-0.7.10 (?/??/2014):
+0.8.6 (?/??/2016):
+------------------
+
+- Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the
+ new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is
+ used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is
+ used universally.
+
+- If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for
+ the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that
+ lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help
+ unclutter the display on systems that contain NTFS data partitions.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS
+ volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices
+ and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.)
+
+- Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the
+ ever-expanding refind/main.c file.
+
+- Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This
+ option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options.
+
+- Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more
+ BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing
+ selection images to fail to load.
+
+- Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation
+ directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path.
+
+- Fixed install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of the ESP on
+ disks with partition numbers of 10 or above.
+
+
+0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
+-----------------
+
+- Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver.
+
+- Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code.
+
+- Changes to
+
+- Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference.
+
+- Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to
+ install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing
+ installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than
+ blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing
+ installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless,
+ which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle
+ an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user
+ had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux.
+
+- Added missing check of architecture type for several tools.
+
+- Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative
+ height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This
+ commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I
+ forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build
+ under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version.
+
+- Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots
+ from other than the first hard disk.
+
+
+0.8.4 (12/8/2014):
+------------------
+
+- Tweaked default for dont_scan_volumes: Removed "Recovery HD". This change
+ better suits the needs of OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite") installations, but may
+ result in some stray Recovery HD entries on some Macs.
+
+- Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
+
+- Added new configuration option, "enable_and_lock_vmx", which sets an
+ Intel CPU feature that's required for some types of virtualization to
+ work. Most EFIs enable setting this feature in their own setup utilities,
+ but some (such as most Macs) don't.
+
+- If rEFInd can't locate an icons directory (either the default or one
+ specified by the icons_dir token), the program switches to text-only
+ mode.
+
+- If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
+ OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
+ provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
+ a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
+
+- Fixed bug that caused dont_scan_files to not work with special-case
+ boot loaders (for OS X and Windows) when specifying the complete path to
+ the loader (e.g., EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi).
+
+- Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
+ building and basic use instructions).
+
+0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
+ immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
+ when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
+ shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
+ is displayed.
+
+- Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
+ distribution.
+
+- rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
+ offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
+ driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
+
+- Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
+ Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
+ under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
+ licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
+ was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
+ code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
+ change its license to a BSD license.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
+ them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
+ the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
+
+- Changed default scan_all_linux_kernels setting from "false" to "true",
+ and commented the option out in refind.conf-sample. This should not
+ affect most people, since refind.conf-sample had this option commented
+ out, and most rEFInd users either use it that way or don't have Linux
+ kernels installed at all. I've made this change because I want rEFInd to
+ "do the right thing" by default in as many cases as possible. For a while
+ now, rEFInd has been excluding non-bootable files from its menu, and most
+ kernels "in the wild" now include the EFI stub. Thus, enabling this
+ support by default seems worthwhile. If you prefer to not scan Linux
+ kernels by default, simply uncomment the "scan_all_linux_kernels" line
+ and ensure it's set to "false".
+
+0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
-------------------
+- Removed stray bit of debugging code that caused a prompt to press a
+ key to appear at rEFInd startup.
+
+0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Changed behavior when default_selection is not set: It now boots the
+ previously-booted loader, assuming it's still available; if not, rEFInd
+ boots the first loader (as it does now). Behavior is unchanged if
+ default_selection is set. Note that this behavior depends on the ability
+ of rEFInd to store an EFI variable in NVRAM. It therefore fails on
+ systems with flaky NVRAM storage. You can view the previously-booted
+ loader in the
+ /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PreviousBoot-36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740
+ variable under Linux.
+
+- Added icon for Mageia Linux (os_mageia.png).
+
+- Fixed bug that could misidentify a not-quite-GUID as a GUID in a
+ manual boot stanza's "volume" line.
+
+- I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
+ and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
+
+- Added "deep_uefi_legacy_scan" token. When not set (the default), rEFInd
+ does not modify EFI NVRAM settings when scanning for BIOS-mode boot
+ loaders on UEFI-based (non-Mac) computers. Some computers require
+ uncommenting this setting for rEFInd to reliably detect some BIOS-mode
+ boot devices. Passing "0", "off", or "false" as an option resets it to
+ the default value (useful in a loaded secondary configuration file to
+ override a setting in the main file).
+
+0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
+------------------
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
+ on the root directory of a partition.
+
+- Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
+ and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
+
+- Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
+ now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
+ second.
+
+- Improved centering of legacy boot option descriptions on some systems'
+ screens.
+
+- Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
+ device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
+ firmware).
+
+- Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
+ this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
+ PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
+ particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
+ their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
+ not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
+ The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
+ for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
+
+- Reversed order of search for icons by extension: rEFInd now searches
+ for PNG files before ICNS files, rather than the other way around. This
+ makes it possible to override a volume icon for rEFInd by giving it the
+ name .VolumeIcon.png, even when a .VolumeIcon.icns file exists on the
+ volume and is used by OS X.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused .VolumeIcon.icns to take higher-than-intended
+ precedence in icon setting for OS X.
+
+- Chainloading to BIOS-mode boot loaders now works on UEFI-based PCs when
+ rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI, not just when built with Tianocore.
+
+0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- The "dont_scan_volumes" parameter now also works with legacy-boot
+ volumes. Unlike with EFI volumes, where the option you pass must exactly
+ match an entire volume name, when applied to legacy-boot volumes, it
+ matches any part of the description that appears beneath the item when
+ you select it in the rEFInd main menu.
+
+- Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
+
+- rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
+ system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
+ one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
+ information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
+
- rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic