From: srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:41:20 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Version 0.8.3 release
X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/commitdiff_plain/228291e22c232b9d428feefcd3a1a4b4081ae795

Version 0.8.3 release
---

diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index e90ecd5..985837f 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-0.8.3 (?/??/2014):
-------------------
+0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
+-----------------
+
+- Added new feature: Setting "timeout = -1" in refind.conf causes rEFInd to
+  immediately boot the default option UNLESS a keypress is in the buffer
+  when rEFInd launches. In that case, if the keypress corresponds to a
+  shortcut key, the associated boot loader is launched; or if not, the menu
+  is displayed.
 
 - Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
   distribution.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bed26ec..63df1ba 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+refind (0.8.3-0ppa1) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Version bump
+
+ -- Rod Smith <rodsmith@vbu1404>  Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:28:56 -0400
+
 refind (0.8.2-0ppa3) trusty; urgency=medium
 
   * Removed stray debugging code that caused pause during startup
diff --git a/docs/refind/bootmode.html b/docs/refind/bootmode.html
index 1eb783b..dfcc0f2 100644
--- a/docs/refind/bootmode.html
+++ b/docs/refind/bootmode.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/docs/refind/configfile.html b/docs/refind/configfile.html
index 4eb876d..6dccbb6 100644
--- a/docs/refind/configfile.html
+++ b/docs/refind/configfile.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
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@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ timeout 20
 <tr>
    <td><tt>timeout</tt></td>
    <td>numeric value</td>
-   <td>Sets the timeout period in seconds. If <tt>0</tt>, the timeout is disabled&mdash;rEFInd waits indefinitely for user input. If <tt>-1</tt>, rEFInd will normally boot to the default selection. However, if a shortcut key ('W' for Windows) is pressed, that system will boot. If any other key is pressed, the menu will show with no timeout.</td>
+   <td>Sets the timeout period in seconds. If <tt>0</tt>, the timeout is disabled&mdash;rEFInd waits indefinitely for user input. If <tt>-1</tt>, rEFInd will normally boot immediately to the default selection; however, if a shortcut key (for instance, <tt>W</tt> for Windows) is pressed, that system will boot instead. If any other key is pressed, the menu will show with no timeout.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
    <td><tt>screensaver</tt></td>
diff --git a/docs/refind/drivers.html b/docs/refind/drivers.html
index 4803830..3c06aed 100644
--- a/docs/refind/drivers.html
+++ b/docs/refind/drivers.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
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@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ fs0: <tt class="userinput">map -r</tt>
 
 <ul>
 
+<li><b><a href="https://github.com/pbatard/efifs">Pete Batard's efifs drivers</a></b>&mdash;This project is an EFI driver wrapper around GRUB 2's filesystem drivers. Once compiled, the result is that GRUB 2's drivers become standalone EFI filesystem drivers, loadable independently or by rEFInd. (rEFInd version 0.8.3 or later is required.) At present (early July, 2014), several drivers, including NTFS, exFAT, JFS, and XFS, are usable, albeit with some caveats. For instance, using a <tt>root=UUID={uuid-value}</tt> specification to tell a Linux kernel about its root partition doesn't work, although <tt>root=PARTUUID={guid=value}</tt> does work, as does <tt>root=/dev/sd{xy}</tt>. I have no doubt that these drivers will improve rapidly in usability in the near future.</li>
+
 <li><b><a href="http://refit.sourceforge.net">rEFIt's ext2fs and ReiserFS drivers</a></b>&mdash;You can gain read-only access to ext2fs, ext3fs, and ReiserFS volumes with these drivers, originally written by Christoph Pfisterer. You can use the binaries in the <tt>refit-bin-0.14/efi/tools/drivers</tt> directory of the binary package directly on a Mac. On a UEFI-based PC, though, you'll need to break the Mac-style "fat" binary into its 32- and 64-bit components. You can use my <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/thin/index.html"><tt>thin</tt></a> program for this job. As a practical matter, there's no advantage to using these drivers over rEFInd's drivers, since the latter are updated versions of the former.</li>
 
