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2026-05-24  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.3.1 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 12.3.0:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix x86(_64) Linux protocol loader miscompliance that could cause

          boot failures on some setups showing an "invalid magic at start of

          compressed archive" error.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Shrink the size of `limine-uefi-cd.bin` to avoid wasting space when

          unnecessary.

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2026-05-18  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.3.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 12.2.0:

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    New features:

        - Add support for fractional timeout values.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Significantly improve framebuffer performance on some machines by

          using the Write Combining caching mode via PAT and page tables on

          x86-64/UEFI instead of MTRRs.

        - Improve reliability of the MTRR framebuffer Write Combining path on

          IA-32 (UEFI and BIOS).

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2026-05-07  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.2.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 12.1.0:

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    New features:

        - Add a hotkey to launch the UEFI Shell from the boot menu.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Free UEFI buffers with their original allocation size after

          LocateHandle to avoid pool corruption on strict firmwares.

        - Reallocate the UEFI memory map buffer if it grows during the

          ExitBootServices retry loop.

        - Drop a redundant IER write in the serial driver that clobbered DLM at

          low baud rates.

        - Limine boot protocol: Allow trimming reserved entries that overlap

          framebuffer pages.

        - Harden the ELF loader against crafted RELR tables that overflow the

          relocation count on 32-bit builds (found via fuzzing).

        - Reject PE images with `SectionAlignment` = 0 (found via fuzzing).

        - Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Update pdgzip subproject. Improves performance by ~25%.

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2026-05-01  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.1.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 12.0.2:

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    New features:

        - Implement Measured Boot support.

        - Limine boot protocol: Expose the TCG2 event log to the kernel via a

          new "TPM Event Log" feature.

        - Linux boot protocol: Publish the TCG2 event log to the kernel via the

          LINUX_EFI_TPM_EVENT_LOG configuration table.

        - Linux boot protocol: Publish EFI RNG entropy to the kernel via the

          LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED configuration table.

        - Linux boot protocol: Report UEFI Secure Boot state to the kernel on

          x86.

        - Re-introduce logic to enable WC on the framebuffer using x86 MTRRs

          where the firmware leaves it as UC.

        - Add support for the QOI image format for wallpapers and other image

          resources.

        - Add `IF_FW_TYPE` and `IF_ARCH` menu entry options to hide entries

          based on firmware type (BIOS/UEFI) or processor architecture.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Cap menu nesting depth to prevent stack exhaustion on crafted

          configuration files.

        - Validate user-supplied DTB before invoking libfdt to avoid

          out-of-bounds accesses in the FDT helpers.

        - Reject ELF images with no non-empty PT_LOAD segments in the Multiboot

          elsewhere loader, avoiding bogus min/max range arithmetic.

        - Reject Multiboot address-tag ranges whose address or file-offset

          arithmetic overflows before the copy.

        - Fix a TOCTOU on UEFI PXE/TFTP reads by enforcing the byte count

          returned by the size query against the actual transfer size.

        - Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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2026-04-26  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.0.2 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 12.0.1:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Make centering bias consistently left and up across all UI elements.

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    Miscellaneous;

        - Release binary tarballs without version suffixes.

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2026-04-25  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.0.1 ***

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    Same as 12.0.0, but re-released due to a botched binary release whose

    fixed assets that cannot be amended into 12.0.0 afterwards due to release

    immutability.

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2026-04-25  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 12.0.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.4.1:

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    Breaking changes:

        - Re-introduce hash verification enforcement for files loaded under

          UEFI Secure Boot (originally shipped in 11.2.0 and reverted in 11.2.1

          pending the next major version bump). When Secure Boot is active and

          a config checksum is enrolled, Limine now requires BLAKE2B hashes on

          all loaded file paths (with EFI chainloads exempted, as they rely on

          firmware-side Secure Boot verification, and wallpaper and font files

          silently skipped on a missing hash), unconditionally disables the

          config editor, and forces `hash_mismatch_panic` to `yes`. Enrolling

          a config checksum is the explicit opt-in to this hardening; without

          one, Secure Boot enforcement is not applied.

