GParted News Item 257

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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