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1 0.10.4 (?/??/2016):
2 -------------------
3
4 - Fixed bug that could cause program crash on startup. (In practice, it
5 manifested with GNU-EFI starting with version 3.0.3 or 3.0.4.)
6
7 - An anonymous contributor has provided support for touch screens. This
8 support requires that the "enable_touch" token be used in refind.conf.
9 Note, however, that not all tablet computers have EFIs that provide the
10 necessary support in the firmware.
11
12 - Martin Whitaker contributed 64-bit support to the ext4fs driver, which
13 makes it compatible with ext4fs as written by some recent Linux
14 distributions.
15
16 - Tweaked refind-install to do a better job of detecting disks other
17 than /dev/sd? and /dev/hd? devices.
18
19 0.10.3 (4/24/2016):
20 -------------------
21
22 - Altered RPM & Debian installation scripts so as to NOT call sbsign if
23 Secure Boot is disabled. This is a response to Ubuntu bug #1574372
24 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sbsigntool/+bug/1574372): In
25 Ubuntu 16.04, the sbsign program is segfaulting randomly, which prevents
26 proper installation of the program. This change at least permits proper
27 installation IF Secure Boot is disabled.
28
29 - Changed description of BIOS/CSM/legacy OS loaders on Macs to include the
30 string "(Legacy)", so as to more easily identify BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode OSes
31 in the rEFInd main menu.
32
33 - Added recognition of the fwupx64.efi file as a firmware update tool.
34 This filename is excluded from the first-row launchers, and is instead
35 presented on the second row, controlled by the "fwupdate" item on the
36 "showtools" option line. It's enabled by default. Note that it's still a
37 bit unclear to me how this tool is supposed to be used. rEFInd launches it
38 with no options, but if it should take options, this will have to be
39 changed in the future.
40
41 - Tightened exclusion of shell binary filenames from boot loader scan.
42 Previously, any filename containing the substring "shell" was excluded
43 from scans. Now it's tighter; only files matching one of the filenames in
44 the constant SHELL_NAMES in main.c are excluded. This change will enable
45 programs with names that include "shell", but that aren't in rEFInd's
46 SHELL_NAMES list, such as "shelly.efi", to be shown in the rEFInd main
47 menu.
48
49 - Fixed bug in NTFS driver that caused it to hang (and thus hang the
50 computer) in some situations, particularly when a file on an NTFS volume
51 had many fragments and when the computer's CSM was activated. (Fix
52 courtesy of "S L.")
53
54 - Modified SIP/CSR rotation code: If the csr-active-config EFI variable is
55 missing AND the firmware is Apple (as identified by the string "Apple"
56 being present in the ST->FirmwareVendor string), rEFInd treats the
57 computer as one on which SIP is available and set to the "enabled" state
58 (0x10). The upshot is that the SIP/CSR tool will appear if the showtools
59 and csr_values options are set appropriately in refind.conf, even if the
60 csr-active-config variable is missing from the NVRAM. The point of this
61 change is that I've received reports of some Macs that run OS X 10.11 but
62 that lack this variable. OS X acts as if SIP were enabled, but rEFInd is
63 then unable to disable SIP. This change gives rEFInd the ability to
64 disable SIP on such systems. The drawback is that the variable might be
65 set on some systems that don't run OS X 10.11. This should be harmless
66 from a technical point of view, but the presence of SIP indicators in
67 rEFInd could be confusing.
68
69 - Added refind-mkdefault script to simplify resetting rEFInd as the default
70 boot program in Linux. The intent is to run this after GRUB, Windows, OS
71 X, or some other tool takes over as the primary boot manager. It can be
72 called from a startup script to handle this task automatically.
73
74 0.10.2 (1/26/2016):
75 -------------------
76
77 - Fixed bug in refind-install that caused mountesp to be installed as a FILE
78 called /usr/local/bin on OS X if the /usr/local/bin directory did not
79 already exist.
80
81 - Fixed bug in mvrefind that caused it to fail to move bootmgfw.efi in
82 some situations, and another that caused it to give the resulting NVRAM
83 entry the default rEFInd name of "rEFInd Boot Manager," rather than the
84 intended "Windows Boot Manager" (to work around bugs in some EFIs).
85
86 - Worked around bug/quirk in some EFIs (in HP ProBook 6470b laptop, at
87 least) that prevented EFI filesystem drivers from working. (Drivers would
88 load but not provide access to filesystems.)
89
90 - Fixed refind-install bug that caused --usedefault option to not work in OS
91 X. (This bug did not affect Linux.)
92
93 - Improved Secure Boot detection in refind-install in Linux.
94
95 - Fixed bug that caused custom volume badges (vol_*.png) to be read only
96 from default location ("icons" subdirectory), effectively eliminating the
97 ability to adjust them.
98
99 - Added centos.crt and centos.cer public key files.
100
101 0.10.1 (12/12/2015):
102 --------------------
103
104 - Change to PPA version: Installing the PPA now queries the user about
105 whether to install to the ESP. Upgrades will remember the initial
106 selection.
