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1 0.10.3 (?/??/2016):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Modified SIP/CSR rotation code: If the csr-active-config EFI variable is
5 missing AND the firmware is Apple (as identified by the string "Apple"
6 being present in the ST->FirmwareVendor string), rEFInd treats the
7 computer as one on which SIP is available and set to the "enabled" state
8 (0x10). The upshot is that the SIP/CSR tool will appear if the showtools
9 and csr_values options are set appropriately in refind.conf, even if the
10 csr-active-config variable is missing from the NVRAM. The point of this
11 change is that I've received reports of some Macs that run OS X 10.11 but
12 that lack this variable. OS X acts as if SIP were enabled, but rEFInd is
13 then unable to disable SIP. This change gives rEFInd the ability to
14 disable SIP on such systems. The drawback is that the variable might be
15 set on some systems that don't run OS X 10.11. This should be harmless
16 from a technical point of view, but the presence of SIP indicators in
17 rEFInd could be confusing.
18
19 - Added refind-mkdefault script to simplify resetting rEFInd as the default
20 boot program in Linux. The intent is to run this after GRUB, Windows, OS
21 X, or some other tool takes over as the primary boot manager. It can be
22 called from a startup script to handle this task automatically.
23
24 0.10.2 (1/26/2016):
25 -------------------
26
27 - Fixed bug in refind-install that caused mountesp to be installed as a FILE
28 called /usr/local/bin on OS X if the /usr/local/bin directory did not
29 already exist.
30
31 - Fixed bug in mvrefind that caused it to fail to move bootmgfw.efi in
32 some situations, and another that caused it to give the resulting NVRAM
33 entry the default rEFInd name of "rEFInd Boot Manager," rather than the
34 intended "Windows Boot Manager" (to work around bugs in some EFIs).
35
36 - Worked around bug/quirk in some EFIs (in HP ProBook 6470b laptop, at
37 least) that prevented EFI filesystem drivers from working. (Drivers would
38 load but not provide access to filesystems.)
39
40 - Fixed refind-install bug that caused --usedefault option to not work in OS
41 X. (This bug did not affect Linux.)
42
43 - Improved Secure Boot detection in refind-install in Linux.
44
45 - Fixed bug that caused custom volume badges (vol_*.png) to be read only
46 from default location ("icons" subdirectory), effectively eliminating the
47 ability to adjust them.
48
49 - Added centos.crt and centos.cer public key files.
50
51 0.10.1 (12/12/2015):
52 --------------------
53
54 - Change to PPA version: Installing the PPA now queries the user about
55 whether to install to the ESP. Upgrades will remember the initial
56 selection.
57
58 - Modified time-based sorting of loaders in a single directory to push
59 anything starting with "vmlinuz-0-rescue" to the end of the list. Fedora
60 gives its rescue kernels filenames that begin with that string, and if
61 such a kernel happens to be the most recent, treating it normally will
62 cause it to become the default when kernel folding is in use. This is
63 almost certainly undesirable, so this change keeps the rescue kernel at
64 the end of the list instead, which is saner.
65
66 - Significantly reworked the project's Makefiles. This should have no
67 impact on ordinary users, and even most developers should barely notice
68 it; but it should make future extensions to additional platforms or
69 building in different environments easier.
70
71 - Added workaround to gptsync for issue with some Macs' EFIs that caused
72 the program to skip through all prompts, thus accepting the default
73 option. This would normally cause gptsync to do nothing.
74
75 - Added type code 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage,
76 gdisk type AF05) to list of partition types recognized by gptsync.
77
78 - Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source;
79 and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.
80
81 - Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This
82 works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is
83 currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer
84 to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real
85 computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial
86 terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran
87 rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs
88 driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync,
89 although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are
90 meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared
91 toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and
92 enable_and_lock_vmx.
93
94 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on
95 removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback
96 filename.
97
98 - Moved detailed descriptions of refind-install from installing.html to
99 a refind-install man page. To keep this information Web-accessible, I've
100 also created HTML versions of the three man pages and linked them into
101 the HTML documentation.
102
103 - Updated LodePNG to latest version (20151024).