 <li><b><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/">Clover EFI's ISO-9660, ext2fs, ext4fs, and HFS+ drivers</a></b>&mdash;This project is an offshoot of TianoCore, the main UEFI project. It's primarily a Hackintosh boot loader, but it includes drivers for <a href="http://cloverefiboot.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cloverefiboot/VBoxFsDxe/">ISO-9660, ext2fs, ext4fs, and HFS+;</a> however, building them requires a fair amount of expertise. These drivers served as a starting point for rEFInd's drivers, except for the ext4fs driver, which the Clover developers based on rEFInd's ext4fs driver. Thus, as with the rEFIt drivers, there's likely to be no advantage to using the Clover drivers over the rEFInd drivers.</li>
diff --git a/docs/refind/features.html b/docs/refind/features.html
index 2ff417a..fc112d5 100644
--- a/docs/refind/features.html
+++ b/docs/refind/features.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
 
diff --git a/docs/refind/getting.html b/docs/refind/getting.html
index e9e62ec..b26523b 100644
--- a/docs/refind/getting.html
+++ b/docs/refind/getting.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 <ul>
 
 <li><b><a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-bin-0.8.2.zip/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-bin-0.8.3.zip/download">A
     binary zip file</a></b>&mdash;Download this if you want to install
     rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64
     computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
@@ -146,13 +146,13 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
     href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page. Some users of Arch
     Linux have reported problems booting some specific Arch Linux kernels
     with rEFInd and some other tools. For them, a <a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.2.zip/download">variant
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.3.zip/download">variant
     package</a> exists in which the <i>x</i>86-64 binary was compiled with
     GNU-EFI rather than the usual TianoCore EDK2. This change helps some
     users with this problem.</li>
 
 <li><b><a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-0.8.2-2.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-0.8.3-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
     binary RPM file</a></b>&mdash;If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64
     Linux system such as Fedora or openSUSE, you can install the binary RPM
     package rather than use the binary zip file. (I don't provide an
@@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
     rEFInd</a> page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
     maintainers can examine the <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source
     package and tweak it to their needs. The <a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-0.8.2-2.src.rpm/download">source
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-0.8.3-1.src.rpm/download">source
     RPM file</a> might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
     on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
     files.</li>
 
 <li><b><a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind_0.8.2-2_amd64.deb/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb/download">A
     binary Debian package</a></b>&mdash;If you use an <i>x</i>86-64 version
     of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
     install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 <p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> At the moment, neither the bootable CD-R image file nor the bootable USB flash drive image file supports booting with Secure Boot active. The x86-64 version of the <a href="http://en.altlinux.org/Rescue">ALT Linux Rescue disc</a> uses a Secure Boot-enabled rEFInd, though, so you may find that useful in some situations.</p>
 
 <li><b><a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-cd-0.8.2.zip/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-cd-0.8.3.zip/download">A
     CD-R image file</a></b>&mdash;This download contains the same files as
     the binary zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd
     (and its filesystem drivers) without installing it first. (It boots on
@@ -215,14 +215,14 @@ on <tt>/dev/sdd</tt>. This procedure should work even on a BIOS-booted
 computer.</p>
 
 <li><b><a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-flashdrive-0.8.2.zip/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-flashdrive-0.8.3.zip/download">A
     USB flash drive image file</a></b>&mdash;Although you     can create
     your own rEFInd USB flash drive, you may find it easier to download
     this version and copy it to your USB drive with <tt>dd</tt> or some
     other low-level disk copying utility.</li>
 
 <li><b><a
-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-src-0.8.2.zip/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-src-0.8.3.zip/download">A
     source code zip file</a></b>&mdash;This is useful if you want to compile
     the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
     href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
diff --git a/docs/refind/index.html b/docs/refind/index.html
index ca3e963..6df301e 100644
--- a/docs/refind/index.html
+++ b/docs/refind/index.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <li>The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/">Clover</a> boot loader is a Hackintosh boot loader that incorporates, among other things, its own unique forks of rEFIt and of DUET (a <a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=Welcome">TianoCore</a> tool to boot UEFI on BIOS-based computers).</li>
 
