Clonezilla News

This release of Clonezilla live (2.8.0-27) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.7.3-19

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2021/Nov/17).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.14.6-3.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.18.
• Package ezio was updated to 1.2.0.
• Language files de_DE, hu_HU, es_ES, fr_FR, ja_JP, pl_PL, sk_SK, tr_TR, were updated. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Greg., Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira Yoshiyama, Juan Ramón Martínez, kris, Ondrej Dzivy Balucha and Volkan Gezer.
• Program ocs-live-netcfg was improved: wireless can be configured using nmtui, and boot parameter ocs_nic_type can be used to assign if wired or wireless when configuring network in ocs-live-netcfg.
• update-efi-nvram-boot-entry: improved to refer to saved nvram data (efi-nvram.dat). In addition, multiple boot entries can be processed, too. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/9ffa31f838
• Suppress the error message about "setterm -blank 0".
• Add a cache mechanism to speed up the device scanning.
• Allow reserved image names to be used in TUI. The description about reserved image names is shown in TUI.

BUG FIXES

• The option "-j2" was missing in recovery-iso-zip mode. Thanks to Ek Han Heng for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/9ffa31f838/
• The "-z9p" was not shown in the save menu for beginner mode.
• Function get_not_busy_disks_or_parts: a bug was fixed, which failed to process dev with /dev/mapper, e.g., /dev/mapper/ventoy. Thanks to yellowsoar for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/b5d15a6edf
• Fail to search live-media-path from boot parameters. Thanks to JDFandango for reporting this issue. Ref: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/59*