104
105 - Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel
106 options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble
107 conditions:
108 - Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in
109 /proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the
110 case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not
111 true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.)
112 The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before
113 discarding this first option.
114 - These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the
115 call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This
116 usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line;
117 but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost.
118
119 - Added "kernel*" as a matching pattern for Linux kernels, since this is
120 what Gentoo uses by default.
121
122 - The refind-install script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux.
123 This enables creating a /usr/sbin/refind-install link in Linux packages,
124 with the binaries stashed wherever the package system likes them. This
125 feature does NOT work in OS X, but there's relatively little need for it
126 there.
127
128 0.10.0 (11/8/2015):
129 -------------------
130
131 - Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it
132 should under OS X.
133
134 - Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as
135 source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the
136 --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use
137 /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this
138 change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline
139 when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be
140 used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot
141 options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB
142 files is the best bet for getting close to the right options.
143
144 - Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels
145 show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when
146 the Btrfs driver is loaded.
147
148 - Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs
149 running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except
150 on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it,
151 you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values"
152 item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too,
153 if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on
154 "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that
155 define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new
156 shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined
157 value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds.
158
159 - Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to
160 "About" display.
161
162 - Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
163
164 - Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
165 mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
166
167 - New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
168 particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
169 (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
170 then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
171 Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
172 copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
173 OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
174 instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
175 you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
176 to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
177 in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
178
179 - Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
180 because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
181 tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
182 .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
183
184 - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
185 to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
186 rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
187 instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
188 suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
189 installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
190 installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
191 update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
192 to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
193
194 - Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
195 (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
196 to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
197 launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
198 initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
199 on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
200 unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
201
202 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
203 seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
204 (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
205 the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
206 graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
207 background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
208 floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
209 crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
210 though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
211 integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
212 workaround.)
213
214 - Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
215 help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
216 since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
217 rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
218 boot.
219
220 0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
221 ------------------
222
223 - Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
224 to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
225 when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
226 also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
227 Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
228 Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
229 refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
230 but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
231 directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
232 conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
233 and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
234
235 - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
236 authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
237 installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
238 launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
239 Secure Boot db list.
240
241 0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
242 ------------------
243
244 - When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
245 Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
246 partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
247 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
248 - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
249 or "ro" option to the kernel.
250 - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
251 it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
252 all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
253 system has more than one with the correct type code.
254
255 - Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
256 Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
257 file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
258 filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
259 filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
260 "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
261 (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
262 rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
263 Discoverable Partitions Specification.
264
265 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
266 continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
267 Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
268 was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
269
270 - Added icon for Elementary OS.
271
272 - Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
273 distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
274 better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
275 closely-related distributions.
276
277 - Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
278 are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
279 blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
280 keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
281 many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
282 lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
283 though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
284 firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
285 potentially buggy system calls.
286
287 0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
288 ------------------
289
290 - New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
291
292 - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
293 with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
294 EDK2.)
295
296 - Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
297 active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
298 single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
299 stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
300 or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
301 submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
302 false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
303 is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
304
305 - Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
306 Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
307 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
308 If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
309 partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
310 found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
311 options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
312 one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
313 help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
314
315 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
316 file was encountered.
317
318 - The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
319 should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
320 under OS X.
321
322 - rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
323 when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
324 may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
325
326 - Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
327 a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
328 IA32.
329
330 - Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
331 if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
332 if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
333 Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
334 to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
335 consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
336
337 0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
338 -----------------
339
340 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
341 name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
342 the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
343
344 - Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
345
346 - More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
347 identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
348 device rather than the correct filesystem type.
349
350 - Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
351 occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
352
353 - I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
354 they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
355 might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
356 Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
357 meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
358 labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
359
360 - Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
361 rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
362 FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
363 code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
364 generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
365
366 - Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
367 (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
368 support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
369 such as the ASUS T100.)
370
371 - Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
372 is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
373 of the efitools package.
374
375 - Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
376
377 - Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
378
379 - install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
380 itself.
381
382 0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
383 -----------------
384
385 - Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
386 old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
387 long since been updated to deliver a real name.
