X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/b8bf5591559b45540015db6e08040ba4540140c5..72faea12205c95ad6314fcab0b4a5560f0a6e6ee:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 661a53d..49ce0b3 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,201 @@ -0.8.6 (?/??/2016): +0.9.3 (??/??/2015): +------------------- + +- Under OS X, install.sh can now be run from the recovery system. This may + help work around OS X 10.11's problems with System Integrity Protection, + since it should be possible to reboot into the recovery system to install + rEFInd without disabling SIP for the main installation, even for just one + boot. + +0.9.2 (9/19/2015): +------------------ + +- Added "--keepname" option to install.sh. This option causes install.sh + to keep refind_x64.efi named as such rather than rename it as grubx64.efi + when using Shim. This option is meaningful only if the --shim option is + also used. This option passes the refind_x64.efi filename as an option to + Shim, which overrides the default filename of grubx64.efi. A big caveat: + Only Shim 0.7 and later supports this feature. (Shim 0.4 also works if a + refind_x64.efi is referred to as "\refind_x64.efi" on the command line, + but the need for a leading backslash to refer to a file in the same + directory as Shim is so confusing and wrong that I cannot in good + conscience support it.) I've not seen signed Shim binaries between 0.4 + and 0.7, so I don't know if any of them might work. + +- 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 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.) + +- Added new "fold_linux_kernels" token to refind.conf. This option, when + active (the default) "folds" all Linux kernels in a directory into a + single entry on the rEFInd menu. The kernel with the most recent time + stamp is launched by default. To launch another kernel, you must press F2 + or Insert; additional kernels appear as options on the first kernel's + submenu. To see the pre-0.9.0 behavior, you must set "fold_linux_kernels + false" (or one of its synonyms, "off" or "0"). The point of this option + is to help de-clutter the rEFInd main menu. + +- Added new Linux root (/) partition auto-discovery feature, based on + Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Spec (DPS) + (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/): + If no refind_linux.conf file or /etc/fstab file is found, and if a + partition with the correct DPS type code for the system architecture is + found, rEFInd adds "ro root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/{GUID}" to the kernel + options. This will not help on LVM setups, and will get it right for only + one installation on systems with multiple Linux installations, but it may + help some users, if/when the DPS type codes become more common. + +- Fixed bug that caused a rEFInd crash if an empty refind_linux.conf + file was encountered. + +- The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which + should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it + under OS X. + +- rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures + when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This + may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions. + +- Fixed Debian debinstall script to work correctly on IA32 systems. It had + a bug that caused filesystem drivers and gptsync to not be packaged for + IA32. + +- Modified Debian postinst file to call install.sh with --localkeys option + if sbsign and openssl are available, even when NOT in Secure Boot mode or + if shim is not detected. This helps with my Ubuntu PPA when using custom + Secure Boot keys, since the PPA is delivered unsigned. (Users will have + to have added their own local keys to their firmware's db.) For + consistency, I've made the same change to the RPM .spec file. + +0.8.7 (3/1/2015): +----------------- + +- Fixed install.sh bug that caused inappropriate installation under the + name bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi) under Linux, with a failure to update + the boot entries in NVRAM, has been fixed. + +- Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions. + +- More fixes to filesystem type detection code. Previous version sometimes + identified FAT or NTFS (or anything with a boot loader) as a whole-disk + device rather than the correct filesystem type. + +- Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might + occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations. + +- I'm deprecating the use of filesystem numbers (as in "fs0:") because + they're unreliable -- filesystem numbers can change between boots and + might not be the same as those used in an EFI shell or other program. + Sooner or later I'll remove code supporting this feature. In the + meantime, if it doesn't work for you, please switch to using filesystem + labels, partition labels, or partition GUIDs. + +- Added detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode GPT boot loader. Previously, + rEFInd could detect FreeBSD's BIOS-mode MBR boot loader, which gave + FreeBSD an appropriate icon on Macs; but the BIOS-mode GPT boot loader + code is different, so some recent FreeBSD installations showed up with + generic grey diamond icons. This change creates FreeBSD icons instead. + +- Added "Secure Boot [active|inactive]" notice to "about" menu for x86 + (32-bit) systems, since there are now a few 32-bit UEFI systems that + support Secure Boot. (AFAIK, these are mostly tablets and convertibles + such as the ASUS T100.) + +- Added KeyTool.efi and KeyTool-signed.efi to list of MOK managers. KeyTool + is the "super-deluxe" Secure Boot key and hash manager provided as part + of the efitools package. + +- Fixed more instances of "invalid parameter" errors on some EFIs. + +- Improved Secure Boot detection in install.sh. + +- install.sh should no longer complain when copying Shim or MokManager over + itself. + +0.8.6 (2/8/2015): +----------------- + +- Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the + old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has + long since been updated to deliver a real name. + +- Addition of new Windows 8 OS icon. On Macs and for BIOS/legacy boots, the + new icon is now used for Windows Vista, 7, and 8, while the old one is + used for earlier versions of Windows. For EFI-mode boots, the new icon is + used universally. + +- If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd now scans NTFS volumes on Macs for + the presence of Windows boot files, and removes any NTFS volume that + lacks such files from the BIOS/legacy boot list. This should help + unclutter the display on Macs that contain NTFS data partitions. + +- Fixed bug that caused misidentification of both whole disks and NTFS + volumes as being FAT. (This bug affected the identification of devices + and locations in the rEFInd menu, not actual access to devices.) + +- Code refactoring to clear out legacy-boot functions from the + ever-expanding refind/main.c file. + +- Added new "badges" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf. This + option hides the device-type badges associated with the OS boot options. + - Reverted rEFIt commit r472, introduced in rEFInd 0.8.5 to support more BMP images because I've received bug reports that it's causing existing selection images to fail to load. @@ -8,8 +203,8 @@ - Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path. -- Fixed install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of the ESP on - disks with partition numbers of 10 or above. +- Fixed Mac-specific install.sh bug that could cause misidentification of + the ESP on disks with partition numbers of 10 or above. 0.8.5 (2/1/2015):