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0.4.3 (2009-02-12)
====================
NOTES
This release of GParted includes bug fixes, and language translation
updates.
Key changes include:
- Corrected name of lock taken by hal-lock
(The lock is needed to prevent automounting of file systems)
- Fixed crash on startup with some languages
BUG FIXES
* Corrected name of lock taken by hal-lock (#571347)
- Thanks to Jonas Pedersen for finding this mistake.
* Fixed crash on startup with Russian language (#570855)
- Thanks to Dmitriy Motitskiy for small patch.
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* de(Mario Blättermann), it(Milo Casagrande)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* no change.
====================
0.4.2 (2009-02-05)
====================
NOTES
The big news for this GParted release is support for ext4 file systems,
and the addition of an application help manual.
Key changes include:
- Added support for ext4 file system
- Support for ext4 is built into version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel
- e2fsprogs version 1.41.0 or higher required
- Created application help manual
- Updated gparted manual page
- Made text beside field labels selectable (i.e., copy/paste UUID)
- Added lvm2 physical volume detection
- Reduced file system information disk reads to improve performance
- Fixed application crash when saving details and locale not set
- Enhanced copy/paste checks when MBR/EBR involved
BUG FIXES
* Added additional category to desktop file (#568937)
* Created application help manual (#329584)
* Reworded caution message when applying operations (#564952)
* Recognized linux-swap(new)/(old) as linux-swap (#419515)
* Improved text for libparted not found error message (#565682)
* Added support for ext4 file system (#503112)
* Removed doubled space in front of fdl license link (#556114)
* Added lvm2 physical volume detection (small part of #160787)
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* ca(David Planella), cs(Adrian Gunis), de(Mario Blättermann),
el(Evgenia Petoumenou), es(Jorge Gonzalez), fr(Claude Paroz),
it(Milo Casagrande), pl(Tomasz Dominikowski),
pt_BR(Fábio Nogueira, Fabrício Godoy, Leonardo Gregianin,
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Djavan Fagundes),
sk(Pavol Klačanský), sv(Daniel Nylander),
th(Pongpichit Panna, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* e2fsprogs v1.41.0 or higher required for ext4 file system support
====================
0.4.1 (2008-11-29)
====================
NOTES
This release of GParted rolls back /dev/mapper/* detection.
The problem was that all /dev/mapper/* entries were added to the
device list including LVM partitions. This was confusing behaviour
to GParted users, and in my opinion it was better to roll back
this change.
A work-around for /dev/mapper/* device detection is available by
passing the device names to gparted on the command line.
E.g.,
gparted /dev/mapper/device-name
Thanks to François Dupoux for identifying this problem early, and
working towards a resolution.
BUG FIXES
* Reopened bug - no longer sees /dev/mapper/* devices (#556114)
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* no change.
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* no change.
====================
0.4.0 (2008-11-28)
====================
NOTES
This release of GParted includes some new features in addition to
bug fixes, and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Improved read label performance with blkid cached results
- Added read UUID support
- Enforced FAT16/32 compliant volume labels (11 char max)
- Fixed destination too small on copy and paste partition
- Added status bar message updates while scanning devices
- Moved Features entry from menu GParted to View
- Renamed Features dialog to File System Support
- Prevented paste into an existing partition
- Added --disable-doc configure flag to stop building help docs
BUG FIXES
* Enabled device passing with gnome-desktop-item-launch (#561495)
* Added explanation to Features dialog (#353104)
* Trimmed some information from Features dialog (#342682)
* Renamed button for improved clarity (#561350)
* Enabled full toolbar display for longer languages (#561068)
* Fixed destination too small on copy and paste (#556058)
* Removed warning reading mounted reiser4 file system (#380546)
* Enhanced to recognize /dev/mapper/* devices (#556114)
Thanks to Colin Watson for the patch.
* Enhanced gparted_details.htm to pass XHTML validator (#525347)
Thanks to Markus Elfring for the small patch.
* Implemented themed application icon (#350894)
Thanks to Sebastian Kraft for the icons.
Thanks to Michael Monreal for the small patch.
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* ca(David Planella), cs(Adrian Gunis),
de(Jochen Skulj and Mario Blättermann),
es(Jorge Gonzalez and Milton Galo Patricio), fi(Ilkka Tuohela),
fr(Robert-André Mauchin and Claude Paroz),
gl(Ignacio Casal Quinteiro), hu(Gabor Kelemen),
it(Milo Casagrande and Ubuntu-it),
pt_BR(Carlos Eduardo Santos, Vladimir Melo, and Djavan Fagundes),
sk(Pavol Klačanský), sv(Daniel Nylander), uk(Vitovt),
zh_HK(Chao-Hsiung Liao), zh_TW(Chao-Hsiung Liao)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* blkid command required to read file system UUIDs.
blkid is part of e2fsprogs.
====================
0.3.9 (2008-09-12)
====================
NOTES
This release of GParted includes some new features in addition to
bug fixes, and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Reduced time to move or copy partitions
- Added ability to create and check hfs+ file systems
BUG FIXES
* Enhanced block size algorithm to reduce move and copy times (#546423)
* Fixed display overwrite problem with % complete messages (#532574)
* Added code hooks for future GParted Manual (#329584)
* Enhanced to use gksu to invoke gparted if available (#381557)
* Added further check for hald daemon if hal-lock is found (#543730)
* Removed unnecessary task of translating GFDL license (#550047)
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* ar(Djihed Afifi), cs(Adrian Guniš), es(Jorge Gonzalez),
eu(Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), fi(Ilkka Tuohela), gu(Ankit Patel),
nl(Tino Meinen), pt_BR(Djavan Fagundes), sk(Pavol Klačanský),
sv(Daniel Nylander)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* hfsprogs package required to create or check hfs+ file systems.
