What's new in Rescuezilla 2.4.2
Mar 6, 2023
- Removes the Intel screen tearing fix introduced for v2.3 (2021-12-24), which should fix black screens on Intel graphics (#281)
- Introduces Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic) for best support of recent hardware, but leaves default build as Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)
- Reintroduces a 32-bit (Intel i386) build, currently based on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) (#232) after it was temporarily dropped in Rescuezilla v2.0 (2020-10-14)
- Note: Partclone backwards compatibility is imperfect and 32-bit release uses old Ubuntu repository partclone version, not latest compiled version
- Fixes Backup mode's broken SSH port field introduced in v2.4 (#385)
- Installs lxappearance (#274), hexdump (bsdmainutils) (#382), flashrom (#388)
- Installed packages which improve ability to mount encrypted drives with pcmanfm file manager (#379)
- Replaces out-of-service Travis-CI build bot integration with GitHub Actions, for improved quality-control, and to assist Rescuezilla contributors
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Albanian/Shqip (sq-AL) (Translation in-progress)
- Lithuanian/Lietuvių (lt-LT)
- Dutch/Nederlands (nl-NL)
New in Rescuezilla 2.4.1 (Sep 6, 2022)
- Fixed broken wifi after v2.4 broke it (due to a change in Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy leading to a key package not being installed (#366)
- Reintroduced ISO variant based on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), to assist users with AMD/Intel graphics
- AMD/Intel graphics still expected to be broken on "Jammy" variant except when using Graphical Fallback Mode (#351)
- Fixed image verification for German language (broken for all images in v2.4 German language mode, due to a typo in a translation string) (#352)
- Fixed similar fatal user-facing error messages caused by translation typos in the French, Danish and Catalan translations
- Add the font to fix display of the cross mark character "❌" in the image verification summary
- Fixed "stuck at 0%" progress bar when the destination is read-only (#363)
- Added protection to prevent other unexpected situations from leading to the same behavior
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Thai/ภาษาไทย (th-TH)
New in Rescuezilla 2.4 (Aug 8, 2022)
- Replaces Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) build with build based on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) for best support of new hardware
- Builds latest version of partclone from source code v0.3.20, instead of OS package (#168, #309, #335)
- This fixes "unsupported feature" error for users of compressed BTRFS filesystems (such as Fedora Workstation 33 and newer)
- Removed old partclone v0.2.43 used to maximize legacy Redo Backup compatibility (modern partclone still provides good backwards compatibility)
- Fixed execution of Clonezilla EFI NVRAM script to better correctly handle reboot on EFI systems (#348)
- Switched Firefox to using the Mozilla Team PPA repository, because new "snap" packaging is incompatible with Rescuezilla's build scripts
- Added ability to compress images using bzip2 algorithm (#290)
- Moved post-completion action to in-progress page (#316)
- This has caused at least 1 user an issue during cloning, which I'm yet unable to reproduce: #337
- Added ability to set custom SSH port (#336)
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Arabic/ﺎﻠﻋﺮﺒﻳﺓ (ar-EG)
- Catalan/Català (ca-ES) (Translation in-progress)
- Czech/Čeština (cs-CZ) (Translation in-progress)
- Hungarian/Magyar (hu-HU) Translation in-progress)
- Slovak/Slovenčina (sk-SK) (Translation in-progress)
New in Rescuezilla 2.3.1 (Jan 2, 2022)
- Fixed "Clone always stuck at 0%" issue introduced in v2.3.0 (#297)
- Added Korean/한국어 translation (ko-KR) (using Weblate)
- Significantly updated existing Italian/Italiano translation (it-IT) (using Weblate)
New in Rescuezilla 2.3 (Dec 25, 2021)
- Implemented initial image verification feature (#30)
- Adds "Rescue" option to ignore filesystem inconsistencies and bad sectors (#237)
- Replaces Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute) build with build based on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) for best support of new hardware
- Added ability to restore and explore images created by "Apart" partclone GUI (#230)
- Improved image scanning to try to fix report of where some images not scanning except with Browse (#251)
- Fixed display of LVM shutdown error message (#250)
- Displayed error message on duplicate image name (#283)
- Displayed error message when mounting swap partition attempted (#259)
- Displayed serial number of drives in response to feedback (#227)
- Added lxappearance package to make it easy to set the dark theme (#275)
- Added ability to open file manager as root using right-click (#281)
- Added user-provided Intel Xorg conf file to hopefully stop screen tearing (#281)
- Fixed issue preventing restoring of images created by FSArchiver/qtfsarchiver (#255)
- Fixed ability to click certain URLs and open a web browser
- Listed 'lvm2' as a dependency to assist installing Rescuezilla as standalone package
- Switched to "xdg-open" to launch file manager and web browser, rather than hardcoding pcmanfm and Firefox
- Added (or significantly updated) translations
