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-0.6.1 (12/??/2012):
+0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
+-----------------
+
+- Added the ability to specify a volume name or number in the
+  "dont_scan_dirs" and "also_scan_dirs" tokens.
+
+- Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
+  if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
+
+- Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
+  2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
+  burned to USB flash disks.
+
+- New mvrefind.sh script to move a rEFInd installation between a standard
+  location (typically EFI/refind) and one of the fallback locations
+  (EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot). It can also do more exotic locations.
+
+- The install.sh script now installs to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or
+  EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi if it's run in BIOS mode. This is
+  intended to give some chance of producing a bootable installation should
+  a user accidentally install Linux in EFI mode and then install rEFInd
+  from that installation.
+
+- The install.sh script now tries to find an existing rEFInd installation
+  and upgrade it, even if it's in EFI/BOOT or EFI/Microsoft/Boot rather
+  than in EFI/refind.
+
+- New "--yes" option to install.sh to help with unattended or automated
+  installations (as from an RPM or Debian package).
+
+0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
+-------------------
+
+- Inclusion of a sample refind.spec file for the benefit of RPM
+  distribution maintainers who might want to include rEFInd. It's a bit
+  rough, but it gets you a good chunk of the way there....
+
+- The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
+  well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
+  how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
+  users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
+  distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
+
+- Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
+  EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
+  Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
+  Linux with the "make" command.
+
+- Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
+  was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
+
+- Substantial reworking of Secure Boot code, based on James Bottomley's
+  PreLoader program. This new code eliminates the limitation of launching
+  just one driver in Secure Boot mode and is likely to be more reliable
+  with future or obscure boot loaders. It should also work with non-x86-64
+  systems, although this relies on a platform-specific shim program, which
+  to date exists only for x86-64. The basic features are the same as before
+  -- rEFInd relies on shim for authentication functions and will launch
+  programs that are signed by Secure Boot keys, shim keys, or MOKs.
+
+- Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
+  adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
+  default.)
+
+0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
 -------------------
 
+- Added "--root" option to install.sh, to enable installation of rEFInd
+  to something other than the currently-running OS. This is intended for
+  use on emergency discs.
+
+- Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
+  filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
+  feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
+  by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
+  "^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
+  resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
+  ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
+  handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
+  handle.
+
+- Fixed some screen resolution-setting bugs.
+
+- Added the "words" that make up a filesystem's label (delimited by spaces,
+  dashes, or underscores) to the list of bases used to search for OS icons.
+  For instance, if the filesystem's label is "Arch", rEFInd searches for
+  os_Arch.icns; if it's "Fedora 17", it searches for os_Fedora.icns and
+  os_17.icns; and if it's "NEW_GENTOO", it searches for os_NEW.icns and
+  os_GENTOO.icns.
+
+- Refined hints displays to be more context-sensitive, particularly in text
+  mode.
+
 - Instead of displaying a blank filesystem label when a filesystem has
-  none, rEFInd now displays the size of the filesystem, as in "boot
-  EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB volume" rather than "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi
-  from". For some filesystems, the filesystem type is included, as in "boot
-  EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume".
+  none, rEFInd now displays the size and/or type of the filesystem, as in
+  "boot EFI\foo\bar.efi from 200 MiB ext3 volume" rather than "boot
+  EFI\foo\bar.efi from".
 
 - Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
   message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when