GParted News Item 215

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

This release includes GParted 0.30.0, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Includes GParted 0.30.0 which adds the following enhancements:
  • Interim fix for GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
  • Fix reading Unicode labels when no FS specific tools available
  • Safely quote and escape external programs arguments
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2017/Oct/11)
• Linux kernel updated to 4.13.4-1
• 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.

Note that the X Desktop did not display 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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