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5 (2/12/2020):
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- Fixed bug that caused screen corruption when exiting the EFI shell
(and perhaps other programs) on some systems.
- Fixed bug that could cause rescan operations (including after hiding
or un-hiding loaders or when using a scan delay) to hang rEFInd. This
seemed to be a problem mostly with buggy filesystem drivers.
- No longer build NTFS driver by default; it's just too buggy. The source
code is still available and can be built by typing "make ntfs" in the
filesystems subdirectory.
0.11.4 (11/12/2018):
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0.11.3 (7/22/2018):
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- Fixed bug that caused portions of the "Pausing before disk scan; please
wait...." message displayed when scan_delay is set to a value over 1 to
remain on screen.
- Added support for JPEG images. These are most useful as background
(banner) images, since alpha/transparency is not supported. For that
matter, progressive, lossless, and other JPEG features are not supported,
either; see https://keyj.emphy.de/nanojpeg/ for details.
- Added new use_nvram token, which defaults to true to mimic the original
behavior. When set to false, this option tells rEFInd to store its
variables (PreviousBoot, HiddenTags, HiddenLegacy, and Hidden tools, used
to enable booting the the previously-booted OS and to manage hidden OS
tags) on the hard disk rather than in NVRAM. Note that this token does NOT
affect rEFInd's reading NVRAM for non-rEFInd-specific variables, such as
the one holding the Secure Boot status.
- Added icons for Void Linux, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04.
0.11.2 (10/22/2017):
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- Fixed a bug that caused the hidden-tags feature to not work unless
it was explicitly set in refind.conf. (It should have been enabled by
default, and now it is.)
0.11.1 (10/9/2017):
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- Modified the way rEFInd tracks boot loader files. This was made necessary
by macOS 10.13/APFS, which was confusing rEFInd's old tracking code when
it was compiled with GNU-EFI. Ideally, this will have no noticeable effect
to end users; however, it's possible that some loaders will appear or
disappear from the menu, or "file not found" errors when launching loaders
will go away, after upgrading to this version of rEFInd.
- Added support for new macOS boot loader locations used in macOS 10.13
("High Sierra").
- Fixed bug, introduced in 0.11.0, that caused the Apple and Microsoft
recovery tools to not be detected.
0.11.0 (8/13/2017):
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- Fixed lack of scaling of disk badges when other icons were properly scaled
on HiDPI/retina displays.
- Fixed bug that caused specifying a full path to the fallback boot
loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi) in dont_scan_files to fail to work.
- A new feature enables you to hide OSes and external tool tags from the
rEFInd main menu: Highlight the OS tag and hit "-" or the Delete key. The
OS tag should disappear, and remain gone between reboots. A new tool tag
(on the second row) with a recycling icon enables recovering OS tags
hidden in this way.
- The refind-install and mvrefind scripts now create a BOOT.CSV file in the
rEFInd installation directory. The fallback.efi (aka fbx64.efi) program
delivered with many distributions can use this file to re-create rEFInd's
NVRAM boot entry should it be lost. Some distributions (such as Fedora)
set up fallback.efi in the EFI/BOOT directory on the ESP, so it will run
automatically if NVRAM variables are lost. All this said, there's no
guarantee that rEFInd will be FIRST in the boot order should the NVRAM
entries be lost.
- Improved error messaging on Macs; most serious system errors should now
be reported on-screen in graphics mode.
0.10.9 (7/30/2017):
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- The PauseForKey() function now works on Macs in graphics mode, which can
help when some errors are encountered. (Most of the errors associated with
this function still rely on Print(), which still doesn't work on Macs; but
at least there will be a prompt to press a key.)
- rEFInd now displays its background and banner before scanning for boot
loaders, and displays a message that it's performing this scan.
- Updated LodePNG, which is used to load PNG images, to the latest version
(20161127).
0.10.8 (5/21/2017):
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- Added icon for Devuan GNU+Linux, based on the icon in the Devuan press kit
(https://devuan.org/os/press/).
0.10.7 (4/17/2017):
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- Hide volume name "Recovery HD," if that's what it is, from loader
description. This is done because some OS X users are getting confused and
even upset over this detail, even though it's accurate, at least from an
EFI/rEFInd point of view.
