GParted 1.1.0 is now available for download

Jan 20, 2020 21:52 GMT  ·  By

GParted, the open-source partition editor used by numerous Linux-based live systems to help users partition their disk drives before installing the OS, has been updated today to version 1.1.0.

Curtis Gedak released Gparted 1.1.0, a maintenance update aiming to include enhancements, bug fixes, as well as translation updates. Highlights include the adoption of faster minfo and mdir to read FAT16 and FAT32 usage, and the ability to calculate the size of JFS partitions more accurately.

Moreover, this release adds support for recognizing ATARAID members, as well as to detect their busy status, and improves the moving of locked LUKS-encrypted partition. The xvfb-run dependency has been added and it's required for the "make check" and "make distcheck" commands during compilation.

Bug fixes

Of course, GParted 1.1.0 also addresses various issues reported by users or discovered by the development team since the last release. Among the bugs fixed, we can mention the "invalid argument for seek()" error on very small (under 40KiB) drives and the missing window title on the Help Contents dialog.

Among other changes, GParted 1.1.0 adds file system interface tests, renames members and variables that are currently named as 'filesystem', fixes test (dentry->d_name is invalidated by closedir...), and fixes an issue where a FAT32 device reports "Cannot initialize drive" from mlabel.

The developers have also noted that fact that GParted 1.1.0 remains on CentOS Linux 7 for GitLab CI. As usual, you can download the latest GParted release right now from the official website, your distribution's stable repositories, or our free software portal. This is the first major point release since GParted reached the 1.0 milestone last year in May. The official GParted Live system should also be updated in the coming days based on GParted 1.1.0.