107
108 - Modified time-based sorting of loaders in a single directory to push
109 anything starting with "vmlinuz-0-rescue" to the end of the list. Fedora
110 gives its rescue kernels filenames that begin with that string, and if
111 such a kernel happens to be the most recent, treating it normally will
112 cause it to become the default when kernel folding is in use. This is
113 almost certainly undesirable, so this change keeps the rescue kernel at
114 the end of the list instead, which is saner.
115
116 - Significantly reworked the project's Makefiles. This should have no
117 impact on ordinary users, and even most developers should barely notice
118 it; but it should make future extensions to additional platforms or
119 building in different environments easier.
120
121 - Added workaround to gptsync for issue with some Macs' EFIs that caused
122 the program to skip through all prompts, thus accepting the default
123 option. This would normally cause gptsync to do nothing.
124
125 - Added type code 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage,
126 gdisk type AF05) to list of partition types recognized by gptsync.
127
128 - Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source;
129 and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.
130
131 - Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This
132 works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is
133 currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer
134 to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real
135 computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial
136 terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran
137 rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs
138 driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync,
139 although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are
140 meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared
141 toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and
142 enable_and_lock_vmx.
143
144 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on
145 removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback
146 filename.
147
148 - Moved detailed descriptions of refind-install from installing.html to
149 a refind-install man page. To keep this information Web-accessible, I've
150 also created HTML versions of the three man pages and linked them into
151 the HTML documentation.
152
153 - Updated LodePNG to latest version (20151024).
154
155 - Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel
156 options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble
157 conditions:
158 - Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in
159 /proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the
160 case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not
161 true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.)
162 The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before
163 discarding this first option.
164 - These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the
165 call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This
166 usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line;
167 but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost.
168
169 - Added "kernel*" as a matching pattern for Linux kernels, since this is
170 what Gentoo uses by default.
171
172 - The refind-install script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux.
173 This enables creating a /usr/sbin/refind-install link in Linux packages,
174 with the binaries stashed wherever the package system likes them. This
175 feature does NOT work in OS X, but there's relatively little need for it
176 there.
177
178 0.10.0 (11/8/2015):
179 -------------------
180
181 - Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it
182 should under OS X.
183
184 - Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as
185 source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the
186 --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use
187 /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this
188 change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline
189 when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be
190 used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot
191 options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB
192 files is the best bet for getting close to the right options.
193
194 - Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels
195 show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when
196 the Btrfs driver is loaded.
197
198 - Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs
199 running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except
200 on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it,
201 you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values"
202 item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too,
203 if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on
204 "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that
205 define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new
206 shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined
207 value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds.
208
209 - Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to
210 "About" display.
211
212 - Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
213
214 - Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
215 mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
216
217 - New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
218 particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
219 (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
220 then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
221 Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
222 copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
223 OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
224 instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
225 you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
226 to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
227 in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
228
229 - Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
230 because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
231 tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
232 .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
233
234 - Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
235 to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
236 rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
237 instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
238 suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
239 installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
240 installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
241 update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
242 to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
243
244 - Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
245 (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
246 to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
247 launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
248 initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
249 on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
250 unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
251
252 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
253 seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
254 (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang
255 the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's
256 graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or
257 background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of
258 floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the
259 crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images,
260 though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger
261 integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point
262 workaround.)
263
264 - Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may
265 help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection,
266 since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install
267 rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one
268 boot.
269
270 0.9.2 (9/19/2015):
271 ------------------
272
273 - Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh
274 to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi
275 when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is
276 also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to
277 Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat:
278 Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a
279 refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line,
280 but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same
281 directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good
282 conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4
283 and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work.
284
285 - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented
286 authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were
287 installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd unable to
288 launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's main
289 Secure Boot db list.
290
291 0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
292 ------------------
293
294 - When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
295 Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
296 partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
297 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
298 - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
299 or "ro" option to the kernel.
300 - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
301 it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
302 all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
303 system has more than one with the correct type code.
304
305 - Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
306 Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
307 file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
308 filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
309 filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
310 "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
311 (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
312 rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
313 Discoverable Partitions Specification.
314
315 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
316 continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
317 Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
318 was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
319
320 - Added icon for Elementary OS.
321
322 - Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux
323 distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu
324 better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other
325 closely-related distributions.
326
327 - Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These
328 are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_*
329 blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of
330 keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced
331 many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a
332 lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers,
333 though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI
334 firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to
335 potentially buggy system calls.
336
337 0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
338 ------------------
339
340 - New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio.
341
342 - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
343 with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
344 EDK2.)
345
346 - Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when
347 active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a
348 single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time
349 stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2
350 or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's
351 submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels
352 false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option
353 is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu.
354
355 - Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on
356 Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS)
357 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
358 If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a
359 partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is
360 found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel
361 options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only
362 one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may
363 help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common.
364
365 - Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf
366 file was encountered.
367
368 - The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
369 should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
370 under OS X.
371
372 - rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
373 when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
374 may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
375
376 - Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had
377 a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for
378 IA32.
379
380 - Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option
381 if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or
382 if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom
383 Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have
384 to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For
385 consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file.
386
387 0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
388 -----------------
389
390 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the
391 name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update
392 the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed.
393
394 - Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
395
396 - More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes
397 identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk
398 device rather than the correct filesystem type.