0.10.6 (4/16/2017):
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- Fixed bug in mvrefind that could cause it to fail to move the rEFInd
installation because it incorrectly converted the target directory to an
empty string if the target directory did not (yet) exist.
- Don't set the video mode if the computer is already running in the
requested mode. This is a shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix problems with
Mac "retina" displays, which tend to get bumped down to a lower resolution
by rEFInd.
0.10.5 (3/4/2017):
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- Add new key mappings: Backspace (Delete on Mac keyboards) works the same
as Esc, and Tab works the same as F2/Insert/+. This is done for the
benefit of new Apple laptops that lack physical Esc and function keys.
- Fix to refind-install to work better with disks other than /dev/sd? and
/dev/hd? devices.
0.10.4 (10/9/2016):
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- Fixed bug that could cause program crash on startup. (In practice, it
manifested with GNU-EFI starting with version 3.0.3 or 3.0.4.)
0.10.3 (4/24/2016):
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- Fixed bug in NTFS driver that caused it to hang (and thus hang the
computer) in some situations, particularly when a file on an NTFS volume
had many fragments and when the computer's CSM was activated. (Fix
courtesy of "S L.")
0.10.2 (1/26/2016):
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- Fixed bug that caused custom volume badges (vol_*.png) to be read only
from default location ("icons" subdirectory), effectively eliminating the
ability to adjust them.
0.10.1 (12/12/2015):
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- Change to PPA version: Installing the PPA now queries the user about
whether to install to the ESP. Upgrades will remember the initial
selection.
- Added workaround to gptsync for issue with some Macs' EFIs that caused
the program to skip through all prompts, thus accepting the default
option. This would normally cause gptsync to do nothing.
- Removed Luxi Sans Mono font, since I discovered it was not open source;
and changed the default font from Nimbus Mono to Liberation Mono.
- Added support for compiling rEFInd for ARM64 (aka AARCH64 or aa64). This
works with both GNU-EFI and Tianocore UDK2014.SP1.P1. This support is
currently poorly tested. In particular, I used QEMU on an x86-64 computer
to create a virtualized ARM64 environment; I've not yet tested on a real
computer. I couldn't get QEMU to create a video card, so I used a serial
terminal, which means that the graphics features are untested -- I ran
rEFInd with "textonly" uncommented in refind.conf. I've tested the ext4fs
driver but no other drivers, although they all compile. (So does gptsync,
although it's unlikely to be useful on ARM64.) Some rEFInd features are
meaningless on ARM64, such as BIOS-mode boot support, anything geared
toward Macs (csr_values/csr_rotate, spoof_osx_version, etc.), and
enable_and_lock_vmx.
- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to fail to scan EFI boot loaders on
removable media when rEFInd itself was launched from the fallback
filename.
- Fixed bugs in mkrlconf and in refind-install that could cause some kernel
options to be excluded from refind_linux.conf. There were two trouble
conditions:
- Previously, these scripts assumed that the first option in
/proc/cmdline was the kernel's filename, but this isn't always the
case. (In particular, when gummiboot launches the kernel, this is not
true. It might be an incorrect assumption in some other cases, too.)
The fix involves checking for likely signs of a kernel filename before
discarding this first option.
- These scripts cut the "initrd=*" option from /proc/cmdline, but the
call to "sed" was overzealous and cut until the end of input. This
usually worked, since the initrd= option was usually last on the line;
but if it wasn't, any options following initrd= would be lost.
0.10.0 (11/8/2015):
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- Fixed bug that caused refind-install to not unmount the ESP when it
should under OS X.
- 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 mountesp script for OS X to (you guessed it!) mount the ESP.
- 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.
- 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):
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0.9.1 (9/13/2015):
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- When rEFInd identifies the root (/) partition via the Freedesktop.org
Discoverable Partitions Specification, it now checks two of the
partition's attributes, as per the DPS (see
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/):
- The partition's read-only attribute determines whether to pass a "rw"
or "ro" option to the kernel.
- If the partition's do-not-automount flag is set, rEFInd will not pass
it as a "root=" option to the kernel. This flag can be used to remove
all but one partition from consideration as a root (/) partition if a
system has more than one with the correct type code.
