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butthurt writes:

Softpedia News reports that version 2.02 of the GRUB boot loader has been released. Among the many new features are support for LZ4 compression on ZFS, 64-bit ext2, XFS v5, Morse code output and a modem-like output through the PC speaker, Xen paravirtualisation, TrueCrypt ISOs, Apple fat binaries on non-Apple hardware, and 16-bit mode on non-x86 hardware.

Further information:
NEWS file

Related stories:
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Original Submission

1. "butthurt" - https://soylentnews.org/~butthurt/
2. "Softpedia News reports" - http://news.softpedia.com/news/grub-2-02-bootloader-officially-released-with-zfs-lz4-lvm-raid1-support-more-515240.shtml
3. "GRUB boot loader" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_(software)
4. "LZ4 compression" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ4_(compression_algorithm)
5. "XFS v5" - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XFS#Integrity
6. "Xen paravirtualisation" - https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Paravirtualization_(PV)
7. "Apple fat binaries" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary#Apple.27s_Universal_binary
8. "16-bit mode" - https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#linux16
9. "NEWS file" - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/NEWS
10. "Windows 8 Update Erases Grub, Enables Secure Boot" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/26/1359201
11. "Press Backspace 28 times: Pwn Unlucky Linux Systems Running GRUB" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/12/19/0223236
12. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=19890

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