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0.3.5 (5/15/2012):
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- Removed the GRUB 2 detection "reciped" added with 0.3.2, since I've
received reports that it's not working as intended.
- Added re-scan feature: Press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its
configuration file, tell the EFI to scan for new filesystems, and re-scan
those filesystems for boot loaders. The main purpose is to enable
scanning a new removable medium that you insert after launching rEFInd;
however, it can also be used to immediately implement changes to the
configuration file or new drivers you load from an EFI shell.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the scroll-right arrow to be replaced by the
scroll-left arrow under some circumstances.
0.3.4 (5/9/2012):
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- Added new configuration file option: "icons_dir", which sets the name
of the subdirectory in which icons are found. See the documentation or
sample configuration file for a full description.
- Modified Makefile to generate rEFInd binary that includes architecture
code -- refind_ia32.efi or refind_x64.efi, rather than the generic
refind.efi. This is done mainly to help the install.sh script. The
program can be named anything you like on the disk. (The generic name
refind.efi is used on unknown architectures.)
- Improved install.sh script: Fixed bug on OS X 10.7 and enable it to be
used after building from source code (or via new "make install" Makefile
target).
- Improved screen redraws to produce less flicker when moving among the
second-row tags or to the last tag on the first row.
0.3.3 (5/6/2012):
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- Improved menu navigation:
- In graphics mode, left & right arrow keys move left & right, while up &
down arrows move between rows.
- Page Up and Page Down now move through chunks of visible tags (in both
text & graphics modes), jumping from one row to another only when at
the edge of the row. In text mode, the "rows" are broken down as in
graphics mode, but they aren't visibly distinguished on the screen.
- Improved text-mode use: rEFInd now displays the proper number of entries
when first started in text mode and scrolling is done sensibly when too
many entries exist to fit on the screen.
0.3.2 (5/4/2012):
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- Added the install.sh script to install rEFInd on Linux and Mac OS X
systems. This script must be run as root (or via sudo). It requires
no options, but on Mac OS X, passing it the "esp" option causes it
to install rEFInd on the computer's ESP rather than the default of the
currently OS X boot partition. (Under Linux, the default is to install to
the ESP.) Note that there may be some unusual cases in which this script
will fail to work.
- Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
mode.
- Added detection "recipe" for GRUB 2's BIOS Boot Partition.
- Fixed bogus detection of ESPs created by Linux's mkdosfs utility or
Windows as bootable partitions when "scanfor" includes BIOS scanning
options.
0.3.1 (4/27/2012):
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- Fixed bug that caused spurious "Unsupported while scanning the root
directory" messages under some conitions on Macs.
- Modified loader scanning code to sort boot loader entries within a
directory by modification time, so that the most recently-modified loader
is first among those in a given directory. Thus, if you specify a
directory name (or volume name, for loaders stored in the root directory
of a volume) as the default_selection, the most recent of those loaders
will be the default. This is intended to help with Linux kernel
maintenance when using the EFI stub loader; set up this way, the most
recent kernel copied to your kernel directory will be the default,
obviating the need to adjust the refind.conf file when adding a new
kernel. If you want to change the default among those in the default
directory, you can use "touch" to adjust the modification timestamp.
- Tweaked code to find loader-specific .icns file so that it finds files
for Linux kernels without .efi extensions. In this case, files should be
named the same as the kernels they match, but with .icns extensions. For
instance, bzImage-3.3.2 should have an icon called bzImage-3.3.2.icns.
(The old code would have looked for an icon called bzImage-3.3.icns.)
- Eliminated bogus OS loader tags for filenames that end in ".icns" when
the scan_all_linux_kernels option is set.
0.3.0 (4/22/2012):
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- I'm officially upgrading this project's status from "alpha" to "beta" and
giving it a bump from 0.2.x to 0.3.0. This doesn't reflect any major
milestone with this version; rather, it reflects my sense that rEFInd has
been "out there" for a while, and although I've gotten bug reports,
they've been minor and/or have been fixed. The program still has known
bugs, but my impression is that it is, overall, usable by ordinary users.
- Added "resolution" option to refind.conf, which enables setting the video
resolution. To use it, pass two numeric values, as in "resolution 1024
768" to use a 1024x768 video mode. Note that not all modes are supported.
