X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/2a6ed1155086a30aaa01ced44b559183e7521083..f750551a23ac517385f105b7de582b6e45616266:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 220ec48..5d8a5ae 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,3 +1,164 @@ +0.8.6 (?/??/2016): +------------------ + +- 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): ------------------