limine/ChangeLog

2024-06-04  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.7.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.6.0:

    New features:
        - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Add support for GLOB_DAT, JUMP_SLOT, 64,
          and NONE relocation types.
        - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Add RELR (packed relative relocations)
          support.

    Bug fixes:
        - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Reject ELFs that depend on external
          dynamically linked libraries.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Bring back .xz compressed release tarball.

2024-06-01  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.6.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.5.3:

    New features:
        - RISC-V: Add support for RISC-V systems without ACPI (using DTBs).

2024-05-24  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.5.3 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.5.2:

    Bug fixes:
        - Multiboot 2 protocol: Fix an issue where the 32-bit EFI Image Handle
          tag would be generated under 64-bit EFI and vice versa.
        - Do not set VirtualStart to PhysicalStart when generating the EFI
          memory map; set it to 0 instead.
        - Do not perform additional checks when loading relocatable ELF files
          after verifying that they are of type ET_DYN and have a PT_DYNAMIC
          segment. This ensures that certain relocatable ELF files that were
          previously misidentified as non-relocatable are recognised as such.

2024-05-22  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.5.2 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.5.1:

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix missing checks in the FAT filesystem driver that could cause
          divide-by-0 exceptions when parsing malformed/corrupted filesystems.
        - Limine boot protocol: Do not reject relocatable kernels with ELF PHDR
          load addresses at or around 0, instead slide them all the way to the
          topmost 2GiB (0xffffffff80000000). This allows setting a base load
          address of 0 in LD BFD/LLD linker scripts which makes LD BFD (the
          default GNU LD) actually emit an ELF with ET_DYN type.

2024-05-08  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.5.1 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.5.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - Workarounds for issues related to drive iteration on BIOS. Discovered
          on an HP Pavilion dv6-3152er.

2024-05-03  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.5.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.4.1:

    New features:
        - Limine boot protocol: Add support for requests start marker, to
          complement the previously called delimiter, now renamed to "end
          marker".
        - Limine boot protocol: Add base revision 2. The sole difference
          compared to base revision 1 being that it mandates bootloaders to
          support request delimiters.

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix an issue regarding commit date parsing in the bootstrap script.

    Miscellaneous:
        - General documentation updates and improvements; split USAGE.md from
          README.md and install the former only.

2024-04-29  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.4.1 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.4.0:

    Miscellaneous:
        - Bump max volume limit for UEFI from 64 to 256.
        - Improve how ISA name and firmware type is reported as part of the
          default branding.

2024-04-20  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.4.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.3.1:

    New features:
        - ISA name and firmware type is now printed as part of the default
          bootloader branding.
        - Add 'B' key shortcut to menu to open up a blank entry.

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix missing NULL pointer check in configuration related function.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Console has been removed.

2024-04-11  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.3.1 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.3.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix a minor issue with scrolling when using the EFI console fallback.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Bump the Flanterm revision to current latest.
        - Some dead code removal.

2024-03-31  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.3.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.2.1:

    New features:
        - Limine boot protocol: Add a `MAX_PAGING_MODE` configuration option
          to override kernel/bootloader selected paging mode.

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix a couple of minor bugs with the 4GiB workaround introduced in
          version 7.2.1.

    Miscellaneous:
        - No longer produce xz compressed release tarballs. Add bzip2, lzip,
          and zstd as alternatives in its place.

2024-03-28  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.2.1 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.2.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - Implement workaround to allow Limine loaded above 4GiB by UEFI on
          x86-64 to work in some configurations, instead of panicking.

2024-03-24  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.2.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.1.0:

    New features:
        - Add support for remembering the last booted entry on UEFI by means
          of the `REMEMBER_LAST_ENTRY` config option.

2024-03-19  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.1.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.0.5:

    New features:
        - Limine boot protocol: Add support for requests delimiter.

    Bug fixes:
        - Fixed a potential security vulnerability in the ISO9660 driver.

2024-02-15  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.0.5 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.0.4:

    Bug fixes:
        - Build system related fixes and improvements. This fixes an issue that
          caused Limine 7.0.4 to fail building on Busybox systems.

