X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/96e4448844c6f535679f9def29d700b94918d293..67ef5f93c58fd6d8057e6fe99185283b3347fcc0:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 4986260..c049f13 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,63 @@ -0.9.0 (6/??/2015): +0.9.2 (9/??/2015): ------------------ +- Implemented a workaround for a bug in Shim 0.8 that prevented + authentication of more than one binary. If any filesystem drivers were + installed, the first one would be verified, leaving rEFInd to be unable + to launch anything else unless it was signed by a key in the computer's + main Secure Boot db list. + +0.9.1 (9/13/2015): +------------------ + +- 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 + was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.) + +- Added icon for Elementary OS. + +- Added /etc/lsb-release to files scanned for clues about the Linux + distribution. This file differentiates Mint and Elementary OS from Ubuntu + better than does /etc/os-release, and may also help with other + closely-related distributions. + +- Improvements to handling of case-insensitive string comparisons. These + are buggy on some EFIs, and such bugs affect things like dont_scan_* + blacklists, removal of rEFInd's own directory from scanning, matching of + keyword names in refind.conf, and even loading of icons. I've replaced + many calls to problematic functions with safer calls, which should help a + lot. There may still be problems on some systems with some computers, + though; as far as I can tell, the bugs are buried deep in some EFI + firmware, so I can only replace some of the most direct calls to + potentially buggy system calls. + +0.9.0 (7/26/2015): +------------------ + +- New icon for Kali Linux, submitted by Francesco D'Eugenio. + - Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore EDK2.)