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+0.7.10 (?/??/2014):
+-------------------
+
+- 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):
 -------------------