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1 0.9.3 (??/??/2015):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
5 mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
6
7 - New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
8 particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
9 (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
10 then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
11 Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
12 copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
13 OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
14 instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
15 you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
16 to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
17 in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
18
19 - Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
20 because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
21 tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
22 .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
23
24 - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
25 to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
26 rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
27 instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
28 suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
29 installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
30 installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
31 update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
32 to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
33
34 - Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
35 (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
36 to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
37 launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
38 initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
39 on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
40 unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
41
42 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
43 seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
44 (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
45 the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
46 graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
47 background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
48 floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
49 crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
50 though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
51 integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
52 workaround.)
53
54 - Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
55 help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
56 since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
57 rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
58 boot.
59
60 0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
61 ------------------
62
63 - Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
64 to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
65 when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
66 also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
67 Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
68 Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
69 refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
70 but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
71 directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
72 conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
73 and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
74
75 - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
76 authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
77 installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
78 launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
79 Secure Boot db list.
80
81 0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
82 ------------------
83
84 - When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
85 Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
86 partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
87 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
88 - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
89 or "ro" option to the kernel.
90 - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
91 it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
92 all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
93 system has more than one with the correct type code.
94
95 - Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
96 Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
97 file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
98 filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
99 filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
100 "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
101 (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
102 rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
103 Discoverable Partitions Specification.
104
105 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
106 continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
107 Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
108 was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
109
110 - Added icon for Elementary OS.
111
112 - Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
113 distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
114 better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
115 closely-related distributions.
116
117 - Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
118 are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
119 blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
120 keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
121 many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
122 lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
123 though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
124 firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
125 potentially buggy system calls.
126
127 0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
128 ------------------
129
130 - New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
131
132 - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
133 with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
134 EDK2.)
135
136 - Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
137 active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
138 single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
139 stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
140 or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
141 submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
142 false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
143 is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
144
145 - Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
146 Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
147 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
148 If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
149 partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
150 found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
151 options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
152 one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
153 help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
154
155 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
156 file was encountered.
157
158 - The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
159 should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
160 under OS X.
161
162 - rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
163 when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
164 may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
165
166 - Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
167 a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
168 IA32.
169
170 - Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
171 if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
172 if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
173 Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
174 to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
175 consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
176
177 0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
178 -----------------
179
180 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
181 name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
182 the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
183
184 - Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
185
186 - More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
187 identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
188 device rather than the correct filesystem type.
189
190 - Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
191 occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
192
193 - I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
194 they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
195 might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
196 Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
197 meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
198 labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
199
200 - Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
201 rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
202 FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
203 code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
204 generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
205
206 - Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
207 (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
208 support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
209 such as the ASUS T100.)
210
211 - Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
212 is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
213 of the efitools package.
214
215 - Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
216
217 - Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
218
219 - install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
220 itself.
221
222 0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
223 -----------------
224
225 - Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
226 old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
227 long since been updated to deliver a real name.
228
229 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
230 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
231 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
232 used universally.
233
234 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
235 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
236 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
237 unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
238
239 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
240 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
241 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
242
243 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
244 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
245
246 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
247 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
248
249 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
250 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
251 selection images to fail to load.
252
253 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
254 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
255
256 - Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
257 the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
258
259
260 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
261 -----------------
262
263 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
264
265 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
266
267 - Changes to
268
269 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
270
271 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
272 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
273 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
274 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
275 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
276 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
277 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
278 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
279
280 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
281
282 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
283 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
284 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
285 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
286 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
287
288 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
289 from other than the first hard disk.
290
291
292 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
293 ------------------
294
295 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
296 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
297 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
298
299 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
300
301 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
302 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
303 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
304 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
305
306 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
307 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
308 mode.
309
310 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
311 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
312 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
313 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
314
315 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
316 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
317 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
318
319 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
320 building and basic use instructions).
321
322 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
323 -----------------
324
325 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
326 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
327 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
328 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
329 is displayed.
330
331 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
332 distribution.
333
334 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
335 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
336 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
337
338 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
339 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
340 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
341 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
342 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
343 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
344 change its license to a BSD license.
345
346 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
347 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
348 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
349
350 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
351 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
352 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
353 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
354 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
355 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
356 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
357 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
358 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
359 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
360 and ensure it's set to "false".
361
362 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
363 -------------------
364
365 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
366 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
367
368 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
369 -----------------
370
371 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
372 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
373 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
374 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
375 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
376 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
377 loader in the
378 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
379 variable under Linux.
380
381 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
382
383 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
384 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
385
386 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
387 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
388
389 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
390 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
391 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
392 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
393 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
394 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
395 override a setting in the main file).
396
397 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
398 ------------------
399
400 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
401 on the root directory of a partition.
