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Documentation: add missing release notes for 1.20 and 1.21.

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<div class="wikidoc">
<h1>Release Notes</h1>
<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.21 </strong>(July 9<sup>th</sup>, 2017):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>All OSs:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Fix 1.20 regression crash when running on CPU not supporting extended features.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Windows:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Fix 1.20 regression that caused PIM value stored in favorites to be ignored during mount.</li>
<li>Fix 1.20 regression that causes system favorites not to mount in some cases.</li>
<li>Fix some cases of "Parameter Incorrect" error during EFI system encryption wizard.</li>
<li>Install PDF documents related to EFI system encryption configuration for advanced users:
<ul>
<li>disk_encryption_v1_2.pdf related to EFI hidden OS and full fisk encryption</li>
<li>dcs_tpm_owner_02.pdf related to TPM configuration for EFI system encryption.</li>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>FreeBSD:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Add support for building on FreeBSD.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.20 </strong>(June 29<sup>th</sup>, 2017):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>All OSs:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Use 64-bit optimized assembly implementation of Twofish and Camellia by Jussi Kivilinna.
<ul>
<li>Camellia 2.5 faster when AES-NI supported by CPU. 30% faster without it.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Use optimized implementation for SHA-512/SHA256.
<ul>
<li>33% speedup on 64-bit systems.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Deploy local HTML documentation instead of User Guide PDF.</li>
<li>Change links in UI from ones on Codeplex to ones hosted at veracrypt.fr </li>
<li>Security: build binaries with support for Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Windows:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Several fixes and modifications for EFI System Encryption:
<ul>
<li>Fix bug in EFI system decryption using EFI Rescue Disk</li>
<li>Add support for TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0 (experimental) through DCS low level configuration.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://dc5.sourceforge.io/docs/dcs_tpm_owner_02.pdf" target="_blank">https://dc5.sourceforge.io/docs/dcs_tpm_owner_02.pdf</a>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Add Support for EFI full disk encryption and hidden OS using manual procedure (not exposed in UI).
<ul>
<li><a href="https://dc5.sourceforge.io/docs/disk_encryption_v1_2.pdf" target="_blank">https://dc5.sourceforge.io/docs/disk_encryption_v1_2.pdf</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Enable using Secure Desktop for password entry. Add preferences option and command line switch (/secureDesktop) to activate it.</li>
<li>Use default mount parameters when mounting multiple favorites with password caching.</li>
<li>Enable specifying PRF and TrueCryptMode for favorites.</li>
<li>Preliminary driver changes to support EFI hidden OS functionality.</li>
<li>Fix Streebog not recognized by /hash command line.</li>
<li>Add support for ReFS filesystem on Windows 10 when creating normal volumes</li>
<li>Fix high CPU usage when favorite configured to mount with VolumeID on arrival.</li>
<li>Use CHM file for User Guide instead of PDF.</li>
<li>Fix false warning in case of EFI system encryption about Windows not installed on boot drive.</li>
<li>Enhancements to driver handling of various disk IOCTL.</li>
<li>Enhancements to EFI bootloader. Add possibility to manually edit EFI configuration file.</li>
<li>Driver Security: Use enhanced protection of NX pool under Windows 8 and later.</li>
<li>Reduce performance impact of internal check for disconnected network drives.</li>
<li>Minor fixes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>MacOSX:</strong>
<ul>
<li>OSX 10.7 or newer is required to run VeraCrypt.</li>
<li>Make VeraCrypt default handler of .hc & .tc files.</li>
<li>Add custom VeraCrypt icon to .hc and .tc files in Finder.</li>
<li>Check TrueCryptMode in password dialog when opening container file with .tc extension.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Linux:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Check TrueCryptMode in password dialog when opening container file with .tc extension.</li>
<li>Fix executable stack in resulting binary which was caused by crypto assembly files missing the GNU-stack note.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.19 </strong>(October 17<sup>th</sup>, 2016):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>All OSs:</strong>