* vol_id command required to read hfs and hfs+ volume labels.
====================
0.3.8 (2008-07-10)
====================
NOTES
This release of GParted consists of bug fixes, and language
translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Corrected errors in "Round to cylinders" boundary math
- Added "Round to cylinders" check box for copy and move/resize
- Enhanced to parse devices from /proc/partitions if file exists
- Fixed problem with command line devices being ignored
- Removed absolute requirement for hal-lock
BUG FIXES
* Fixed problem with no devices being detected (#363340)
* Reduced time for scanning all devices (#453555)
* Fixed problem with incorrect BIOS setting for floppy drives (351753)
* Fixed partition resizing that incorrectly became a move too (432525)
* Corrected problem where some disk space was unassignable (525137)
* Fixed action incorrectly recognized for move/resize (438570)
* Added proper plural handling for po files (315291)
* Changed wording of root privilege required warning (534072)
* Fixed three grammatical errors (#533637)
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* cs(Adrian Gunis, Lucas Lommer), es(Jorge Gonzalez),
nl(Tino Meinen), pl(Wadim Dziedzic), pt_BR(Djavan Fagundes),
sk(Pavol Klačanský), sv(Daniel Nylander), lt.po(Gintautas Miliauskas)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* hal-lock absolute requirement removed. The gparted script will
search for and use hal-lock only if it is found in the path.
====================
0.3.7 (2008-04-29)
====================
NOTES
This GParted release consists of bug fixes, and language translation
updates.
Key changes include:
- Fixed bug for partition sizes greater than or equal to 1 TeraByte
- Created gparted manual page
- Implemented hal-lock to prevent gnome automounting of partitions
BUG FIXES
* Corrected math in partition creation/resize dialogs that prevented
operations on partition sizes >= 1 TB (#524948)
* Implemented hal-lock to prevent partition automounting (#324220)
- gparted script calls hal-lock which calls gpartedbin executable
- thanks to Deji Akingunola for hal-lock idea
* Added manual page documentation (subset of bug #329584)
* Changed Set Disklabel menu to Create Partition table,
improved disk erasure warnings, and removed double
confirmation (#422070)
* Improved readability of text for translators in Create Partition
Table dialog (#529063)
* Adjusted desktop entries to align with specifications (#518975)
* Updated gparted.desktop to align with Human Interface
Guidelines (#440012)
* Moved gparted install to sbin instead of bin (#509495)
* Added MAINTAINERS file (#524276)
- thanks to Marcel Telka for committing file to repository
* Enhanced to use po/LINGUAS for LINGUAS (#467459)
- thanks to Christian Persch for small patch
* Ensured hour portion of time is always displayed (#438590)
* Removed text color hard coding (#413810)
* Aligned README file with GNU coding standards (#529625)
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* cs(Adrian Gunis), es(Jorge Gonzalez), hu(Gabor Kelemen),
nl(Tino Meinen), sk(Pavol Klačanský)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* hal-lock used by gparted script to acquire device locks
====================
0.3.6 (2008-03-26)
====================
NOTES
GParted now has support for partition labels (also known as
volume labels). To change partition labels, use the GParted
menu option "Partition -> Label".
Full partition label support (read and write) is available for
the following file systems:
ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, jfs, ntfs, reiserfs, and xfs.
Partial support (set volume label on filesystem creation only)
is available for:
hfs, linux-swap, and reiser4.
BUG FIXES
* Added partition label (volume label) support (#338528)
* Fixed maximum path length (#481768)
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* eu(Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), he(Mark Krapivner),
hu(Gabor Kelemen), ne(Pawan Chitrakar), sk(Pavol Klačanský)
* Added two files for tranlation
- src/Dialog_Partition_Label.cc
- src/OperationLabelPartition.cc
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* mtools package required to read and write fat16 and fat32 labels.
* vol_id command required to read linux-swap labels.
====================
0.3.5 (2007-02-04)
====================
NOTES
This release is the first one from a new set of project
maintainers (Laurent de Trogoff, and Curtis Gedak). The
release includes changes from the unofficial 0.3.4 release as
well as bug fixes, and language translations.
*Many Thanks* go to Bart Hakvoort.
Without Bart's work, there would be no GParted.
BUG FIXES
* Applied debian patch 04_Win_GParted.cc.diff (#470387)
- Fixed "crashes when rescanning devices after any operation"
- Thanks to Denis Sirotkin for this patch.
* Applied debian patch 03_fdi_robustification.patch (#324220)
- Installed a signal handler for cleaning up the automount disabling
FDI, so that it will be cleaned up on program crashes, too.
- Thanks to Martin Pitt for this improved patch.
* Applied debian patch 02_fix-build-failure-with-g++-4.3.patch
- Fix build failures with g++-4.3.
TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
* ar(Djihed Afifi), ca(David Planella),
eu(Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), fi(Ilkka Tuohela),
he(Yair Hershkovitz), ko(Changwoo Ryu),
lt(Gintautas Miliauskas), mk(Jovan Naumovski),
oc(Yannig Marchegay), pa(Amanpreet Singh Alam),
pt_BR(Djavan Fagundes), ru(Yuri Myasoedov),
si(Danishka Navin), sv(Daniel Nylander), sv(Daniel Nylander)
DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
* no change.
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0.3.4 (unofficial) TO 0.0.1 (first test release)
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NOTES
All of the GParted releases prior to gparted-0.3.5 were created
by Bart Hakvoort. Bart is the original author of GParted.
This NEWS file was not updated during the previous releases.