2025-07-14 Mintsuki *** Release 9.5.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.4.0: New features: - protocols/efi: Hybridise loading mechanism with old memory-device based approach. This may work around the redundant requirement that EFI applications be signed, and it may fix certain issues created when the chainload mechanism was changed in 9.0.1. Bug fixes: - `limine` host tool: Fix some mismatched printf format specifiers. Miscellaneous: - Miscellaneous build system updates and improvements. - Many dependencies had their commits bumped, some new dependencies were added (limine-protocol), some were changed (libfdt moved to a different repository that only includes BSD-2-Clause licensable code). 2025-07-10 Mintsuki *** Release 9.4.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.3.4: New features: - BLI: Implement `LoaderTimeInitUSec` and `LoaderTimeExecUSec`. These are variables used by `systemd-analyze` and are useful for boot performance metrics. - Limine boot protocol: Add bootloader performance feature. This feature provides the same information as the new Boot Loader Interface variables, but encoded in a nicer way for Limine protocol executables. Miscellaneous: - Use `nm` instead of `objdump` for generating the symbol table, which results in a better, more consistent output, especially for non-x86 architectures. - Miscellaneous build system updates and improvements. 2025-06-21 Mintsuki *** Release 9.3.4 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.3.3: Bug fixes: - ELF: Make an optimisation related to skipping scanning of .bss regions for finding of structures in the loaded image (for Limine protocol structures or otherwise) less overeager as that could break in certain cases. - SMP: On x86, ensure that the value of IA32_APIC_BASE is the same on the APs as it is on the BSP. - PMM: Mark EfiLoader{Code,Data} regions as bootloader reclaimable rather than reserved memory, as for certain protocols, like the Limine boot protocol, reserved memory is unmapped at runtime, while these regions may contain hot data that is still needed, like Limine bootloader memory stacks. 2025-05-27 Mintsuki *** Release 9.3.3 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.3.2: Bug fixes: - Reinstate the limit for scanned drives to 0xf0. This is due to a report of int 13h hangs when used on drives >=0xf0. 2025-05-19 Mintsuki *** Release 9.3.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.3.1: Bug fixes: - PMM: Mark EfiBootServices{Code,Data} memory regions as bootloader reclaimable instead of usable free memory as apparently the ACPI and UEFI specifications make no guarantees about useful structures being left in these areas after leaving boot services (namely BGRT and ESRT). 2025-05-15 Mintsuki *** Release 9.3.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.3.0: Bug fixes: - Remove .git directory mistakenly left over inside release tarballs. - Fix bug that would lead to panics when booting Linux protocol kernels without modules on x86. 2025-05-07 Mintsuki *** Release 9.3.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.2.3: New features: - Add optional support for the 64-bit x86-64 boot protocol for Linux. This is supported on the UEFI/x86-64 port of Limine, and it is preferred over the 32-bit boot protocol if supported by the given kernel. This helps with loading larger modules on certain systems with low amounts of low memory which would otherwise panic. Bug fixes: - Fix away some ungraceful handling of out-of-memory situations when loading files using the Linux boot protocol. Make into panics instead of crashes or hangs. Miscellaneous: - Improve performance and memory usage of loading modules for the Linux boot protocol. 2025-04-12 Mintsuki *** Release 9.2.3 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.2.2: Bug fixes: - Fix issues introduced by the stb_image fix introduced in 9.2.1 which could cause hangs or crashes when certain wallpaper images are used. Miscellaneous: - Update cc-runtime to new, integer-only, packed version. 2025-03-31 Mintsuki *** Release 9.2.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.2.1: Bug fixes: - Two quick bug fixes and workarounds in order to make multiboot2 more resilient when booting specific kernels such as Xen. - Avoid mistakenly allocating more memory than necessary when creating the volume index. 2025-03-25 Mintsuki *** Release 9.2.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.2.0: Bug fixes: - Fix potential buffer overflow bug with our stb_image support code. Miscellaneous: - Dynamically allocate volume index instead of relying on a hard coded limit and a fixed allocation. This fixes potential panics or failure to access volumes on systems with a lot of drives/partitions. - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Print the name of unresolved symbols on panic. 2025-03-16 Mintsuki *** Release 9.2.