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<ul>
+<li><b>0.10.3 (4/24/2016)</b>—This version features mostly modest changes and additions:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>A new Linux script, <tt>refind-mkdefault</tt>, simplifies the task of resetting rEFInd as the default boot program. It's documented <a href="refind-mkdefault.html">here.</a> I've also written a new <a href="bootcoup.html">documentation page on the problem generally,</a> which covers how to handle the problem in multiple OSes.</li>
+
+ <li>I've modified the SIP/CSR rotation code so that the SIP/CSR rotation tool will appear more reliably on Apple computers.</li>
+
+ <li>The NTFS driver has been improved to reduce the chances of it hanging randomly.</li>
+
+ <li>The code that excludes shell binaries from appearing in the main boot list has been altered to reduce the odds of an incorrect exclusion from occurring.</li>
+
+ <li>rEFInd now recognizes the <tt>fwupx64.efi</tt> program as a special case: If detected, this program is presented as a second-row option rather than as a regular boot loader. (This tool is used to update firmware on some computers.)</li>
+
+ <li>BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode OSes all now include the string <tt>Legacy</tt> in their descriptions on Macs.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+</li>
+
+<li><b>0.10.2 (1/26/2016)</b>—Changes to this version are relatively modest and focus on bug fixes:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>A bug in <tt>refind-install</tt> under OS X could cause the <tt>mountesp</tt> script to be installed as a <i>file</i> called <tt>/usr/local/bin</tt> if that directory was absent. This bug has been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>Another OS X <tt>refind-install</tt> bug caused the <tt>--usedefault</tt> option to not work properly. This has been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>A Linux <tt>refind-install</tt> bug caused Secure Boot detection to fail in some cases. This has also been fixed.</li>
+
+ <li>The <tt>mvrefind</tt> script could fail to move the Windows boot loader file (<tt>bootmgfw.efi</tt>) under some circumstances. Another bug in the same script caused <tt>mvrefind</tt> to register rEFInd using its default filename (<tt>rEFInd Boot Manager</tt>) rather than the name <tt>Windows Boot Manager</tt> when moving rEFInd to the Windows boot manager's location. Both of these bugs have been squashed.</li>
+
+ <li>A long-standing but obscure bug/quirk affects some EFIs, such as that in the HP ProBook 6470b: These EFIs connect useless drivers to partitions with no known filesystems, <i>before</i> rEFInd can load filesystem drivers. The result is that drivers loaded by rEFInd could not read the partitions in question. This version of rEFInd works around this problem.</li>
+
+ <li>A bug introduced in rEFInd 0.10.1 caused custom volume badge icons (read from an icon directory specified by <tt>icons_dir</tt> in <tt>refind.conf</tt>) to be ignored. I've fixed this bug.</li>
+
+ <li>Finally, a small non-bug improvement: I've added <tt>centos.crt</tt> and <tt>centos.cer</tt> public-key files for CentOS to the <tt>keys</tt> directory.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+</li>
+
+<li><b>0.10.1 (12/12/2015)</b>—This version of the program features one big change that will affect very few people, another big behind-the-scenes change, and a number of small changes that will affect more people:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>rEFInd now compiles and runs on ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or AA64) systems. To date, I've tested it only using QEMU, so this support is <i>very</i> preliminary, almost to the point of being theoretical.</li>
+
+ <li>I've made significant changes to the <tt>Makefiles</tt> used to compile rEFInd. This should have no effect on the way rEFInd functions, or even in how most programming tasks are done; but the changes should help simplify some future changes.</li>
+
+ <li>I've made font changes: I've removed Luxi Sans Mono and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.</li>
+
+ <li>A bug that causes rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders on removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback filename is now history.</li>
+
+ <li>Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS use a special recovery kernel with a name beginning <tt>vmlinuz-0-rescue</tt>. This kernel could be newer than others, which would make it the default on in a "folded" set of kernels—a highly undesirable situation. I've therefore modified rEFInd's loader-sorting algorithm to move this rescue kernel to the end of the list, no matter what its time stamp reads.</li>
+
+ <li>I've added a workaround to <tt>gptsync</tt> to fix problems that caused it to skip through its menus using the defaults without taking user input on some Macs. I've also added 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (Apple Core Storage, <tt>gdisk</tt> type AF05) to the list of partition types that <tt>gptsync</tt> recognizes.</li>
+
+ <li>The <tt>refind-install</tt> script can now be run as a symbolic link in Linux, which means it can be run as a normal command.</li>
+
+ <li>I've fixed bugs in <tt>refind-install</tt> and in <tt>mkrlconf</tt> that could cause them to misidentify kernel options. See <tt>NEWS.txt</tt> for details.</li>
+
+ <li>I've moved the detailed description of <tt>refind-install</tt> from <a href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> to <a href="refind-install.html">a man page,</a> and I've created HTML versions of the three man pages that the project now includes.</li>
+
+ <li>I've added <tt>kernel*</tt> as a pattern for matching Linux kernels, since Gentoo Linux names its kernels by this pattern.</li>
+
+ <li>I've updated <a href="http://lodev.org/lodepng/">LodePNG,</a> which is the PNG graphics library that rEFInd uses, to version 20151024.</li>
+
+ <li>The rEFInd PPA now asks for confirmation before installing to the ESP when the package is first installed. Updates follow the instructions given on first installation. You can modify this setting by typing <tt class="userinput">dpkg-reconfigure refind</tt>.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+</li>
+
<li><b>0.10.0 (11/8/2015)</b>—I've given this version an extra-large version number bump because of some highly user-visible changes, especially for Mac users. Changes include:
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