        - The `interface_branding_colour` and `interface_help_colour` config

          options now take an `RRGGBB` hexadecimal value instead of a 0-7

          colour index. A new `interface_help_colour_bright` option has been

          added to control the brighter accent colour used for the auto-boot

          countdown digit.

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    New features:

        - Re-introduce transparent gzip decompression for files, using a port

          of embeddable pdgzip (CC0) by Kamila Szewczyk that provides

          significantly better decode performance than the previous tinf-based

          implementation.

        - Major overhaul of the boot menu interface, including consistent

          left-biased centering of all UI elements, ellipsis truncation of long

          branding strings, shortened countdown text, and the removal of entry

          name length limits.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix NULL dereference in `gterm_init` cached path.

        - Fix NULL dereference in the menu when `default_entry` is out of range

          with `timeout=0`.

        - Add a trailing fence after the `cbo.flush` loop in the RISC-V Zicbom

          framebuffer flush path.

        - Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Replace upstream `stb_image` with a hardened version.

        - Bring back hand-written assembly versions of the x86-64 and IA-32

          `mem*()` routines to mitigate performance regressions versus the C

          implementations.

        - Updated the Flanterm library to 3.1.1.

        - Ship binary releases as tarballs in release assets, replacing the

          previous separate git branch.

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2026-04-20  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.4.1 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.4.0:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix an issue with the limlz compressor/decompressor that could cause

          spurious failures ("limine integrity error") on the legacy x86 BIOS

          port.

        - Portability fixes for the `limlzpack` build-time tool (mainly fixing

          it on big-endian build systems).

        - Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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2026-04-19  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.4.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.3.1:

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    New features:

        - Revamped BIOS early-stage decompressor, replacing gzip (tinf) with a

          simpler, smaller, faster, and more auditable compressor/decompressor

          using a fixed-width LZ77 encoding purpose-tailored for x86 code mixed

          with data by Kamila Szewczyk.

        - Implement timeout and entry control of the Boot Loader Interface

          (BLI).

        - Make `graphics: no` functional on UEFI ports as well.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Revert the "Call Apple set_os protocol on UEFI" change from 11.3.1 as

          that seems to have been causing issues relating to input devices on

          certain other Apple systems, pending investigation and usefulness

          assessment.

        - Many assorted bug fixes and improvements.

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2026-04-09  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.3.1 ***

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    (Note: 11.3.0 was skipped due to GHA migration issues)

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.2.1:

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    New features:

        - Implement "TSC Frequency" feature of the Limine boot protocol.

        - Add PIT-based TSC calibration for BIOS.

        - Do not clear framebuffer in quiet mode.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Make "Keep IOMMU" Limine boot protocol feature x86-64-only.

        - Do not clear framebuffer on modeset as Flanterm immediately repaints

          it, wasting time.

        - Allow menu recovery on overflow panics in the multiboot protocols.

        - Significantly improve TSC calibration accuracy.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Do not force-start uninitialised GOP outputs if a framebuffer is

          already available, for compatibility with quirky firmwares (Apple

          Macs).

        - Call Apple set_os protocol on UEFI to try to keep iGPU alive on

          dual-GPU Apple Macs.

        - Migrated to GitHub alongside with several subprojects.

        - Build limine.exe using i486 MinGW from osdev0/mingw-binary-builds

          in binary builds for better compatibility.

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2026-04-04  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.2.1 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.2.0:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Revert Secure Boot enforcement policy for configuration file hash

          and other file hashes. This broke semantic versioning, so the fair

          thing to do is to revert it and move on to 12.x afterwards.

        - Add workaround for VMware optical drive detection on BIOS.

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2026-04-02  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.2.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.1.0:

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    New features:

        - Enforce hash verification of loaded files when UEFI Secure Boot is

          active. When Secure Boot is detected, Limine requires an enrolled

          config checksum, BLAKE2B hashes on security-critical file paths,

          disables the config editor, and forces hash_mismatch_panic to yes.

        - Linux boot protocol: Load and concatenate all modules on non-x86, not

          just the first.