If you specify a non-supported video mode on a UEFI system, a message
appears listing the supported video modes and you must then press a key
to continue, using the default video mode (usually 800x600).
Unfortunately, I don't know the calls to get a list of supported video
modes on older EFI 1.x systems (including Macs), so on Macs setting an
incorrect video mode silently fails (you keep using the default mode).
This makes changing your video mode a hit-or-miss proposition on Macs.
CAUTION: It's possible to set a legal video mode that your monitor can't
handle, in which case you'll get a blank display until you boot an OS
that resets the video mode.
- Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused rEFInd to crash when returning from an
EFI shell or other programs on Macs, particularly when rEFInd used
graphical mode. I'm not 100% sure this bug is squashed because I still
don't understand the cause and I only have one Mac for testing. See
comments in the ReinitRefitLib() function in refit/lib.c for more
details.
- Added new refind.conf option: scan_all_linux_kernels, which causes Linux
kernels that lack ".efi" extensions to be included in scans for EFI boot
loaders. This may help integration with Linux distributions that don't
give their kernels such names by default. Beware, though: It can detect
unwanted files, such as older non-stub-loader kernels or .icns files used
to give kernels with .efi extensions custom icons.
- Improved EFI boot loader detection on boards with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
and perhaps other EFIs with a buggy StriCmp() function. Files with both
".efi" and ".EFI" extensions should now be detected as boot loaders.
- Fixed a bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan for drivers if the
filesystem driver didn't set a volume name (that is, if the relevant
field was set to NULL rather than even an empty string). In such
situations, rEFInd now reports the volume name as "Unknown".
0.2.7 (4/19/2012):
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- After much trial and tribulation, I've overcome a GNU-EFI limitation and
enabled rEFInd to load EFI drivers. This feature was present in the
original build of rEFIt but was removed in the versions that could
compile under Linux, but now it's back -- and still being compiled under
Linux! To use it, you should place your drivers in a convenient directory
on the ESP (or whatever partition you use to launch rEFInd) and add a
"scan_driver_dirs" entry to refind.conf to tell rEFInd where to look. (As
always, you should specify the driver directory relative to the root of
the filesystem.) Note that you can't launch drivers from another
filesystem; they must be on the same volume that holds rEFInd. Those who
compile from source code should note that implementing this feature
necessitated using a more recent version of the GNU-EFI library. I'm
currently using version 3.0p, and version 3.0i does NOT work. I don't
know where the change occurred, but you may need to upgrade your GNU-EFI
installation.
- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to show up in its own menu sometimes.
- Added new refind.conf token: also_scan_dirs. When scanning volumes for
EFI boot loaders, rEFInd always scans the root directory and every
subdirectory of the /EFI directory, but it doesn't recurse into these
directories. The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan
list. It defaults to "elilo,boot", but you can set it to any directory or
directories you like.
0.2.6 (4/14/2012):
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- Added "volume" keyword to configuration file's stanza options. This
option changes the volume from which subsequent files (specified by
"loader" and "icon") are loaded. You pass "volume" the name/label of the
FILESYSTEM you want to use (not the GPT partition name), or a number
followed by a colon (e.g., "1:"). The former should reliably identify a
filesystem, assuming the name is unique. The latter assigns numbers based
on the order in which they're scanned, which may not be as reliable but
should work when a volume is unnamed.
- Fixed bug in 0.2.5 that caused failure of Linux initial RAM disk
mapping on some (but not all) systems. Affected computers include at
least some Intel motherboards, maybe others.
0.2.5 (4/9/2012):
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- Fixed bug that caused an inability to associate initial RAM disks with
Linux kernels stored in a volume's root directory.
- Volume badges (that override default badges) are now stored in
.VolumeBadge.icns. Although undocumented, rEFInd formerly loaded custom
volume badges from .VolumeIcon.icns. This carryover from rEFIt was a
confusing name, given the next (new) feature, so I've changed and
documented the name....
- Added ability to set a default icon for a loader stored in the root
directory of a volume: The icon is stored in .VolumeIcon.icns. This icon
is also used for Mac OS X volumes booted from the standard location.
