X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/a927c00229adc84e4c1bb4e7bd36a42726ae4bba..119f040f3c096ef2ab59f5d02059e9d872047dcd:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 441cb1e..9d5c047 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,3 +1,78 @@ +0.6.4 (1/8/2013): +----------------- + +- Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for + ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links + from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs + on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot. + +- Fixed a couple of memory management bugs that cause rEFInd to hang at + startup on some systems. + +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): -------------------