Coming four months after version 2017_09_05, which was the most successful release to date, Parted Magic 2018_01_08 ships with Linux kernel 4.14.11, a version that includes patches for the newly discovered Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, as well as better support for newer graphics cards. Among the updated packages included in the Parted Magic 2018_01_08 release, we can mention Gparted 0.30.0, Mozilla Firefox 52.5.3 ESR, X.Org Server 1.19.6, Mesa 17.2.8, Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.126, Samba 4.4.16, NetworkManager 1.8.4, network-manager-applet 1.8.10, wpa_supplicant 2.6, Bash 4.3.048, and BlueZ 5.47.