The release of Ventoy 1.0.62 has been published. This tool is designed to create bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program is noteworthy for allowing OS booting from unaltered ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without the need to unpack the image or reformat the drive. For example, simply copying a set of ISO images to a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader will enable booting the included operating systems. At any time, one can replace or add new ISO images by simply copying new files, making it convenient for testing and previewing various distributions and operating systems. The project's code is written in C and is released under the GPLv3 license.
Ventoy supports booting on systems with BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, UEFI Secure Boot, and MIPS64EL UEFI with MBR or GPT partition tables. It supports various versions of Windows, WinPE, Linux, BSD, ChromeOS, and images from Vmware and Xen. The developers have tested Ventoy with over 1200 ISO images, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux distributions, and more than a dozen BSD systems (FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, pfSense, FreeNAS, etc.). of virtual machines Vmware and Xen. Developers have tested the operation of Ventoy with over 770 ISO images, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux distributions (it is claimed that 90% of the distributions presented on distrowatch.com have been verified), and more than a dozen BSD systems (FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, pfSense, FreeNAS, etc.).
In the new version, the number of supported ISO images has exceeded 1200. Support for the ISO images of the eweOS distribution has been added (which uses dinit, musl, busybox, clang, pacman, and wayland). Issues with loading SystemRescue 11.02+ have been resolved. The Shim boot layer has been updated (solving the issue with SBAT data verification). The iVentoy project is also being developed, providing a PXE server with capabilities similar to Ventoy (the difference is in booting systems over the network instead of from a local drive).
The new version is notable for the implementation of the VentoyPlugson graphical interface for configuring plugins. The plugin for theme switching offers a default_file setting to define the default theme. A new section for switching between themes has been added to the boot menu under "F5 Tools". Optimizations for FreeBSD booting have been conducted, and translation files have been updated.
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