Re: [GParted-Devel] GParted 1.8.0 is planned for Release on Jan 26, 2026

[Steven S. <ste...@ni...>]

Hi Curtis and all,
I have uploaded GParted live 1.8.0-beta-1 in the live testing release.
Please give it a try. Let me know if anything I have to improve.
Thanks.

Regards,
Steven

On 1/20/26 02:05, Curtis Gedak wrote:
> GParted 1.8.0 is planned for release on Monday, January 26, 2026.
>
> All language translations completed prior to this date will be 
> included in this release.
>
> GParted translation status is available at the following link:
> https://l10n.gnome.org/module/gparted/
>
> You can download the pre-release from:
> https://gparted.sourceforge.io/curtis/gparted-1.8.0-beta1.tar.gz
>
> If you discover any problems please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis Gedak
>
> The release notes so far are as follows:
>
> Release Notes
> -------------
>   This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and
>   language translation updates.
>
> ### Key changes include:
>
>   * Fix crash due to not checking for failure to load icon
>   * Fix hangs setting FAT label when matches a root folder entry
>   * Erase file system signatures before all FileSystem copies
>
> Bug Fixes
> ---------
>   * Move FileSystem::execute_command() to OperationDetail class (!132)
>   * Fix Google Test compilation against GCC 15 libstdc++ (#281, !133)
>   * Fix crash in CommandStatus when compiled without optimization 
> (#283, !134)
>   * Refactor DMRaid to static class, make mutating getters ret-by-val 
> (!135)
>   * Fix crash due to not checking for failure to load icon (#282, !136)
>   * Fix hangs setting FAT label when matches a root folder entry 
> (#272, !137)
>   * Require C++14 compilation and update to Google Test 1.16.0 (!138)
>   * Create mount points in a private temporary working directory (!139)
>   * Fix GParted displays error messages along with the FAT label 
> (#286, !140)
>   * Fix configure script detect of C++14 without 
> AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_14 (!141)
>   * Fix UI label not updated if newer job queued for same partition 
> (#117, !142)
>   * Convert SupportedFS to smart pointers, remove empty class 
> destructors (!143)
>   * Replace all uses of malloc() with vector(char) (!144)
>   * Convert Operations to smart pointers (!145)
>   * Fix GPT partition type GUID not copied in copy/paste (#288)
>   * Maintain EFI System Partition type when copying to new partition 
> (!146)
>   * Fix expansion of details in Applying pending operations dialog 
> (#168, !147)
>   * Display a warning for logical EFI System Partitions ESPs (#291, !148)
>   * Use fixed width font to show command output in operation details 
> (#72, !149)
>   * Stop disabling 64-bit on ext4 file systems < 16 TiB (#295, !150)
>   * Convert Dialog_Base_Partition to use smart pointers (!151)
>   * Update main window screenshot in GParted Manual and its 
> translations (!152)
>   * Erase file system signatures before all FS copies (#297, !153)
>   * Set LBA flag for create FAT16/32, extended part on MSDOS table 
> (#300, !154)
>
> Code Credits
> ------------
>   Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood.
>
> Translations (new/updated)
> --------------------------
>   be(Vasil Pupkin), id(Andika Triwidada), ja(Takayuki KUSANO),
>   kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), lt(Aurimas Černius),
>   pt_BR(Álvaro Burns, Juliano de Souza Camargo), ru(Sergej A.),
>   sk(Dušan Kazik), sl(Martin Srebotnjak), sr(Мирослав Николић),
>   sv(Anders Jonsson), th(Aefgh Threenine), tr(Sabri Ünal, Emin Tufan 
> Çetin),
>   uk(Yuri Chornoivan), zn_CH(luming zh)
>
> Dependencies (new/updated)
> --------------------------
>   * n/a
>
>
>
>
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