399
400 - Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
401 occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
402
403 - I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because
404 they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and
405 might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program.
406 Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the
407 meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem
408 labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs.
409
410 - Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously,
411 rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave
412 FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader
413 code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with
414 generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead.
415
416 - Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86
417 (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that
418 support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles
419 such as the ASUS T100.)
420
421 - Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool
422 is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part
423 of the efitools package.
424
425 - Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs.
426
427 - Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh.
428
429 - install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over
430 itself.
431
432 0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
433 -----------------
434
435 - Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
436 old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
437 long since been updated to deliver a real name.
438
439 - Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
440 new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
441 used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
442 used universally.
443
444 - If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
445 the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
446 lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
447 unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions.
448
449 - Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
450 volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
451 and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
452
453 - Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
454 ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
455
456 - Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
457 option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
458
459 - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
460 BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
461 selection images to fail to load.
462
463 - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
464 directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
465
466 - Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of
467 the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
468
469
470 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
471 -----------------
472
473 - Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
474
475 - Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
476
477 - Changes to
478
479 - Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
480
481 - Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
482 install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
483 installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
484 blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
485 installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
486 which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
487 an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
488 had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
489
490 - Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
491
492 - Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
493 height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
494 commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
495 forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
496 under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
497
498 - Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
499 from other than the first hard disk.
500
501
502 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
503 ------------------
504
505 - Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
506 better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
507 result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
508
509 - Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
510
511 - Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
512 Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
513 work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
514 but some (such as most Macs) don't.
515
516 - If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
517 specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
518 mode.
519
520 - If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
521 OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
522 provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
523 a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
524
525 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
526 boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
527 the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
528
529 - Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
530 building and basic use instructions).
531
532 0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
533 -----------------
534
535 - Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
536 immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
537 when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
538 shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
539 is displayed.
540
541 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
542 distribution.
543
544 - rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
545 offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
546 driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
547
548 - Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
549 Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
550 under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
551 licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
552 was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
553 code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
554 change its license to a BSD license.
555
556 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
557 them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
558 the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
559
560 - Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
561 and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
562 affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
563 out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
564 kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
565 "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
566 now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
567 kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
568 support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
569 kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
570 and ensure it's set to "false".
571
572 0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
573 -------------------
574
575 - Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
576 key to appear at rEFInd startup.
577
578 0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
579 -----------------
580
581 - Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
582 previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
583 boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
584 default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
585 of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
586 systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
587 loader in the
588 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
589 variable under Linux.
590
591 - Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
592
593 - Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
594 manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
595
596 - I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
597 and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
598
599 - Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
600 does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
601 loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
602 uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
603 boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
604 the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
605 override a setting in the main file).
606
607 0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
608 ------------------
609
610 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
611 on the root directory of a partition.
612
613 - Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
614 and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
615
616 - Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
617 now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
618 second.
619
620 - Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
621 screens.
622
623 - Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
624 device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
625 firmware).
626
627 - Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
628 this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
629 PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
630 particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
631 their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
632 not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
633 The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
634 for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
635
636 - Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
637 for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
638 makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
639 name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
640 volume and is used by OS X.
641
642 - Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
643 precedence in icon setting for OS X.
644
645 - Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
646 rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
647
648 0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
649 -----------------
650
651 - The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
652 volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
653 match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
654 matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
655 you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
656
657 - Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
658
659 - rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
660 system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
661 one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
662 information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
663
664 - rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
665 structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
666 be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
667 names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
668 "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
669 (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
670
671 - It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a
672 manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more
673 awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:).
674
675 - Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays,
676 and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders.
677
678 0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
679 ------------------
680
681 - Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on
682 some Macs.
683
684 - Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is
685 active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of
686 kernels, one signed and the other unsigned.
687
688 - Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages
689 if the dmraid utility was not installed.
690
691 - The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name.
692
693 - Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
694 some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
695 drivers.
696
697 - Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When
698 active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the
699 EFI\tools directory, to the tools row.
700
701 - Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility
702 utility."
703
704
705 0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
706 -----------------
707
708 - Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian
709 packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run
710 any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the
711 hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run
712 install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64
713 references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of
714 concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else.
715
716 - Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of
717 the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively.
718 The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type
719 badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and
720 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If
721 the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified,
722 rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn
723 to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf.
724
725 - rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
726 This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
727 can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
728 graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
729 scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
730 OS icon) is not likely to look good.
731
732 - Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
733 Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
734 be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
735 behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
736 banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
737
738 - Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate
739 RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for
740 existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi
741 rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages
742 were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note,
743 however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd
744 The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine;
745 it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that
746 problems might arise.
747
748 0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
749 -----------------
750
751 - Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in
752 dont_scan_files.
753
754 - Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list.
755
756 - Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a
757 Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to
758 "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery
759 utility on the second row of icons.
760
761 - The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files,
762 and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first
763 option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default
764 value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for
765 scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.)
766
767 - Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch,
768 via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the
769 foo.conf file as the main configuration file.
770
771 - Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with
772 duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so
773 would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given
774 UUID.
775
776 - Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
777 in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
778
779 - Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
780 and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
781 under some circumstances.