388
389 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
390 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
391 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
392 used universally.
393
394 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
395 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
396 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
397 unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
398
399 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
400 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
401 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
402
403 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
404 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
405
406 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
407 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
408
409 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
410 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
411 selection images to fail to load.
412
413 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
414 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
415
416 - Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
417 the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
418
419
420 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
421 -----------------
422
423 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
424
425 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
426
427 - Changes to
428
429 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
430
431 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
432 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
433 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
434 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
435 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
436 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
437 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
438 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
439
440 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
441
442 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
443 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
444 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
445 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
446 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
447
448 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
449 from other than the first hard disk.
450
451
452 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
453 ------------------
454
455 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
456 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
457 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
458
459 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
460
461 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
462 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
463 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
464 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
465
466 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
467 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
468 mode.
469
470 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
471 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
472 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
473 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
474
475 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
476 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
477 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
478
479 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
480 building and basic use instructions).
481
482 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
483 -----------------
484
485 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
486 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
487 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
488 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
489 is displayed.
490
491 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
492 distribution.
493
494 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
495 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
496 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
497
498 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
499 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
500 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
501 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
502 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
503 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
504 change its license to a BSD license.
505
506 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
507 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
508 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
509
510 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
511 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
512 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
513 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
514 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
515 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
516 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
517 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
518 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
519 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
520 and ensure it's set to "false".
521
522 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
523 -------------------
524
525 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
526 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
527
528 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
529 -----------------
530
531 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
532 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
533 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
534 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
535 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
536 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
537 loader in the
538 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
539 variable under Linux.
540
541 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
542
543 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
544 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
545
546 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
547 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
548
549 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
550 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
551 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
552 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
553 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
554 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
555 override a setting in the main file).
556
557 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
558 ------------------
559
560 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
561 on the root directory of a partition.
562
563 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
564 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
565
566 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
567 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
568 second.
569
570 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
571 screens.
572
573 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
574 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
575 firmware).
576
577 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
578 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
579 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
580 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
581 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
582 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
583 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
584 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
585
586 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
587 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
588 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
589 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
590 volume and is used by OS X.
591
592 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
593 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
594
595 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
596 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
597
598 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
599 -----------------
600
601 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
602 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
603 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
604 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
605 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
606
607 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
608
609 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
610 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
611 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
612 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
613
614 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
615 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
616 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
617 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
618 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
619 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
620
621 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
622 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
623 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
624
625 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
626 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
627
628 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
629 ------------------
630
631 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
632 some Macs.
633
634 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
635 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
636 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
637
638 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
639 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
640
641 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
642
643 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
644 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
645 drivers.
646
647 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
648 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
649 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
650
651 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
652 utility."
653
654
655 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
656 -----------------
657
658 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
659 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
660 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
661 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
662 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
663 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
664 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
665
666 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
667 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
668 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
669 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
670 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
671 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
672 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
673 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
674
675 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
676 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
677 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
678 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
679 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
680 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
681
682 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
683 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
684 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
685 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
686 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
687
688 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
689 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
690 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
691 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
692 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
693 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
694 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
695 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
696 problems might arise.
697
698 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
699 -----------------
700
701 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
702 dont_scan_files.
703
704 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
705
706 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
707 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
708 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
709 utility on the second row of icons.
710
711 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
712 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
713 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
714 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
715 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
716
717 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
718 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
719 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
720
721 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
722 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
723 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
724 UUID.
725
726 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
727 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
728
729 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
730 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
731 under some circumstances.
732
733 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
734 -------------------
735
736 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
737 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
738 default_selection "fred,ginger"
739 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
740 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
741
742 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
743 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
744 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
745 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
746 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
747 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
748 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
749 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
750 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
751 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
752 depending on your computer.
753
754 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
755 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
756 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
757 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
758 screensaver will be disabled.
759
760 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
761 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
762 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
763 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
764 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
765
766 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
767 -------------------
768
769 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
770 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
771
772 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
773 versions of OS X to fail.
774
775 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
776 drivers were present.
777
778 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
779 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
780 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
781 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
782 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
783 black a second or so later.
