself.)
822
823 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
824 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
825 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
826 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
827 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
828 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
829 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
830
831 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
832
833 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
834 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
835 "linux.conf" themselves.
836
837 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
838 -----------------
839
840 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
841 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
842 via rEFInd.
843
844 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
845 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
846 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
847 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
848 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
849 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
850 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
851 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
852 the boot order).
853
854 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
855 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
856
857 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
858 ------------------
859
860 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
861 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
862 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
863 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
864 system hasn't hung.
865
866 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
867 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
868
869 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
870
871 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
872 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
873 label.)
874
875 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
876 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
877
878 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
879 ------------------
880
881 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
882 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
883 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
884 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
885 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
886 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
887 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
888
889 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
890 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
891 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
892
893 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
894 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
895 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
896 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
897
898 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
899 file when launched from rEFInd.
900
901 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
902 ------------------
903
904 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
905 received reports that it's not working as intended.
906
907 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
908 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
909 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
910 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
911 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
912 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
913
914 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
915 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
916
917 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
918 -----------------
919
920 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
921 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
922 sample configuration file for a full description.
923
924 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
925 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
926 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
927 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
928 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
929
930 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
931 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
932 target).
933
934 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
935 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
936
937 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
938 -----------------
939
940 - Improved menu navigation:
941 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
942 down arrows move between rows.
943 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
944 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
945 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
946 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
947
948 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
949 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
950 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
951
952 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
953 -----------------
954
955 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
956 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
957 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
958 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
959 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
960 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
961 will fail to work.
962
963 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
964 mode.
965
966 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
967
968 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
969 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
970 options.
971
972
973 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
974 ------------------
975
976 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
977 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
978
979 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
980 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
981 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
982 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
983 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
984 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
985 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
986 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
987 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
988 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
989 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
990
991 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
992 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
993 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
994 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
995 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
996
997 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
998 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
999
1000 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1001 ------------------
1002
1003 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1004 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1005 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1006 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1007 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1008 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1009
1010 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1011 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1012 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1013 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1014 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1015 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1016 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1017 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1018 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1019 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1020 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1021 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1022 that resets the video mode.
1023
1024 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1025 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1026 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1027 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1028 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1029 details.
1030
1031 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1032 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1033 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1034 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1035 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1036 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1037
1038 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1039 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1040 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1041
1042 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1043 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1044 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1045 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1046
1047 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1048 ------------------
1049
1050 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1051 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1052 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1053 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1054 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1055 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1056 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1057 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1058 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1059 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1060 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1061 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1062 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1063 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1064 installation.
1065
1066 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1067
1068 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1069 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1070 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1071 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1072 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1073 directories you like.
1074
1075 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1076 ------------------
1077
1078 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1079 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1080 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1081 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1082 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1083 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1084 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1085 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1086
1087 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1088 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1089 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1090
1091 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1092 -----------------
1093
1094 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1095 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1096
1097 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1098 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1099 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1100 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1101 documented the name....
1102
1103 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1104 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1105 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1106
1107 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1108 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1109 directory) on certain systems.
1110
1111 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1112 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1113
1114 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1115 -----------------
1116
1117 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1118 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1119 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1120 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1121 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1122 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1123 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1124 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1125 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1126 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1127 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1128 to me.
1129
1130 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1131 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1132 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1133 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1134 simultaneously.)
1135
1136 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1137 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1138
1139 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1140 image.
1141
1142 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1143 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1144 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1145 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1146 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1147
1148 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1149 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1150 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1151 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1152 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1153 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1154
1155 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1156 ------------------
1157
1158 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1159 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1160 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1161 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1162 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1163 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1164 small sample of computers.
1165
1166 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1167 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1168 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1169 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1170 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1171
1172 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1173
1174 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1175 ------------------
1176
1177 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1178 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1179 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1180 versionless initrd file.
1181
1182 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1183 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1184 continues.
1185
1186 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1187 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1188 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1189
1190 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1191 ------------------
1192
1193 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1194 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1195 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1196 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1197
1198 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1199 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1200 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1201 directory as the kernel.
1202
1203 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1204 entries in refind.conf file.
1205
1206 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1207 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1208
1209
1210 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1211 ------------------
1212
1213 - Initial public release