- Hebrew/??????? (he-IL) (#244)
- Ti?ng Vi?t (vi-VN) (#263)
- Danish/Dansk (da-DK) (#248)
- Russian/??????? (ru-RU) (#270)
- Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia (id-ID) (in-progress)
New in Rescuezilla 2.2 (Jun 4, 2021)
- Implemented cloning (direct 'device-to-device' mode) (#47)
- Added ability to restore and explore all virtual machine image formats supported by qemu-nbd (#192)
- VirtualBox’s VDI, VMWare’s VMDK, Qemu’s QCOW2, HyperV's VHDx, raw .dd/.img and many more)
- Added ability to restore and explore images created by all remaining open-source imaging frontends (#194)
- Redo Rescue, Foxclone, FSArchiver, Redo v0.9.2 and very-early handling of FOG Project images)
- Added ability to customize compression format (gzip, zstandard, uncompressed) and compression level (#170)
- Implemented remaining Clonezilla image restore logic to improve handling of many corner cases: (task #146)
- Grows filesystem to fit partition size (but almost always filesystem size is already equal to partition size)
- Runs filesystem check on all restored filesystems
- Clears the NTFS volume dirty flag, for source during backup/clone and destination for restore/clone
- Removes the udev MAC address records (if any) using Clonezilla script
- Re-install the syslinux bootloader (if any) using Clonezilla script
- Re-install the GRUB bootloader (if any) using Clonezilla script
- Update initramfs (if any) using Clonezilla script
- Relocates all NTFS filesystems using geometry from sfdisk or (if available) EDD (Enhanced Disk Device)
- Restores LVM VG metadata with --force to match a recent Clonezilla patch referring to thin-pool LVs
- Ensures each LVM VG metadata once is only restored once, t support newer versions of vgcfgrestore
- Updates EFI NVRAM for the boot device
- Replaces Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy) build with build based on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute) for best support of new hardware
- Added option to shutdown or reboot after operation completes successfully (#165)
- Added ability to connect to NFS and SSH (SFTP) network shared folders (#81, #118)
- Added ability to write a description for backup images (#137)
- Added ability to make a screenshot by pressing Print Screen (#166)
- Added ability to cancel mount operations by closing the 'please wait' popup
- Switched SMB/CIFS version number field to dropdown menu to make valid options much more clear (#161)
- Fixed ability to connect to unauthenticated/anonymous Windows network shares (#190)
- Improved handling of Clonezilla images that contain multiple disks (#123)
- Improved ability to double-click on rows during backup to toggle them (instead of going to the next page)
- Switched from lxterminal to xfce4-terminal for features like select-all and search
- Switched the compression of ISO image's mksquashfs root filesystem to zstd level 19 (from gzip level 9) (#161)
- Fixed Image Explorer (beta) "Error: Socket failed: Connection refused" errors by polling nbd device
- Displays error when trying to restore to disk smaller-than-original if disk not correctly prepared
- Unmounts '/isodevice' on boot to improve when Rescuezilla ISO is itself installed as GRUB boot menu item (#207)
- Ignores the common executable files that have names matching backup images: eg /bin/parts, /sbin/parts, partclone.dd
- Fixed display of keep/overwrite partition table info message without needing to first click the checkbox
- Added ability to backup CD/DVDs as Clonezilla image containing a raw sector-by-sector dd backup (experimental)
- Switched error dialog box to be scrollable and resizable
- Ensured progress bar better reflects the amount of data being copied (#129)
- Ensured consistent 'last modified' timestamp string across all image formats
- Ensured ecryptfs-utils, partimage packages are installed as intended
- Added Firefox bookmarks for Rescuezilla FAQ, Patreon
- Improved information provided to user during partition table refresh, LVM shutdown, image scan
- Improved filesystem size estimates for Clonezilla LVM logical volumes
- Suppressed unnecessary confirmation when mounting uncompressed images using Image Explorer (beta)
- Fixed slow scanning of legacy Rescuezilla v1.0.5-v1.0.6.1 images
- Calculated filesystem sizes of Redo Backup v0.9.2-v1.0.4 images based on partclone.info
- Resets progress bar at the start of backup/restore/clone operation, rather than showing 100% initially
- Improves warning messages when legacy Redo Backup images are missing image files
- Improves truncated MBR, missing sfdisk file warning messages
- Added dependency on the Clonezilla package for access to its udev/syslinux/GRUB/initramfs scripts (see above)
- Added edd=on kernel boot option to assist with advanced NTFS filesystem geometry relocation
- Switched to using Weblate to manage translations (#196): https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/rescuezilla
- Added translations:
- Swedish/Svenska (sv-SE) (#186)
- Turkish/Türkçe (tr-TR) (#89)
- Chinese (Simplified)/??(??) (zh-CN) (#191)
- Chinese (Traditional)/??(??) (zh-Hant)
- Norwegian Bokmål/Norsk Bokmål (nb-NO)
- Russian/??????? (ru-RU)
- Dansk/Danish (da-DK)
- Added scrollbar to GRUB boot menu to handle increasing number of languages
- Removed 'localepurge' whitelist since number of translations is growing