[Clonezilla-release] Stable Clonezilla live (2.5.5-38) Released

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

This release of Clonezilla live (2.5.5-38) 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 2018/Mar/30).
*     Linux kernel was updated to 4.15.11-1.
*     Partclone was updated to 0.3.11-drbl3 with some libraries updated. 
//NOTE// New image format is used in this release. It is different from 
the one saved by Partclone 0.2.x.
*     New massive deployment mechanism bittorrent was added. //NOTE// 
Clonezilla has to convert the original image to the special format when 
bittorrent mode is used. This will require more disk space in the image 
repository.
*     Switch keymap configuration method from console-data to 
keyboard-configuration. Ref: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893612
*     Update language files de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, ja_JP, it_IT, 
tr_TR and sk_SK. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Juan Ramón Martínez, 
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Greg Hefty, Akira YOSHIYAMA, ianfranco 
Gentili, Volkan Gezer and Ondrej Dzivy Balucha.
*     Add channel bonding option when configuring network. Thanks to 
panther_1 for requesting this. Ref: 
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/support-requests/61/
*     Make prep-ocsroot can use disk block device (e.g., /dev/sdc) as 
image repository. Thanks to Riksoft for requesting this. Ref: 
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/288/
*     Add options -pe and -pfe to ocs-sr. This allows user to enter 
password in the command options although it's not safe. Thanks to ub2 
_at_ gmx ch for requesting this. Ref: 
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/d3af2134
*     New compression lz4/lz4mt (-z8/-z8p) and zstd/pzstd (-z9/-z9p) 
were added in expert mode.
*     Make ocs-chnthn work for device name like /dev/nvme0n1p1. This 
change should really fix the issue reported here: 
https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/30
*     Remove "-p 16" for pigz in drbl-ocs.conf. It should let pigz to 
decide that automatically.
*     Package drbl-chntpw is no more used, and now we switch to use 
reged from package chntpw.
*     The file efiboot.img has been moved to /boot/grub/ from /EFI/image 
from /EFI/image/.
*     Add a workaround to make dnsmasq relay work for uEFI network boot 
clients. i.e., we have to assign the tftp server IP address in grub 
network boot loader. This is only necessary when dnsmasq is used to 
relay the DHCP request from clients to existing DHCP service. Ref: 
http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2017q1/011124.html
*     Add boot parameter ocs_netlink_timeout so that the network link 
detection timeout can be assigned for ocs-live-netcfg.
*     Add an option -cbm to ocs-live-feed-img. Besides, remove boot 
parameter ocs_litesrv_mode. It's better to assign that in the command 
line option (-dm) when running ocs-live-feed-img, e.g., 
ocs-live-feed-img -cbm netboot -dm auto-detect -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r 
-x -j2 -sc0 -p reboot -md multicast --clients-to-wait 1 
--max-time-to-wait 300 start myimg sda.
*     Support using UUID and LABEL as image repository, i.e., local_dev 
for image repository can be assigned as: 
dev:///LABEL|UUID|PARTLABEL|PARTUUID=uuid|label. E.g., 
ocs_repository="dev:///UUID=84b012cc-5a4c-41e2-bf20-620d028072cb"

BUG FIXES
*     Jfbterm should not exit when lite server is running. It would 
terminate the required service for clients to restore image, especially 
BT service in non-English environment.
*     Cnvt-ocs-dev failed to convert EBR (like sda2-ebr). Thanks to 
killuaDK for reporting this: 
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Open_discussion/thread/b851e095
*     Ocs-chnthn now supports modifying Win10 hostname. Thanks to 
František Griga for reporting this issue. Ref: 
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/support-requests/100/
*     /EFI/centos/grubx64.efi should be before /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi. 
Thanks to Fritzinger, Bernd (Bernd.Fritzinger _at_ bruker com).


Steven

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