782
783 0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
784 -------------------
785
786 - Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be
787 comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in:
788 default_selection "fred,ginger"
789 This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if
790 it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default.
791
792 - Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token
793 may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it
794 has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times.
795 If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted
796 as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For
797 instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default
798 from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple
799 "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of
800 times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that
801 times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC,
802 depending on your computer.
803
804 - Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
805 screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
806 "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
807 unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
808 screensaver will be disabled.
809
810 - Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd
811 to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the
812 way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT
813 install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will
814 overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable.
815
816 0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
817 -------------------
818
819 - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as
820 bootable on Macs with BIOS/CSM/legacy boot options enabled.
821
822 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused installs to the ESP on recent
823 versions of OS X to fail.
824
825 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
826 drivers were present.
827
828 - Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
829 with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
830 gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
831 When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
832 gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
833 black a second or so later.
834
835 0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
836 --------------------
837
838 - My initial 0.7.4 release broke legacy-boot ability on Macs, so I quickly
839 released this version using the original 0.7.4 filenames to fix the
840 problem.
841
842 0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
843 ------------------
844
845 - Fixed options passing to loader to include loader's filename as the first
846 option. This omission had no effect on most boot loaders, but caused
847 VMware's mboot64.efi to fail.
848
849 - Added support for memtest86 as second-row option. Program must be
850 stored in EFI/tools, EFI/tools/memtest, EFI/tools/memtest86, EFI/memtest,
851 or EFI/memtest86; and must use the name memtest86.efi, memtest86_x64.efi,
852 memtest86x64.efi, or bootx64.efi (changing "x64" to "ia32" on IA-32
853 systems). The memtest86 program is scanned for when the "showtools"
854 option includes the "memtest" or "memtest86" token, which it does by
855 default.
856
857 - Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
858 to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
859 that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
860 extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
861
862 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
863 under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
864 known case, but there may be others.)
865
866 0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
867 -----------------
868
869 - Fixed bug that caused missing media-type badges on BIOS-mode boot
870 loaders on Macs.
871
872 - Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
873
874 0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
875 -----------------
876
877 - Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
878 row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
879
880 - Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
881 using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
882
883 - Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
884 (Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
885
886 - Added PreLoader.efi and shim-fedora.efi to default dont_scan_files list;
887 it's now "shim.efi, shim-fedora.efi, PreLoader.efi, TextMode.efi,
888 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, MokManager.efi, HashTool.efi,
889 HashTool-signed.efi".
890
891 - Added icon for Funtoo Linux.
892
893 - Fixed reading of volume badges from user-specified icons directory, which
894 was broken.
895
896 - Fixed handling of /.VolumeBadge.icns (or /.VolumeBadge.png) files, which
897 was broken.
898
899 0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
900 -----------------
901
902 - Fixed build problem with recent development versions of EDK2.
903
904 - Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
905 (bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
906 bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
907
908 - Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
909 volume specification, if present.
910
911 - Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
912
913 0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
914 ------------------
915
916 - Added Btrfs signature to rEFInd, so that it can identify the filesystem
917 type for volumes that lack labels.
918
919 - Changed some critical filesystem driver pointers from 32-bit to 64-bit.
920 This *SHOULD* enable use of over-2TiB filesystems (for those filesystems
921 that support such large volumes). This capability is largely untested,
922 though.
923
924 - Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
925 filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
926 VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
927 computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
928 Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
929 now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
930 less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
931 of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
932
933 - Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
934 kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
935 non-EFI loaders, etc.
936
937 - New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
938 code.
939
940 0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
941 -------------------
942
943 - Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
944 images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
945
946 - Added support for PreBootloader to refind.spec's built-in installation
947 script.
948
949 - Added support for the Linux Foundation's PreLoader to install.sh. It's
950 treated just like shim, including using the --shim option (or, now,
951 --preloader); but it searches for and copies HashTool.efi rather than
952 MokManager.efi, and filenames are adjusted appropriately.
953
954 - Added code to determine Linux root filesystem from /etc/fstab file, if
955 it's on the same partition as the kernel and if the refind_linux.conf
956 file is not available. This enables rEFInd to boot Linux without any
957 rEFInd-specific configuration files on some (but not all) systems.
958
959 0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
960 -------------------
961
962 - New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
963 that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
964 distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
965 list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
966
967 - Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
968
969 - Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
970 directory names that contain spaces.
971
972 - rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
973 filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
974 /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
975 work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
976 can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
977
978 - Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
979 OpenSUSE now uses that name.
980
981 - Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
982 Utility" in menu.
983
984 - Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
985 partitions to fill the MBR.
986
987 0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
988 ------------------
989
990 - Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
991 causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
992 inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
993 or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
994
995 - Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
996 ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
997 wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
998 directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
999 filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
1000
1001 - Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
1002 interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
1003 "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
1004 on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
1005 when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
1006 is quietly ignored.
1007
1008 - Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
1009 restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
1010
1011 - Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
1012 encountered when saving a screen shot.
1013
1014 - Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
1015 "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
1016 sequence number, starting with "001".
1017
1018 0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
1019 ------------------
1020
1021 - Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
1022 Kemperman.
1023
1024 - Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
1025 to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
1026
1027 - Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
1028 gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
1029 searched only for gptsync.efi.)
