The distribution is now powered by Linux kernel 4.0.2

Aug 3, 2015 03:55 GMT  ·  By

On the first day of August 2015, Steven Shiau released a new testing version of his popular Clonezilla Live CD, which can be used for disk cloning and imaging operations, version 2.4.2-29.

According to the changelog, which we've attached at the end of the article for reference, Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-29 brings with it updated core components based on the Debian Sid software repositories as of July 23, 2015.

It updates the Partclone disk partition cloning utility to version 0.2.81, fixing a TUI crash for VMWare Virtual Machine File System (VMFS), and uses Linux kernel 4.0.2 with the nicif parameter.

Additionally, the sfdisk utility is now used to create partition tables when restoring a GPT disk's images instead of sgdisk, the "skip" option is now used by the prep-ocsroot script by default when the mount point is /home/partimag, and there's a better mechanism in ocs-live-netcfg for getting the linking status of network interfaces.

"The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/Jul/23)," says Steven Shiau in the official release notes of Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-29.

Several bugs were squashed in this release

Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-29 also fixes a few bugs reported by users since the previous version, such as a failure of the "-k1" option related to ocs-expand-mbr-pt, and a failure of the update-efi-nvram-boot-entry's output file.

Moreover, there's now a newer output format for efibootmgr 0.12 or higher, and processing of LVM (Logical Volume Management) about LV (Logical Volume) with snapshots and PV (Physical Volume) on multiple partitions no longer fails.

You can download Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-29 right now from Softpedia, where it is distributed as 32-bit (PAE and non-PAE) and 64-bit live ISO images, but keep in mind that it's a pre-release version, not suitable for use on production environments.

Clonezilla 2.4.2-29 Changelog