GParted News
22 February 2023: GParted Live 1.5.0-1 Stable Release
The GParted team is happy to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This release includes GParted 1.5.0, updated packages, and other improvements.
Items of note include:
- Includes GParted 1.5.0:
- Fix path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory
- Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB
- Enable repair when checking exfat file systems
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2023/Feb/223)
- Linux image updated to 6.1.12-1
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21 February 2023: GParted 1.5.0
This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Fix path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory
- Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB
- Enable repair when checking exfat file systems
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3 November 2022: GParted Live 1.4.0-6 Stable Release
The GParted team is happy to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This release includes GParted 1.4.0, updated packages, and other improvements.
Items of note include:
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Nov/03)
- Linux image updated to 6.0.6-2
- More packages added including vim, pv, htop, bmon, nmon, zutils, pigz, xz-utils, zstd, zip, unzip, colordiff, xxd, vbindiff, cifs-utils, smbclient, nmap, xrdp, rdesktop, usbutils, vlan, parallel
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17 July 2022: GParted Live 1.4.0-5 Stable Release
The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This release includes GParted 1.4.0, updated packages, and other improvements.
Items of note include:
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Jul/15)
- Linux image updated to 5.18.5-1
- Boot with default option now works on more old hardware like Acer Aspire netbooks/laptops.
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29 March 2022: GParted Live 1.4.0-1 Stable Release
The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This release includes GParted 1.4.0, updated packages, and other improvements.
Items of note include:
- Includes GParted 1.4.0:
- Add labelling of mounted btrfs, ext2/3/4 and xfs file systems
- Fix detection of mount points for encrypted file systems
- Fix crash scrolling quickly in the drive selection combobox
- Add bcache detection
- Add JBD external EXT3/4 journal detection
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Mar/29)
- Linux image updated to 5.16.14-1
Note that the default boot options might fail to display an X Desktop such as on old Acer Aspire laptops. The workaround is to select Other modes of GParted Live and choose GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).
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28 March 2022: GParted 1.4.0
This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Add labelling of mounted btrfs, ext2/3/4 and xfs file systems
- Fix detection of mount points for encrypted file systems
- Fix crash scrolling quickly in the drive selection combobox
- Add bcache detection
- Add JBD external EXT3/4 journal detection
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1 March 2022: GParted Wins Awards from SourceForge
GParted has been recognized with the following awards by SourceForge:
These honors are awarded only to select projects that have reached significant milestones in terms of downloads and user engagement from the SourceForge community. This is a big achievement, as GParted has qualified for these awards out of over 500,000 open source projects on SourceForge.
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