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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

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

GParted 0.25.0 is planned for release on January 18, 2016.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.25.0 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
yes - Bug 756829 - SWRaid member detection enhancements
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

yes - Bug 757781 - Always use blkid file system detection before libparted
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

yes - Bug 757671 - Rework Dialog_Partition_New::Get_New_Partition() a bit
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

yes - Bug 759488 - Pending create partitions are all getting named "unallocated"
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

yes - Bug 759972 - GParted displays partition names also as file system labels with new blkid for some file systems
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

yes - Bug 756878 - GParted - Fix missing "old end" value in detail log of en_CA translation
Curtis Gedak has provided a patch.

yes - Bug 758131 - Don't run GUI as root (Was: [wayland] gparted fails to start under wayland)
Curtis Gedak has provided a patch.

yes - Bug 760099 - Revert tarball compression back to gzip
Curtis Gedak has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 467925 - gparted: add progress bar during operation
Phillip Susi has provided a patch set.

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

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

No - Bug 755429 - Add read-only display of LVM volume groups and logical volumes
Wrolf Courtney 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 review/testing is required.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch set to address Bug 756829 - SWRaid member detection enhancements has been committed to the master git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for these enhancements.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch to change GParted behaviour to Bug 757781 - Always use blkid file system detection before libparted has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this enhancement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch set to Bug 757671 - Rework Dialog_Partition_New::Get_New_Partition() a bit is part of an ongoing Encrypted LUKS enhancement initiative and has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for his work on this initiative.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch to address Bug 756878 - GParted - Fix missing "old end" value in detail log of en_CA translation has been committed to the GNOME git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

Bug 758131 - Don't run GUI as root (Was: [wayland] gparted fails to start under wayland) has been addressed by patch "Make about dialog website link non-clickable".  Thanks to Curtis Gedak.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch set to address Bug 467925 - gparted: add progress bar during operation has been committed to the GNOME git repository.  Thanks goes to Phillip Susi, Mike Fleetwood, and others for working on this solution.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch to address Bug 759488 - Pending create partitions are all getting named "unallocated" has been committed to the GNOME git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for identifying and fixing this issue.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A patch to address Bug 759972 - GParted displays partition names also as file system labels with new blkid for some file systems has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood has identifying and fixing this issue.


On the topic of a release date, Phillip Susi indicated that he is ready to package the next version of GParted for inclusion the upcoming Ubuntu Long Term Support release.   To ensure that Phillip has time to do his part, I would like to get GParted stable over the next two weeks, and then create a production release in the following week.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

A small patch to update the README file has been committed to the git repository.  This is an update for Bug 756829 - SWRaid member detection enhancements.

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A patch to address Bug 760099 - Revert tarball compression back to gzip) has been been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Curtis Gedak for finding the Debian release blocking issue and fixing it.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

GParted 0.25.0 is planned for release on January 18, 2016.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  The big news with this release of GParted is the addition of
  progress bars for checking and resizing ext2/3/4 partitions and for
  resizing ntfs partitions.  Other changes include bug fixes and
  language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Add progress bar during additional ext2/3/4 and ntfs operations
  * Enhance SWRaid member detection and file system clearing
  * Always use blkid file system detection before libparted

Bug Fixes
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  * Add progress bar during additional ext2/3/4 and ntfs operations (#467925)
  * Enhance SWRaid member detection and file system clearing (#756829)
  * Always use blkid file system detection before libparted (#757781)
  * Rework Dialog_Partition_New::Get_New_Partition() (#757671)
  * Fix missing "old end" value in detail log of en_CA translation (#756878)
  * Make about dialog website link non-clickable (#758131)
  * Fix temporary path name of new partitions (#759488)
  * Fix partition names sometimes shown as file system labels (#759972)
  * Revert tarball compression back to gzip (#760099)

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

Translations (new/updated)
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  en_CA(Curtis Gedak), pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), sr(Мирослав Николић),
  sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.25.0)

GParted 0.25.0 was released on January 18, 2016.