Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.30.0)

A small patch to address Bug 786050 - GParted reports failed to execute child process "mkudffs" when it is not installed has been committed to the git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for finding and fixing this issue.

A patch set to address Bug 786502 - Support reading Unicode labels when file system specific tools aren't available has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Pali Rohár and Mike Fleetwood for fixing this problem.

A patch to address Bug 787181 - Fix detection of file system images has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Pali Rohár for this fix.

A patch set to address  Bug 788007 - Remove minor bits of legacy from DMRaid module has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for cleaning up this legacy code and enhancing the GParted help manual.

GParted 0.30.0 is planned for release on Oct 10, 2017.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted includes an interim fix to enable running
  GParted as root under wayland in addition to other bug fixes and
  language translation updates.

  ATTENTION PACKAGERS:

  The installation location of the gparted script has changed and
  package scripts calling pkexec can be dropped.

  This release provides an interim workaround to allow GParted to run
  under Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the
  X11 display.  This must be enabled while building the software with:

      ./configure --enable-xhost-root

  Pkexec from polkit has been made the first choice graphical SU
  program as all the desktops have settled on using polkit as the
  privileged access mechanism.  See "Installing polkit's Action File"
  section in the README file for when an additional installation step
  may be needed.

  Also changed is that execution of the graphical SU program has been
  moved from gparted.desktop to the gparted shell wrapper.  Therefore
  gparted can be run either by an unprivileged user or by root and as
  such is installed in $prefix/bin rather than $prefix/sbin.  This
  additionally means distributions can drop their pkexec scripts used
  to launch gparted.

### Key changes include:

  * Interim fix for GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
  * Fix reading Unicode labels when no FS specific tools available
  * Safely quote and escape external programs arguments

Bug Fixes
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  * Interim fix for GParted fails to run as root under Wayland (#776437)
  * Fix message failed to execute "mkudffs" when not installed (#786050)
  * Fix reading Unicode labels when no FS specific tools available (#786502)
  * Update list of prohibited fat label characters (#787202)
  * Fix detection of file system images (#787181)
  * Safely quote and escape external programs arguments (#787203)
  * Fix problems with space in device names (#649509)
  * Remove minor bits of legacy from DMRaid module (#788007)
  * Remove whole_device partition flag (#788308)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Pali Rohár and Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
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  ca(Carles Ferrando Garcia, Jordi Mas), cs(Marek Černocký),
  de(Mario Blättermann), en_GB(Andre Klapper), fi(Jiri Grönroos),
  hr(gogo), hu(Gabor Kelemen, Balázs Meskó, Balázs Úr),
  id(Kukuh Syafaat, Andika Triwidada), nl(Hannie Dumoleyn), pl(Piotr Drąg),
  pt_BR(Andre Klapper), ro(Daniel Șerbănescu, Andre Klapper),
  sk(Dušan Kazik), sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić),
  sv(Anders Jonsson), zh_CN(Andre Klapper), zh_TW(Andre Klapper)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * Uses pkexec command (part of polkit) for root privilege escalation
    when available.
  * Uses xhost command to grant and revoke root access to the display
    when configured to do so.