Curtis Gedak has released GParted Live 1.8, a Debian-based bootable system for disk partitioning. The update includes the new GParted 1.8 editor and Linux kernel 6.18.5, along with fixes for blank screen issues during startup.
On January 28, 2026, Curtis Gedak announced the release of GParted Live 1.8, following the launch of GParted 1.8 as a major update to the open-source partition editor. This version is built from the Debian Sid (Unstable) repositories as of January 27, 2026, incorporating the latest package updates, bug fixes, and security patches from upstream Debian.
The live system is powered by Linux kernel 6.18.5-1 from the 6.18 LTS series, enhancing hardware support and compatibility. It features a new mechanism to prevent blank screens on certain graphics configurations during boot, addressing a common startup issue.
GParted Live 1.8 serves as a standalone, bootable Linux environment for managing disk partitions without installing an operating system. Users can run it from USB drives or DVDs to perform tasks such as creating, deleting, copying, resizing, moving, checking, and labeling partitions. It supports a wide array of filesystems, including EXT2/3/4, Btrfs, Bcachefs, FAT16/32, exFAT, F2FS, HFS/HFS+, NTFS, ReiserFS/4, UFS, XFS, and others like Swap, LUKS, LVM2 PV, MINIX, NILFS2, and UDF. Limited support is available for APFS. The tool also handles partition tables such as MSDOS and GPT, and allows enabling or disabling flags like boot or hidden, as well as aligning partitions to mebibyte or cylinder boundaries.
Based on the libparted library, GParted Live supports hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID across sector sizes of 512, 1024, 2048, and 4096 bytes. For more details, users can refer to the official release notes and download the 64-bit ISO from the GParted website.