402
403 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
404 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
405
406 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
407 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
408 second.
409
410 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
411 screens.
412
413 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
414 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
415 firmware).
416
417 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
418 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
419 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
420 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
421 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
422 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
423 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
424 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
425
426 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
427 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
428 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
429 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
430 volume and is used by OS X.
431
432 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
433 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
434
435 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
436 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
437
438 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
439 -----------------
440
441 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
442 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
443 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
444 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
445 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
446
447 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
448
449 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
450 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
451 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
452 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
453
454 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
455 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
456 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
457 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
458 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
459 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
460
461 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
462 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
463 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
464
465 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
466 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
467
468 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
469 ------------------
470
471 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
472 some Macs.
473
474 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
475 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
476 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
477
478 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
479 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
480
481 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
482
483 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
484 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
485 drivers.
486
487 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
488 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
489 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
490
491 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
492 utility."
493
494
495 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
496 -----------------
497
498 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
499 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
500 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
501 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
502 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
503 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
504 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
505
506 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
507 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
508 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
509 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
510 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
511 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
512 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
513 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
514
515 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
516 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
517 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
518 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
519 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
520 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
521
522 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
523 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
524 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
525 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
526 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
527
528 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
529 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
530 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
531 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
532 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
533 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
534 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
535 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
536 problems might arise.
537
538 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
539 -----------------
540
541 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
542 dont_scan_files.
543
544 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
545
546 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
547 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
548 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
549 utility on the second row of icons.
550
551 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
552 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
553 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
554 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
555 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
556
557 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
558 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
559 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
560
561 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
562 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
563 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
564 UUID.
565
566 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
567 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
568
569 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
570 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
571 under some circumstances.
572
573 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
574 -------------------
575
576 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
577 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
578 default_selection "fred,ginger"
579 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
580 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
581
582 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
583 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
584 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
585 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
586 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
587 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
588 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
589 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
590 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
591 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
592 depending on your computer.
593
594 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
595 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
596 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
597 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
598 screensaver will be disabled.
599
600 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
601 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
602 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
603 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
604 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
605
606 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
607 -------------------
608
609 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
610 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
611
612 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
613 versions of OS X to fail.
614
615 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
616 drivers were present.
617
618 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
619 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
620 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
621 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
622 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
623 black a second or so later.
624
625 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
626 --------------------
627
628 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
629 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
630 problem.
631
632 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
633 ------------------
634
635 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
636 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
637 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
638
639 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
640 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
641 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
642 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
643 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
644 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
645 default.
646
647 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
648 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
649 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
650 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
651
652 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
653 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
654 known case, but there may be others.)
655
656 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
657 -----------------
658
659 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
660 loaders on Macs.
661
662 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
663
664 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
665 -----------------
666
667 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
668 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
669
670 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
671 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
672
673 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
674 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
675
676 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
677 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
678 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
679 HashTool-signed.efi".
680
681 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
682
683 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
684 was broken.
685
686 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
687 was broken.
688
689 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
690 -----------------
691
692 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
693
694 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
695 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
696 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
697
698 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
699 volume specification, if present.
700
701 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
702
703 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
704 ------------------
705
706 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
707 type for volumes that lack labels.
708
709 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
710 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
711 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
712 though.
713
714 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
715 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
716 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
717 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
718 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
719 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
720 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
721 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
722
723 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
724 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
725 non-EFI loaders, etc.
726
727 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
728 code.
729
730 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
731 -------------------
732
733 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
734 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
735
736 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
737 script.
738
739 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
740 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
741 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
742 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
743
744 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
745 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
746 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
747 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
748
749 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
750 -------------------
751
752 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
753 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
754 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
755 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
756
757 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
758
759 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
760 directory names that contain spaces.
761
762 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
763 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
764 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
765 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
766 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
767
768 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
769 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
770
771 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
772 Utility" in menu.
773
774 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
775 partitions to fill the MBR.
776
777 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
778 ------------------
779
780 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
781 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
782 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
783 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
784
785 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
786 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
787 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
788 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
789 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
790
791 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
792 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
793 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
794 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
795 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
796 is quietly ignored.
797
798 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
799 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
800
801 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
802 encountered when saving a screen shot.
803
804 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
805 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
806 sequence number, starting with "001".
807
808 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
809 ------------------
810
811 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
812 Kemperman.
813
814 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
815 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
816
817 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
818 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
819 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
820
821 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
822 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
823 accidentally trash their systems.
824
825 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
826 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
827 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
828
829 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
830 ------------------
831
832 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
833 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
834
835 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
836 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
837
838 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
839 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
840
841 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
842
843 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
844 -----------------
845
846 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
847 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
848
849 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
850 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
851 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
852 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
853
854 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
855 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
856
857 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
858 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
859
860 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
861 also_scan_dirs list.
