http://gparted.org/news.php News about the application, the bootable GParted Live image, and more. en-us Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Custom php script gedakc@users.sf.net (Curtis Gedak) gedakc@users.sf.net (Curtis Gedak) 1800 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=166 Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=166
This release includes another critical bug fix for a potential crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted Live 0.15.0-x and 0.16.0-x upgrade to GParted Live 0.16.1-1 to avoid data loss.

Items of note include:

• Avoid another crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/May/1)

In an effort to ensure the reliability and integrity of this release, we have conducted over 200 successful tests. These tests included moves, copies, creates, labels, new UUIDs, growing, shrinking, and deleting partitions containing each type of file system.

Special thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi, and Steven Shiau for their timely efforts to create this stable release.

Curtis ]]> http://gparted.org/news.php?item=165 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=165
This release includes another critical bug fix for a potential crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 and 0.16.0 upgrade to GParted 0.16.1 to avoid data loss.

Key changes include:

• Avoid another crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Fix GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9

See the Release Notes for more details.

Curtis ]]> http://gparted.org/news.php?item=164 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=164
For more details see Bug 695279 - GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9.

As a precaution we plan to keep GParted Live 0.16.0-1 in the testing directory while we work towards a fix for this newly identified issue.

Until this problem is resolved we continue to advise using the last stable release of GParted Live, which is GParted Live 0.14.1-6.

Curtis ]]> http://gparted.org/news.php?item=163 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=163
Key changes include:

• Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Fix GParted scans forever blank disk in virtual machine
• Add support for f2fs file system

See the Release Notes for more details.

Curtis ]]> http://gparted.org/news.php?item=162 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=162 See Bug 697727 - Segfault in livecd Gparted v 0.15.0-3 when copying partition.

The risk of LOSS of DATA is highest when performing partition moves, resizes, copies, and checks. As such we recommend using GParted 0.14.1 for all move, resize, copy, and check operations.

Other operations such as create, delete, format, label, set UUID, and delete might also crash, but these should not result in unexpected data loss, and the operation can be repeated.

Until this problem is resolved we advise using the last stable release of GParted Live, which is GParted Live 0.14.1-6.

We highly recommend that you BACKUP your DATA before using any partitioning tool.

Curtis ]]> http://gparted.org/news.php?item=161 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=161
This is a bug fix release to address a few minor problems.

Items of note include:

• The GParted Live ISO file is now an isohbrid.
  This means it can be written as an image to CD, or written directly to USB flash drive using a command such as dd.
• The fluxbox menu key function now works again
• Linux kernel updated to 3.2.41-1
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/27)

Thanks goes to Steven Shiau for creating this GParted Live image.

Curtis ]]> http://gparted.org/news.php?item=160 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://gparted.org/news.php?item=160
The biggest change with this release comes from enhancements to GParted that track live updates of command execution progress in the details section of the apply operations window.

Other items of note include:

• Move operations are twice as fast as prior versions
• Proper cancel support has been added
• Volume label length is now based on file system type
• Unallocated space is selected by default
• Linux kernel updated to 3.2.39-2
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Mar/20)

Thanks goes to Steven Shiau for creating this enhanced live image.

Curtis ]]>