- Fixed bug that caused "Found match!" and a prompt to press a key to
continue to be printed if any partition used the Freedesktop.org
Discoverable Partitions Specification root-partition GUID. (This
was leftover debugging/testing code that I somehow missed deleting.)
0.9.0 (7/26/2015):
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- Minor code changes to ensure that rEFInd compiles with GCC 5.1. (Tested
with GNU-EFI on a Fedora 22 system; not yet tested with the TianoCore
EDK2.)
- The mkrlconf.sh script now checks the OS on which it's running, which
should help avoid confusion or problems by users who mistakenly run it
under OS X.
- rEFInd now skips checking for various BIOS-mode boot sector signatures
when running on a UEFI-based PC; these checks are run only on Macs. This
may reduce startup time on systems with many partitions.
0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
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- Added protections to the code to reduce the risk of crashes that might
occur when dereferencing NULL pointers in various situations.
0.8.6 (2/8/2015):
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- Removed special case of ignoring an HFS+ name of "HFS+ volume", since the
old rEFInd HFS+ driver that produced this name for all HFS+ volumes has
long since been updated to deliver a real name.
- 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 Macs 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.)
0.8.5 (2/1/2015):
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- Changes to
- 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):
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- Updated icons for Fedora and Ubuntu and added an icon for Xubuntu.
- If a loader contains the string "grub" and no other clue to the loader's
OS association exists, search for os_grub.{png|icns} (which is not
provided with rEFInd) or os_linux.{png|icns}. (Previous versions provided
a generic loader icon for GRUB.)
- Added support for the iPXE network boot tool (see BUILDING.txt for
building and basic use instructions).
0.8.3 (7/6/2014):
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- Added new icons for Clover boot loader and for Mythbuntu Linux
distribution.
- rEFInd now displays the partition's label, when one is available, when
offering a BIOS-mode boot option for a partition with no filesystem
driver. This works only on Macs doing BIOS-mode booting.
- Removed GPLv2 code from the FSW core files. This was done because the
Btrfs driver is derived from the GRUB Btrfs driver, which is licensed
under the GPLv3. Ironically, the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible
licenses, so ensuring that the Btrfs driver doesn't rely on GPLv2 code
was legally necessary. In most cases, I reverted to the original rEFIt
code, although I kept my own cache code; since I wrote it, I can
change its license to a BSD license.
- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to unload drivers immediately after loading
them. This didn't affect rEFInd's own drivers because they didn't include
the unload hooks, but it did affect some other drivers.
0.8.2.1 (6/8/2014):
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0.8.2 (6/8/2014):
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- I've updated my personal build system, and therefore the rEFInd Makefiles
and related files, to use TianoCore UDK2014 rather than UDK2010.
0.8.1 (5/15/2014):
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- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to fail to detect boot loaders stored
on the root directory of a partition.
- Added two new bitmap fonts to those distributed with rEFInd: Ubuntu Mono
and Nimbus Mono. Both come in 12-, 14-, 16-, and 24-point sizes.
- Messages about pauses for scanning and re-scanning of boot loaders are
now suppressed when doing an initial delayed scan when scan_delay is 1
second.
- Fixed bug that could cause a BIOS-mode boot to boot from an inappropriate
device if that device had an innately high boot priority (as set by the
firmware).
- Changed icons from ICNS to PNG form. There are several reasons to do
this, all of them minor; but together they're enough to warrant a change.
PNG is more common, and therefore more accessible to most users --
particularly those who don't use OS X. The PNG files are smaller than
their ICNS equivalents. PNG supports a wider range of sizes (although I'm
not now using anything that ICNS doesn't support, I might in the future).
The icon-scaling support added a few versions ago makes ICNS's support
for multiple icon sizes relatively unimportant.
0.8.0 (5/4/2014):
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- Can now boot in legacy mode from second (and probably later) hard disks!
- rEFInd now limits the length of the firmware name string shown in the
system information screen to 65 characters. This is done because at least
one EFI presents a longer string by default, and this causes the entire
information display to come up empty on 800x600 displays.
