[Clonezilla-release] Stable Clonezilla live (2.4.9-17) Released

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

This release of Clonezilla live (2.4.9-17) includes major enhancements 
and bug fixes.

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES

  * The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release
    is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2016/Oct/21).
  * Linux kernel was updated to 4.7.8-1.
  * Remove "nodmraid" from boot parameters in drbl-ocs.conf. Now
    fakeraid/firmware raid is supported.
  * Language files hu_HU, ja_JP.UTF-8, de_DE, fr_FR, it_IT, and es_ES
    was updated. Thanks to Greg Marki, Akira YOSHIYAMA, Michael Vinzenz,
    Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Gianfranco Gentili, Juan Ramón Martínez
    and Alex Ibáñez López.
  * The drbl/clonezilla live version info will be put in
    /etc/ocs/ocs-live.conf, and when an image is saved, the info will be
    saved in Info-packages.txt.
  * Applied patches from Aaron Burling, so now when mounting image
    repository, it is able to browse the directories recursively.
  * Force to make timeout of dhclient as 60 secs. Debian uses 60, but
    Ubuntu uses 300. Too long. Thanks to Cecile, Adam (Adam.Cecile /at/
    hitec lu) for reporting this.
  * Add mechanism to detect bitlocker and Microsoft Reserved Partition
    (MSR) in ocs-get-part-info.
  * Add options -sfsck and -senc in the Clonezilla live interactive menu
    for saving image modes. Thanks to Aaron Burling (aaron_burling /at/
    lkstevens wednet edu) for this idea.
  * Ask the post action (choose, reboot, poweroff) before starting
    cloning. Thanks to Aaron Burling (aaron_burling /at/ lkstevens
    wednet edu) for this idea.
  * Add entry points by using boot parameters ocs_savedisk_prerun,
    ocs_saveparts_prerun, ocs_restoredisk_prerun, and
    ocs_restoreparts_prerun in ocs-sr. Thanks to Aaron Burling
    (aaron_burling /at/ lkstevens wednet edu) for these ideas.
  * Boot parameter ocs_overwrite_postaction has higher priority than the
    action assigned by option "-p" in ocs-sr, and "-pa" in ocs-onthefly.
    The value for ocs_overwrite_postaction is:
    [choose|reboot|poweroff]-on-[restoredisk|restoreparts|savedisk|saveparts|clone]
    E.g., choose-on-restoredisk means the postaction for restoredisk
    will always be choose no matter what is assigned in -p of ocs-sr or
    -pa of ocs-onthefly. Thanks to Aaron Burling (aaron_burling /at/
    lkstevens wednet edu) for this idea.
  * Now ocs-live-preload checks if
    /opt/{overwrite-all-boot-param,overwrite-part-boot-param} exists
    (Downloaded from root of ocs_preload). File overwrite-all-boot-param
    is to overwrite the whole /proc/cmdline, while
    overwrite-part-boot-param only overwrites part of the variables in
    /proc/cmdline. Especially those "ocs_*" parameters. Thanks to Aaron
    Burling (aaron_burling /at/ lkstevens wednet edu) for this idea and
    providing sample codes.
  * Packages dislocker, ext4magic, myrescue, os-prober, powertop were added.

BUG FIXES

  * Inform kernel partition changes only when disk is not busy. This
    should solve the issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/265/
  * Replace boot parameter noprompt with noeject since live-boot >= v3
    uses noeject, not noprompt.
  * Live-boot failed to mount vfat device as the boot media for
    Clonezilla live. Thanks to Little Vulpix for reporting this issue.
    Ref:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/ba31ffc8
  * Failed to create the checksum files for files in LV, i.e., when
    option "-gmf" or "-cmf" is enabled. Thanks to Mircea Dan. Ref:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/260/
  * Change /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable to 1 when running i686
    Linux kernel and the RAM size is larger than 8 GB. Thanks to Little
    Vulpix for this suggestion. Ref:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/ba31ffc8
  * Clean file system/LVM info before creating partition table. Thanks
    to Mircea Dan (byreal /at/ users sf net) and Pete Morris (morrispj
    /at/ jmu edu) for reporting this issue. Ref:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/254/
  * Disable service systemd-timesyncd. Clonezilla live should not change
    the system time. Thanks to Rick and rfried for reporting this issue.
    Ref:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/b2667447


Steven

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