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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

With the next release of GParted we plan to add new enhancements to GParted.

GParted 0.27.0 is planned for release on October 10, 2016.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 766989 - zfsonlinux support - need file system name support of ZFS type codes
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch.

Yes - Bug 767842 - File system usage missing when tools report alternate block device names
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch set.

Yes - Bug 771323 - GParted is showing duplicate mount points for unmounted encrypted file systems
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch set.

Yes - Bug 771670 - Usage of active encrypted swap is not shown
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch set.

Yes - Bug 771693 - Mount Point column is wider than the screen on openSUSE using btrfs root with lots of mounted subvolumes
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch set.

Yes - Bug 771816 - GParted never exits if the main window is closed before the initial device load completes
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch.

Yes - Bug 772123 - GParted is unresponsive while gpart is running
Mike Fleetwood has created a patch.

Yes - Bug 768239 - sizes are wrong with musl libc due to use of non-standard sscanf "%Ld" modifier
Natanael Copa has created a patch.

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.


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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A patch to address Bug 766989 - zfsonlinux support - need file system name support of ZFS type codes.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this enhancement to detect the GRUB2 core.img used in the boot process.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A patch to address Bug 768239 - sizes are wrong with musl libc due to use of non-standard sscanf "%Ld" modifier.  Thanks to Natanael Copa for fixing this when GParted is compiled with musl libc, as found on Alpine Linux.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A large patch set to address Bug 767842 - File system usage missing when tools report alternate block device names hs been committed to the git master branch.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for improving partition recognition handling and comparison.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A small patch set to address Bug 771323 - GParted is showing duplicate mount points for unmounted encrypted file systems has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for identifying this issue and providing a patch set.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A patch set to address Bug 771670 - Usage of active encrypted swap is not shown has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks go to Mike Fleetwood for fixing this problem.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A patch set to address Bug 771693 - Mount Point column is wider than the screen on openSUSE using btrfs root with lots of mounted subvolumes has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for making the too-wide Mount Point column more aesthetically pleasing on openSUSE with btrfs and mounted subvolumes.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A patch to address Bug 771816 - GParted never exits if the main window is closed before the initial device load completes has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for researching and implementing a solution to this issue.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

A patch to address Bug 772123 - GParted is unresponsive while gpart is running has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for discovering this problem and providing a fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

GParted 0.27.0 is planned for release on October 10, 2016.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation
  updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Recognize GRUB2 core.img
  * Fix Mount Point column is wider than the screen on openSUSE
  * Make GParted exit when closed before the initial load completes

Bug Fixes
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  * Recognize GRUB2 core.img (#766989)
  * Fix file system usage missing when tools use alt blk dev names (#767842)
  * Fix sscanf modifier for long long (#768239)
  * Fix duplicate mounts shown for unmounted encrypted file systems (#771323)
  * Fix usage of active encrypted swap is not shown (#771670)
  * Include extended partitions in the count of active partitions
  * Fix Mount Point column is wider than the screen on openSUSE (771693)
  * Make GParted exit when closed before the initial load completes (771816)
  * Prevent the UI hanging while gpart data rescue is running (#772123)
  * Add language headers to po files

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Natanael Copa, Piotr Drąg and Mike
  Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
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  en_GB(David King, Chris Leonard), es(Daniel Mustieles), fi(Jiri Grönroos),
  hr(gogo), hu(Balázs Úr), id(Andika Triwidada), kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov),
  lt(Aurimas Černius), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt(Tiago Santos),
  ro(Daniel Șerbănescu), sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić),
  sv(Anders Jonsson)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.27.0)

GParted 0.27.0 was released on October 19, 2016.