acidanthera/OpenCorePkg 0.5.9

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v0.5.9

• Added full HiDPI support in OpenCanopy
• Improved OpenCanopy font rendering by using CoreText
• Fixed light and custom background font rendering
• Added Boot#### options support in boot entry listing
• Removed HideSelf by pattern recognising BOOTx64.efi
• Added BlacklistAppleUpdate to avoid Apple FW updates
• Fixed accidental tool and NVRAM reset booting by default
• Fixed unrecognised select com.apple.recovery.boot entries
• Changed NVRAM reset not to erase BootProtect boot options
• Improved boot performance when picker UI is disabled
• Enforced the use of builtin picker when external fails
• Fixed warnings for empty NVRAM variables (e.g. rtc-blacklist)
• Added ApplePanic to store panic logs on ESP root
• Fixed ReconnectOnResChange reconnecting even without res change
• Fixed OpenCanopy showing internal icons for external drives
• Fixed OpenCanopy launching Shell with text over it
• Added partial hotkey support to OpenCanopy (e.g. Ctrl+Enter)
• Added builtin text renderer compatibility with Shell page mode
• Fixed FadtEnableReset with too small FACP tables and some laptops
• Fixed CPU detection crash with QEMU 5.0 and KVM accelerator
• Removed RequestBootVarFallback due to numerous bugs
• Added DeduplicateBootOrder UEFI quirk
• Removed DirectGopCacheMode due to being ineffective
• Fixed assertions on log exhaustion causing boot failures
• Fixed builtin text renderer failing to provide ConsoleControl
• Fixed compatibility with blit-only GOP (e.g. OVMF Bochs)
• Fixed ignoring # in DeviceProperty and NVRAM Delete
• Renamed Block to Delete in ACPI,DeviceProperties, and NVRAM
• Added MacBookPro16,2 and MacBookPro16,3 model codes
• Added PCI device scanning policy support (e.g. VIRTIO)
• Improved playback performance in AudioDxe
• Updated builtin firmware versions for SMBIOS and the rest
• Added improved CPU type detection for newer CPU types
• Added ConfigValidity utility and improved config validation
• Added serial port initialisation for serial debug logging
• Disabled empty debug log file creation to avoid ESP cluttering
• Added TscSyncTimeout quirk to workaround debug kernel assertions
• Added first-class Windows support to bless model
• Fixed LapicKernelPanic kernel quirk on 10.9
• Added prebuilt version of CrScreenshotDxe driver
• Fixed Hyper-V frequency detection compatibility
• Added SysReport option for DEBUG builds to dump system info
• Fixed crashes on some AMD firmwares when performing keyboard input