        - ISO 9660: Handle Rock Ridge NM continuation entries.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Use -malign-double for IA-32 UEFI builds to match UEFI specification

          struct alignment.

        - Fix unique sector pool being clobbered by find_unique_sectors().

        - Revert GOP workaround that called SetMode() on every handle to avoid

          clearing the screen where unnecessary/ugly.

        - Do not call ClearScreen() on EFI fallback terminal init for the same

          reason.

        - Miscellaneous fixes for low severity bugs found with static analysis.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Re-enable decompressor bounds checks, CRC32, and length validation.

        - Mix hardware entropy on non-x86 via RNDR instruction and EFI RNG

          protocol and add support for aarch64 hardware RNG.

        - Prefer 64-bit rdrand/rdseed on x86-64 over 32-bit. Fixes potential

          issues on certain unpatched Zen 5 systems.

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2026-03-25  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.1.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 11.0.0:

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    New features:

        - Walk back previous breaking change where base revisions 0 through 3

          were dropped on x86.

        - Walk back previous breaking change where base revisions < 6 were

          dropped on loongarch64 and riscv64 (it remains in effect on aarch64).

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Improve Limine protocol page tables layout to better coalesce

          contiguous 4KiB entries into 2MiB/1GiB pages.

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2026-03-23  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 11.0.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.8.5:

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    Breaking changes:

        - Dropped support for base revisions 0, 1, 2, and 3 of the Limine boot

          protocol for x86.

        - Dropped support for all base revisions except 6 of the Limine boot

          protocol for aarch64, loongarch64, and riscv64.

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    New features:

        - Implement support for base revision 6 of the Limine boot protocol

          (see specification for details).

        - Added support for multiprocessor startup for the loongarch64 version

          of the Limine boot protocol.

        - Add a new feature to the Limine boot protocol,

          `flanterm_fb_init_params`, that passes information to the booted

          executable about the text terminal, as used by the bootloader, in a

          Flanterm-compatible format.

        - Add a new boot protocol, "efi_boot_entry", which allows rebooting

          into other EFI boot menu entries by name.

        - Support using a formatted path as the value for the `default_entry`

          configuration option.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Miscellaneous fixes relating to the Linux boot protocol on non-x86

          ports.

        - Improve feature to remember last booted entry by internally using the

          same path format as `default_entry`.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - LoongArch64 is no longer in an "experimental" state, but rather fully

          supported.

        - Updated the Flanterm library to 3.0.2.

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2026-03-12  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.8.5 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.8.4:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Update the Flanterm library for a hotfix to a regression introduced

          in Flanterm 3.0.1 that would also cause misrenderings of the boot

          menu's text colour for selected entries.

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2026-03-11  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.8.4 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.8.3:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Update the Flanterm library to 3.0.1 to fix a regression that would

          cause misrenderings of the boot menu's text colour for selected

          entries.

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2026-03-07  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.8.3 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.8.2:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Preserve LAPIC register state across x2APIC-to-xAPIC transition.

        - SMP: Widen bsp_lapic_id to uint32_t to avoid x2APIC ID truncation.

        - Linux boot protocol: Validate RISC-V kernel header before trusting

          image_size for allocation.

        - Host tool: Replace GCC/Clang __builtin overflow checks with portable

          C99 helpers.

        - Host tool: Fix ENDSWAP width mismatch in GPT-to-MBR partition entry

          conversion on big-endian hosts.

        - BIOS HDD Stage 1: Fix 64-bit LBA calculation and carry propagation in

          disk read loop.

        - BIOS HDD Stage 1: Fix stack imbalance on int 13h/AH=48h failure.

        - Add NULL terminator check in config_get_entry header line scan.

        - Guard editor window_size decrement to prevent underflow on long line

          wrapping.

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2026-02-26   Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.8.2 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.8.1:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Revert broken/pointless legacy PIC reinitialisation logic on flush

          that accidentally made it into 10.8.1.

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2026-02-26  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.8.1 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.8.0:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix VT-d disable order to TE, IRE, QIE.

        - Fix VT-d polling loop read order and remove polling timeout.

