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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

With the next release of GParted we plan to address recently discovered issues.

GParted 0.26.1 is planned for release on June 13, 2016.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 766349 - Resolve code ugliness with partition path getting set to "copy of /dev/SRC"
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 767009 - PedGeometry objects are memory leaked
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 766910 - Multiple boot loaders don't work on 64bit EXT4 file systems
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 767233 - GParted core dump on assert failure in OperationDelete::get_partition_new()
Mike Fleetwood 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.
Because there have been no other reports of this issue since 2012, the problem is either extremely rare or has been fixed in upstream ntfs-3g and this work-around patch is not required.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

A patch set to address Bug 766349 - Resolve code ugliness with partition path getting set to "copy of /dev/SRC" has been committed to the git master repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for cleaning up this issue.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

A patch to address Bug 767009 - PedGeometry objects are memory leaked has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for discovering and fixing this memory leak.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

A patch set to address Bug 766910 - Multiple boot loaders don't work on 64bit EXT4 file systems has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for coming up with a compromise to address this issue.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

A patch set to address Bug 767233 - GParted core dump on assert failure in OperationDelete::get_partition_new() has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for fixing this crash.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

GParted 0.26.1 is planned for release on June 13, 2016.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted ensures creation of 32bit ext4 partitions
  when the size is less than 16 TiB.  This improves compatibility with
  existing boot loaders.  Also included are bug fixes and language
  translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Ensure boot loaders work on ext4 < 16 TiB by using 32bit feature
  * Fix core dump crash in OperationDelete::get_partition_new()

Bug Fixes
---------

  * Clean up partition path "copy of /dev/SRC" code ugliness (#766349)
  * PedGeometry objects are memory leaked (#767009)
  * Multiple boot loaders don't work on 64bit EXT4 file systems (#766910)
  * Fix core dump crash in OperationDelete::get_partition_new() (#767233)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  es(Daniel Mustieles), kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), pl(Piotr Drąg),
  pt_BR(Enrico Nicoletto), sk(Dušan Kazik), sv(Anders Jonsson)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * no change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.26.1)

GParted 0.26.1 was released on June 13, 2016.