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+0.9.1 (?/??/2015):
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+- 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):
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