News from the IT community on October 9th: Technology media Linuxiac reported today (October 9th) that the open-source boot disk creation tool Ventoy has been updated to version 1.1.18, which now experimentally supports SteamOS recovery images. Users can place these images on the Ventoy USB storage disk and boot directly from them.

IT Home quotes this blog post, stating that Ventoy's support for SteamOS is still in the experimental stage, and there may be compatibility issues with some devices or images. This feature is aimed at users who need to repair, restore, or redeploy SteamOS devices, allowing Ventoy to host more system images on the same USB disk.

The new version has also improved the mounting experience on Linux. In the mainstream Linux desktop versions, users can directly mount the partition that stores ISO files through the re-mounting (remount) function. Previously, after starting the Linux Live system, users still needed to perform additional operations if they wanted to access that partition.

This version will fix the ISO partition device name to / dev / mapper / VentoyPartTo enable the system to recognize and achieve more stable mounting. Ventoy also fixed the issue of duplicate disk icons in the sidebar of the Linux file manager, and supports mounting the ISO partition during runtime in Clonezilla.

In terms of startup compatibility, Ventoy 1.1.18 fixed the startup issues with Fedora 45, Beta, and Grml 2026.09. The update also resolved the intermittent failure of data persistence during Ubuntu Desktop Live sessions, to prevent users from losing changes saved during those sessions.

For users Windows and WinPE, this version fixes the issue of check failures in version Secure Boot. It also adds support for custom ISO images based on Syslinux and improves compatibility with the latest version LinuxConsole.