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

[Curtis G. <ge...@gm...>]

Hi Steven,

Thank you for the updated GParted Live images.

Most all my testing with gparted-live-1.8.0-beta1-1-amd64.iso went well.

The one minor exception occurs only on Virtual Machines.  More 
specifically when I try to open the GParted menu item *Help -> Contents* 
a black rectangular window opens up for the Help window and stays this 
way.  This minor issue did not occur when booting from my physical test 
computers.

Fortunately a work around is to visit the GParted web site documentation 
page.

In summary these live images looks good to me.  We are now in a good 
position for our official release planned for January 26th, 2026.

Regards,
Curtis

On 2026-01-21 07:51, Steven Shiau via GParted-Devel wrote:
> 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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