1030
1031 - Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
1032 improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
1033 accidentally trash their systems.
1034
1035 - Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
1036 disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
1037 a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
1038
1039 0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
1040 ------------------
1041
1042 - Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
1043 Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
1044
1045 - Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
1046 (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
1047
1048 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
1049 18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
1050
1051 - Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
1052
1053 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
1054 -----------------
1055
1056 - Added a more explicit error message summarizing options when a launch of
1057 a program results in a Secure Boot failure.
1058
1059 - Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
1060 home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
1061 can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
1062 program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
1063
1064 - Added support for launching the Linux Foundation HashTool as a means of
1065 managing MOKs (or MOK hashes, at any rate).
1066
1067 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to present an entry for itself as a
1068 Microsoft OS if it was launched as EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1069
1070 - Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_volumes option to be added to
1071 also_scan_dirs list.
1072
1073 - Fixed dont_scan_volumes so that it works with OS X boot loaders.
1074
1075 - Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
1076 icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
1077 would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
1078
1079 0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
1080 ------------------
1081
1082 - rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1083 EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on
1084 the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on
1085 systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot
1086 loader under the fallback name.
1087
1088 - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in
1089 the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the
1090 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
1091 a glyph to be displayed for characters outside of this range, for a total
1092 of 96 glyphs.
1093
1094 - Replaced the old font (inherited from rEFInd) with an anti-aliased
1095 version of Luxi Mono Regular 14 point.
1096
1097 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
1098 included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
1099
1100 - Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
1101 crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
1102 commented out or empty.
1103
1104 - Fixed bug that caused "Binary is whitelisted" message to persist on
1105 screen after loading MOK-signed drivers in Secure Boot mode.
1106
1107 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
1108 manual boot stanzas.
1109
1110 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused the script to fail to update
1111 drivers when rEFInd was installed in EFI/BOOT/.
1112
1113 0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
1114 ------------------
1115
1116 - Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
1117 backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
1118
1119 - Added support for PNGs as banners, icons, and selectors.
1120
1121 - Added icon for ALT Linux.
1122
1123 - Added "safemode" option to "hideui" token, to hide option to boot into
1124 safe mode for OS X ("-v -x" option to boot.efi).
1125
1126 - Added icon for Haiku (os_haiku.icns).
1127
1128 - Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
1129 sized to cover these areas.
1130
1131 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
1132 too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
1133 resolution!
1134
1135 0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
1136 -----------------
1137
1138 - Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
1139 ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
1140 from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
1141 on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
1142
1143 - Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at
1144 startup on some systems.
1145
1146 0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
1147 -----------------
1148
1149 - Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
1150 "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
1151
1152 - Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
1153 if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
1154
1155 - Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
1156 2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
1157 burned to USB flash disks.
1158
1159 - New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
1160 location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
1161 (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
1162
1163 - The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
1164 EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
1165 intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
1166 a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
1167 from that installation.
1168
1169 - The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
1170 and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
1171 than in EFI/refind.
1172
1173 - New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
1174 installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
1175
1176 0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
1177 -------------------
1178
1179 - Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
1180 distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
1181 rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
1182
1183 - The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
1184 well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
1185 how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
1186 users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
1187 distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
1188
1189 - Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
1190 EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
1191 Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
1192 Linux with the "make" command.
1193
1194 - Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
1195 was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
1196
1197 - Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
1198 PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
1199 just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
1200 with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
1201 systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
1202 to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
1203 -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
1204 programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
1205
1206 - Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
1207 adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
1208 default.)
1209
1210 0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
1211 -------------------
1212
1213 - Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
1214 to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
1215 use on emergency discs.
1216
1217 - Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
1218 filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
1219 feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
1220 by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
1221 "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
1222 resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
1223 ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
1224 handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
1225 handle.
1226
1227 - Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
1228
1229 - Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
1230 dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
1231 For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
1232 os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
1233 os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
1234 os_GENTOO.icns.
1235
1236 - Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
1237 mode.
1238
1239 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
1240 none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
1241 "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
1242 EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
1243
1244 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
1245 message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
1246 a boot loader launch failed.
1247
1248 0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
1249 -------------------
1250
1251 - Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
1252 specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
1253 "dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
1254 options.
1255
1256 - Modified Linux kernel initrd-finding code so that if an initrd is
1257 specified in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will not add any initrd it finds.
1258 This enables an override of the default initrd, and is likely to be
1259 particularly helpful to Arch Linux users.
1260
1261 - Added ext4fs driver!
1262
1263 - Made "boot" the default value for "also_scan_dirs".
1264
1265 - Added identifying screen header to line editor.
1266
1267 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd's display to be mis-sized upon return
1268 from a program that set the resolution itself.
1269
1270 - Adjusted "resolution" refind.conf parameter so that it can accept EITHER
1271 a resolution as width and height OR a single digit as a UEFI mode number
1272 (which is system-specific). This is done because some systems present the
1273 same mode twice in their mode lists, perhaps varying in refresh rate,
1274 monitor output, or some other salient characteristics; specifying the
1275 mode number enables selecting the higher-numbered mode, whereas using
1276 horizontal and vertical resolution values selects the lowest-numbered
1277 mode.
