Stable Clonezilla live 2.8.0-27 Released

Steven Shiau — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 07:05:35 -0000

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*

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