784
785 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
786 --------------------
787
788 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
789 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
790 problem.
791
792 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
793 ------------------
794
795 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
796 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
797 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
798
799 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
800 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
801 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
802 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
803 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
804 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
805 default.
806
807 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
808 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
809 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
810 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
811
812 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
813 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
814 known case, but there may be others.)
815
816 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
817 -----------------
818
819 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
820 loaders on Macs.
821
822 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
823
824 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
825 -----------------
826
827 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
828 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
829
830 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
831 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
832
833 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
834 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
835
836 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
837 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
838 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
839 HashTool-signed.efi".
840
841 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
842
843 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
844 was broken.
845
846 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
847 was broken.
848
849 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
850 -----------------
851
852 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
853
854 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
855 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
856 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
857
858 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
859 volume specification, if present.
860
861 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
862
863 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
864 ------------------
865
866 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
867 type for volumes that lack labels.
868
869 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
870 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
871 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
872 though.
873
874 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
875 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
876 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
877 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
878 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
879 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
880 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
881 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
882
883 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
884 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
885 non-EFI loaders, etc.
886
887 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
888 code.
889
890 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
891 -------------------
892
893 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
894 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
895
896 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
897 script.
898
899 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
900 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
901 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
902 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
903
904 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
905 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
906 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
907 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
908
909 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
910 -------------------
911
912 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
913 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
914 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
915 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
916
917 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
918
919 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
920 directory names that contain spaces.
921
922 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
923 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
924 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
925 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
926 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
927
928 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
929 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
930
931 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
932 Utility" in menu.
933
934 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
935 partitions to fill the MBR.
936
937 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
938 ------------------
939
940 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
941 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
942 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
943 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
944
945 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
946 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
947 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
948 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
949 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
950
951 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
952 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
953 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
954 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
955 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
956 is quietly ignored.
957
958 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
959 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
960
961 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
962 encountered when saving a screen shot.
963
964 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
965 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
966 sequence number, starting with "001".
967
968 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
969 ------------------
970
971 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
972 Kemperman.
973
974 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
975 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
976
977 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
978 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
979 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
980
981 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
982 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
983 accidentally trash their systems.
984
985 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
986 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
987 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
988
989 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
990 ------------------
991
992 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
993 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
994
995 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
996 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
997
998 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
999 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
1000
1001 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
1002
1003 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
1004 -----------------
1005
1006 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
1007 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
1008
1009 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
1010 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
1011 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
1012 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
1013
1014 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
1015 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
1016
1017 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
1018 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1019
1020 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
1021 also_scan_dirs list.
1022
1023 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
1024
1025 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
1026 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
1027 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
1028
1029 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
1030 ------------------
1031
1032 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1033 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
1034 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
1035 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
1036 loader under the fallback name.
1037
1038 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
1039 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
1040 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
1041 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
1042 of 96 glyphs.
1043
1044 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
1045 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
1046
1047 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
1048 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
1049
1050 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
1051 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
1052 commented out or empty.
1053
1054 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
1055 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
1056
1057 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
1058 manual boot stanzas.
1059
1060 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
1061 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
1062
1063 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
1064 ------------------
1065
1066 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
1067 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
1068
1069 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
1070
1071 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
1072
1073 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
1074 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
1075
1076 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
1077
1078 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
1079 sized to cover these areas.
1080
1081 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
1082 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
1083 resolution!
1084
1085 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
1086 -----------------
1087
1088 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
1089 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
1090 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
1091 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
1092
1093 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
1094 startup on some systems.
1095
1096 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
1097 -----------------
1098
1099 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
1100 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
1101
1102 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
1103 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
1104
1105 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
1106 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
1107 burned to USB flash disks.
1108
1109 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
1110 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
1111 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
1112
1113 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1114 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
1115 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
1116 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
1117 from that installation.
1118
1119 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
1120 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
1121 than in EFI/refind.
1122
1123 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
1124 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
1125
1126 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
1127 -------------------
1128
1129 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
1130 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
1131 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
1132
1133 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
1134 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
1135 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
1136 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
1137 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
1138
1139 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
1140 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
1141 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
1142 Linux with the "make" command.
1143
1144 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
1145 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
1146
1147 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
1148 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
1149 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
1150 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
1151 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
1152 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
1153 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
1154 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
1155
1156 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
1157 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
1158 default.)