862
863 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
864
865 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
866 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
867 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
868
869 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
870 ------------------
871
872 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
873 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
874 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
875 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
876 loader under the fallback name.
877
878 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
879 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
880 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
881 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
882 of 96 glyphs.
883
884 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
885 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
886
887 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
888 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
889
890 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
891 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
892 commented out or empty.
893
894 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
895 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
896
897 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
898 manual boot stanzas.
899
900 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
901 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
902
903 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
904 ------------------
905
906 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
907 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
908
909 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
910
911 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
912
913 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
914 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
915
916 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
917
918 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
919 sized to cover these areas.
920
921 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
922 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
923 resolution!
924
925 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
926 -----------------
927
928 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
929 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
930 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
931 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
932
933 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
934 startup on some systems.
935
936 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
937 -----------------
938
939 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
940 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
941
942 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
943 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
944
945 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
946 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
947 burned to USB flash disks.
948
949 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
950 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
951 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
952
953 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
954 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
955 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
956 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
957 from that installation.
958
959 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
960 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
961 than in EFI/refind.
962
963 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
964 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
965
966 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
967 -------------------
968
969 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
970 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
971 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
972
973 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
974 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
975 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
976 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
977 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
978
979 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
980 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
981 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
982 Linux with the "make" command.
983
984 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
985 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
986
987 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
988 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
989 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
990 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
991 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
992 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
993 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
994 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
995
996 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
997 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
998 default.)
999
1000 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
1001 -------------------
1002
1003 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
1004 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
1005 use on emergency discs.
1006
1007 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
1008 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
1009 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
1010 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
1011 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
1012 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
1013 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
1014 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
1015 handle.
1016
1017 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
1018
1019 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
1020 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
1021 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
1022 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
1023 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
1024 os_GENTOO.icns.
1025
1026 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
1027 mode.
1028
1029 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
1030 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
1031 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
1032 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
1033
1034 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
1035 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
1036 a boot loader launch failed.
1037
1038 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
1039 -------------------
1040
1041 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
1042 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
1043 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
1044 options.
1045
1046 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
1047 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
1048 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
1049 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
1050
1051 - Added ext4fs driver!
1052
1053 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
1054
1055 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
1056
1057 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
1058 from a program that set the resolution itself.
1059
1060 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
1061 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
1062 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
1063 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
1064 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
1065 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
1066 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
1067 mode.
1068
1069 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
1070 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
1071 display even in graphics mode.
1072
1073 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
1074 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
1075
1076 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
1077 disables the boot options editor.
1078
1079 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
1080 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
1081
1082 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
1083 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
1084 from the /etc/default/grub file.
1085
1086 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
1087 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
1088
1089 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
1090 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
1091 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
1092 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
1093 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
1094 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
1095
1096 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
1097 on Linux systems.
1098
1099 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
1100 ---------------------
1101
1102 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
1103
1104 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
1105 -------------------
1106
1107 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
1108 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
1109 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
1110 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
1111
1112 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
1113 configuration file from a primary one.
1114
1115 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
1116 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
1117 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
1118 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
1119 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
1120 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
1121 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
1122 LVM.)
1123
1124 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
1125 on systems with Secure Boot active.
1126
1127 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
1128 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
1129 refind.conf.
1130
1131 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
1132 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
1133
1134 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
1135 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
1136 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
1137
1138 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
1139 ------------------
1140
1141 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
1142 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
1143 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
1144 This example results in the following string being passed as an
1145 option:
1146 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
1147
1148 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
1149 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
1150 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
1151 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
1152 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
1153 for them makes sense.
1154
1155 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
1156 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
1157 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
1158 EFI shells are also so limited.)
1159
1160 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
1161 were not actually edited.
1162
1163 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
1164 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
1165 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
1166 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
1167 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
1168
1169 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
1170 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
1171 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
1172 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
1173 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
1174 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
1175 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
1176 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
1177
1178 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
1179 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
1180 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1181
1182 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
1183 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
1184 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
1185
1186 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
1187 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
1188 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
1189 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
1190
1191 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
1192 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
1193 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
1194
1195 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
1196 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
1197
1198 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
1199 ------------------
1200
1201 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
1202
1203 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
1204 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
1205 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
1206
1207 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
1208 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
1209 told isn't working as planned).
1210
1211 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
1212 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
1213 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
1214 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
1215
1216 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
1217 ------------------
1218
1219 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
1220
1221 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
1222 for disks.
1223
1224 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1225 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1226 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1227 done this for two reasons:
1228 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1229 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1230 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1231 default for them should help them.
1232 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1233 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1234 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1235 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1236 default configurations.
