Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A patch set to address Bug 775475 - Mount Point column displayed for encrypted file systems even when empty has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this enhancement.

A patch to Bug 776002 - Update help with additional partition flags has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks to Curtis Gedak for this documentation update.

A patch set to address Bug 771244 - gparted does not recognize the iso9660 file system in cloned Ubuntu USB boot drives has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks to Mike Fleetwood and Curtis Gedak for this enhancement.

GParted 0.28.0 is planned for release on February 14, 2017.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release adds partial read-write support for LUKS encrypted file
  systems.  GParted can't create, open or close LUKS encryption
  volumes; however it can copy, resize and manipulate file systems
  inside open LUKS volumes and move closed LUKS volumes.  (Resizing
  requires Linux kernel >= 3.6 and libparted >= 3.2 for online
  partition resizing).

  Also included are bug fixes and language translation updates.

  REMINDER:

  You are strongly advised to backup you data before editing
  partitions as a failure can lead to data loss.  This is especially
  true for encrypted data where all of the data can become permanently
  inaccessible after a failure.  Please refer to the Cryptsetup FAQ [1]
  for backup and recovery advice of encrypted data.

  [1]: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetu … dQuestions

### Key changes include:

  * Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase
  * Add detection of iso9660 file system

Bug Fixes
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  * Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase (#774818)
  * Fix mount column shown for non-mounted encrypted file systems (#775475)
  * Refactor mostly applying of operations (#775932)
  * Update help with additional partition flags (#776002)
  * Include sys/sysmacros.h for major and minor macros (#776173)
  * Add detection of iso9660 file system (#771244)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Michał Górny, Mike Fleetwood
  and Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
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  cs(Marek Černocký), da(Alan Mortensen), de(Bernd Homuth),
  es(Daniel Mustieles), kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), pl(Piotr Drąg),
  pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), sk(Dušan Kazik)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * cryptsetup command is required to work with LUKS encrypted
    volumes.