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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

With the next release of GParted (0.16.0) we plan to work on enhancements and bug fixes.

GParted 0.16.0 is planned for release April 24, 2013.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.16.0 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
yes - Bug 695396 - Please apply f2fs patch
Patrick Verner has created a patch.

Yes - Bug 688882 - Improve clearing of file system signatures
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch set.

Yes - Bug 697946 - Absolutely full NTFS reported as partition error
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch.

Yes - Bug 697727 - Segfault in Gparted 0.15.0 when copying partition
Phillip Susi has created a patch.

Yes - Bug 697518 - gparted scans forever blank disk in virtualbox
Curtis Gedak has created a patch.

partial - Bug 695279 - GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch set.  More work is needed.

No - Bug 688883 - Improve SSD handling by using TRIM
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 696149 - Double refresh of display introduced with default unallocated space selection
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 690953 - Partition name support
Sinlu Bes is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 691681 - Improve Partition Info dialog to be Partition properties dialog
Sinlu Bes is working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 627701 - option to encrypt new partitions (using LUKS)
Matthias Gehre is working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 671784 - enhancement: convert partitions from one file system to another
Massimiliano Ghilardi is working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 673166 - NTFS partition trashed when resized to minimum size
Vladimir Panteleev has provided a patch.  Further testing is required.


With the 1.0.0 release of GParted we plan to work on preparing GParted to work with GNOME 3.0.
The release will become 1.0.0 if and when we drop support for the gtkmm-2.4 API.  The plan with the first few releases is to maintain compatibility with both gtkmm-2.4 and gtkmm-3.0.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 1.0.0 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
no - Bug 652044 - uses deprecated APIs
Colin Watson has created an initial patch.  More development work and testing is required.
Curtis Gedak is working on this enhancement.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

A patch to address Bug 695396 - Please apply f2fs patch has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Patrick Verner for this patch.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

A patch set to address Bug 695279 - GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for enabling GParted to compile on more distro versions.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

A patch set to address Bug 688882 - Improve clearing of file system signatures has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for developing this patch set.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

A patch to fix Bug 697946 - Absolutely full NTFS reported as partition error has been committed to the gnome repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for creating this patch.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

A patch to fix Bug 697727 - Segfault in Gparted 0.15.0 when copying partition has been committed to the Gnome repository.  Thanks goes to Phillip Susi for creating the patch.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

GParted 0.16.0 is planned for release on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted includes a critical bug fix for a crash that
  might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition.  We
  strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 upgrade to
  GParted 0.16.0 to avoid data loss.  Also included are bug fixes,
  enhancements and language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
  * Add support for f2fs file system

Bug Fixes
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  * Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions (#697727)
  * Add support for f2fs file system (#695396)
  * Improve clearing of file system signatures (#688882)
  * Fix absolutely full ntfs reported as error (#697946)
  * Fix gparted scans forever blank disk in virtual machine (#697518)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood, Patrick Verner,
  Phillip Susi and Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
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  ca(Pau Iranzo, Carles Ferrando), es(Nicolás Satragno, Daniel Mustieles),
  cs(Marek Černocký), lt(Aurimas Černius), pb_BR(Rafael Ferreira),
  po(Piotr Drąg), ro(Daniel Șerbănescu), sl(Matej Urbančič, Martin Srebotnjak),
  sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * f2fs-tools package is required for optional f2fs support.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

A patch to fix Bug 697518 - gparted scans forever blank disk in virtualbox has been committed to the gnome repository.  Thanks to Curtis Gedak for this patch.

[Updated Preliminary Release Notes.]

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.16.0)

GParted 0.16.0 was released on April 24, 2013.