        - SMP: Add xAPIC ICR delivery status checks to INIT-SIPI-SIPI sequence.

        - Amend certain APIC-related issues of Limine boot protocol and

          implement the corrected behaviour.

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2026-02-22  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.8.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.7.0:

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    New features:

        - Limine boot protocol: Implement base revision 5.

        - Limine boot protocol: Implement x86-64 Keep IOMMU feature.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix font autoscaling not resetting per display in multi-display

          configurations.

        - Fix undefined behaviour in memmove() due to direct pointer

          comparisons.

        - Skip GOP and VBE modes with invalid pitch values.

        - GOP: Work around firmware reporting incorrect pitch via QueryMode()

          by fetching from gop->Mode->Info after SetMode().

        - GOP: Ensure SetMode() is called at least once per handle to work

          around firmware not initialising state without that.

        - Fall back to EFI/BIOS console instead of panicking on small

          terminals.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Disable Intel VT-d and AMD-Vi IOMMUs before kernel entry by default

          for the Limine, multiboot1, and multiboot2 protocols.

        - Try to gracefully disable x2APIC before handoff for the Limine

          (unless kernel asks for it), multiboot1, and multiboot2 protocols.

        - Replace cycle-based delay() with wall time calibrated stall().

        - Prefer physical memory allocations below 4 GiB on x86.

        - Align ACPI table memory map entries to page size where safe.

        - Undo several overzealous limits and bounds checks added in prior

          releases.

        - Updated limine-protocol subproject to latest revision.

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2026-02-10  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.7.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.6:

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    New features:

        - Multiboot2: Implement relocatable preference=2 (prefer highest

          address).

        - Multiboot2: Accept LOAD_BASE_ADDR and NETWORK info request tags.

        - Multiboot2: Accept EFI system table and image handle info requests.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Extensive hardening of the ELF and PE loaders with thorough bounds,

          overflow, and alignment validation.

        - Extensive hardening of the Multiboot and Multiboot2 protocol

          implementations with thorough validation of header fields, tag sizes,

          and relocation parameters.

        - Linux boot protocol: Honour kernel_alignment field from the x86 boot

          protocol header for kernel load address alignment, and init_size for

          allocation sizing. Use image_size from the kernel header for non-x86

          allocation.

        - Fix several bugs in the physical memory manager's overlap detection,

          sanitiser logic, and memory info reporting.

        - SMP: Fix x86 AP temp stack pointer to pass top of allocation instead

          of base. Fix several bugs in the AArch64 SMP trampoline and AP

          enumeration paths. Skip APs with unrecognised PSCI method instead of

          panicking.

        - Host tool: Fix signature search algorithm to correctly handle partial

          prefix overlaps. Bounds-check GPT partition entry offset arithmetic

          for overflow. Guard secondary GPT nuke against alternate_lba

          underflow.

        - ACPI: Fall back to RSDT when XSDT is above 4 GiB on 32-bit.

        - VMM: Preserve WC/FB cache attribute in x86 page table flags during

          page splits.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - SMP: Send two SIPIs per Intel SDM recommendation for AP startup.

        - Use rdtime.d and CPUCFG for LoongArch64 performance timing.

        - Use rdtime and time_base_frequency for RISC-V performance timing.

        - Updated Flanterm subproject to latest revision.

        - Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.

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2026-02-05  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.6 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.5:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Re-add a mistakenly removed check for EFI volume responsiveness. Lack

          of this check would indirectly cause hangs due to EFI volumes being

          indexed despite their non-responsiveness.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Replace suboptimal code to handle reads close to the end of a volume.

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2026-02-04  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.5 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.4:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Work around PicoEFI structure definition issue related to padding

          that would cause volume_by_device_path() to always fail for

          non-optical media.

        - Fix issue that would cause unique sector detection on systems with 3+

          collisions to fail and misreport unique sectors.

        - Add extra layer of verification for unique sector matches to minimise

          the chance of volume mismatches.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - RISC-V: Implement Flanterm refresh path for SoCs not exposing Zicbom

          in the device tree or ACPI (often the case with U-boot).

