X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/e8d44d7578a450f6289abf45f841c65514a6d443..056ca03285e703164b72c615aeb079fe55113a5e:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 0a1dbcf..071b2ce 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,11 +1,67 @@ -0.8.5 (??/??/201?): -------------------- +0.8.6 (?/??/2016): +------------------ -- Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to - install on Macs. +- 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 systems 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. + +- Fixed install.sh bug that caused misidentification of installation + directory under OS X if an already-mounted ESP has spaces in its path. -- Added missing check of architecture type for MOK and memory test - utilities. +- Fixed 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): +----------------- + +- Added NTFS EFI filesystem driver. + +- Minor improvements to filesystem driver framework code. + +- Changes to + +- Fixed bug in Btrfs driver's address reference. + +- Improved install.sh to make it smarter about figuring out where to + install on Macs. Specifically, this version now upgrades existing + installations, if found (as it always has under Linux), rather than + blindly install to EFI/BOOT; it installs to EFI/refind if not existing + installation is found; it installs using the --shortform option to bless, + which seems to eliminate the 30-second delay problem; and it can handle + an HFS+ ESP, which it treats as a separate HFS+ volume (as if the user + had used --ownhfs). These changes do not affect behavior under Linux. + +- Added missing check of architecture type for several tools. + +- Applied rEFIt commit r472, which adds support for BMP images with negative + height fields, indicating that the image is NOT vertically flipped. This + commit and r467 were not incorporated in the original rEFInd because I + forked it from a Debian rEFIt package that had been patched to build + under GNU-EFI, and was apparently based on a slightly earlier version. + +- Applied rEFIt commit r467, which improves Mac handling of legacy boots + from other than the first hard disk. 0.8.4 (12/8/2014):