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+0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
+-------------------
+
+- New feature: rEFInd now ignores symbolic links to files on filesystems
+  that support them. This prevents the "vmlinuz" symbolic link that some
+  distributions create in the root directory from appearing in the loader
+  list. Note that this does NOT affect symbolic links to directories.
+
+- Added icons for Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
+
+- Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
+  directory names that contain spaces.
+
+- rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
+  filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
+  /etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
+  work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
+  can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
+
+- Added "EFI\opensuse" to the locations searched for MOK utilities, since
+  OpenSUSE now uses that name.
+
+- Renamed "Reboot to Firmware User Interface" to "Reboot to Computer Setup
+  Utility" in menu.
+
+- Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
+  partitions to fill the MBR.
+
+0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Added support for "screensaver" token. If set to a positive integer, this
+  causes the screen to blank after the specified number of seconds of
+  inactivity. Pressing most keys (unfortunately NOT including Shift, Alt,
+  or Ctrl) will restore the display and restart the screen saver timeout.
+
+- Added icon for ChromeOS (os_chrome.icns in the icons subdirectory).
+  ChromeBooks reportedly boots using the fallback filename, but if a user
+  wants to install rEFInd on a ChromeBook, renaming the original EFI/BOOT
+  directory to EFI/chrome and then installing rEFInd in the fallback
+  filename will bring up this new icon for ChromeOS.
+
+- Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
+  interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
+  "firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
+  on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
+  when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
+  is quietly ignored.
+
+- Upgraded LodePNG library from version 20121216 to 20130415 and
+  restructured rEFInd-specific modifications to simplify future upgrades.
+
+- Replaced hexadecimal error code with description if an error is
+  encountered when saving a screen shot.
+
+- Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
+  "screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
+  sequence number, starting with "001".
+
+0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
+  Kemperman.
+
+- Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
+  to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
+
+- Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
+  gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
+  searched only for gptsync.efi.)
+
+- Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
+  improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
+  accidentally trash their systems.
+
+- Changed timeout code so that the timeout continues if the keyboard is
+  disconnected. This can help in booting a headless server or a system with
+  a bluetooth or other keyboard that's not recognized by the EFI.
+
+0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
+------------------
+
+- Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
+  Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
+
+- Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
+  (previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
+
+- Fixed bug in install.sh that caused it to fail on some systems (Fedora
+  18, for instance) because of a problem identifying the ESP.
+
+- Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
+
 0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
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