        - Use volume_by_device_path() as primary disk_volume_from_efi_handle()

          detection method.

        - Lazily discover unique sectors only when the fallback requiring this

          procedure is actually used.

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2026-02-02  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.4 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.3:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Strip out all code relying on disk writes from the codebase. This

          gets rid of the (remote) possibility of disk corruption and the (even

          more remote) possibility of firmware/flash corruption. This also

          sorts out an issue on Apple Silicon where m1n1/U-boot appears to

          leave the NVMe controller in an inconsistent state after write

          operations are attempted.

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2026-01-14  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.3 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.2:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix an issue with the `limine` host tool where the files read by or

          created by the `bios-install` command with the

          `--uninstall-data-file=` flag were prefixed by `=` due to an

          off-by-one error.

        - Fix an issue with the `limine` host tool where the `--quiet` and

          `--reset` flags could cause the next flag to be ignored due to an

          off-by-one error.

        - Fix an issue with the `limine` host tool that would allow a user to

          provide a GPT BIOS boot partition to the `bios-install` command that

          was 1 greater than the maximum number of partitions due to an

          off-by-one error.

        - Fix internal module path corruption in the Limine boot protocol code,

          caused by a static buffer reuse bug.

        - Add timeout for A20 address line initialisation in the keyboard

          controller code path. Lack of this could cause hangs on certain older

          "legacy-free" PCs.

        - Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.

        - Undo several overzealous "bug fixes" done since 10.5.0 for issues

          that were impossible or highly unlikely to trigger in practice.

        - Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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2026-01-07  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.2 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.1:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix a bug where a buffer holding a configuration file option's value

          was erroneously overwritten. This affected x86 BIOS builds only, and

          it would be triggered if the `serial_baudrate` configuration file

          option was used.

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2026-01-05  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.1 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.6.0:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Fix an issue where there were no bound checks when pressing the

          delete key in the menu entry editor, sometimes causing out-of-bounds

          accesses.

        - Add many checks for return values of disk-related functions that

          could fail.

        - Fix a typo in the physical memory manager code where a pointer was

          checked instead of the value it was pointing to. This could have in

          theory caused 0-length usable memory entries to appear in the memory

          map.

        - Add checks to avoid division by 0 if the user-specified baud rate is

          0.

        - Fix broken calculation in the fb_clear() function that caused severe

          out-of-bounds writes when the bits-per-pixel were not 32 or 16.

        - Fix potential unaligned memory accesses in the BLAKE2B code. This

          could have caused issues on RISC architectures like aarch64 or

          riscv64.

        - Fix missing continues in the riscv ISA string initialisation logic.

          This could have caused HARTs with invalid ISA strings to be used

          anyways instead of being ignored.

        - More minor bug fixes for bugs discovered during static analysis.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Use C versions of mem*() functions instead of assembly versions for

          x86 and x86-64.

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2025-12-28  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.6.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.5.1:

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    New features:

        - ISO9660: Add support for large, multi-extent files.

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    Bug fixes:

        - Unbreak BIOS booting from optical media with ISO9660 filesystems on

          many platforms including QEMU. This was a regression introduced in

          10.5.1.

        - Fix an issue with large (>4GiB) physical memory allocations on 32-bit

          platforms. Some values were truncated to size_t (aka uint32_t) in

          many instances causing bugs.

        - Fix a couple of memory leaks missed in 10.5.1.

        - Add safeguard against the font file being too small for the expected

          size. This avoids potential panics from the filesystem driver, and it

          instead just prints a warning and falls back to using the default

          font.

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    Miscellaneous:

        - Update description of the `term_font_size` and `term_font_spacing`

          configuration options in CONFIG.md.

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2025-12-26  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.5.1 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.5.0:

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    Bug fixes:

        - Many bug fixes throughout the codebase, mainly tackling hardening

          (especially of filesystem drivers). Most issues were caught with

          static analysis.

        - Fixage of some memory leaks.

        - Fixage of major issue that could have caused UEFI PXE to not work.

        - Multiboot1: fix issue that would cause the information buffer to be

          underallocated.

