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