1237
1238 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1239
1240 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1241 ------------------
1242
1243 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1244
1245 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1246
1247 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1248 ------------------
1249
1250 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1251 32-bit systems.
1252
1253 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1254 on 32-bit systems.
1255
1256 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1257 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1258 loaders/OSes.
1259
1260 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1261
1262 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1263 ------------------
1264
1265 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1266 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1267
1268 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1269 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1270 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1271 graphics or text mode itself.)
1272
1273 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1274 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1275 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1276 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1277 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1278 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1279 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1280
1281 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1282
1283 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1284 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1285 "linux.conf" themselves.
1286
1287 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1288 -----------------
1289
1290 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1291 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1292 via rEFInd.
1293
1294 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1295 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1296 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1297 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1298 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1299 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1300 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1301 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1302 the boot order).
1303
1304 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1305 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1306
1307 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1308 ------------------
1309
1310 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1311 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1312 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1313 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1314 system hasn't hung.
1315
1316 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1317 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1318
1319 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1320
1321 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1322 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1323 label.)
1324
1325 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1326 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1327
1328 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1329 ------------------
1330
1331 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1332 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1333 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1334 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1335 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1336 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1337 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1338
1339 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1340 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1341 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1342
1343 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1344 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1345 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1346 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1347
1348 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1349 file when launched from rEFInd.
1350
1351 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1352 ------------------
1353
1354 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1355 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1356
1357 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1358 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1359 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1360 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1361 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1362 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1363
1364 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1365 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1366
1367 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1368 -----------------
1369
1370 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1371 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1372 sample configuration file for a full description.
1373
1374 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1375 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1376 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1377 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1378 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1379
1380 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1381 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1382 target).
1383
1384 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1385 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1386
1387 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1388 -----------------
1389
1390 - Improved menu navigation:
1391 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1392 down arrows move between rows.
1393 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1394 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1395 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1396 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1397
1398 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1399 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1400 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1401
1402 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1403 -----------------
1404
1405 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1406 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1407 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1408 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1409 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1410 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1411 will fail to work.
1412
1413 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1414 mode.
1415
1416 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1417
1418 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1419 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1420 options.
1421
1422
1423 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1424 ------------------
1425
1426 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1427 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1428
1429 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1430 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1431 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1432 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1433 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1434 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1435 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1436 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1437 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1438 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1439 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1440
1441 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1442 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1443 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1444 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1445 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1446
1447 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1448 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1449
1450 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1451 ------------------
1452
1453 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1454 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1455 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1456 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1457 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1458 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1459
1460 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1461 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1462 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1463 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1464 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1465 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1466 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1467 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1468 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1469 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1470 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1471 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1472 that resets the video mode.
1473
1474 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1475 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1476 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1477 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1478 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1479 details.
1480
1481 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1482 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1483 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1484 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1485 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1486 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1487
1488 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1489 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1490 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1491
1492 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1493 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1494 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1495 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1496
1497 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1498 ------------------
1499
1500 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1501 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1502 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1503 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1504 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1505 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1506 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1507 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1508 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1509 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1510 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1511 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1512 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1513 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1514 installation.
1515
1516 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1517
1518 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1519 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1520 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1521 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1522 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1523 directories you like.
1524
1525 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1526 ------------------
1527
1528 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1529 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1530 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1531 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1532 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1533 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1534 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1535 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1536
1537 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1538 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1539 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1540
1541 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1542 -----------------
1543
1544 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1545 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1546
1547 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1548 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1549 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1550 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1551 documented the name....
1552
1553 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1554 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1555 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1556
1557 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1558 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1559 directory) on certain systems.
1560
1561 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1562 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1563
1564 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1565 -----------------
1566
1567 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1568 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1569 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1570 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1571 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1572 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1573 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1574 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1575 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1576 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1577 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1578 to me.
1579
1580 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1581 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1582 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1583 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1584 simultaneously.)
1585
1586 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1587 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1588
1589 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1590 image.
1591
1592 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1593 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1594 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1595 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1596 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1597
1598 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1599 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1600 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1601 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1602 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1603 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1604
1605 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1606 ------------------
1607
1608 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1609 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1610 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1611 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1612 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1613 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1614 small sample of computers.
1615
1616 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1617 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1618 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1619 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1620 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1621
1622 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1623
1624 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1625 ------------------
1626
1627 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1628 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1629 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1630 versionless initrd file.
1631
1632 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1633 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1634 continues.
1635
1636 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1637 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1638 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1639
1640 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1641 ------------------
1642
1643 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1644 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1645 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1646 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1647
1648 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1649 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1650 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1651 directory as the kernel.
1652
1653 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1654 entries in refind.conf file.
1655
1656 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1657 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1658
1659
1660 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1661 ------------------
1662
1663 - Initial public release