It took 15 years to launch the version 1.0, but now it seems that they are releasing updates with more normal numbers. v1.0 arrived in May 2019, and less than three years later they have released GParted 1.4, which in turn has arrived 11 months after v 1.3. The developers behind this tool to manage partitions do not usually announce their releases with great fanfare, but we can see that it is available if we go into their official website.
As follows in 1.3.1-1 is the ISO, that is, a tool that can be "burned" on a USB to recover an operating system or data if our equipment has stopped working. From my point of view, that of someone who has several distros on a USB with Ventoy, it is something that does not seem very useful to me, but the project also offers this possibility.
GParted 1.4 highlights
- Ability to tag btrfs, Ext2, Ext4, Ext4 and XFS file systems that are mounted.
- External JBD Ext3 and Ext4 journal detection.
- Possibility to check the destination of the copy instead of the source.
- Bcache detection.
- Accessibility relationships have been added for screen readers like Orca.
- Translation into Indonesian has begun.
- Improvements to mount point detection for encrypted file systems.
- Fixed partitioning at sector 2048 if there is a partition before it.
- Fixed an unmount bug that occurred when unmounting below a mount junction point.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when swiping fast in the unit selection box.
- Fixed translation of the DocBook markup tag from the Gparted manual.
- Updated many translations.
Users interested in using GParted 1.4 right now will have to download its tarball, available in this link. The update will appear in the different Linux distributions soon.