+<li>Pete Batard's <a href="https://github.com/pbatard/efifs">efifs</a> project aims to port GRUB's filesystem drivers to function as standalone EFI filesystem drivers. It's currently a work in progress but shows great promise, and several drivers are usable for limited purposes today.</li>
+
 </ul></li> <!-- Additional programs -->
 
 <li><b>Communications</b>
diff --git a/docs/refind/installing.html b/docs/refind/installing.html
index 54ad51f..6e78b65 100644
--- a/docs/refind/installing.html
+++ b/docs/refind/installing.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/23/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
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@@ -208,13 +208,13 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 <h2>Installing rEFInd Using an RPM or Debian Package File</h2>
 </a>
 
-<p>Beginning with version 0.6.2, I've included RPM and Debian package files for rEFInd; and starting with version 0.8.2, I'm maintaining an Ubuntu PPA for rEFInd. If you have a working RPM-based or Debian-based Linux installation that boots in EFI mode, using one of these files is likely to be the easiest way to install rEFInd: You need only download the file and issue an appropriate installation command. In some cases, double-clicking the package in your file manager will install it. If that doesn't work, a command like the following will install the RPM on an RPM-based system:</p>
+<p>Beginning with version 0.6.2, I've included RPM and Debian package files for rEFInd; and starting with version 0.8.3, I'm maintaining an Ubuntu PPA for rEFInd. If you have a working RPM-based or Debian-based Linux installation that boots in EFI mode, using one of these files is likely to be the easiest way to install rEFInd: You need only download the file and issue an appropriate installation command. In some cases, double-clicking the package in your file manager will install it. If that doesn't work, a command like the following will install the RPM on an RPM-based system:</p>
 
-<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">rpm -Uvh refind-0.8.2-1.x86_64.rpm</tt></pre>
+<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">rpm -Uvh refind-0.8.3-1.x86_64.rpm</tt></pre>
 
 <p>On a Debian-based system, the equivalent command is:</p>
 
-<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">dpkg -i refind_0.8.2-1_amd64.deb</tt></pre>
+<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">dpkg -i refind_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb</tt></pre>
 
 <p>Either command produces output similar to that described for <a href="#installsh">using the <tt>install.sh</tt> script,</a> so you can check it for error messages and other signs of trouble. The package file installs rEFInd and registers it with the EFI to be the default boot loader. The script that runs as part of the installation process tries to determine if you're using Secure Boot, and if so it will try to configure rEFInd to launch using shim; however, this won't work correctly on all systems. Ubuntu 12.10 users who are booting with Secure Boot active should be wary, since the resulting installation will probably try to use Ubuntu's version of shim, which won't work correctly with rEFInd.</p>
 
diff --git a/docs/refind/linux.html b/docs/refind/linux.html
index fb9f214..66fa9f5 100644
--- a/docs/refind/linux.html
+++ b/docs/refind/linux.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/19/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
diff --git a/docs/refind/revisions.html b/docs/refind/revisions.html
index a190e56..622367a 100644
--- a/docs/refind/revisions.html
+++ b/docs/refind/revisions.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 <p class="subhead">by Roderick W. Smith, <a
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
-<p>Last Web page update: 6/8/2014</p>
+<p>Last Web page update: 7/6/2014</p>
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
 
