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 0.9.1 (?/??/2015):
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+- When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
+  Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
+  partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
+  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
+  - The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
+    or "ro" option to the kernel.
+  - If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
+    it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
+    all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
+    system has more than one with the correct type code.
+
+- Improved Freedesktop.org Discoverable Partitions Specification support:
+  Previously, if no refind_linux.conf file was present but an /etc/fstab
+  file was found, rEFInd ignored the Discoverable Partitions Specification
+  filesystem-type codes. This was fine if /etc/fstab contained a valid "/"
+  filesystem specification, but if that was absent, the result was no
+  "root=" specification being present. Under these circumstances
+  (refind_linux.conf absent, /etc/fstab present but lacking a "/" entry),
+  rEFInd now tries to identify a device to specify as "root=" via the
+  Discoverable Partitions Specification.
+
 - Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
   continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
   Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This