1278
1279 - Added "textmode" refind.conf parameter to set the text mode used in
1280 text-only displays, and for the line editor and boot-time handoff
1281 display even in graphics mode.
1282
1283 - Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
1284 highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
1285
1286 - Added "editor" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf, which
1287 disables the boot options editor.
1288
1289 - Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
1290 by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
1291
1292 - Added "boot with minimal options" entry to refind_linux.conf file
1293 generated by install.sh. This entry boots without the options extracted
1294 from the /etc/default/grub file.
1295
1296 - Added keys subdirectory to main distribution, to hold public Secure
1297 Boot/shim keys from known sources.
1298
1299 - Changed install.sh --drivers option to --alldrivers, added new
1300 --nodrivers option, and made the default on Linux to install the one
1301 driver that's used on /boot (or the root filesystem if /boot isn't a
1302 separate partition). Of course, this won't install a non-existent driver,
1303 and it also won't work properly if run from an emergency disk unless you
1304 mount a separate /boot partition at that location.
1305
1306 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented creation of refind_linux.conf file
1307 on Linux systems.
1308
1309 0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
1310 ---------------------
1311
1312 - Fixed bug in install.sh that prevented it from working on OS X.
1313
1314 0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
1315 -------------------
1316
1317 - Added support for "0" options to "textonly" and "scan_all_linux_kernels"
1318 to reverse the usual meaning of these tokens. This is useful for
1319 including these options in a secondary configuration file called with the
1320 new "include" token to override a setting set in the main file.
1321
1322 - Added "include" token for refind.conf, to enable including a secondary
1323 configuration file from a primary one.
1324
1325 - Modified install.sh so that it creates a simple refind_linux.conf file in
1326 /boot, if that file doesn't already exist and if install.sh is run from
1327 Linux. If that directory happens to be on a FAT, HFS+, ext2fs, ext3fs, or
1328 ReiserFS volume, and if the necessary drivers are installed, the result
1329 is that rEFInd will detect the Linux installation with no further
1330 configuration on many systems. (Some may still require tweaking of kernel
1331 options, though; for instance, adding "dolvm" on Gentoo systems that use
1332 LVM.)
1333
1334 - Added --shim and --localkeys options to install.sh to help simplify setup
1335 on systems with Secure Boot active.
1336
1337 - Fixed (maybe) bug that caused resolution options to not be displayed on
1338 recent Macs with GOP graphics when specifying an invalid resolution in
1339 refind.conf.
1340
1341 - Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
1342 when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
1343
1344 - Implemented a fix to enable ELILO to launch with Secure Boot active.
1345 This fix might help with some other boot loaders in Secure Boot mode,
1346 too, but I don't know of any specifics.
1347
1348 0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
1349 ------------------
1350
1351 - Added the ability to include quote marks ('"') in refind.conf and
1352 refind_linux.conf tokens by doubling them up, as in:
1353 "ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value=""this is it"""
1354 This example results in the following string being passed as an
1355 option:
1356 ro root=/dev/sda4 some_value="this is it"
1357
1358 - Changed refind.conf-sample to uncomment the scan_all_linux_kernels
1359 option by default. If this option is deleted or commented out, the
1360 program default remains to not scan all Linux kernels; but with
1361 increasing numbers of distributions shipping with kernels that include
1362 EFI stub loader support, setting the configuration file default to scan
1363 for them makes sense.
1364
1365 - Modified the "resolution" token so that it affects text mode as well
1366 as graphics mode. On my systems, though, the actual text area is still
1367 restricted to an 80x25 area. (This seems to be a firmware limitation; my
1368 EFI shells are also so limited.)
1369
1370 - Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
1371 were not actually edited.
1372
1373 - Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
1374 Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
1375 launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
1376 launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
1377 MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
1378
1379 - Added new "dont_scan_files" (aka "don't_scan_files") token for
1380 refind.conf. The effect is similar to dont_scan_dirs, but it creates a
1381 blacklist of filenames within directories rather than directory names.
1382 I'm initially using it to place shim.efi and MokManager.efi in the
1383 blacklist to keep these programs out of the OS list. (MokManager.efi is
1384 scanned separately as a tool; see below.) I've moved checks for
1385 ebounce.efi, GraphicsConsole.efi, and TextMode.efi to this list. (These
1386 three had previously been blacklisted by hard-coding in ScanLoaderDir().)
1387
1388 - Added the directory from which rEFInd launched to dont_scan_dirs. This
1389 works around a bug in which rEFInd would show itself as a bogus Windows
1390 entry if it's installed as EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi.
1391
1392 - Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
1393 Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
1394 SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
1395
1396 - Added support for Apple's Recovery HD partition: If it's detected, a new
1397 icon appears on the second row. This icon can be removed by explicitly
1398 setting the "showtools" option in refind.conf and excluding the
1399 "apple_recovery" option from that line.
1400
1401 - Fixed bug that caused text-mode ("textonly" refind.conf option enabled)
1402 menu entries to be right-aligned rather than left-aligned when rEFInd was
1403 compiled with the TianoCore EDK2.
1404
1405 - Added "--usedefault {devicename}" and "--drivers" options to the
1406 install.sh script and changed the "esp" option to "--esp".
