GParted News Item 225

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

This release includes GParted 1.0.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Includes GParted 1.0.0:
  • Port to Gtkmm 3
  • Port to GNOME 3 yelp-tools documentation infrastructure
  • Enable online resizing of extended partitions
  • Add F2FS support for read disk usage, grow, and check
  • Fix slow refreshing of NTFS file systems
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/May/30)
• Linux kernel updated to 4.19.37-3
• The boot menu has been sorted:
  • A menu using large font for console was added
  • The menu about local OS booting has been improved (uEFI only)
  • A menu about entering uEFI firmware setup was added (uEFI only)
  • The info about GParted live was added in the boot menu (uEFI only)
• Bug fixed: PXE booting with FQDN tftp server name now is working

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

Note that the default boot options did not display an X Desktop 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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