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.