[Clonezilla-release] The Next Stable Clonezilla Live - 1.2.8-21

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Clonezilla live 1.2.8-21 is planned as the next stable release on Mar 
29, 2011.

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.8-21) includes major enhancements, 
changes and bug fixes.
MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES:

   * The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This 
release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2011/Mar/25).
   * Linux kernel was updated to 2.6.38-1.
   * Partclone was updated to 0.2.21.
   * Live-boot was updated to 2.0.15-1.drbl1, and live-config was 
updated to 2.0.15-1.drbl1.
   * Language files were updated. Thanks to Alex Ibáñez López, Zhiqiang 
Zhang, Gianfranco Gentili, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira YOSHIYAMA and 
Anton Pryadko.
   * New packages were added: disktype, ufsutils
   * Memtest86+ was updated to 4.20.
   * A better mechanism was added to deal with multiple slices of a BSD 
system
   * A mechanism was added to check if the saved image is restorable.
   * "noatime" and "nodiratime" options are now used when mounting file 
system in prep-ocsroot.
   * The boot parameter "nomodeset" was removed.
   * The ocs_postrun boot parameter (and ocs_postrun1, ocs_postrun2, 
etc.) was added.
   * By default partclone.dd is used instead of dd to process unknown 
file systems.
   * The sgdisk program is used to process GPT by default. This makes 
the imaging and cloning of Mac OS better.
   * The virtual block device (/dev/vd[a-z]) support was added. Thanks 
to Cyril Roos for providing patch.
   * //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot 
parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter 
"config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
   * //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in 
Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been 
changed. The new format is:
 
ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] 
[,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***::
     e.g.
     ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.254:255.255.255.0::eth0,:::::eth1:dhcp

BUG FIXES

   * An issue with restoring a small, freshly formatted filesystem has 
been fixed.
   * A bug where ocs-get-part-info failed to remove a temp file in /tmp 
was fixed.
   * The failure of the -hn0/-hn1 option in some cases was fixed.
   * A bug was fixed in which multiple network cards did not honor the 
boot parameter of ethernet timeout


Steven.

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