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <ul>
 
+<li><b>0.8.3 (7/6/2014)</b>&mdash;This version introduces a number of minor bug fixes and feature improvements. The most user-visible of these are that on Macs, rEFInd now displays a partition's label for BIOS-bootable OSes on filesystems that rEFInd can't read; and you can now pass <tt>timeout = -1</tt> in <tt>refind.conf</tt> to have rEFInd boot the default OS immediately <i>unless</i> there's a keypress when rEFInd loads, in which case that keypress is read as a shortcut key. A change that's less likely to be noticed is that the default setting for <tt>scan_all_linux_kernels</tt> is now <tt>true</tt>. Since this option had been uncommented in the sample configuration file, this change will not affect most people. I've fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers as soon as they were loaded. This didn't affect rEFInd's drivers because they ignored the relevant EFI calls; but this was preventing some other drivers from working. I've added two new icons, one for Mythbuntu and the other for the Clover boot manager. Finally, I've removed Oracle's GPLv2 code from the core filesystem driver code, since it was incompatible with the GPLv3 used by the Btrfs driver. This change <i>shouldn't</i> affect the operation of the drivers, but there's a slim chance that it will.</li>
+
 <li><b>0.8.2 (6/8/2014)</b>&mdash;I've continued to refine the UEFI BIOS-mode boot code with this version; it now uses the BIOS-mode boot entries provided by the firmware by default, and actively scans for new entries only if the <tt>deep_uefi_legacy_scan</tt> token is present in <tt>refind.conf</tt>. This change is motivated by reports I've received of BIOS-mode boot entries multiplying on some systems; however, a deep scan is required to detect the second and subsequent disks on other computers. A second important change is that the default selection is now the last-booted item rather than the first item in the list. You can still set a fixed default via the <tt>default_selection</tt> token, and in fact if you provide a list that begins with <tt>+</tt>, the default will be the previously-booted item unless it can't be found, in which case the subsequent items in the list will be tried. Minor changes include the addition of an icon for Mageia Linux, a minor bug fix in GUID-parsing code, and an update of my personal build system from TianoCore UDK2010.SR1.UP1.P1 to UDK2014. This last item will affect anybody else who uses TianoCore to build rEFInd, since some default paths have changed, so you may need to update yourself or adjust the path in <tt>Make.tiano</tt>.</li>
 
 <li><b>0.8.1 (5/15/2014)</b>&mdash;The biggest code change in this version is that rEFInd's UEFI-style BIOS-mode boot code now works when rEFInd is built with GNU-EFI as well as when built with Tianocore. This change won't affect users of my binary builds, which have long been made with Tianocore, but if your distribution builds rEFInd with GNU-EFI, it might interest you. Some user-noticeable bug fixes include a fix to a bug that could cause rEFInd to omit boot loaders on a partition's root directory, a fix to a bug that caused <tt>.VolumeIcon.icns</tt> to take a higher-than-intended precedence on OS X boot volumes, a fix to a bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot from the wrong device in UEFI mode, and improved centering of BIOS-mode boot descriptions on the screen. Other changes include two new optional bitmap fonts (Ubuntu Mono and Nimbus Mono), omission of messages about scanning of boot loaders when <tt>scan_delay</tt> is set to <tt>1</tt>, a change to the search order for icons (PNG files now override ICNS files), and a conversion of all the icons in the icons directory from ICNS to PNG format. Note that this last change may necessitate changing manual boot stanzas if you refer to icons in the default icon directory, depending on how you upgrade rEFInd.</li>
diff --git a/docs/refind/secureboot.html b/docs/refind/secureboot.html
index 273f882..82b4517 100644
--- a/docs/refind/secureboot.html
+++ b/docs/refind/secureboot.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 11/13/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
diff --git a/docs/refind/themes.html b/docs/refind/themes.html
index c941245..0960860 100644
--- a/docs/refind/themes.html
+++ b/docs/refind/themes.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
diff --git a/docs/refind/todo.html b/docs/refind/todo.html
index 0bf2271..df3d665 100644
--- a/docs/refind/todo.html
+++ b/docs/refind/todo.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
 <p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
diff --git a/docs/refind/using.html b/docs/refind/using.html
index 72998b8..42b4354 100644
--- a/docs/refind/using.html
+++ b/docs/refind/using.html
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
+7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3</p>
 
 
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@@ -322,6 +322,8 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 </tr>
 </table>
 
+<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> If you set <tt>timeout = -1</tt> in <tt>refind.conf</tt>, rEFInd will immediately launch the default OS <i>unless</i> you press a key as rEFInd launches. In that case, if the key you pressed is a valid shortcut key, rEFInd will launch the associated entry. If not, rEFInd will show you its main menu.</p>
+
 <p>rEFInd assigns shortcut letters to most OS entries based on the first letter of the directory in which the OS's boot loader is stored. For instance, if you have a boot loader called <tt>/EFI/debian/elilo.efi</tt>, rEFInd attempts to assign it a shortcut letter of <i>D</i>. rEFInd overrides this default for Mac OS X, Windows, and for Linux's GRUB, ELILO, and EFI stub boot loaders if the distribution can't be more precisely identified, as noted in the preceding table. This method works well for many installations, but it can produce conflicts. For instance, if you have a Macintosh that holds both Mac OS X and Mandriva, both OSes would normally use the <tt>M</tt> shortcut key. In practice, which works depends on the order in which rEFInd detects the OSes.</p>
 