2024-02-14  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.0.4 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.0.3:

    Bug fixes:
        - Minor build system related fixes and improvements.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Significantly improve reproducibility of builds.

2024-02-08  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.0.3 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.0.2:

    Bug fixes:
        - multiboot2 protocol: Do not panic if there is a ENTRY_ADDRESS_EFI64
          tag, but there is a valid alternative entry point. This further aligns
          our behaviour with GRUB2.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Terminal: Significantly improve serial and fallback UEFI console's
          rendition (especially colour palettes).
        - Serial: Add a baud rate config setting for Limine's BIOS version.

2024-01-26  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.0.2 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.0.1:

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix a cosmetic bug in the menu where, when the editor was disabled,
          the controls showed "ENTER Expand" even for boot entries instead of
          only for menu directories.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Exclusively use git for obtaining dependencies in "bootstrap" script.

2024-01-22  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.0.1 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.0.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix ARM64/aarch64 spinup code to properly support Apple Silicon
          chips.
        - Prevent users from building Limine with a GNU Make version older than
          4.2, as that is not supported, by gracefully erroring out with a
          useful error message.
        - Avoid usage of reserved C identifiers in certain cases.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Drop usage of "libgcc-binaries" for "cc-runtime". This finally makes
          us able to ship Limine tarballs without included binary blobs, and
          should improve compatibility with more obscure toolchain set ups.

2024-01-14  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 7.0.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20240107.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - Minor fix of newline handling when reading user input lines.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Bump major version to 7. Note: There is no breaking change in 7.x
          compared to 6.x; the major version bump is done due to a change in
          the versioning scheme used by Limine (move to proper Semantic
          Versioning).
        - Fix versions of external dependencies in "bootstrap" script.

2024-01-07  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 6.20240107.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231227.0:

    New features:
        - Limine boot protocol: Add support for compressed internal modules.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Improve error reporting from host "limine" executable.
        - Track "master" branch of stb_image upstream.

2023-12-27  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 6.20231227.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231226.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - Actually regenerate build system with GNU Autoconf 2.72 instead of
          GNU Autoconf 2.71.

2023-12-26  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 6.20231226.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231216.0:

    New features:
        - Ignore trailing whitespace in Limine config file.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Regenerate build system with GNU Autoconf 2.72.
        - Minor build system adjustments.

2023-12-16  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 6.20231216.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 6.20231210.0:

    New features:
        - Added a `--print-datadir` switch to the `limine` program in order
          to print the directory where Limine files are stored when installed
          on a host distro.

    Miscellaneous:
        - General improvements to the `--help` texts for the `limine` program.

2023-12-10  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 6.20231210.0 ***

    This is the first release in the 6.x series.

    Breaking changes compared to the 5.x series:

    - Support for the unmaintained ext2/3/4 filesystems dropped in compliance
      with the Limine bootloader design philosophy.
    - Chainloading protocol split into 2 protocols: EFI chainloading and BIOS
      chainloading.

2023-12-07  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 5.20231207.1 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 5.20231207.0:

    Bug fixes:
        - multiboot2/elf: Fix issue where ELF vaddrs were taken into account
          instead of paddrs when loading executables.
        - Fix implementation of a function that detects whether a given memory
          range is physical RAM.

2023-12-07  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 5.20231207.0 ***

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 5.20231124.0:

    New features:
        - multiboot2 protocol: Add support for relocatable header tag.
        - multiboot2 protocol: Add support for console flags header tag.
        - Limine protocol: Add support for EFI memory map feature.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Improve error reporting from host "limine" executable.
        - Do not ignore errors from mtools when building limine-uefi-cd.bin.

2023-11-24  mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

    *** Release 5.20231124.0 ***

    Compared to previous release, 5.20231121.0:

    New features:
        - Add support for rebooting to UEFI firmware setup.

    Bug fixes:
        - Fix SMP (multiprocessor) initialisation regression on aarch64.

    Miscellaneous:
        - Move to new, handwritten ChangeLog from autogenerated one.