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Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
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@ -353,6 +353,17 @@ for reading, and have a wonderful day!
Revisions
=========
Occasionally, stable releases such as this one may contain minor (or critical)
issues that went unnoticed during testing. When this occurs, critical or
otherwise desirable fixes are implemented, while not fundamentally altering
the substance of the original release.
When this occurs, the ROM image and source code archives are entirely re-built,
and re-uploaded, replacing the old one. Patch files are provided alongside the
updated source archive, so that you can revert (from it) back to the older
revisions if you wish; by doing this, you can therefore also re-create the
original release archive, for reference.
Revision 1
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@ -412,3 +423,26 @@ which manifested during S3 resume, but that bug never made it into the release
because it was fixed *before* the initial release of Libreboot 20241206.
The ROM images were all re-uploaded, compiled from the rev3 tarball, because it was discovered that the rev2 tarballs had a GRUB built showing the old Libreboot 20241008 version number; the actual code in GRUB matched the code for 20241206, but it was a cached GRUB build from just before updating the version number for release. This is because the rev2 ROM image tarballs were done manually, to avoid a full re-build of every target in lbmk. To avoid all doubt, all ROM images have been re-compiled with the version number corrected, from the rev3 tag.
Revision 4
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All current ROM/src archives in this release match changes up to rev4.
Rev4 fixed a bug: GRUB was not allowing the background image to be changed,
despite rules in `grub.cfg` that made one in CBFS load before memdisk. This fix
was implemented by no longer inserting background images into GRUB's memdisk,
instead inserting them into CBFS.
This way, you can remove what's in CBFS and replace it with your own, if that's
what you want to do.
To celebrate this fix, the default background logo was also changed. The old
one was a white silhouette of the Libreboot logo, whereas the new one is of
the same shape but shoes a rainbow-coloured gradient instead of all-white. This
rainbow logo was also used in U-Boot on the very initial Libreboot 20241206
release, and it's also used for the main website logo at the time of this
revision.
Basically, this fix was done as an excuse just to do another revision update,
to change the logo! The actual bug was actually quite minor and irrelevant.