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.1.3: New features: - Introduce initial support for the Boot Loader Interface specification. - Add /EFI/limine/limine.conf to the paths tried for config file when using EFI. Miscellaneous: - Do not try config path /EFI/BOOT/limine.conf unless booted using EFI. 2025-03-13 Mintsuki *** Release 9.1.3 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.1.2: Bug fixes: - Loongarch64: Fix alignment of TLB-refill handler. Miscellaneous: - Many fixes and improvements to documentation, installed or otherwise, including further licensing clarifications. 2025-03-11 Mintsuki *** Release 9.1.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.1.1: This release does not change anything code-wise, but rather it focuses on sorting out the licensing mess of Nyu-EFI, by updating it to the latest revision which tackles this problem, and furthermore it improves the COPYING file to be more explicit about submodules and their licensing. 2025-03-10 Mintsuki *** Release 9.1.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.1.0: Bug fixes: - Do not use ConOut for serial output exclusively unless serial is verified to be present to the best of our abilities. This fixes an issue where if `serial=yes` is used on some machines (including several Apple Mac models) a black screen will be shown instead of the Limine menu. Miscellaneous: - Begin signing tarballs and (most) commits. 2025-03-07 Mintsuki *** Release 9.1.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.0.1: New features: - `limine` host tool: When using the `bios-install` command on an ISOHYBRID with a GPT, automatically convert it to MBR, if possible and unless explicitly disabled, in order to enhance compatibility of said ISOHYBRIDs with many systems (of note, Lenovo Thinkpads). 2025-02-25 Mintsuki *** Release 9.0.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.0.0: Miscellaneous: - EFI chainload: Replace old chainload method with one that is more friendly to other EFI bootloaders such as rEFInd. - Limine boot protocol/PE: Map previously unmapped PE image headers. 2025-02-17 Mintsuki *** Release 9.0.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.7.0: Breaking changes: - Support for the ext2/3/4 filesystems has been once again dropped due to lack of maintenance and to avoid extra potential attack surface during Secure Boot Limine usage. - Drop support for the legacy config format (limine.cfg) and only keep around the new one (limine.conf) introduced with Limine 8.x. - Drop support for the (barely worked and seldom used) `chainload_next` protocol. New features: - Limine boot protocol: Introduce API revision 3, for the `limine.h` file with several renamed identifiers for better clarity. - Limine boot protocol: Specify and implement a new, convenience, "Executable Command Line feature". - Limine boot protocol: Use monitor/mwait CPU instructions, when available, to reduce CPU usage and increase performance during multiprocessor initialisation. - Add preferred aliases for BIOS and EFI chainload (namely `bios` and `efi`) protocol names for the `protocol` config option. Bug fixes: - EFI (chainload) boot protocol: Fix `path` option alias not working. Miscellaneous: - Update Flanterm submodule to latest. 2025-01-10 Mintsuki *** Release 8.7.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.6.1: New features: - Limine boot protocol: Add support for PE executables. - Linux boot protocol: Enable support for Loongarch64. - Add support for selecting a random wallpaper every boot if multiple are provided. - Add `path` aliases for `kernel_path` and `image_path` for the Linux and EFI Chainloading protocols respectively. Miscellaneous: - Submodule version/commit bumps. 2024-12-26 Mintsuki *** Release 8.6.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.6.0: Bug fixes: - Propagate EFI PXE device handle properly when chainloading. - Ensure that, when specifying a `dtb_path`, extra space is properly allocated just as is done for EFI-provided DTBs. Miscellaneous: - Linux on RISCs: General code clean up; pass EFI memory map and initrd information as EFI configuration tables alongside already passed DTB parameters for the same, in preparation for loongarch64 support. 2024-12-05 Mintsuki *** Release 8.6.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.5.0: New features: - Limine boot protocol: Specify and implement new "RISC-V BSP Hart ID" feature. - Limine boot protocol: Add a new "SBI" firmware type to the firmware type feature - Limine boot protocol: Add a new API revision 2 to the limine.h header file. This replaces many mentions of 'kernel' with a more neutral 'executable' instead. - Config: add 'path' alias for 'kernel_path' for the Limine and multiboot1 and 2 protocols. 2024-11-30 Mintsuki *** Release 8.5.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.4.1: New features: - Limine boot protocol: Introduce limine.h API revisions to avoid API breaks. Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Amend base revision 3 to keep EFI memmap pointer as virtual. Making it physical made no sense and is henceforth considered a bug. Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: Rename SMP feature to MP feature for limine.h API revision 1+. - Limine boot protocol: Make some types that were void pointers into uint64_t's to better represent their physical nature; limine.h API revision 1+. 2024-11-25 Mintsuki *** Release 8.4.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.4.0: Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: Ensure machines with pre-enabled x2APIC are properly supported. - Reuse a viable framebuffer for UEFI fallback terminal output (like on panics) if boot services have been exited instead of bailing out. - Miscellaneous build system updates. 2024-11-08 Mintsuki *** Release 8.4.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.3.2: New features: - Support passing Limine its configuration via SMBIOS tables. Miscellaneous: - Update cc-runtime to latest; use non-packed version. 2024-10-31 Mintsuki *** Release 8.3.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.3.1: Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: Amend base revision 3 to mandate reporting base revision used to kernels. 2024-10-28 Mintsuki *** Release 8.3.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.3.0: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Revert broken optimisation. 2024-10-28 Mintsuki *** Release 8.3.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.2.0: New features: - Limine boot protocol: Specify and implement base revision 3. See the specification for further info. - Add a new `FW_TYPE` built-in config macro. Miscellaneous: - Bump Flanterm revision to a6f6edd6631c01caab932a59dce97bbd5f0c72c8. - Limine boot protocol: Misc optimisations to page tables usage. 2024-10-23 Mintsuki *** Release 8.2.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.1.2: New features: - Add device tree blob override configuration options for the Limine and Linux boot protocols. - Limine boot protocol: Filter `memory@...` nodes out of device trees. Miscellaneous: - Documentation: USAGE.md: Update `xorriso` command to produce ISOHYBRIDs with Joliet info and an HFS+ filesystem for broader compatibility. - Increase the size of the `limine-cd-uefi.bin` image to 5760 sectors; this allows more and/or larger EFI executables to fit (like for example those generated when compiling with -O0). - Bump cc-runtime revision to d5425655388977fa12ff9b903e554a20b20c426e. 2024-10-15 Mintsuki *** Release 8.1.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.1.1: Bug fixes: - Add missing register saves and restores around call from assembly to C code for the x86-64 UEFI port. This bug could have caused crashes with certain compiler optimisation levels (like -O0). - Adjust size of reserved area of VBE mode info struct to be the right size. This bug could have caused crashes with certain compiler optimisation levels (like -O0). - Ignore UEFI memory map entries of length 0. This fixes crashes that could have happened on quirky UEFI firmwares passing such entries. 2024-10-12 Mintsuki *** Release 8.1.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.1.0: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Do not hard depend on the CPU supporting the Page Attribute Table (PAT) *for SMP processors as well*. 2024-10-12 Mintsuki *** Release 8.1.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.14: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Do not hard depend on the CPU supporting the Page Attribute Table (PAT). New features: - Limine boot protocol: Add a `randomise_hhdm_base` config file option. Miscellaneous: - Update libfdt (from dtc) to 1.7.1. 2024-09-29 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.14 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.13: Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: Increase maximum memory map entry count from 256 to 1024 as it would otherwise cause issues on certain systems. 2024-09-18 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.13 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.12: Bug fixes: - multiboot2: Fix handling of relocatable kernels. 2024-09-15 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.12 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.11: Bug fixes: - Fix a build system problem that could cause configure failures if STRIP variable set to an absolute path. Miscellaneous: - Updates for "freestanding-headers" being rebranded to "freestnd-c-hdrs-0bsd". - Updates for "limine-efi" being rebranded to "nyu-efi". 2024-09-10 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.11 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.10: Miscellaneous: - Replace "freestnd-c-hdrs" back with "freestanding-headers" due to GPLv3 with Runtime Exceptions licensing concerns and size. 2024-09-09 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.10 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.9: Bug fixes: - Fix bug where contents of loaded EFI image size variable could be off significantly compared to actual size when compiled with GCC, causing many issues. - Fix memory manager bug introduced in 2021 during optimisation work. Miscellaneous: - Replace "freestanding-headers" with GCC-provided "freestnd-c-hdrs". 