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 0.9.3 (??/??/2015):
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+- Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs
+  running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default. To
+  enable it, you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new
+  "csr_values" item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line
+  (uncommenting it, too, if it's commented out). If desired, you can set
+  more values on "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte
+  hexadecimal values that define various SIP states.  When SIP/CSR rotation
+  is activated, a new shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it
+  causes the next defined value to be set and a confirmation message to
+  appear for three seconds.
+
+- Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to
+  "About" display.
+
+- Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
+
+- Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to
+  mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf.
+
+- New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles,
+  particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set
+  (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons,
+  then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for
+  Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of
+  copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for
+  OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for
+  instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons,
+  you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup
+  to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line
+  in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory.
+
+- Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this
+  because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and
+  tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip,
+  .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages.
+
+- Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode
+  to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing
+  rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief
+  instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and
+  suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt
+  installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd
+  installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an
+  update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing
+  to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail.
+
+- Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number
+  (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd
+  to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being
+  launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly
+  initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH,
+  on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become
+  unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily.
+
 - Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system
   seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some
   (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang