Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.0)

A large patch set to address Bug 760080 - Implement read-only LUKS support has been committed to the git repository.  A big thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for his work to add read-only LUKS support.

A patch to address Bug 762184 - Autoconf check for C++11 comes after compile test for Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name() has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this improvement.

A patch set to address Bug 762367 - Use a single progress bar for the whole of the internal copy operation has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike for this enhancement to make the internal copy operation appear as a single progress bar.

A patch to address Bug 758545 - gparted-0.24.0 fails to build with gnome 3.18 mm packages has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks for this improvement goes to Mike Fleetwood.

A patch set to address Bug 764369 - Use realpath() safely has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this enhancement.

GParted 0.26.0 is planned for release on April 26, 2016.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release adds read-only support for LUKS encrypted file systems.
  GParted identifies these with the addition of "[Encrypted]" and can
  show the file system within an open LUKS encrypted mapping.  However
  this release can not open or close the LUKS encryption and can not
  modify the encrypted file system within.  Other changes include bug
  fixes and language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Implement read-only LUKS support
  * Add progress bars to NTFS, XFS, and EXT2/3/4 file system copy methods

Bug Fixes
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  * Implement Partition object polymorphism (#759726)
  * Implement read-only LUKS support (#760080)
  * Add progress bars to XFS and EXT2/3/4 file system copy methods (#760709)
  * Add progress bar to NTFS file system specific copy method (#762366)
  * Use a single progress bar for entire internal copy operation (#762367)
  * Fix autoconf check for C++11 Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name (#762184)
  * Limit FAT32 maximum volume size to 2 TiB (#763896)
  * Enable C++11 compilation when using libsigc++ 2.5.1 and later (#758545)
  * Use realpath safely (#764369)
  * Fix crash reading NTFS usage when there is no /dev/PTN entry (#764658)
  * Fix operations sometimes fail with: No such file or directory (#762941)
  * Add missing gettext translation tag to AppData file

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Richard Hughes and Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
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  cs(Marek Černocký), de(Mario Blättermann),
  el(Tom Tryfonidis,Γιάννης Κουτσούκος ), es(Daniel Mustieles),
  hu(Balázs Úr), it(Milo Casagrande), ko(Seong-ho Cho),
  lt(Aurimas Černius), nl(Hannie Dumoleyn), oc(Cédric Valmary),
  pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), ru(Stas Solovey),
  sk(Dušan Kazik), sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić),
  sv(Josef Andersson), tr(Muhammet Kara), zh_CN(Shi Jing, YunQiang Su)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.