GNU Boot – Libreboot 20140622 release
Author: Leah Rowe
Date: 2014-06-22

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Article published by: Leah Rowe

Date of publication: 22 June 2014

# Release 20140622 (5th release)

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- 7th March 2014
- revised 22nd June 2014

## Officially supported

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- ThinkPad X60
- ThinkPad X60s

## Revision (22nd June 2014 - extra)

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- Documentation: added X60 Unbricking tutorial
- Documentation: added info about enabling or disabling wifi
- Documentation: added info about enabling or disabling trackpoint

## Revision (22nd June 2014 - extra)

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- Documentation: Improved the instructions for using flashrom
- Documentation: Improved the instructions for using cbfstool (to change the default GRUB menu)
- Documentation: Numerous small fixes.

## Revision notes (22nd June 2014)

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- updated GRUB (git 4b8b9135f1676924a8458da528d264bbc7bbb301, 20th April 2014)
- Made “DeJavu Sans Mono” the default font in GRUB (fixes border corruption).
- re-added background image in GRUB (meditating GNU)
- added 6 more images:
  - coreboot_ukqwerty.rom (UK Qwerty keyboard layout in GRUB)
  - coreboot_serial_ukqwerty.rom (UK Qwerty keyboard layout in GRUB)
  - coreboot_dvorak.rom (US Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
  - coreboot_serial_dvorak.rom (US Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
  - coreboot_ukdvorak.rom (UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
  - coreboot_serial_ukdvorak.rom (UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB)
  - (coreboot.rom and coreboot_serial.rom have US Qwerty keyboard layout in GRUB, as usual)
- improved the documentation:
  - removed FLASH_INSTRUCTION and README.powertop and merged them with README
  - removed obsolete info from README and tidied it up
  - deleted README (replaced with docs/)
- tidied up the menu entries in GRUB
- tidied up the root directory of X60_source/, sorted more files into subdirectories
- improved the commenting inside the ‘build’ script (should make modifying it easier)
- Renamed X60_binary.tar.gz and X60_source.tar.gz to libreboot_bin.tar.gz and libreboot_src.tar.gz, respectively.
- Replaced “GNU GRUB version” with “FREE AS IN FREEDOM” on GNU GRUB start screen.
- Added sha512.txt files in libreboot_src and libreboot_bin. (inside the archives)
- Added libreboot_bin.tar.gz.sha512.txt and libreboot_src.tar.gz.sha512.txt files (outside of the archives)

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