- rEFInd now uses the partition's name (as stored in the GPT data
structures) as a fallback for the filesystem's name if the latter can't
be found. Exceptions are if the partition name is one of three generic
names used by GPT fdisk: "Microsoft basic data", "Linux filesystem", or
"Apple HFS/HFS+". These are ignored in favor of the descriptive fallback
(e.g., "20 GiB Btrfs volume")
0.7.9 (4/20/2014):
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- Fixed some EFI filesystem driver bugs that could cause lockups under
some circumstances. These bugs could affect any of the filesystem
drivers.
0.7.8 (3/9/2014):
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- rEFInd now automatically scales icons to fit the standard icon sizes.
This won't have any effect with the icons that come with rEFInd, but it
can help if you want to use another icon, since you needn't scale it in a
graphics program before using it. Note that rEFInd uses bitmap icons, so
scaling by a huge amount (say, a 16x16 icon to fit the standard 128x128
OS icon) is not likely to look good.
- Added new option, banner_scale, that tells rEFInd how to handle banners:
Set to "noscale" (the default), banners are not scaled, although they'll
be cropped if they're too big for the display. This is the same as the
behavior in previous versions. Set to "fillscreen", rEFInd now scales the
banner image (larger or smaller) to fill the display.
0.7.7 (1/3/2014):
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- Added feature in install.sh: Script now tries to locate and mount an ESP
in Linux, if it's currently unmounted.
- Fixed bug in mkrlconf.sh and install.sh that caused a stray line break
and PARTUUID= specification to appear in generated refind_linux.conf file
under some circumstances.
0.7.6 (12/15/2013):
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- Added support for a blank-screen startup: Set "screensaver -1" and the
screen saver will be initialized when rEFInd starts. If you set a low
"timeout" value, the result will be a boot straight to the default OS
unless you hit a key soon after rEFInd starts. Once you hit a key, the
screensaver will be disabled.
0.7.5 (11/10/2013):
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- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to hang on some Macs when multiple EFI
drivers were present.
- Fixed bug that caused clear to default gray screen when launching OSes
with 'use_graphics_for' enabled, even when the rEFInd background is not
gray. Now rEFInd clears to the same background color used in its menu.
When launching OS X, though, the OS X boot loader will itself clear to
gray a second or so later; and when launching Linux, it will clear to
black a second or so later.
0.7.4.1 (8/25/2013):
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0.7.4 (8/25/2013):
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- Added space to end of "Boot %s from %s" string; enables adding a space
to the end of the "default_selection" item (in quotes) to set a default
that matches a volume name that's identical to another one except for
extra characters at the end of the non-wanted volume's name.
- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to hang when launching boot loaders
under some conditions. (Launching from Firewire drives on Macs is the
known case, but there may be others.)
0.7.3 (8/7/2013):
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- Fixed bug that caused failure when launching BIOS-mode OSes on Macs.
0.7.2 (8/6/2013):
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- Fixed bug that caused display glitches in the final entry on the first
row of icons if the second row of icons was empty.
- Fixed bug that could cause incorrect scanning or even a rEFInd crash when
using volume specification in also_scan_dirs token.
- Added protection against loading invalid drivers and other EFI programs.
(Some EFIs crash when attempting to load such drivers and programs.)
0.7.1 (7/8/2013):
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- Added scan for Boot Repair's backup of the Windows boot loader
(bkpbootmgfw.efi). If found, give separate entries for it and for
bootmgfw.efi, each with its own descriptive text label.
- Fixed also_scan_dirs; used to have bug that caused it to ignore
volume specification, if present.
- Fixed bug in driver cache that caused Btrfs driver to hang sometimes.
0.7.0 (6/27/2013):
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- Added a cache to the filesystem driver core, and therefore to all the
filesystem drivers. This cache greatly improves performance in
VirtualBox, and offers modest performance improvements on a few "real"
computers. The most dramatic improvement is on ext2/3fs under VirtualBox:
Loading a kernel and initrd used to take ~200 seconds on my system, but
now takes ~3 seconds! On most "real" hardware, the improvement is much
less dramatic -- an improvement of a second or less, presumably because
of cacheing within the EFI or on the hard disk itself.
- Filter boot loaders based on a test of their validity; keeps out Linux
kernels without EFI stub loader code, loaders for the wrong architecture,
non-EFI loaders, etc.
- New Btrfs driver, contributed by Samuel Liao based on GRUB 2.00 Btrfs
code.
