X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/6460d1d0d50d82ce40da54a421c7b785ea944809..999e9b76afa9e57b16b54da313a46bdcf08dc412:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 8c255a8..1e5686d 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,4 +1,242 @@ -0.7.5 (11/??/2013): +0.8.2 (5/??/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 + names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or + "Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback + (e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume") + +- It's now possible to specify a volume by partition GUID number in a + manual boot stanza. This should be more reliable (albeit also more + awkward) than using a filesystem number (such as fs0: or fs1:). + +- Fixed memory-allocation bug that could cause error message displays, + and possibly hangs, when re-scanning boot loaders. + +0.7.9 (4/20/2014): +------------------ + +- Attempt to fix rEFInd perpetually re-scanning after ejecting a disc on + some Macs. + +- Added check to remove redundant (or non-functional if Secure Boot is + active) kernel entries for Ubuntu, which is now including two versions of + kernels, one signed and the other unsigned. + +- Fixed bug in install.sh that could cause it to display error messages + if the dmraid utility was not installed. + +- The HFS+ driver now reports a correct volume name. + +- Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under + some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem + drivers. + +- Added "gdisk" option to the "showtools" configuration file token. When + active, this adds gdisk.efi or gdisk_{arch}.efi, if present in the + EFI\tools directory, to the tools row. + +- Fixed mistaken identification of the MOK utility as the "MOK utility + utility." + + +0.7.8 (3/9/2014): +----------------- + +- Added "debian" directory to source, which facilitates creation of Debian + packages. Packages built in this way are built with GNU-EFI and don't run + any post-installation script, so although the rEFInd binaries are on the + hard disk, they aren't installed to be bootable; you must manually run + install.sh. Also, at least on Ubuntu, the Make.common file's /usr/lib64 + references must be changed to /usr/lib. This is more of a proof of + concept and a "leg up" for distribution maintainers than anything else. + +- Two new options, big_icon_size and small_icon_size, set the size of + the first-row OS icons and of the second-row tool icons, respectively. + The big_icon_size option also indirectly sets the size of disk-type + badges; they're 1/4 the size of the big icons. Default values are 128 and + 48, respectively, to match the actual icon files provided with rEFInd. If + the icon you're using is of a different size than you've specified, + rEFInd scales it. For best quality, you should both provide icons drawn + to the right size and set the icon sizes in refind.conf. + +- rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes. + This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it + can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a + graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so + scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128 + OS icon) is not likely to look good. + +- Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners: + Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll + be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the + behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the + banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display. + +- Adjusted the post-installation script in refind.spec (used to generate + RPMs, and therefore also indirectly Debian packages) to search for + existing shim program files under the filesnames shim.efi and shimx64.efi + rather than just shim.efi. Ubuntu uses shimx64.efi, so Debian packages + were failing to detect Ubuntu's shim in previous versions. (Note, + however, that Ubuntu's early shim 0.1 is unsuitable for use with rEFInd + The newer 0.4 version that's in the repositories now should work fine; + it's only when installing on an older system that's NOT been updated that + problems might arise. + +0.7.7 (1/3/2014): +----------------- + +- Can now specify complete paths, optionally including volumes, in + dont_scan_files. + +- Added shimx64.efi to the default dont_scan_files list. + +- Added windows_recovery_files token, to specify what program(s) launch a + Windows recovery utility; and the "windows_recovery" option to + "showtools," to control whether or not to display the Windows recovery + utility on the second row of icons. + +- The use_graphics_for, also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs, dont_scan_files, + and scan_driver_dirs tokens in refind.conf now support "+" as the first + option, which causes the remaining options to be added to the default + value rather than replacing that value. (This has no practical effect for + scan_driver_dirs, though, since it has a null default value.) + +- Added support for specifying the configuration file at program launch, + via the "-c" parameter, as in "refind_x64.efi -c foo.conf" to use the + foo.conf file as the main configuration file. + +- Scans of ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS partitions now omit partitions with + duplicate filesystem UUIDs. These are likely parts of RAID arrays and so + would have the same boot loaders or kernels as the first one with a given + UUID. + +- Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP + in Linux, if it's currently unmounted. + +- Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break + and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file + under some circumstances. + +0.7.6 (12/15/2013): +------------------- + +- Added support for multiple "default_selection" targets. These MUST be + comma-separated AND enclosed in quotes, as in: + default_selection "fred,ginger" + This example will launch "fred" by default if it's available; and if + it's not, rEFInd will attempt to launch "ginger" as the default. + +- Added support for time-sensitive "default_selection" setting. This token + may now have either one or three options. If one, it's interpreted as it + has been in the past, as setting a default that's independent of times. + If you follow this default by two times, however, those are interpreted + as the start and end times (in 24-hour format) for a default setting. For + instance, "default_selection foo 8:00 17:00" causes foo to be the default + from 8:00 (AM) to 17:00 (aka 5:00 PM). You can include multiple + "default_selection" lines to set different defaults for a variety of + times. If they're in conflict, the last one takes precedence. Note that + times are hardware clock's native value, which may be local time or UTC, + depending on your computer. + +- Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the + screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low + "timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS + unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the + screensaver will be disabled. + +- Added --ownhfs {target} option to install.sh. This option causes rEFInd + to install to an HFS+ partition in a way that's more consistent with the + way the Mac's native boot loader is installed. Note that you should NOT + install to an already-bootable partition with this option, since it will + overwrite the existing boot loader, which would render OS X unbootable. + +0.7.5 (11/10/2013): ------------------- - Fixed bug that caused unbootable exFAT partitions to show up as