1407
1408 0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
1409 ------------------
1410
1411 - Added an icon for gummiboot.
1412
1413 - Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
1414 tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
1415 options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
1416
1417 - Modified the "scan_delay" feature to delay and then perform a re-scan,
1418 which may work better than the first attempt at this feature (which I'm
1419 told isn't working as planned).
1420
1421 - Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
1422 launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
1423 present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
1424 booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
1425
1426 0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
1427 ------------------
1428
1429 - Fixed some minor memory management issues.
1430
1431 - Added new "scan_delay" feature to impose a delay before scanning
1432 for disks.
1433
1434 - Changed default "scanfor" option from internal-external-optical to either
1435 internal-external-optical-manual (for non-Macs) or
1436 internal-hdbios-external-biosexternal-optical-cd-manual (for Macs). I've
1437 done this for two reasons:
1438 - Many Mac users have been confused by the fact that rEFInd needs
1439 reconfiguration to detect Windows (or Linux installed in BIOS mode),
1440 since rEFIt scans BIOS devices by default. Adding the BIOS options as
1441 default for them should help them.
1442 - Adding the "manual" option enables users to simply add manual boot
1443 stanzas and have them work, which is more intuitive. Adding the
1444 "manual" option will have no effect unless manual stanzas are created
1445 or uncommented, so this part of the change won't affect users' working
1446 default configurations.
1447
1448 - Added new legacy (BIOS) boot support for UEFI-based PCs.
1449
1450 0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
1451 ------------------
1452
1453 - Fixed bug that caused a failure to boot BIOS-based OSes on Macs.
1454
1455 - Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail to detect rEFItBlesser.
1456
1457 0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
1458 ------------------
1459
1460 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be corrupted by rEFInd on
1461 32-bit systems.
1462
1463 - Fixed bug that caused filesystem labels to be truncated in the drivers
1464 on 32-bit systems.
1465
1466 - Fixed bug in use_graphics_for option parsing that caused most options
1467 to set graphics mode for OS X and/or Linux but not other boot
1468 loaders/OSes.
1469
1470 - Tweaked install script to better isolate the ESP under OS X.
1471
1472 0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
1473 ------------------
1474
1475 - rEFInd now supports compilation using the TianoCore UDK2010/EDK2
1476 development kit in addition to GNU-EFI.
1477
1478 - Added new "use_graphics_for" option to control which OSes to boot in
1479 graphics mode. (This effect lasts for a fraction of a second on most
1480 systems, since the boot loader that rEFInd launches is likely to set
1481 graphics or text mode itself.)
1482
1483 - Graphics-mode booting now clears the screen to the current rEFInd
1484 background color (rather than black) and does NOT display boot messages.
1485 The intent is for a smoother transition when booting OS X, or perhaps
1486 other OSes that don't display boot loader messages. In practice, this
1487 effect will be tiny for many OSes, since the boot loader generally clears
1488 the screen within a fraction of a second of being launched; but the
1489 "flicker" of a rEFInd message in that time can sometimes be distracting.
1490
1491 - Filesystem drivers now work on EFI 1.x systems, such as Macs.
1492
1493 - Removed "linux.conf" as a valid alternative name for "refind_linux.conf"
1494 for holding Linux kernel options. The kernel developers plan to use
1495 "linux.conf" themselves.
1496
1497 0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
1498 -----------------
1499
1500 - Added a message to install.sh when run on Macs to remind users to update
1501 the "scanfor" line in refind.conf if they need to boot BIOS-based OSes
1502 via rEFInd.
1503
1504 - Modified install.sh script to be smarter about running efibootmgr on
1505 Linux. It now uses the whole path to the rEFInd binary as a key to
1506 determine whether an existing entry exists, rather than just the filename
1507 portion. If an entry exists and is the first entry in the boot order, the
1508 script does nothing to the NVRAM entries. If such an entry exists but is
1509 not the default, the script deletes that entry and creates a new one
1510 (implicitly making it the first in the boot order). If such an entry does
1511 not exist, the script creates a new one (again, making it the first in
1512 the boot order).
1513
1514 - Added "dont_scan_dirs" configuration file option, which adds directories
1515 to a "blacklist" of directories that are NOT scanned for boot loaders.
1516
1517 0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
1518 ------------------
1519
1520 - Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
1521 (hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
1522 be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
1523 access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
1524 system hasn't hung.
1525
1526 - Modified install.sh script to detect rEFItBlesser on Macs, and if
1527 present, to ask the user if it should be removed.
1528
1529 - Cleaned up the Make.common file for the filesystem drivers.
1530
1531 - Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
1532 an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
1533 label.)
1534
1535 - Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
1536 running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
1537
1538 0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
1539 ------------------
1540
1541 - Inclusion of drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, ReiserFS, and ext2fs. Most of
1542 these drivers originated with rEFIt, although the HFS+ driver seems to
1543 have come from Oracle's VirtualBox, with some files from Apple. I hadn't
1544 included these drivers previously because the build process proved
1545 challenging. As it is, they don't work on my Mac Mini, I suspect because
1546 the build process with the UDK2010 development kit may not work with the
1547 EFI 1.x that Apple uses.
1548
1549 - Addition of support for drivers in the "drivers_{arch}" subdirectory of
1550 the main rEFInd binary directory (e.g., "drivers_x64" or "drivers_ia32").
