- 3.7.0) 2013-06-05:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.47 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.9.4 (altker32 + altker64)
- Downgraded gcc to 4.4 in order to produce smaller binaries and save space
- Fixed crash when booting from NBD (Many thanks to Gernot for the fix)
- Added sys-fs/safecopy for recovery from damaged (io-errors) devices or files
- 3.6.0) 2013-05-10:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.44 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.9.1 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated GParted to 0.16.1 (another critical bug fix release)
- 3.5.1) 2013-04-28:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.42 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.8.9 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated GParted to 0.16.0 (critical bug fix release) and midori to 0.5.0
- 3.5.0) 2013-03-25:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.37 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.8.4 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated GParted to 0.15.0 and e2fsprogs to 1.42.7
- 3.4.2) 2013-03-05:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.35 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.7.10 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated fsarchiver to 0.6.17 (bugfix release and minor feature enhancement)
- Fixed support for booting via NBD which was in conflict with Network-Manager
- Added bootinfoscript which writes reports provinding info about the system
- 3.4.1) 2013-02-21:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.32 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.7.9 (altker32 + altker64)
- Removed support for "nonm" network boot option as NetworkManager is required
- Fixed network configuration options that can be passed to the boot command line
- 3.4.0) 2013-02-18:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.30 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.7.8 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated btrfs-progs filesystem utilities to latest snapshot (0.20_rc1_p56)
- Disabled power-saving options (CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION)
- Added app-arch/star-1.5.2 (enhanced tar as well as enhanced mt/rmt)
- Updated fsarchiver to 0.6.16 (bugfix release), midori to 0.4.8
- 3.3.0) 2013-01-24:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.27 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.7.4 (altker32 + altker64)
- Fixed "waiting for uevents to be processed" by upgrading udev to 197-r4
- Updated XFS Filesystem utilities: xfsprogs-3.1.10 + xfsdump-3.1.2
- Updated app-backup/dar-2.4.9 (Disk-Archive 2.4.9)
- Added x11-misc/grsync-1.1.1 (A gtk frontend to rsync)
- Added sys-fs/fuse-exfat-1.0.0 (exFAT filesystem FUSE module)
- Fixed Network-Manager applet in the graphical environment
- Rebased genkernel on latest upstream version
- Updated sys-fs/ntfs3g to 2013.1.13
- 3.2.0) 2013-01-07:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.24 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.6.11 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated Xorg environment and drivers to x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.0-r1
- Updated LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.95-r4
- Updated Gentoo packages: portage-2.1.11.31, openrc-0.11.8
- Added sys-fs/ecryptfs-utils (eCryptfs userspace utilities)
- Updated GParted to 0.14.1 (bug fixes release)
- Fixed /etc/init.d/pxebootsrv service
- 3.1.2) 2012-12-05:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.2.34 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.6.9 (altker32 + altker64)
- Added ModemManager-0.6.0.0 (Modem and mobile broadband management libraries)
- Updated sys-fs/btrfs-progs to 0.20_rc1 (btrfs filesystem utilities)
- Updated sys-block/partclone to 0.2.56 and syslinux/isolinux 4.06
- Fixed support for samba based autorun scripts (ar_source="smbfs://...")
- Added app-crypt/nwipe (Program to securely erase disks)
- 3.1.1) 2012-11-06:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.2.33 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.6.6 (altker32 + altker64)
- Re-introduced support for Reiser4 filesystem in the alternative kernels
- Fixed "rootpass=MyPaSsWoRd" boot option by updating USE flags for shadow
- Fixed bugs in the installation scripts for USB sticks
- Updated NetworkManager to 0.9.6.4
- 3.1.0) 2012-10-29:
- Standard kernels is Long-Term-Supported linux-3.2.32 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Alternative kernels updated to latest stable 3.6.4 (altker32 + altker64)
- Updated btrfs-progs utilities to recent upstream version (git-20121017)
- Updated e2fsprogs to 1.42.5, GParted to 0.14.0, linux-firmware-20120924
- Updated tcpdump-4.3.0, coreutils-8.16, util-linux-2.21.2, dd-rescue-1.28
- Updated midori-0.4.7, xorg-server-1.12.4, clamav-0.97.6, spacefm-0.7.10
- Added zerofree-1.0.1 (Utility to zero out all free space on a filesystem)
- The "docache" boot option must also cached the boot and efi directories
- Fixed bugs in the installation scripts for USB sticks
- 3.0.0) 2012-09-03:
- Added support for loading extra SRM module files (System Rescue Modules)
- Added support for UEFI booting from the CDRom on x86_64 using GRUB-2.00 (efi.img)
- Updated standard kernels to Long-Term-Supported linux-3.2.28 (rescuecd + rescue64)
- Updated alternative kernels to Long-Term-Supported linux-3.4.9 (altker32 + altker64)
- The rescuecd kernel image has been renamed rescue32 for better consistency
- Configured isolinux to automatically use the 64bit kernel if CPU is capable
- Automatically use 64bit version of fsarchiver/memtester if CPU is capable
- Reorganized and updated isolinux configuration and help messages
- Added net-misc/pssh-2.2.1 (parallel versions of the openssh tools)
- Added open-vm-tools (open-source tools for VMware guests)
- Updated e2fsprogs to 1.42.5, GParted to 0.13.1, partclone to 0.2.50
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