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