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GParted 1.6.0 was released on February 26, 2024.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving partition boundary right

  • Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID

  • Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.5.0 was released on February 21, 2023.

This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Fix path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory

  • Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB

  • Enable repair when checking exfat file systems

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.4.0 was released on March 28, 2022.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add labelling of mounted btrfs, ext2/3/4 and xfs file systems

  • Fix detection of mount points for encrypted file systems

  • Fix crash scrolling quickly in the drive selection combobox

  • Add bcache detection

  • Add JBD external EXT3/4 journal detection

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.3.1 was released on July 19, 2021.

This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Fix recognition of SD/MMC device names

  • Make XFS copy duplicate the file system label and UUID

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.3.0 was released on May 3, 2021.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings

  • Improve exFAT support such as read FS usage and set UUID

  • Fix crash in Create New Partition dialog when changing type

  • Avoid GParted hanging when non-named device is hung

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.2.0 was released on January 25, 2021.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add exFAT support using exfatprogs

  • Wait for udev change on /dev/DISK when erasing signatures

  • Don't try to mask non-existent Systemd \xe2\x97\x8f.service

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.1.0 was released on January 20, 2020.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Fix error when moving locked LUKS-encrypted partition

  • Switch to faster minfo and mdir to read FAT16/32 usage

  • Calculate JFS size accurately

  • Recognise ATARAID members and detect their busy status

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 1.0.0 was released on May 29, 2019.

This release of GParted includes a significant undertaking to migrate the code base from gtkmm2 to gtkmm3 (our GTK3 port).  Thanks go to Luca Bacci and Mike Fleetwood for making this happen.

With this major change we bump up the major version number.  This 1.0.0 release is not meant to indicate that GParted is more stable or less stable than before.  Instead it means that GParted now requires gtkmm3 instead of gtkmm2.  Note that several other dependencies have changed as well.

As with our other releases, this one also includes several enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • 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

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.33.0 was released on December 13, 2018.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Support copying and moving of unsupported partition content

  • Add minix file system support

  • Recognise APFS Apple file system

  • Gtk2 code modernisation

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.32.0 was released on August 22, 2018.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings

  • Fix can't shrink LVM partition due to pvresize prompt

  • Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures

  • Honour resize2fs minimum FS sizes

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.31.0 was released on March 19, 2018.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add support for changing UDF label/uuid and show UDF disk usage

  • Rollback specific failed partition change steps

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.30.0 was released on October 10, 2017.

This release of GParted includes an interim fix to enable running GParted as root under Wayland in addition to other bug fixes and language translation updates.

ATTENTION PACKAGERS:

The installation location of the gparted script has changed and package scripts calling pkexec can be dropped.

This release provides an interim workaround to allow GParted to run under Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the X11 display.  This must be enabled while building the software with:

./configure --enable-xhost-root

Pkexec from polkit has been made the first choice graphical SU program as all the desktops have settled on using polkit as the privileged access mechanism.  See "Installing polkit's Action File" section in the README file for when an additional installation step may be needed.

Also changed is that execution of the graphical SU program has been moved from gparted.desktop to the gparted shell wrapper.  Therefore gparted can be run either by an unprivileged user or by root and as such is installed in $prefix/bin rather than $prefix/sbin.  This additionally means distributions can drop their pkexec scripts used to launch gparted.

Key changes in this release include:

  • 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

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.29.0 was released on August 7, 2017.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add support for UDF file system

  • Fix segmentation fault on disk with corrupted FAT file system

  • Fix snap-to-alignment of operations creating partitions

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.28.1 was released on February 17, 2017.

This release of GParted restores the ability to move/resize primary partitions when an extended partition exists.  The move/resize regression was introduced in version 0.28.0.  This release also includes some minor bug fixes.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Restore ability to resize/move primary if extended exists

  • Make the Label File System and Name Partition dialogs larger

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.28.0 was released on February 14, 2017.

This release adds partial read-write support for LUKS encrypted file systems.  GParted can't create, open or close LUKS encryption volumes; however it can copy, resize and manipulate file systems inside open LUKS volumes and move closed LUKS volumes.  (Resizing requires Linux kernel >= 3.6 and libparted >= 3.2 for online partition resizing).

Also included are bug fixes and language translation updates.

REMINDER:

You are strongly advised to backup your data before editing partitions as a failure can lead to data loss.  This is especially true for encrypted data where all of the data can become permanently inaccessible after a failure.  Please refer to the Cryptsetup FAQ for backup and recovery advice of encrypted data.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase

  • Add detection of iso9660 file system

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.27.0 was released on October 19, 2016.

This release of GParted improves handling of devices with multiple device paths and includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Recognize GRUB2 core.img

  • Fix Mount Point column is wider than the screen on openSUSE

  • Make GParted exit when closed before the initial load completes

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.26.1 was released on June 13, 2016.

This release of GParted ensures creation of 32bit ext4 partitions when the size is less than 16 TiB.  This improves compatibility with existing boot loaders.  Also included are bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Ensure boot loaders work on ext4 < 16 TiB by using 32bit feature

  • Fix core dump crash in OperationDelete::get_partition_new()

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.26.0 was released on April 26, 2016.

This release adds read-only support for LUKS encrypted file systems.  GParted identifies these with the addition of "[Encrypted]" and can show the file system within an open LUKS encrypted mapping.  However this release can not open or close the LUKS encryption and can not modify the encrypted file system within.  Other changes include bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Implement read-only LUKS support

  • Add progress bars to NTFS, XFS, and EXT2/3/4 file system copy methods

  • Fix operations sometimes fail with: No such file or directory

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.25.0 was released on January 18, 2016.

The big news with this GParted release is the addition of progress bars for checking and resizing ext2/3/4 partitions and for resizing ntfs partitions.  Other changes include bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add progress bar during additional ext2/3/4 and ntfs operations

  • Enhance SWRaid member detection and file system clearing

  • Always use blkid file system detection before libparted

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.24.0 was released on October 27, 2015.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Display list of Logical Volumes in Partition Information dialog

  • Add ZFS file system detection

  • Add recognition of NVME devices

  • Prevent hang labeling FAT16/32 if illegal chars in label

  • Avoid core dump if invalid or non-existent device on command line

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.23.0 was released on August 3, 2015.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add partition name to create dialog and enable online naming
        (relevant for GPT partitioned disk)

  • Show serial number in device information

  • Add support for btrfs set new file system UUID

  • Prevent UI hang when resizing FAT16/32, HFS and HFS+ file systems

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.22.0 was released on March 28, 2015.

The big news with this release of GParted is support for unpartitioned whole disk drives.  With unpartitioned drive support, GParted can now recognize and also format disk devices that do not contain a partition table.  Another new feature is support for GPT partition names.  This feature enables setting and viewing names on GPT partitions.  Also included are bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Add read and write support for unpartitioned whole disk devices

  • Add read and write support for GPT partition names

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.21.0 was released on January 26, 2015.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.  One fix involves an error introduced in 0.15.0 whereby GParted's internal block copy has an off by one sector bug when the source is before the destination; and the copy is performed backwards from high block to low block.  The problem results in incorrect last sectors in partitions.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Fix off by one sector error in GParted internal block copy

  • Add support for ext4 on RHEL/CentOS 5.x

  • Remove unnecessary duplicate actions when resizing a partition

The release notes list all important changes.

GParted 0.20.0 was released on October 20, 2014.

This release of GParted improves resizing multi-device btrfs file systems.  Also included are language translation updates.

Key changes in this release include:

  • Include devid when resizing multi-device btrfs file systems

  • Add GRUB 2 restoration steps to help manual

The release notes list all important changes.