X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/ed4abdfc513e5e1b005aeaf54e230194c76978ec..1c723f224b1bc771a4192a2679831c7a6d21c264:/NEWS.txt diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 2510be0..9f30ead 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,41 @@ 0.9.3 (??/??/2015): ------------------- +- 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