1551 Drivers may continue to be placed in the "drivers" subdirectory.
1552
1553 - Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
1554 eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
1555 relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
1556 implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
1557
1558 - Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
1559 file when launched from rEFInd.
1560
1561 0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
1562 ------------------
1563
1564 - Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
1565 received reports that it's not working as intended.
1566
1567 - Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
1568 configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
1569 those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
1570 scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
1571 however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
1572 configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
1573
1574 - Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
1575 scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
1576
1577 0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
1578 -----------------
1579
1580 - Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
1581 of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
1582 sample configuration file for a full description.
1583
1584 - Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
1585 code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
1586 refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
1587 program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
1588 refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
1589
1590 - Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
1591 used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
1592 target).
1593
1594 - Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
1595 second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
1596
1597 0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
1598 -----------------
1599
1600 - Improved menu navigation:
1601 - In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
1602 down arrows move between rows.
1603 - Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
1604 text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
1605 the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
1606 graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
1607
1608 - Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
1609 when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
1610 many entries exist to fit on the screen.
1611
1612 0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
1613 -----------------
1614
1615 - Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
1616 systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
1617 no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
1618 to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
1619 currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
1620 the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
1621 will fail to work.
1622
1623 - Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
1624 mode.
1625
1626 - Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
1627
1628 - Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
1629 Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
1630 options.
1631
1632
1633 0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
1634 ------------------
1635
1636 - Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
1637 directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
1638
1639 - Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
1640 directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
1641 is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
1642 directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
1643 of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
1644 will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
1645 maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
1646 recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
1647 obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
1648 kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
1649 directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
1650
1651 - Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
1652 for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
1653 named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
1654 instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
1655 (The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
1656
1657 - Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
1658 the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
1659
1660 0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
1661 ------------------
1662
1663 - I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
1664 giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
1665 milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
1666 been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
1667 they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
1668 bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
1669
1670 - Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
1671 resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
1672 768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
1673 If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
1674 appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
1675 to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
1676 Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
1677 modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
1678 incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
1679 This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
1680 CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
1681 handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
1682 that resets the video mode.
1683
1684 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
1685 EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
1686 graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
1687 don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
1688 comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
1689 details.
1690
1691 - Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
1692 kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
1693 loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
1694 give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
1695 unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
1696 to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
1697
1698 - Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
1699 and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
1700 ".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
1701
1702 - Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
1703 filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
1704 field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
1705 situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
1706
1707 0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
1708 ------------------
1709
1710 - After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
1711 enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
1712 original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
1713 compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
1714 Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
1715 on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
1716 "scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
1717 always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
1718 the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
1719 filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
1720 compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
1721 necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
1722 currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
1723 know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
1724 installation.
1725
1726 - Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
1727
1728 - Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
1729 EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
1730 subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
1731 directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
1732 list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
1733 directories you like.
1734
1735 0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
1736 ------------------
1737
1738 - Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
1739 option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
1740 "loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
1741 FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
1742 followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
1743 filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
1744 on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
1745 should work when a volume is unnamed.
1746
1747 - Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
1748 mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
1749 least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
1750
1751 0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
1752 -----------------
1753
1754 - Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
1755 Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
1756
1757 - Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
1758 .VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
1759 volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
1760 confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
1761 documented the name....
1762
1763 - Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
1764 directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
1765 is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
1766
1767 - Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
1768 was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
1769 directory) on certain systems.
1770
1771 - Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
1772 instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
1773
1774 0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
1775 -----------------
1776
1777 - Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
1778 "shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
1779 option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
1780 "disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
1781 order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
1782 option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
1783 to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
1784 somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
1785 well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
1786 MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
1787 I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
1788 to me.
1789
1790 - Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
1791 and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
1792 "singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
1793 disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
1794 simultaneously.)
1795
1796 - Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
1797 the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
1798
1799 - Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
1800 image.
1801
1802 - Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
1803 but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
1804 likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
1805 feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
1806 source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
1807
1808 - EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
1809 /shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
1810 recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
1811 appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
1812 which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
1813 rEFIt, is no longer valid.
1814
1815 0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
1816 ------------------
1817
1818 - Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
1819 after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
1820 differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
1821 messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
1822 system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
1823 though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
1824 small sample of computers.
1825
1826 - Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
1827 filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
1828 booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
1829 refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
1830 with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
1831
1832 - Added logo for Arch Linux.
1833
1834 0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
1835 ------------------
1836
1837 - Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
1838 support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
1839 permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
1840 versionless initrd file.
1841
1842 - Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
1843 was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
1844 continues.
1845
1846 - Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
1847 small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
1848 than this, but such systems are very rare.
1849
1850 0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
1851 ------------------
1852
1853 - Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
1854 of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
1855 loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
1856 (XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
1857
1858 - Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
1859 loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
1860 and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
1861 directory as the kernel.
1862
1863 - Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
1864 entries in refind.conf file.
1865
1866 - Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
1867 filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
1868
1869
1870 0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
1871 ------------------
1872
1873 - Initial public release