1159
1160 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
1161 -------------------
1162
1163 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
1164 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
1165 use on emergency discs.
1166
1167 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
1168 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
1169 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
1170 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
1171 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
1172 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
1173 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
1174 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
1175 handle.
1176
1177 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
1178
1179 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
1180 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
1181 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
1182 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
1183 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
1184 os_GENTOO.icns.
1185
1186 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
1187 mode.
1188
1189 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
1190 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
1191 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
1192 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
1193
1194 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
1195 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
1196 a boot loader launch failed.
1197
1198 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
1199 -------------------
1200
1201 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
1202 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
1203 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
1204 options.
1205
1206 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
1207 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
1208 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
1209 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
1210
1211 - Added ext4fs driver!
1212
1213 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
1214
1215 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
1216
1217 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
1218 from a program that set the resolution itself.
1219
1220 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
1221 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
1222 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
1223 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
1224 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
1225 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
1226 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
1227 mode.
1228
1229 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
1230 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
1231 display even in graphics mode.
1232
1233 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
1234 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
1235
1236 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
1237 disables the boot options editor.
1238
1239 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
1240 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
1241
1242 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
1243 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
1244 from the /etc/default/grub file.
1245
1246 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
1247 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
1248
1249 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
1250 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
1251 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
1252 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
1253 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
1254 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
1255
1256 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
1257 on Linux systems.
1258
1259 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
1260 ---------------------
1261
1262 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
1263
1264 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
1265 -------------------
1266
1267 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
1268 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
1269 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
1270 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
1271
1272 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
1273 configuration file from a primary one.
1274
1275 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
1276 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
1277 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
1278 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
1279 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
1280 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
1281 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
1282 LVM.)
1283
1284 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
1285 on systems with Secure Boot active.
1286
1287 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
1288 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
1289 refind.conf.
1290
1291 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
1292 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
1293
1294 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
1295 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
1296 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
1297
1298 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
1299 ------------------
1300
1301 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
1302 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
1303 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
1304 This example results in the following string being passed as an
1305 option:
1306 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
1307
1308 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
1309 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
1310 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
1311 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
1312 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
1313 for them makes sense.
1314
1315 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
1316 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
1317 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
1318 EFI shells are also so limited.)
1319
1320 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
1321 were not actually edited.
1322
1323 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
1324 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
1325 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
1326 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
1327 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
1328
1329 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
1330 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
1331 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
1332 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
1333 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
1334 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
1335 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
1336 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
1337
1338 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
1339 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
1340 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1341
1342 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
1343 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
1344 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
1345
1346 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
1347 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
1348 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
1349 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
1350
1351 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
1352 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
1353 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
1354
1355 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
1356 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
1357
1358 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
1359 ------------------
1360
1361 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
1362
1363 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
1364 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
1365 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
1366
1367 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
1368 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
1369 told isn't working as planned).
1370
1371 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
1372 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
1373 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
1374 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
1375
1376 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
1377 ------------------
1378
1379 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
1380
1381 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
1382 for disks.
1383
1384 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1385 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1386 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1387 done this for two reasons:
1388 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1389 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1390 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1391 default for them should help them.
1392 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1393 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1394 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1395 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1396 default configurations.
1397
1398 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1399
1400 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1401 ------------------
1402
1403 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1404
1405 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1406
1407 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1408 ------------------
1409
1410 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1411 32-bit systems.
1412
1413 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1414 on 32-bit systems.
1415
1416 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1417 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1418 loaders/OSes.
1419
1420 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1421
1422 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1423 ------------------
1424
1425 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1426 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1427
1428 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1429 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1430 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1431 graphics or text mode itself.)
1432
1433 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1434 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1435 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1436 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1437 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1438 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1439 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1440
1441 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1442
1443 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1444 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1445 "linux.conf" themselves.
1446
1447 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1448 -----------------
1449
1450 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1451 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1452 via rEFInd.