 <a name="legacy">
diff --git a/filesystems/fsw_efi.c b/filesystems/fsw_efi.c
index 6081377..dd5d7c5 100644
--- a/filesystems/fsw_efi.c
+++ b/filesystems/fsw_efi.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ EFI_GUID gEfiFileSystemVolumeLabelInfoIdGuid = EFI_FILE_SYSTEM_VOLUME_LABEL_INFO
 /** Helper macro for stringification. */
 #define FSW_EFI_STRINGIFY(x) #x
 /** Expands to the EFI driver name given the file system type name. */
-#define FSW_EFI_DRIVER_NAME(t) L"rEFInd 0.8.2 " FSW_EFI_STRINGIFY(t) L" File System Driver"
+#define FSW_EFI_DRIVER_NAME(t) L"rEFInd 0.8.3 " FSW_EFI_STRINGIFY(t) L" File System Driver"
 
 // function prototypes
 
diff --git a/gptsync/gptsync.h b/gptsync/gptsync.h
index 4902d08..0f9835e 100644
--- a/gptsync/gptsync.h
+++ b/gptsync/gptsync.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
  */
 /* Changes copyright (c) 2013 Roderick W. Smith */
 
-#define VERSION L"0.8.2"
+#define VERSION L"0.8.3"
 
 //
 // config
diff --git a/refind.conf-sample b/refind.conf-sample
index 19d0430..b9b46eb 100644
--- a/refind.conf-sample
+++ b/refind.conf-sample
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 #
 
 # Timeout in seconds for the main menu screen. Setting the timeout to 0
-# disables automatic booting (i.e., no timeout).
+# disables automatic booting (i.e., no timeout). Setting it to -1 causes
+# an immediate boot to the default OS *UNLESS* a keypress is in the buffer
+# when rEFInd launches, in which case that keypress is interpreted as a
+# shortcut key. If no matching shortcut is found, rEFInd displays its
+# menu with no timeout.
 #
 timeout 20
 
diff --git a/refind.spec b/refind.spec
index 3501732..6bbb945 100644
--- a/refind.spec
+++ b/refind.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: EFI boot manager software
 Name: refind
-Version: 0.8.2
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 0.8.3
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: EFI boot manager software
 License: GPLv3
 URL: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ fi
 # wiping out the just-updated files.
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jul 6 2014 R Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com> - 0.8.3
+- Updated spec file for 0.8.3
 * Sun Jun 8 2014 R Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com> - 0.8.2
 - Updated spec file for 0.8.2
 * Thu May 15 2014 R Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com> - 0.8.1
diff --git a/refind/main.c b/refind/main.c
index dfe419d..1efadf6 100644
--- a/refind/main.c
+++ b/refind/main.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static VOID AboutrEFInd(VOID)
 
     if (AboutMenu.EntryCount == 0) {
         AboutMenu.TitleImage = BuiltinIcon(BUILTIN_ICON_FUNC_ABOUT);
-        AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"rEFInd Version 0.8.2.4");
+        AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"rEFInd Version 0.8.3");
         AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"");
         AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Christoph Pfisterer");
         AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Roderick W. Smith");
diff --git a/refind/menu.c b/refind/menu.c
index 9d5c316..ab39137 100644
--- a/refind/menu.c
+++ b/refind/menu.c
@@ -367,7 +367,6 @@ static UINTN RunGenericMenu(IN REFIT_MENU_SCREEN *Screen, IN MENU_STYLE_FUNC Sty
     CHAR16 TimeoutMessage[256];
     CHAR16 KeyAsString[2];
     UINTN MenuExit;
-//     EG_PIXEL Black = { 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0 };
 
     if (Screen->TimeoutSeconds > 0) {
         HaveTimeout = TRUE;