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GRUB 2.02 Released

Accepted submission by butthurt at 2017-04-28 05:47:30 from the LI dept.
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Softpedia News reports [softpedia.com] that version 2.02 of the GRUB boot loader [wikipedia.org] has been released. Among the many new features are support for LZ4 compression [wikipedia.org] on ZFS, 64-bit ext2, XFS v5 [archlinux.org], Morse code output and a modem-like output through the PC speaker, Xen paravirtualisation [xen.org], TrueCrypt ISOs, Apple fat binaries [wikipedia.org] on non-Apple hardware, and 16-bit mode [gnu.org] on non-x86 hardware.

further information:
NEWS file [gnu.org]

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