GParted News Item 206

20 October 2016: GParted Live 0.27.0-1 Stable Release

The GParted team is happy to announce another stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 0.27.0, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

Includes GParted 0.27.0 with the following enhancements:
- Recognize GRUB2 core.img
- Fix Mount Point column is wider than the screen on openSUSE
- Ensure GParted exits if closed before the initial load completes
Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2016/Oct/20)
Linux kernel updated to 4.7.6-1
Includes e2fsprogs-1.43.3-1 package which addresses some ext2/3/4 resizing issues reported in our forums.
Includes patched version of libparted which fixes:
- check FAT32 crashes (bug 762448)
- resized FAT32 not recognized by Windows (bug 759916)

This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.

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