published Issues Ventoy 1.0.88 designed to create loading USB carriers, including several operating systems. The program is noteworthy in that it provides the ability to load the OS from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD and EFI-image, without requiring the image of the image or reformatting of the media. For example, it is enough just to copy on the USB Flash with Ventoy loader interested in the set of ISO-images and Ventoy will provide the ability to load the operating systems inside. At any time, you can replace or add new ISO-images by just copying new files, which is convenient for testing and preliminary familiarization with various distributions and operating systems. The project code is written in the language of SI and spreads under the license gplv3.
Ventoy supports the loading on systems with BIOS, IA32 UEFI, X86_64 UEFI , ARM64 UEFI, UEFI Secure Boot and MIPS64el UEFI with MBR or GPT sections tables. The loading of various options for Windows, Winpe, Linux, BSD, Chromeos, as well as virtual VMware and Xen virtual machines is supported. The developers have tested the work with Ventoy of more than 1000 ISO-images, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux-displacements (stated about checking 90% of the distributions presented on Distrowatch.com), more than a dozen BSD systems (Freebsd, Dragonfly BSD, Draggl BSD, Draggl BSD, Draggl BSD pfsense, freeenas, etc.).
In addition to USB carriers, the Ventoy bootloader can be installed on a local disk, SSD, NVME, SD cards and other types of drives that use Fat32, Exfat, NTFS, UDF, XFS or EXT2/3/4. There is a mode of automated installation of the operating system in one file on a tolerable medium with the ability to add your files to the created environment (for example, to create images with Windows or Linux-displacements that do not support Live mode).
The new version added support for ISO files Dell Per, Porteus and Lenovo Product Recovery. Improved menu work, added additional languages and implemented the possibility of returning to the previous menu from the secondary loading menu. In the plugin with the design topic, a parameter has been added to determine the maximum resolution of the screen. Added support for files with control amounts .MD5, .SHA1, .sh256 and .SHA512 in format used in BSD systems. Added additional options for mode command line Windows.