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Topic: GParted 0.6.0 to be Released Jun 18, 2010

PRELIMINARY RELEASE NOTES
    This release of GParted includes significant changes to the
    underlying code.  These major enhancements are required to
    support sector sizes greater than 512 bytes.  Also included
    are bug fixes, and language translation updates.

    Key changes include:
      - Add support for devices with sector sizes > 512 bytes
      - Add alignment option to align to MiB
      - Set default alignment to align to MiB

    Known issues:
          When used with libparted version 2.2 and lower on devices with
      sector sizes > 512 bytes:
      - hfs/hfs+: used/unused space not detected
      - hfs/hfs+: shrink file system not available

BUG FIXES
    * Add support for devices with sector sizes > 512 bytes (#607165)
    * Add align to MiB option and make it the default (#617409)
    * Enable copy to work on computers with only 128 MiB RAM (#613430)
    * Fix mkswap error "UUID parsing failed" when resizing with no UUID
    * Handle devkit-disks command being renamed to udisks on Dec. 2009
    * Convert git log entries for Makefile generated ChangeLog
    * Clean up progress bar current status after copy/move action

TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
    * ar(Khaled Hosny), cs(Petr Kovar, Adrian Guniš),
      de(Mario Blättermann), el(Dimitris Tsiolis), es(Jorge González),
      eu(Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), fi(Timo Jyrinki), gl(Fran Diéguez),
      hu(Gabor Kelemen), it(Milo Casagrande),
      lt(Žygimantas Beručka, Aurimas Černius, Gintautas Miliauskas),
      nb(Kjartan Maraas), ro(Adi Roiban),
      pt_BR(André Gondim, Vladimir Melo), sl(Matej Urbančič)
      uk(Maxim V. Dziumanenko), zh_HK(Cheng-Chia Tseng),
      zh_TW(Cheng-Chia Tseng)

DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
    * Support for sector sizes > 512 bytes requires libparted
          version 2.2 or higher.
    * Previously missed dependency for DMRAID:
      - if available, either udevinfo or udevadm will be used
        to query the udev name.