1453
1454 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1455 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1456 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1457 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1458 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1459 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1460 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1461 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1462 the boot order).
1463
1464 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1465 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1466
1467 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1468 ------------------
1469
1470 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1471 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1472 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1473 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1474 system hasn't hung.
1475
1476 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1477 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1478
1479 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1480
1481 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1482 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1483 label.)
1484
1485 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1486 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1487
1488 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1489 ------------------
1490
1491 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1492 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1493 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1494 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1495 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1496 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1497 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1498
1499 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1500 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1501 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1502
1503 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1504 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1505 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1506 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1507
1508 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1509 file when launched from rEFInd.
1510
1511 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1512 ------------------
1513
1514 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1515 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1516
1517 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1518 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1519 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1520 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1521 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1522 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1523
1524 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1525 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1526
1527 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1528 -----------------
1529
1530 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1531 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1532 sample configuration file for a full description.
1533
1534 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1535 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1536 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1537 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1538 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1539
1540 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1541 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1542 target).
1543
1544 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1545 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1546
1547 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1548 -----------------
1549
1550 - Improved menu navigation:
1551 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1552 down arrows move between rows.
1553 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1554 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1555 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1556 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1557
1558 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1559 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1560 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1561
1562 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1563 -----------------
1564
1565 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1566 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1567 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1568 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1569 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1570 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1571 will fail to work.
1572
1573 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1574 mode.
1575
1576 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1577
1578 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1579 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1580 options.
1581
1582
1583 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1584 ------------------
1585
1586 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1587 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1588
1589 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1590 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1591 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1592 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1593 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1594 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1595 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1596 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1597 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1598 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1599 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1600
1601 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1602 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1603 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1604 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1605 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1606
1607 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1608 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1609
1610 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1611 ------------------
1612
1613 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1614 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1615 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1616 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1617 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1618 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1619
1620 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1621 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1622 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1623 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1624 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1625 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1626 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1627 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1628 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1629 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1630 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1631 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1632 that resets the video mode.
1633
1634 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1635 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1636 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1637 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1638 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1639 details.
1640
1641 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1642 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1643 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1644 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1645 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1646 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1647
1648 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1649 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1650 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1651
1652 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1653 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1654 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1655 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1656
1657 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1658 ------------------
1659
1660 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1661 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1662 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1663 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1664 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1665 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1666 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1667 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1668 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1669 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1670 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1671 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1672 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1673 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1674 installation.
1675
1676 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1677
1678 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1679 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1680 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1681 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1682 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1683 directories you like.
1684
1685 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1686 ------------------
1687
1688 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1689 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1690 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1691 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1692 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1693 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1694 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1695 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1696
1697 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1698 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1699 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1700
1701 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1702 -----------------
1703
1704 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1705 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1706
1707 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1708 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1709 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1710 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1711 documented the name....
1712
1713 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1714 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1715 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1716
1717 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1718 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1719 directory) on certain systems.
1720
1721 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1722 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1723
1724 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1725 -----------------
1726
1727 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1728 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1729 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1730 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1731 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1732 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1733 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1734 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1735 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1736 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1737 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1738 to me.
1739
1740 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1741 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1742 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1743 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1744 simultaneously.)
1745
1746 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1747 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1748
1749 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1750 image.
1751
1752 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1753 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1754 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1755 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1756 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1757
1758 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1759 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1760 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1761 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1762 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1763 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1764
1765 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1766 ------------------
1767
1768 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1769 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1770 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1771 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1772 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1773 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1774 small sample of computers.
1775
1776 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1777 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1778 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1779 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1780 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1781
1782 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1783
1784 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1785 ------------------
1786
1787 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1788 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1789 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1790 versionless initrd file.
1791
1792 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1793 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1794 continues.
1795
1796 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1797 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1798 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1799
1800 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1801 ------------------
1802
1803 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1804 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1805 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1806 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1807
1808 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1809 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1810 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1811 directory as the kernel.
1812
1813 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1814 entries in refind.conf file.
1815
1816 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1817 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1818
1819
1820 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1821 ------------------
1822
1823 - Initial public release