# Etcher v1.0.0-beta.18 release

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-v1-0-0-beta-18-release/507>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-v1-0-0-beta-18-release/507 "2017-01-17T07:28:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jviotti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jviotti/32/220_2.png) [@jviotti](https://forums.balena.io/u/jviotti)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-v1-0-0-beta-18-release/507/1 "2017-01-17T07:28:10Z")

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The latest Etcher beta is out, get it from [https://etcher.io/](https://etcher.io/)

Here’s the changelog below:

## v1.0.0-beta.18 - 2017-01-16

### Features

- Improve Etcher CLI error messages.
- Replace the `--robot` CLI option with an `ETCHER_CLI_ROBOT` environment variable.
- Sort supported extensions alphabetically in the image file-picker.
- Label system drives in the drive-list widget.
- Show available Etcher version in the update notifier.
- Confirm before user quits while writing.
- Add a changelog link to the update notifier modal.
- Make the image file picker attach to the main window (as a real modal).

### Fixes

- Fix alignment of single call to action buttons inside modals.
- Fix “Invalid message” error caused by the IPC client emitting multiple JSON objects as a single message.
- Fix “This key is already associated with an element of this collection” error when multiple partitions point to the same drive letter on Windows.
- Fix system drives detected as removable drives on Mac Mini.
- Fix sporadic “EIO: i/o error, read” errors during validation.
- Fix “EIO: i/o error, write” error.

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**Author:** ![imrehg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/imrehg/32/36_2.png) [@imrehg](https://forums.balena.io/u/imrehg)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-v1-0-0-beta-18-release/507/2 "2017-01-17T13:29:06Z")

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Awesome! 🙂 Just been playing with Github, and here’s the changes view since the last release, if someone is interested in the deep details: [https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/compare/v1.0.0-beta.17...v1.0.0-beta.18](https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/compare/v1.0.0-beta.17...v1.0.0-beta.18)

Cheers @jviotti @lurch @benedict @stefan @alexis !