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Version 1.0.4 (2012-11-20)
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* Base upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise)
* Percent complete now based on part sizes rather than total number of parts
* Windows now have titlebars to ease minimizing, maximizing and closing
* Time is now synced to localtime (hardware clock) after boot
* Widget theme changed to Bluebird for Gtk3 compatibility
* Now has a helpful beep to indicate when long processes are finished
* Added alsamixergui to enable mixer button on volume control
* Drive reset utility can now operate on multiple drives simultaneously
* Removed synaptic and boot-repair packages to reduce image size
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Version 1.0.3 (2012-05-10)
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* Restore now overwrites MBR and partition table upon completion
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Version 1.0.2 (2012-01-03)
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* Updated to latest partclone stable binaries
* Shorten dropdown menus with an ellipsis after certain character limit
* Ubuntu Maverick repos for updates and backports added; base upgraded
* Chromium browser launched with user data dir specified (to run as root)
* Show time elapsed when backup/restore operations are completed
* Added boot-repair tool for correcting any boot issues after restore
* Added wget utility for easily downloading files from the command line
* Show free space on destination drive while saving a backup
* Warn if less than 1GB free on backup destination drive
* Show an error if any of the partitions to restore do not exist
* Allow spaces in network shared folders
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Version 1.0.1 (2011-08-09)
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* LVM2 support added
* Fixed HFS+ bug that prevented the proper partclone tool from being called
* Minor changes to boot menu
* Safe mode boot option now prompts user to select a valid video mode
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Version 1.0.0 (2011-07-01)
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* Added the wodim package for command-line CD burning
* Password boxes now display hidden characters when typed in
* Increased boot delay for machines that are slow to display it
* Changed default boot option to load the system into RAM with "toram"
* Changed safe video mode to use "xforcevesa nomodeset"
* Updated the boot help text to provide info about Ubuntu boot options
* Removed enhanced security erase option in drive reset tool for reliability
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Version 0.9.9 (2011-06-10)
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* Added missing ntfs-3g package to allow saving backups to NTFS drives
* Version number can be found in bottom left after booting into GUI
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Version 0.9.8 (2011-03-10)
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* Major platform shift; building from Ubuntu rather than xPUD in the future
* Many base features not directly related to backup/restore have changed
* Added boot menu option to check CD media for defects
* Added performance enhancement section to /etc/smb.conf
* Updated fsarchiver and partclone binaries to latest stable versions
* Boot splash screen now displays version number for easy identification
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Version 0.9.7 (2010-09-22)
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* Added autorun.exe to help Windows users realize that a reboot is needed
* Changed color of UI background from orange to soft blue
* Copied VERSION and LICENSE files to root of CD-ROM for easier access
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Version 0.9.6 (2010-08-28)
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* Fixed: Backup required scanning net before specifying a share manually
* Fixed: Verification for drive reset can detect success or failure
* Fixed: Missing rsync CLI dependencies have been added to the live CD image
* Modified the bookmarks, labels and links in the UI
* Marked wireless features as unsupported in the UI (experimental only)
* Default boot option uses the fbdev driver in 1024x768 (16-bit) mode
* Removed unused boot modes (e.g. command line mode)
* Boot screen wait time reduced to 5 seconds
* All packages moved to the "core" image file for simplicity
* Added the grsync graphical utility for incremental file transfers
* Added the scp tool for secure transfer of files via SSH
* Added the very powerful gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest)
* Added support for encrypted volumes with cryptsetup
* Added GUI lshw-gtk tool to easily identify computer hardware components
* Added the baobab graphical disk usage tool
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Version 0.9.5 (2010-08-08)
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* Major speed improvements; backups and restores now 4x faster
* Standalone gzip binary allows the compression level to be specified
* Updated partclone to version 0.2.13
* Added the smartmontools "smartctl" CLI for monitoring drive health
* Back to using syslinux from the standard Ubuntu 9.10 repo version
* Only one isolinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg file to maintain
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Version 0.9.4 (2010-08-02)
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* New option to manually specify a shared folder or FTP server
* Allow retry if network mount fails or bad password is provided
* Warning: New backup naming convention allows dashes, not underscores
* Created /opt/backup to hold backup components (instead of using /opt/core)
* ISO CD-ROM label changed to "Redo Backup"
* Suppress umount error messages when they aren't really errors
* Added testdisk_static for recovering partition tables and MBRs
* Added rsync for copying files with a progress indicator
* Default boot option now works with any VESA-compatible video card
* Simplified boot menu focused on hardware support instead of languages
* Added F1 option to boot menu to display helpful options and information
* Cancel button kills any running backup/restore processes before exiting
* Hotplug scripts removed at boot time to stop automounting (for gparted)
* USB installer upgraded to syslinux-3.86, forcibly writes mbr.bin to device
* USB installer now creates FAT32 partition and filesystem instead of FAT16
* Optionally search for network shares on demand, rather than automatically
* Compatibility fixes and UI improvements to factory drive reset tool
* Added reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs and mcheck for more filesystem support
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Version 0.9.3 (2010-07-04)
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* Warning: Not interoperable with images from previous versions
* Updated partclone to version 0.2.12
* Save partclone error log to /partclone.log during each operation
* Split backup images into 2GB files rather than saving one giant file
* Added GZIP compression to reduce size of backup image
* Backup saves first 32768 bytes rather than 512 when imaging MBR
* Partition list saved to *.backup instead of *.redo
* Fixed missing nmap dependencies so that local FTP servers are found
* USB installation now detects if CD is in /dev/scd0 or /dev/sdc1
* Stronger warning before overwriting all data to destination drive
* Decision to abort restoration now aborts (continued either way before)
* Abort restore if destination drive is smaller than the original
* Do not allow partition being saved to be selected as the destination
* Warn when restoring to the same drive the backup image is being read from
* Minor graphic adjustment to title image
* Removed kernel boot option "quiet" so users can see it is booting
* Removed kernel boot option "noisapnp" (added by default in xPUD project)
* Splash screen implemented on USB stick installations
* Modified boot menu appearance and help text
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Version 0.9.2 (2010-06-24)
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* Initial release