2024-09-04 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.9 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.8: Bug fixes: - Fix an issue that could cause Limine to not boot on UEFI systems with too many memory map entries. 2024-09-03 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.8 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.7: Bug fixes: - Work around makefile issues that caused GNU make versions 4.0 and 4.1 as well as version 3.80 to fail to build Limine. 2024-09-02 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.7 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.6: Miscellaneous: - Remove GNU make version check as we now support building on older make versions. - Miscellaneous build system improvements. 2024-08-25 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.6 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.5: Bug fixes: - Fix issue with makefiles that would cause, among others, issues with job control on older GNU make versions. Miscellaneous: - Update limine-efi dependency to latest. - Minor build system improvements. 2024-08-12 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.5 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.4: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Obtain LAPIC ID from LAPIC instead of CPUID. This fixes crashes on some odd machines whose firmware remaps the BSP's LAPIC ID from the default one. 2024-08-10 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.4 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.3: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Fix off-by-1 error in HHDM MAXPHYADDR bounds check. Miscellaneous: - Updated cc-runtime dependency to latest, packed version. 2024-08-09 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.3 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.2: Bug fixes: - AArch64, riscv64: SMP: Fix BSP potentially timing out while waiting for APs due to missing delay. 2024-08-08 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.1: Bug fixes: - Menu: Miscellaneous cosmetic fixes. - Editor: Fix input and displaying of tab characters. Miscellaneous: - Config: Accept tab characters as whitespace after option colon. 2024-08-05 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 8.0.0: Bug fixes: - Assortment of menu fixes to issues that could cause things not to render as they should. Miscellaneous: - Documentation fixes for 8.x. 2024-08-02 Mintsuki *** Release 8.0.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.13.3: New features: - Add loongarch64 support. Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Ensure higher half direct map size does not exceed MAXPHYADDR on x86. Miscellaneous: - Extensive changes to the config syntax. (See CONFIG.md). - Rename term_wallpaper, term_wallpaper_style, and term_backdrop config options to remove the term_ prefix. - Removed support for GZ-compressed files (and internal Limine protocol modules). 2024-08-02 Mintsuki *** Release 7.13.3 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.13.2: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Fix broken comparison that could cause an HHDM too large to not be properly detected. - Limine boot protocol: aarch64: Fix incorrect macro value that would cause the size of the higher half to be incorrectly detected as half. Miscellaneous: - Remove Nix flake stuff from repository/tarball. 2024-07-30 Mintsuki *** Release 7.13.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.13.1: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Fix a bug introduced in 7.13.0 that made compressed modules not work on IA-32 ports. 2024-07-29 Mintsuki *** Release 7.13.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.13.0: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Fix a bug introduced in 7.13.0 that made the protocol unusable with the BIOS port when loading any modules, when Limine was linked using ld.bfd. 2024-07-29 Mintsuki *** Release 7.13.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.12.1: New features: - Limine boot protocol: Allow above-4GiB load of modules on IA-32 ports. Miscellaneous: - Build system improvements. 2024-07-27 Mintsuki *** Release 7.12.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.12.0: Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: limit the HHDM size to half of the higher half in all conditions; limit HHDM KASLR wiggle room to a quarter rather than half of the higher half. - Build system improvements. 2024-07-21 Mintsuki *** Release 7.12.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.11.0: New features: - Reinstate support for ext2/3/4, albeit in an unsupported and unmaintained state, at least for the time being. - Menu: Add vertical bars around entry title in entry editor. - Menu: Add clearer indications of what is wrong when config invalid or missing. Bug fixes: - Terminal: Fix long standing wallpaper drawing related bug that under certain circumstances could cause memory corruption. - Miscellaneous VBE related bug fixes. - Miscellaneous A20 line related improvements/fixes. Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: perform appropriate checks to ensure that the higher half direct map fits in the higher half; enforce paging modes as needed. - Limine boot protocol: aarch64: Specify that the granule size for both TTBR0_EL1 and TTBR1_EL1 is 4KiB. - Limine boot protocol: aarch64: Specify the values of TCR_EL1.T0SZ and TCR_EL1.T1SZ depending on the paging mode used. - Limine boot protocol: aarch64: Specify the condition of TTBR0_EL1 and TTBR1_EL1 at entry. 2024-07-18 Mintsuki *** Release 7.11.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.10.3: New features: - Limine boot protocol: Specify and implement "firmware type" feature. - Limine boot protocol: Specify and implement revision 1 "paging mode" request extension. 2024-07-16 Mintsuki *** Release 7.10.3 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.10.2: Bug fixes: - Menu: Fix high menu entry count support that was previously broken in a regression. - Linux boot protocol: Install "memory reservation" EFI configuration table on aarch64/riscv64. Miscellaneous: - Miscellaneous improvements and optimisations of code introduced in version 7.10.2. 2024-07-14 Mintsuki *** Release 7.10.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.10.1: Bug fixes: - Fix a long standing issue with volume detection on UEFI. - Fix issue returning to editor after a panic when coming from a blank entry without a valid config. - Add missing "loading" prints when booting Linux on non-x86. 2024-07-12 Mintsuki *** Release 7.10.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.10.0: Bug fixes: - DTB: Never pass UEFI DTB buffer directly; fix misuse of libfdt API. 2024-07-12 Mintsuki *** Release 7.10.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.9.2: New features: - SMP: Support SMP on AArch64 without ACPI. Bug fixes: - SMP: Do not allocate a useless stack for the BSP. - `limine`: Protect against overwriting MBR partitions beginning at exceedingly low sector values (outside de facto specification). Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol: Do not pass responses if RSDP or SMBIOS not available instead of returning responses with NULL pointers. - Limine boot protocol: Do not pass a framebuffer response if no framebuffers are available. 2024-07-06 Mintsuki *** Release 7.9.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.9.1: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol: Return NULL response instead of a response with erroneous CPU count of 0 for SMP on x86-64, if x2APIC support not enabled and missing xAPIC fallback. - Limine boot protocol: Do not ignore MAX_PAGING_MODE config setting if paging mode request missing from loaded kernel. Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Apply a slide of 0xffffffff80000000 minus the ELF-reported base load address for relocatable kernels that have lower half load addresses, instead of always applying a slide of 0xffffffff80000000. 2024-06-29 Mintsuki *** Release 7.9.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.9.0: Bug fixes: - `limine`: Revert change that marked protective MBR wrapper partition as active on GPT. 2024-06-28 Mintsuki *** Release 7.9.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.8.0: New features: - Linux boot protocol: Add support on aarch64 and riscv64. Bug fixes: - multiboot1/2: Relax ELF file type requirements (mainly for multiboot2 relocatable kernels). - UEFI: Fix bug that caused delete key to behave as if it was backspace even when the SERIAL config option was not "yes". Miscellaneous: - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Do not consider ELFs relocatable unless the ELF file type is ET_DYN. - Some dead code removal. 2024-06-24 Mintsuki *** Release 7.8.0 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.7.2: New features: - Return to booted edited entry on panic. Bug fixes: - `limine`: Mark protective MBR wrapper partition as active on GPT. Miscellaneous: - UEFI: Allocate most memory as EfiLoaderCode instead of EfiLoaderData. - Smaller fixes and improvements. 2024-06-09 Mintsuki *** Release 7.7.2 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.7.1: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Ignore PT_LOAD segments with 0 memory size. - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Panic on non-weak unresolved symbols. - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Do not sanity check DT_RELAENT size for non DT_RELA relocations. This is because DT_RELAENT may not be present. - multiboot 1 and 2 protocols: Reject relocatable ELFs. 2024-06-06 Mintsuki *** Release 7.7.1 *** Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 7.7.0: Bug fixes: - Limine boot protocol/ELF: Stop parsing PT_DYNAMIC segment once DT_NULL is reached. 2024-06-04 Mintsuki *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** 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.