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 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/18/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.12</p>
+3/9/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.7.8</p>
 
 
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@@ -177,11 +177,6 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 	like to add detection for Itanium and ARM systems, but I have no
 	way to test such changes.</li>
 
-    <li>Although the ICNS file format used by rEFInd supports multiple
-	image sizes, if a size that rEFInd needs isn't present in the file,
-	rEFInd can't use the icon. The ability to scale images to the
-	desired size would be useful.</li>
-
     <li>A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming
         purposes.</li>
 
@@ -201,15 +196,6 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 	checks to substitute the GPT <i>partition</i> label if the
 	<i>filesystem</i> label comes up empty.</li>
 
-    <li>The <tt>default_selection</tt> option in <tt>refind.conf</tt> could
-	be improved by supporting a list of default options, so that if the
-	first item isn't found, rEFInd will try to boot the second one in
-	the list, and so on. This could be handy in case a driver fails to
-	load, or to provide an override in case the user inserts a specific
-	removable disk&mdash;by placing the removable disk's name first in
-	the list, it will take precedence over the normal hard disk
-	default.</li>
-
     <li>Along the lines of the previous item, the
 	<tt>default_selection</tt> might be expanded to support some form
 	of specification of disk types, as in a special entry for any
@@ -219,6 +205,11 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 	and/or initial RAM disks relative to the rEFInd directory (or the
 	boot loader's directory, in the case of initrds).</li>
 
+    <li>Currently the background for certain subscreens (such as the
+	information page or submenu listings) is a solid color based on the
+	upper-left corner of the screen. Having an option to support a
+	transparent background is desirable to some users.</li>
+
     </ul></li> <!-- Improvements -->
 
 <li><b>Known bugs that need squashing:</b>
@@ -228,10 +219,10 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
     <li>I've been receiving reports of blank screens when using rEFInd on
 	some recent Mac models. I've investigated this with the help of one
 	user, and I suspect that Apple has made changes to its firmware
-	that are likely to affect just about any EFI program. I don't know
-	how to fix the problem at the moment, though; I need both
-	documentation and access to an afflicted computer to do the
-	necessary work, and I have neither.</li>
+	that are likely to affect just about any EFI program. I don't have
+	a definitive solution, but at least one user has reported that
+	removing rEFInd's drivers has caused the problem to go into
+	remission.</li>
 
     <li>The <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/gb-hybrid-efi/">Gigabyte
 	Hybrid EFI</a> has a bug that causes the allegedly case-insensitive
@@ -295,10 +286,21 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
     <li>The code is in need of review to search for memory leaks and
 	similar problems.</li>
 
-    <li>If the user has a Linux software RAID 1 array, rEFInd will detect
-	kernels or boot loaders in RAID 1 twice. This could be fixed by
-	adding a check for duplicate filesystem UUIDs to the
-	partition-scanning code.</li>
+    <li>If the user has a Linux software RAID 1 array with Btrfs, HFS+,
+        or FAT filesystem, rEFInd will detect kernels or boot loaders in
+	RAID 1 twice. Checks to prevent this with ext2/3/4fs and ReiserFS
+	already exist; these checks could be expanded to block such
+	duplication with more filesystems.</li>
+
+    <li>Some Macs experience problems with waking up from suspend states
+	when rEFInd is installed. Unfortunately, I lack the hardware to
+	test and experiment with this (my only Intel-based Mac doesn't
+	exhibit this problem), so I can't fix this myself. <a
+	href="apple.stackexchange.com/questions/91139/why-does-my-mbp-sleep-on-mountain-lion-and-often-not-wake-up/91150#91150">Using
+	<tt>pmset</tt> to disable the <tt>autopoweroff</tt> option</a> is
+	<a
+	href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/91529/macbook-air-not-waking-up-from-suspend-sleep-with-refind-boot-manager-installed">claimed
+	by some</a> to at least partially fix the problem, though.</li>
 
     </ul></li> <!-- Known bugs -->
 
@@ -359,19 +361,12 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
     <ul>
 
-    <li>Drivers for additional filesystems are desirable. Given the talk of
-	shifting to Btrfs, that should be the priority; however, other
-	Linux filesystems, UDF, and perhaps others would all be welcome
-	additions. Also along these lines, adding drivers for Linux LVM and
-	RAID setups would be useful, too.</li>
-
-    <li>As detailed on the <a href="drivers.html">drivers page,</a> there
-	are performance issues with the drivers on some systems. I suspect
-	that most "real" computers aren't greatly affected (in my tests,
-	the problem is worst with VirtualBox, and the next worst is a
-	system that uses <a
-	href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/bios2uefi/">DUET</a>). Nonetheless,
-	I'd like to track down the cause and fix it.</li>
+    <li>Drivers for additional filesystems are desirable. Only XFS and JFS
+	are missing from the major Linux filesystems. UDF would also be a
+	welcome addition, as might drivers for other OSes (say, for the
+	BSDs, especially if BSD developers create a boot loader similar to
+	Linux's EFI stub loader). Also along these lines, adding drivers
+	for Linux LVM and RAID setups would be useful.</li>
 
     <li>The HFS+ driver returns a volume label of "HFS+ volume", no matter
         what the volume's real label is.</li>
@@ -390,11 +385,32 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
     </ul></li> <!-- Drivers -->
 
+<li><b>Improvements to <tt>gptsync</tt>, <tt>install.sh</tt>, or other
+    support tools:</b>
+
+    <ul>
+
+    <li>The <tt>gptsync</tt> program can return misleading error codes
+	under some circumstances, such as when it makes no changes to the
+	partition table. Fix this.</li>
+
+    <li>When updating a system with Secure Boot via an RPM or Debian
+	package, the RPM installation script can detect rEFInd's existing
+	shim or PreLoader program and pass options to <tt>install.sh</tt>
+	to try to copy these programs over themselves. This results in a
+	message that the copy was over the same file and an error message
+	that there were problems with the installation, although this isn't
+	really the case.</li>
+
+    <li>A Mac-specific package is highly desirable.</li>
+
+    </ul></li>
+
 </ul>
 
 <hr />
 
-<p>copyright &copy; 2012&ndash;2013 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
+<p>copyright &copy; 2012&ndash;2014 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
 
 <p>This document is licensed under the terms of the <a href="FDL-1.3.txt">GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), version 1.3.</a></p>