X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/e366a10e438344bd1331f2de89d177079a91ba76..dffdd1e4bed58b1aa1e094ac4583e43e0f0fc3ef:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 1d23782..1e9f6a4 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,3 +1,95 @@ +0.9.3 (11/8/2015): +------------------ + +- Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it + should under OS X. + +- Modified refind-install and mkrlconf scripts to use /proc/cmdline as + source for default boot options EXCEPT when refind-install receives the + --root option. In that case, refind-install continues to use + /etc/default/grub as the source of default options. The idea behind this + change is that it's more reliable to get boot options from /proc/cmdline + when the targeted system is the one that's booted; but --root would be + used from emergency disks or live CDs, in which case the current boot + options would be completely wrong, so extracting boot options from GRUB + files is the best bet for getting close to the right options. + +- Added "@/boot" to default also_scan_dirs setting. This makes kernels + show up on Btrfs volumes under Ubuntu (and perhaps others), at least when + the Btrfs driver is loaded. + +- Added new System Integrity Protection (SIP) rotation feature for Macs + running OS X 10.11 or later. This feature is disabled by default, except + on CD-R and USB flash drive images, on which it's enabled. To enable it, + you must make TWO changes to refind.conf: Uncomment the new "csr_values" + item and add "csr_rotate" to the "showtools" line (uncommenting it, too, + if it's commented out). If desired, you can set more values on + "csr_values"; these are comma-delimited one-byte hexadecimal values that + define various SIP states. When SIP/CSR rotation is activated, a new + shield icon appears among the tools. Selecting it causes the next defined + value to be set and a confirmation message to appear for three seconds. + +- Added display of current System Integrity Protection (SIP) mode to + "About" display. + +- Added mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP. + +- Renamed support scripts: install.sh to refind-install, mvrefind.sh to + mvrefind, and mkrlconf.sh to mkrlconf. + +- New icons! The old ones were getting to be a jumbled mess of styles, + particularly for OS tags. I used the AwOken icon set + (http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862) for the core icons, + then expanded from there by creating my own icons and modifying icons for + Debian and Elementary OS. I'm also trying to keep better track of + copyrights and licenses on icons. Between that and some icons being for + OSes that probably see very little use (FreeDOS and eComstation, for + instance), a few OS icons have been lost. If you prefer the old icons, + you can continue to use them by upgrading rEFInd, renaming icons-backup + to something else (say, icons-classic), and then adding an "icons" line + in refind.conf to point to the old icons directory. + +- Changed from .zip to .tar.gz as source code archive format. I did this + because Linux is the only officially-supported build platform, and + tarballs are a more natural fit to a Linux environment. I'm leaving .zip, + .deb, and .rpm files as the formats for binary packages. + +- Added detection of System Integrity Protection (SIP; aka "rootless") mode + to OS X portion of install.sh script. When detected, and if no existing + rEFInd installation is found, the script now prints a warning and brief + instructions of how to enter the Recovery mode to install rEFInd and + suggests aborting the installation. (The user can override and attempt + installation anyhow.) If SIP is detected along with an existing rEFInd + installation, the script moderates the warning and explains that an + update of a working rEFInd will probably succeed, but that re-installing + to fix a broken rEFInd will probably fail. + +- Added new "spoof_osx_version" token, which takes an OS X version number + (such as "10.9") as an option. This feature, when enabled, causes rEFInd + to tell a Mac's firmware that the specified version of OS X is being + launched. This option is usually unnecessary, but it can help properly + initialize some hardware -- particularly secondary video devices. OTOH, + on some Macs it can cause hardware (notably keyboards and mice) to become + unresponsive, so you should not use this option unnecessarily. + +- Worked around an EFI bug that affected my 32-bit Mac Mini: That system + seems to have a broken EFI, or possibly a buggy CPU, that causes some + (but not all) conversions from floating-point to integer numbers to hang + the computer. Such operations were performed only in rEFInd's + graphics-resizing code, and so would manifest only when icons or + background images were resized. My fix eliminates the use of + floating-point operations in the affected function, which eliminates the + crashes. There may be some degradation in the quality of resized images, + though, particularly on 32-bit systems. (64-bit systems use larger + integers, which enable greater precision in my floating-point + workaround.) + +- 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): ------------------