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2025-12-11  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.5.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.4.0:

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    New features:

        - Add new `interface_help_colour` global configuration file option to

          allow changing the colour of "helper" messages in the interface.

        - Add new `interface_rotation` global configuration option to allow

          rotating the output interface be 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees.

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2025-11-30  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

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    *** Release 10.4.0 ***

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    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.3.2:

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    New features:

        - Add new configuration file option "global_dtb" to allow overriding

          the device tree used by Limine itself as well as for all boot entries

          (unless overridden by entry-local "dtb_path" option).

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    Bug fixes:

        - Flush entire I-Cache if it is not PIPT on aarch64.

        - Fix use-after-free bug in riscv64 initialisation code related to

          device tree handling.

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - Framebuffer-related caching improvements for riscv64 and aarch64.

          This should fix a long standing issue where, on a lot of riscv64

          boards, the Limine interface would look mangled due to missing cache

          flushing.

        - Prioritise using ACPI for riscv64 initialisation code if available

          and if a DTB is not manually specified.

​

2025-11-23  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.3.2 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.3.1:

​

    CI-related changes, otherwise, same as 10.3.1.

​

2025-11-23  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.3.1 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.3.0:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Fix wrong virtual address related constants, for the loongarch64

          port, that made Limine-protocol kernels fail to boot.

        - Fix issue that caused the MBR ID in the Limine boot protocol

          limine_file structure to always be 0.

​

2025-11-07  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.3.0 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.2.1:

​

    **Special notes:**

        Despite there being breaking changes in this release, no major version

        bump is done; this is because the changes are minor enough, there are

        no big new features, and version 10.x was not released long enough ago.

        This is technically in violation of Semantic Versioning, but considered

        to be an acceptable exception.

​

    Breaking changes:

        - Change default paths and default path ordering for configuration file

          search. Mainly, search first for a configuration file in the same

          directory as the EFI application file of Limine, on EFI ports.

        - Change default path ordering for stage 3 file search on BIOS ports.

        - No longer install the limine.h header file on the host.

        - No longer install PROTOCOL.md (Limine Boot Protocol specification) on

          the host.

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Fix an issue where code assumed that the RSDT address in the RSDP was

          always non-NULL, which could cause crashes or hangs when using base

          revision 4 of the Limine Boot Protocol.

​

2025-10-29  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.2.1 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.2.0:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Add workaround for skipping SPI flash devices exposed as EFI volumes.

          This fixes the hanging issues on many ARM laptops, without breaking

          U-Boot unlike the previous workaround.

​

2025-10-26  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.2.0 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.1.1:

​

    New features:

        - Implement base revision 4 of the Limine boot protocol as per

          documentation (read documentation for specific details).

​

    Bug fixes:

        - "Fix" multiboot1 framebuffer structure to match GRUB instead of the

          multiboot1 specification.

​

2025-10-13  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.1.1 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.1.0:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - DTBs: Always reallocate DTBs to bootloader-reclaimable memory. This

          is to prevent pointers to EFI/reserved memory from being leaked to

          Limine protocol executables, which is against said protocol, which

          mandates that DTBs have to be in bootloader-reclaimable memory.

​

2025-10-05  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.1.0 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.0.1:

​

    New features:

        - Expand safety checks of the `limine bios-install` command and replace

          the `--force-mbr` flag with just `--force`.

        - Add autodetection of the BIOS boot partition if no explicit partition

          index is passed to `limine bios-install`.

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Only use ASCII characters for terminal output when graphical output

          fails to initialise and the EFI standard output console is used

          instead.

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - Remove left-over logic that was meant to supplement the removed GPT

          embedding feature.

        - Remove workaround to allow building the RISC-V port with LLVM <=16.

        - Update a bunch of output messages from the `limine` host tool.

​

2025-09-21  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.0.1 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 10.0.0:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Fix a potential use-after-free issue when flushing interrupts on x86

          UEFI systems.

        - Prefer using the 32-bit Linux protocol unless it is strictly

          necessary to use the 64-bit protocol due to allocation constraints.

