X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/65478cb010b22ae8ad46ff670433b14cdd3a9ab4..0a23a9a7b0c88de8c1f67a249a49a9d019baafe9:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index eb424b0..abf11af 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,165 @@ -0.7.10 (?/??/2014): +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): +------------------ + +- 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