<h3>This release of Clonezilla live (20250303-oracular) includes major enhancements and bug fixes.</h3> 
<h4>ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 20241010-oracular</h4> 
<ul>
  <li>The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Ubuntu Oracular (24.04) repository (as of 2025/03/03).</li>
  <li>Linux kernel was updated to 6.11.0-18.18</li>
  <li>Linux kernel was updated to 6.12.17-1.</li>
  <li>Package partclone was updated to 0.3.33.</li>
  <li>Package ezio was updated to 2.0.15.</li>
  <li>Memtest86+ was updated to v7.20. Thanks to ottokang.</li>
  <li>Built with updated and patched live-build 20250225.</li>
  <li>Package live-boot was updated to new and patched version 20250225.</li>
  <li>Merged lz4 and lz4mt, use "lz4 -T0" by default. Hence the following extra_lz4* variables are dropped:
    extra_lz4_opt, extra_lz4mt_opt.
    This will be easier for user to customize that using boot parameters.
    Now only available variables for lz4 are:
    extra_lz4_opt, extra_lz4_dc_opt, extra_lz4_opt_onthefly & extra_lz4_dc_opt_onthefly.
    Thanks to ottokang for asking this.</li>
  <li>Added lz4-related boot parameters: extra_lz4_opt, extra_lz4_dc_opt,
    extra_lz4_opt_onthefly & extra_lz4_dc_opt_onthefly</li>
  <li>ocs-live-swap-kernel: added option "-l" to umount for kernel
    pseudo-filesystem: squashfs-root/{dev,proc,sys,run}.
    This will avoid the efivarfs is busy as squashfs-root/sys/firmware/efi/efivars.</li>
  <li>Added packages: pmount, jc, and util-linux-extra.</li>
  <li>Added an option in expert mode (-plu) so that user can
    copy clonezilla-related log files to Clonezilla live
    USB drive.A new file ocs-put-log-usb is used to copy
    log files to Clonezilla live USB drive.</li>
  <li>Use $ocs_log_dir (/var/log/clonezilla/) as log dir. All the
    Clonezilla-related log files will be under that dir.</li>
  <li>Add time tag in grub boot menu for live system.</li>
  <li>Restored to use the fail-mbr.bin from package drbl, not from partclone
    since it will be dropped in the future.</li>
  <li>Disabled btrfs support since partclone does not support it well.</li>
  <li>Improved the checksums mechanism for Clonezilla image. Make it read once
    and pass to multiple checksum programs.
    Thanks to barkoder.
    Ref: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/127</li>
  <li>The option "-r" as restoring/cloning is off by default. When "-k1" is
    used, option "-r" will be used, too.
    Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/b4fe117c3c/</li>
</ul>

<h4>BUG FIXES</h4>
<ul>
  <li>Wrong total number for chosen checksum method.
      Thanks to barkoder.
      Ref: https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/issues/127#issuecomment-2587011681</li>
  <li>Keep the partition size for "Apple Boot partition (recovery HD)".
      Thanks to Ryan Carsten Schmidt for this suggestion.
      Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/425/</li>
  <li>A workaround to avoid grub menu is not shown has been implemented. Thanks
      to Fab Stz. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/424/</li>
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