Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.15.0)

An additional patch to clean up code made redundant by the enhancement to Bug 689318 - filesystem type specific support for partition name maximum length has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this clean-up patch.

Thanks to great sleuth work by Mike Fleetwood, a patch to address Bug 692049 - Troubles with some locales has been committed to the git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.

A patch to address Bug 695078 - Move of MiB aligned partition right to left yields unexpected shrink of 1 MiB has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Curtis Gedak.

GParted 0.15.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  The big news with this release is the ability to track live updates
  of command execution progress.  This should help with determining
  the status of long running commands by enabling users to see the
  live command output in the details section of the apply operations
  window.  This new ability is implemented by a fundamental code
  change that spawns commands to run asynchronously.  Also included in
  this release are bug fixes and language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Live tracking of command progress output in the details log
  * Move operations are twice as fast as prior versions
  * Proper cancel support added
  * Volume label length now based on file system type
  * Unallocated space is selected by default
  * New key bindings added:
    - Insert     --> New Partition
    - Ctrl+Enter --> Apply All Operations

Bug Fixes
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  * Refactor to use asynchronous command execution (#685740) which includes:
    - Remove copy/move simulation pass and add rollback if move canceled
    - Remove temporary mtoolsrc file used in fat16/32 labelling and UUID
    - Cleanup duplicate code for common file system methods
    - Combine duplicate code for ext2/ext3/ext4
    - Check file system after reverting partition table when move canceled
    - Add proper cancel support for current and pending operations (#601239)
    - Fix interrupting a format leaves partition in-use (#403487)
    - Fix details log does not expand to the available vertical space (#602635)
    - Increase width of details log display to include status icons (#662722)
    - Select unallocated space by default (#667365)
  * Make partition label length dependent on the file system type (#689318)
  * Avoid reading trailing junk for a reiser4 label
  * Improve argument vector usage (#689689)
  * Prevent crash when using an unknown locale (#692049)
  * Work around faulty "complete disks" detection in mkdosfs (#693955)
  * Fix move primary partition right to left shrinks partition 1 MiB (#695078)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Phillip Susi, Mike Fleetwood,
  Sinlu Bes, Jan Claeys, Mathiue Dupuy, and Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
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  ca(Pau Iranzo), de(Christian Kirbach), he(Yaron Shahrabani),
  nl(Paulus Santané), pl(Piotr Drąg), ru(Yuri Myasoedov),
  sk(Dušan Kazik), tr(Muhammet Kara)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.