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