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Summary

This is another beta version of Rescatux. The last Rescatux beta was released on January 2020. That’s about one month ago.

This new version has many improvements. AFD Scanning technology has been improved with the United States of Spain gimmick. Rescapp now has proper logos, desktop icons and a window icon. Non English translations were removed from internal documentation. Many plugin documentations have been update to match 2019 gui. Finally the most important improvement is that Rescapp help is shown right at the Rescapp startup.

Finally I want to thank cjg67 for his work on improving Rescapp documentation grammar. And I also want to thank eris23 from linuxtracker community who has uploaded many times the Rescatux isos to the torrent site.

What’s new on Rescatux

• Make sure to use new Rescapp icon

What’s new on Rescapp

• Added PUBLISH instructions.
• Removed non English translations from internal documentation.
• winmbr option is now stable.
• Local documentation build process has been improved to be based on a template.
• Add experimental logo to Rescapp about page.
• Added new Rescapp desktop icons and a window icon.
• AFD Scanning technology has been improved with new United States of Spain gimmick.
• Show Rescapp help right at the Rescapp startup.
• Many plugins documentations have been updated to match 2019 gui

Known bugs

• Documentation is lacking on many of the options.
• Grub menu does not have an auto detect boot entry

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Summary

This is another beta version of Rescatux. The last Rescatux beta was released on December 2019. That’s about one month ago.

This new version has two major improvements. Startup wizard has an option to just use default values and skip all the questions. The second one is that options (the ones which hadn’t been reworked yet) have been reworked so that they manage devices like hard disks not being found properly.

What’s new on Rescatux

• Startup wizard has an option to just use default values
• New 2019 December background
• Enable customizations thanks to optional make_common.custom file.

What’s new on Rescapp

• Removed no longer needed sip module dependency
• Completed handling of not found partitions of files
• Minor improvements

Known bugs

• Documentation is lacking on many of the options.

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Summary

This is another beta version of Rescatux. The last Rescatux beta was released on November 2019. That’s about three weeks ago.

This new version has two major improvements. Extra xorg packages have been added so that more videocards are supported in Rescatux without having to use the non-free Rescatux. The second one is that many options have been reworked so that they manage devices like hard disks not being found properly.

Note: If you don’t like the current background please contribute to 2019 Background should be improved issue .

What’s new on Rescatux

• Added extra xorg packages to match official Debian live cd ones

What’s new on Rescapp

• Minor inxi improvements
• Check for Hexchat binary
• Handle non found devices properly on many options

Known bugs

• Unknown behavior when some steps fail (e.g. no hard disks are found) on some options.

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Summary

This is another beta version of Rescatux. The last Rescatux beta was released on October 2019. That’s about three weeks ago.

This new version checks for Gparted, Photorec and Testdisk before running them. A new option called System Info Script based on Inxi has been added. In order to improve usability a generic documentation page for non-documented options has been added. Finally bootinfoscript has been updated to use Debian’s package instead of the outdated custom embedded bootinfoscript.

Note: If you don’t like the current background please contribute to 2019 Background should be improved issue .

What’s new on Rescatux

• New 2019 November background

What’s new on Rescapp

• Gparted, Photorec and Testdisk are now checked before running them
• Add an specific non-documented documentation page.
• Added System Info Script (Inxi) option
• bootinfoscript was updated to use system’s installed bootinfoscript

Known bugs

• Unknown behavior when some steps fail (e.g. no hard disks are found).

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Summary

This is another beta version of Rescatux. The last Rescatux beta was released on October 2019. That’s about two weeks ago.

This new version puts Gparted back into the iso and updates to Rescapp 0.54b2 which features two important usability updates: An status label will show if an options is ready to start, running or finished. And a new messages box will show every step the option is performing highlighting the most important ones in bold. No more flickering of fast status messages pop-ups as it happened in earlier versions.

Additionally the user is driven first to click into the options to read their manuals and to read the manuals carefully before clicking the Run! button.

Note: If you don’t like the current background please contribute to 2019 Background should be improved issue .

What’s new on Rescatux

• Gparted is installed again
• Make sure log files are open with leafpad program.

What’s new on Rescapp

• More compact UI
• Added rescapp title and version to the main UI
• Advice to choose an option to read its manual

• After selecting an option it shows its name in the option screen
• Advice to read the manual before hitting run on the option screen

• New status label shows the option being ready to run, running or finished

• New messages box that show the actions the option is performing
• New simple logs containing only steps performed by the option

Known bugs

• Unknown behavior when some steps fail (e.g. no hard disks are found).

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Summary

This is another beta version of Rescatux. The last Rescatux beta was released on May 2019. That’s about five months ago.

This new version features two important fixes: Now Grub recovery in tmpfs enabled distributions such as Ubuntu will work again. Some uefi systems with secure boot disabled that happened to crashed Rescapp no longer crash it.

Additionally Rescapp menu has been reworked. Finally Rescatux live cd uefi boot menu and bios boot menu have been reworked.

There’s an ongoing joke on the Internet on fixing someone else writing something wrong on the Internet. Hopefully our new background is ugly enough for someone to reach us on 2019 Background should be improved issue and correct us.

What’s new on Rescatux

• Added xterm package so that external programs can be opened from within rescapp
• Move testdisk package dependency from Rescapp to Rescatux
• New background and associated boot menues improved
• Based on Debian Buster which now it’s officially stable

What’s new on Rescapp

• Added Xterm self test
• There’s no longer a back button. Improved menu.
• Fixed: Non secure boot UEFI mode make rescapp to crash before its menu.
• Do not mount neither the root partition nor the tmp partition when performing chroot grub operations.
  That reenables being able to fix Ubuntu grub properly.
• Rescapp was ported from python2 to python3
• Improved compatibility with Fedora (Big thanks to cjg67)
• Removed gddrescue and myrescue dependencies
• Move testdisk package dependency from Rescapp to Rescatux
• Move gparted package dependency from Rescapp to Rescatux
• Add missing filesystem dependencies (debian package)
• INSTALL: Added optional debian package runtime requirements

Known bugs

• Gparted package is not installed. So trying to start it from the expert tools option will fail.