Prior to this update, parted incorrectly calculated the position of the new partition when partitions of 1 or smaller units (eg. 1GB, 0.5GB) were created. As a result, only an extremely small partition was created. This update fixes the snap problem for 1 unit and no longer allows defining units less than 1. The value 0 is still allowed when specifying the start of the device. The next smaller units should be used instead of a value smaller than 1. eg. Use 500MB instead of 0.5GB.

Prior to this update, a cylinder-head-sector (CHS) value was, under certain circumstances, especially with factory partitioned USB drives, not found. As a result, parted threw an assertion when attempting to guess the CHS used to create a partition table, even though it was safe to continue without the CHS information. This update no longer throws an assertion when it cannot guess the CHS values used to create a partition table.

Prior to this update, several tests of the parted test suite failed when running as root on IBM System z and 64-bit PowerPCs. With this update, the tests run as expected.

GPT disklabels now support the legacy_boot flag to allow bootloaders such as syslinux's hybrid gptmbr to be used on BIOS and EFI systems. It is set with the set command in parted.