0.6.12 (6/18/2013):
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- Changed the 64-bit EFI shell included in the CD-R and USB flash drive
images to a version 2 shell that should support the "bcfg" command.
0.6.11 (5/13/2013):
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- Improved the install.sh script so that it does a better job dealing with
directory names that contain spaces.
- rEFInd now tries to guess the Linux distribution type based on the kernel
filename (Fedora and RHEL only) or the "ID" or "NAME" variables in
/etc/os-release on the kernel's partition. None of these is guaranteed to
work. A fallback of the Tux penguin icon remains in place in case rEFInd
can't find anything substantive enough for a guess.
- Fixed bug in gptsync that caused it to hang if the disk had too few GPT
partitions to fill the MBR.
0.6.10 (5/5/2013):
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- Added new option to reboot the computer into the firmware's user
interface. This option is active by default, or can be set via the
"firmware" option to the "showtools" token in refind.conf. It works
on only some computers, though; older computers lack this feature, and
when rEFInd is told to use this feature on such computers, the directive
is quietly ignored.
- Enable multiple screen shots: Rather than naming all screen shots
"screenshot.bmp", the name is now "screenshot_###.bmp", where "###" is a
sequence number, starting with "001".
0.6.9 (4/25/2013):
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- Modified default banner to include the new rEFInd icon, provided by Erik
Kemperman.
- Worked around a suspected firmware bug that caused rEFInd 0.6.6 to 0.6.8
to hang at startup on some systems (DUET and some Macs).
- Modified rEFInd to search for gptsync under the names gptsync.efi and
gptsync_{arch}.efi, where {arch} is ia32 or x64. (Previous versions
searched only for gptsync.efi.)
- Added gptsync program from rEFIt project, but with some changes to
improve flexibility and make it less likely that UEFI users will
accidentally trash their systems.
0.6.8 (3/18/2013):
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- Added workaround for presumed EFI bug that was causing "Invalid
Parameter" errors when scanning for boot loaders on some computers.
- Added search for an EFI shell called shell.efi in the root directory
(previously this name was only accepted in EFI\tools).
- Fixed bug that caused icons named after boot loaders to not be used.
0.6.7 (2/3/2013):
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- Changed MOK tool detection to scan all volumes, not just the rEFInd
home volume. This is desirable because the Linux Foundation's HashTool
can only scan its own volume, making it desirable to place copies of this
program on every volume that holds EFI boot loader binaries.
- Fixed broken mixing of PNG and ICNS icons when using a user-specified
icons directory -- previously, an ICNS file in the default directory
would override a PNG file in the user-specified directory.
0.6.6 (1/26/2013):
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- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore manual boot stanzas in files
included via the "include" token in refind.conf.
- Fixed bug that caused ASSERT error on some systems (and conceivably a
crash on startup on some) when default_selection line in refind.conf was
commented out or empty.
- Fixed bug that caused rEFInd to ignore the "icon" token in refind.conf
manual boot stanzas.
0.6.5 (1/16/2013):
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- Improved text color support: rEFInd now uses black text against light
backgrounds and white text against dark backgrounds.
- Enable transparency of icons & main-menu text when the banner icon is
sized to cover these areas.
- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to crash if fed a banner image that's
too big. Note that "too big" can be substantially smaller than the screen
resolution!
0.6.4 (1/8/2013):
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- Revised install.sh to copy ext2fs driver, rather than ext4fs driver, for
ext2/3 filesystems. This can help keep non-functional entries from links
from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz out of the menu if the system uses ext4fs
on root and ext2fs or ext3fs on /boot.
0.6.3 (1/6/2013):
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- Fixed a bug that caused removable EFI media to not appear in scan lists
if rEFInd was installed as EFI/BOOT/boot{arch}.efi on a hard disk.
- Modified ISO-9660 driver so that it can handle discs with other than
2048-byte sectors. This makes it useful for reading "hybrid ISO" images
burned to USB flash disks.
0.6.2 (12/30/2012):
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- The EFI filesystem drivers can now be built with the GNU-EFI toolkit as
well as with the TianoCore EDK2. See the BUILDING.txt file for details on
how to build them with either toolkit. This improvement doesn't affect
users of my binary packages, but it should make it easier for Linux
distributions to adopt rEFInd into their package systems.
