GParted News

The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.8.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Includes GParted 1.8.0
  • Fix crash due to not checking for failure to load icon
  • Fix hangs setting FAT label when matches a root folder entry
  • Erase file system signatures before all FileSystem copies
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2026/Jan/27)
• Linux image updated to 6.18.5-1
• Added a mechanism to avoid blank screen
• There is an issue with help on Virtual Machines. Specifically the menu option Help -> Contents opens and displays a black window on Virtual Machines. Workaround is to view help on documentation page.

X Desktop GUI fails to display with default boot options?
Try Other modes of GParted Live => GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

• Fix crash due to not checking for failure to load icon
• Fix hangs setting FAT label when matches a root folder entry
• Erase file system signatures before all FileSystem copies

See the Release Notes for more details.

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.7.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Only amd64 (x86-64 bit) images are available going forward:
  As mentioned in the Debian release mailing list:
  Dropping i386 kernel packages
  The i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, Debian, Sid repo. Hence i686/i686-pae GParted live will be no more in the future. From this release, only amd64 (x86-64) release will be available.
• Includes GParted 1.7.0
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2025/Dec/05)
• Linux image updated to 6.17.10-1
• Memtest86+ updated to v8.00
• There is an issue with help on Virtual Machines. Specifically the menu option Help -> Contents opens and displays a black window on Virtual Machines. Workaround is to view help on documentation page.

X Desktop GUI fails to display with default boot options?
Try Other modes of GParted Live => GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.7.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Only amd64 (x86-64 bit) images are available going forward:
  As mentioned in the Debian release mailing list:
  Dropping i386 kernel packages
  The i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, Debian, Sid repo. Hence i686/i686-pae GParted live will be no more in the future. From this release, only amd64 (x86-64) release will be available.
• Includes GParted 1.7.0
• Implemented a mechanism to reduce the possibility of random order of block devices in GParted live.
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2025/Jul/12)
• Linux image updated to 6.12.37-1

X Desktop GUI fails to display with default boot options?
Try Other modes of GParted Live => GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.7.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Only amd64 (x86-64 bit) images will be available going forward:
  As mentioned in the Debian release mailing list:
  Dropping i386 kernel packages
  The i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, Debian, Sid repo. Hence i686/i686-pae GParted live will be no more in the future. From this release, only amd64 (x86-64) release will be available.
• Includes GParted 1.7.0
  • Recognise NBDs (Network Block Devices)
  • Add support for Bcachefs (experimental), single device file systems only
  • Prevent GParted probe starting LVM Volume Groups
  • Increase minimum required version of libparted to 3.2
• Three packages added: bcachefs-tools, bcache-tools, util-linux-extra
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2025/Jan/31)
• Linux image updated to 6.12.11-1
• A minimum of 640 MB of RAM is needed to use all the features of the GParted application

X Desktop GUI fails to display with default boot options?
Try Other modes of GParted Live => GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

• Recognise NBDs (Network Block Devices)
• Add support for Bcachefs (experimental), single device file systems only
• Prevent GParted probe starting LVM Volume Groups
• Increase minimum required version of libparted to 3.2

See the Release Notes for more details.

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.6.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Removed package cpufrequtils from lists of live system. It's not in the Debian repo anymore.
• Package pm-utils is included now. Thanks to Nono for this suggestion.
• Force to use zenity as the dialog in GParted live's program gl-screenshot. No more using gdialog or Xdialog since they are not available in Debian repo. Ref: GParted Live screenshot icon does nothing
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Sep/28)
• Linux image updated to 6.10.11-1
• A minimum of 512 MB of RAM is needed to use all the features of the GParted application

Note that the default boot options might fail to display an X Desktop, such as on old NVidia graphic cards. The workaround is to select Other modes of GParted Live and choose GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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