- Fixed bug that caused icons to drop back to generic icons when rEFInd
was launched in certain ways (such as from an EFI shell in rEFInd's
directory) on certain systems.
- Fixed bug that caused "unknown disable flag" to be shown (very briefly)
instead of "unknown hideui flag" when an improper hideui flag was set.
0.2.4 (4/5/2012):
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- Created new refind.conf entry: "showtools". This entry takes options of
"shell", "gptsync", "about", "exit", "reboot", and "shutdown". This
option is in some respects an affirmative version of portions of the old
"disable" and "hideui" options; however, it enables users to specify the
order in which these options appear on the screen. Also, the "exit"
option is new; it terminates the program. The effect is usually to return
to whatever tool launched it or to launch a default OS; however, this is
somewhat unpredictable. The default therefore omits the "exit" option, as
well as "gptsync", which has always been dangerous (but necessary on most
MacOS/Windows dual-boot setups on Macs). As part of this reconfiguration,
I've eliminated the "rescue Linux" option, which always seemed pointless
to me.
- Folded "disable" and "hideui" refind.conf entries into one ("disable"),
and reduced the number of options to six: "banner", "label",
"singleuser", "hwtest", "arrows", and "all". ("arrows" is new and
disables the scroll arrows when a system has too many tags to display
simultaneously.)
- Added max_tags option to the refind.conf file, enabling users to reduce
the maximum number of OS loader tags that can be displayed at once.
- Updated rEFIt icon, based on the 128x128 volume label from the rEFIt CD
image.
- Added x86 and x86-64 EFI shells to the CD image version of the binary,
but NOT to the binary zip file. The logic is that the CD image is more
likely to be used directly as an emergency disc and so may need this
feature, even though the source isn't part of the rEFInd project. (The
source is readily available from the TianoCore project.)
- EFI shells may now be stored at /shellx64.efi for x86-64 systems or at
/shellia32.efi for x86 systems. The /EFI/tools/shell.efi name is also
recognized; however, if both files are present, two EFI shell icons will
appear on the main menu. The /efi/{refind-path/apps/shell.efi filename,
which was never officially documented but worked as a carryover from
rEFIt, is no longer valid.
0.2.3 (3/26/2012):
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- Fixed (maybe) a bug that caused hangs when launching a second program
after returning from a first. There are some weird system-to-system
differences, though, and this fix causes (apparently harmless) error
messages about "(re)opening our installation volume" on at least one
system (a 32-bit Mac Mini). I'm committing this change because, imperfect
though it is, it's preferable to the earlier version, at least on my
small sample of computers.
- Because of news that the Linux kernel developers are planning to use the
filename linux.conf to hold Linux kernel configuration data for EFI
booting, I'm transitioning rEFInd away from that name and to
refind_linux.conf to avoid a conflict. This version can use either name,
with refind_linux.conf taking precedence if both are present.
- Added logo for Arch Linux.
0.2.2 (3/23/2012):
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- Fixed bug that caused program failure when Linux kernels with EFI stub
support were detected with no associated version numbers. rEFInd now
permits automatic linking of *ONE* versionless kernel to *ONE*
versionless initrd file.
- Fixed bug that caused program hangs when a boot loader filename or label
was too long. Such names are now properly truncated and program execution
continues.
- Fixed bug that caused no text to appear in submenus on UEFI systems with
small screens (800x600). NOTE: Problem still occurs on screens smaller
than this, but such systems are very rare.
0.2.1 (3/19/2012):
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- Added ability to set a "default_selection" that's a title or a substring
of one -- the name given to a stanza in a "menuentry" or the boot
loader's filename, in most cases, although "Mac OS X", "Windows XP
(XoM)", and "Microsoft EFI boot" are also titles.
- Added support for semi-automatic scans of Linux kernels with EFI stub
loader support. The program auto-detects matching initial RAM disk files
and loads additional options from the "linux.conf" file in the same
directory as the kernel.
- Added support for "submenuentry" keyword and associated sub-stanza
entries in refind.conf file.
- Renamed icons/os_mint.icns to icons/os_linuxmint.icns to match the
filename Linux Mint ACTUALLY uses for its ESP boot loader directory.
0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
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- Initial public release