- Tweaked refind.inf file for better build results using "native" TianoCore
EDK2 build process (vs. the Makefile-based build process that I use under
Linux). This won't affect those who use my binary builds or build under
Linux with the "make" command.
- Fixed bug that prevented Secure Boot launches from working when rEFInd
was built with GNU-EFI rather than the TianoCore EDK2.
- Altered default for "textmode" option (when it's commented out) to not
adjust the text mode at all. (Prior versions set it to mode 0 by
default.)
0.6.1 (12/21/2012):
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- Thanks to Stefan Agner, the ext4fs driver now supports the "meta_bg"
filesystem feature, which distributes metadata throughout the disk. This
feature isn't used by default, but can be set at filesystem creation time
by passing the "-O meta_bg,^resize_inode" option to mke2fs. (Using
"^resize_inode" is necessary because meta_bg is incompatible with
resize_inode, which IS used by default.) This feature can be used on
ext3fs and ext2fs as well as on ext4fs, so the ext4fs driver can now
handle some ext3fs and ext2fs partitions that the ext2fs driver can't
handle.
- Fixed a bug that caused the screen to clear after displaying an error
message but before displaying the "Hit any key to continue" message when
a boot loader launch failed.
0.6.0 (12/16/2012):
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- Fixed a memory allocation bug that could cause a program crash when
specifying certain values with the "also_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_volumes",
"dont_scan_dirs", "dont_scan_files", and "scan_driver_dirs" refind.conf
options.
- Fixed bug that caused tools (shell, etc.) to launch when they were
highlighted and F2 or Insert was pressed.
- Added hints text to rEFInd main menu and sub-menus. This can be disabled
by setting the new "hints" option to the "hideui" token in refind.conf.
0.5.1.1 (12/12/2012):
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0.5.1 (12/11/2012):
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- Fixed bug that caused some programs (EFI shells, in particular) to hang
when launching on some systems (DUET, in particular).
0.5.0 (12/6/2012):
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- Fixed a bug that caused the options line editor to blank out lines that
were not actually edited.
- Added support for using Matthew Garrett's Shim program and its Machine
Owner Keys (MOKs) to extend Secure Boot capabilities. If rEFInd is
launched from Shim on a computer with Secure Boot active, rEFInd will
launch programs signed with either a standard UEFI Secure Boot key or a
MOK. For the moment, this feature works only on x86-64 systems.
- Added support for launching MokManager.efi for managing the Machine Owner
Keys (MOKs) maintained by the shim boot loader developed by Fedora and
SUSE. This program is scanned and presented as a second-row tool.
0.4.7 (11/6/2012):
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- Added a boot option editor: Pressing the Insert or F2 key from a boot
tag's options menu opens a simple text-mode line editor on which the boot
options may be edited for a one-time boot with altered options.
- Modified rEFInd to add a space after the command-line options only when
launching Mac OS X. On some early Macs, the extra space (which had been
present by default, as a carryover from rEFIt) causes problems when
booting Linux kernels from FAT partitions.
0.4.6 (10/6/2012):
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0.4.5 (8/12/2012):
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0.4.4 (6/23/2012):
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0.4.3 (6/21/2012):
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0.4.2 (6/3/2012):
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0.4.1 (5/25/2012):
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- Added "scanning for new boot loaders" message to the re-scan function
(hitting Esc at the main menu). It usually flashes up too quickly to
be of importance, but if the scan function takes a while because of
access to a CD that must be spun up, it should make it clear that the
system hasn't hung.
- Changed HFS+ driver to return volume label of "HFS+ volume" rather than
an empty label. (The driver doesn't currently read the real volume
label.)
- Fixed bug that could cause rEFInd to appear in its own menu after
running a shell and then re-scanning for boot loaders.
0.4.0 (5/20/2012):
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- Added new feature to eject CDs (and other removable media): Press F12 to
eject all such media. This function works only on some Macs, though (it
relies on an Apple-specific EFI extension, and this extension isn't even
implemented on all Macs, much less on UEFI-based PCs).
- Fixed a problem that could cause GRUB 2 to fail to read its configuration
file when launched from rEFInd.
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.
- 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 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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- Does a better job of clearing the screen when launching OSes in text
mode.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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- 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.)
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.
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.
0.2.0 (3/14/2012):
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