jlobue10/rEFInd_GUI v3.5.8

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rEFInd_GUI 3.5.8

Fixed

• Installers no longer depend on wget. Every download in install-rEFInd-GUI.sh and refind_install_Sourceforge.sh now tries curl first and falls back to wget. On distros that ship curl but no wget (Omarchy, for one) the GUI installer's bare wget call failed, so it silently fell back to a full local makepkg build while reporting "No release package available" for a release whose package was fine, and the SourceForge rEFInd installer aborted outright. The SourceForge script now checks for a downloader and an extractor (unzip, else bsdtar) before touching the network and names the missing tool, and the fallback messages say the package could not be downloaded. curl and unzip are runtime dependencies of the deb, rpm and Arch packages.
• ARM64 drivers keep their real names on the ESP. 3.5.3 through 3.5.7 renamed the ARM64 builds of the controller and touchscreen drivers to the x86-64 names (drivers_aa64/UsbXbox360Dxe.efi), which read as wrong-architecture files. All three install scripts (Linux SourceForge, Linux package-manager, Windows) now install UsbXbox360Dxe_aa64.efi and TouchI2cDxe_aa64.efi under their release names, delete the legacy copy (and, on Linux, its sbctl database entry), and print what they installed. rEFInd loads every .efi in the folder regardless of name, so nothing else changes.
• Readable terminal window. Install rEFInd and the randomizer toggles open xterm with a scalable font at the GUI's own point size (11 pt floor) and a 110x40 window, instead of xterm's 13 px bitmap default that was unreadable on HiDPI displays.

Changed

• sbctl signing also runs with Secure Boot disabled. Whenever sbctl status reports its keys installed, both Linux installers run sbctl-batch-sign after writing the ESP, so the files are already signed the moment Secure Boot is switched on and sbctl verify stays clean. With Secure Boot enforcing, a missing signer or a failed sign is still fatal; with it disabled they only warn. sbctl-batch-sign now skips database entries whose file no longer exists instead of aborting the whole run.

Notes

• If a 3.5.3–3.5.7 install left drivers_aa64/UsbXbox360Dxe.efi or TouchI2cDxe.efi on an ARM64 machine, those were the correct ARM64 builds (sbctl signing adds about 2 KB, so their size never matched the release asset). Re-running Install rEFInd replaces them with the _aa64-named copies.
• The GUI runs the install scripts from ~/.local/rEFInd_GUI, which the installer refreshes from this release tag.

Upgrading

Re-run the installer for your platform, or just update the deb, rpm or Arch package:

curl -L https://github.com/jlobue10/rEFInd_GUI/raw/main/install-rEFInd-GUI.sh | bash

Full Changelog: v3.5.7...v3.5.8