          This is due to reports of the 32-bit protocol being more reliable

          on certain rare systems where the 64-bit protocol crashes or hangs.

​

2025-09-15  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 10.0.0 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.6.7:

​

    Breaking changes:

        - GPT embedding is no longer supported as a deployment method for

          GPT-with-BIOS configurations. The rationale for this being that it is

          far too fragile, especially with regards to growing or shrinking disk

          images, and it may cause certain machines to refuse to boot such

          setups as they are technically in violation of the GPT specification.

        - The default baud rate for serial I/O on BIOS systems is now 115200,

          instead of 9600.

        - BIOS (chainloading) boot menu entries are now hidden when booting in

          UEFI mode, and EFI (chainloading) entries are hidden when booting in

          BIOS mode.

        - For the Limine boot protocol, for relocatable executables, KASLR now

          defaults to being disabled. The rationale for this being that KASLR

          is a somewhat niche and fairly bypassable security technique, which

          can cause headaches for kernels not wanting to support it, and make

          troubleshooting harder.

        - For the Limine boot protocol, for PE format kernels, do not discard

          discardable sections, as code put to a discardable section like INIT

          might be intended to only be discarded after early kernel init, not

          before the kernel is even loaded.

​

2025-09-13  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.6.7 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.6.6:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Relax EFI handle validation before running fallback volume detection.

          This further addresses issues caused by 9.5.4.

​

2025-09-06  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.6.6 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.6.5:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Fix regression introduced by 9.5.4 that caused Limine to fail to boot

          with U-Boot.

​

2025-08-30  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.6.3 through 9.6.5 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.6.2:

​

    These are special hotfix releases attempting to address issues with the

    Forgejo release workflow after the migration to Codeberg.

​

    Other than that, they have no differences compared to 9.6.2.

​

2025-08-30  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.6.2 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.6.1:

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - The Limine project has moved its home to Codeberg.

        - Nyu-EFI was rebranded to PicoEFI.

        - Minor build system improvements and subproject bumps.

​

2025-08-16  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.6.1 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.6.0:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - EFI chainloading: Make EFI device path of loaded image relative to

          the loaded image device handle. This now complies with the EFI

          specification, and, amongst others, it fixes chainloading Shim.

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - Miscellaneous build system changes and improvements.

        - Do not disable linker relaxations for LoongArch64.

        - `limine` host tool: Add check to ensure that a provided GPT BIOS

          partition is at least 32KiB in size.

​

2025-08-07  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.6.0 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.5.4:

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - Get rid of the fragile and messy "freestanding-toolchain" build

          helper tool. This allows for a simpler and more predictable way of

          selecting the target toolchain components via ./configure.

​

2025-08-06  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.5.4 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.5.3:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Exclude non-PCI devices from the volume discovery process on UEFI.

          This is because on (especially, but not limited to) Snapdragon X

          systems, firmware/flash devices, which are non-PCI, are exposed as

          block I/O volumes too. This skips them, which makes the bootloader

          more reliable and avoids long hangs at boot.

        - Miscellaneous changes and fixes to the fallback volume discovery

          path, to increase reliability and reduce the chance of accidental

          damage or data loss. See GitHub issue #525.

        - Minor assembly improvement that fixed Limine not building with old

          NASM.

​

2025-08-04  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.5.3 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.5.2:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Miscellaneous build system fixes, mainly to sort out possible issues

          introduced by 9.5.2.

​

2025-08-01  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.5.2 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.5.1:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Revert change that moved to `nm` from `objdump` for generating the

          symbol table, as that broke section-specific symbol dumps and caused

          BIOS stage 2 to be bloated with the full symbol table.

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - Miscellaneous build system updates and improvements.

​

2025-07-29  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** Release 9.5.1 ***

​

    Noteworthy changes compared to the previous release, 9.5.0:

​

    Bug fixes:

        - Unbreak build using ld.gold as linker.

​

    Miscellaneous:

        - Miscellaneous build system updates and improvements.

​

2025-07-14  Mintsuki  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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  <mintsuki@protonmail.com>

​

    *** 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