Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.32.0)

A patch set to address Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0 has been committed to the git master branch.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this code cleanup.

A patch to address Bug 796293 - Fix null pointer check accidentally disabled has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Robert Ancell for catching the bug and providing a patch.

A patch set to address Bug 796411 - Enhancements request – URL links has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for updating the URL links.

A patch to address Merge Request 2 - Remove support for obsolete devkit-disks automount inhibitor has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for producing this patch.

A patch set to address Merge Request 5 - Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this enhancement.

A patch to address Merge Request 7 (I#9) - CI test jobs occasionally fail with xmllint not loading external entity http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd has been committed to the git repository.
Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this improvement.

Hi curtis,

I know you were wondering about keeping a record of the fixes made to GParted for each release.  As well as this record, here are a couple of alternative ideas for how we could work:

1. Add a NEWS file entry as part of producing a patch(set).  For third party pull requests we can add one afterwards.

2. Query the git commit messages for the suffix summary lines we add.  This is only going to work so long as we follow existing working practice of adding suffix lines.  I missed the suffix summary lines for one merge request (Merge Request 2 - Remove support for obsolete devkit-disks automount inhibitor) when still learning how to work with pull requests in GitLab.  Otherwise here is a simple command to list them:

$ git log GPARTED_0_31_0.. | egrep '^    (Bug|Closes) ' | sort -u
    Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
    Bug #795127 - Displayed Name is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted
    Bug 795617 - Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings
    Bug 796293 - Fix null pointer check accidentally disabled
    Bug 796411 - Enhancements request - URL links
    Closes #1 - Can't shrink LVM partition due to pvresize prompt
    Closes !4 - Add GitLab CI jobs to build and test GParted
    Closes !5 - Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures
    Closes !6 - Reduce the time taken by the GitLab CI jobs
    Closes #8 - Shrinking an EXT4 partition does not respect resize2fs
    Closes #9 - CI test jobs occasionally fail with xmllint not loading

Mike

Hi Curtis,

Can you do the next release of GParted please.  It's been long enough since the last release and there's enough change to justify it.  This might well become the last GTK2 release.  I want to get pending changes into the hands of the users before we merge the GTK3 port and start raising minimum requirements and dropping support for the oldest distros.

It's still early stages of the GTK3 port review, but it is looking promising.  It might be ready for merge in a month.  One thing I have though of is to complete review and merge in phases based on Luca's patch structuring.  The first phase would be "modern-gtk2" which would raise the minimum version to gtkmm-2.24.  Following phases would be "port-to-gtk3" and "modern-gtk3".

Thanks,
Mike

GParted 0.32.0 is planned for release on Aug 22, 2018.

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

### Key changes include:

  * Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings
  * Fix can't shrink LVM partition due to pvresize prompt
  * Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures
  * Honour resize2fs minimum FS sizes

Bug Fixes
---------
  * Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 (#794253)
  * Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings (#795617)
  * Fix null pointer check accidentally disabled (#796293)
  * Add logo.png for automatic GitLab/GitHub project avatar
  * Fix volume label is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted partitions (#795127)
  * Update URL links to https://gparted.org (#796411)
  * Avoid unnecessary string change (MR#1)
  * Fix can't shrink LVM partition due to pvresize prompt (I#1)
  * Remove support for obsolete devkit-disks automount inhibitor (MR#2)
  * Add GitLab CI jobs to build and test GParted (MR#4)
  * Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures (MR#5)
  * Reduce the time taken by the GitLab CI jobs (MR#6)
  * Stop xmllint scrollkeeper-omf.dtd fetch fail breaking CI tests (MR#7, I#9)
  * Honour resize2fs minimum FS sizes (MR#8, I#8)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Robert Ancell, Piotr Drąg and Mike
  Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  ca(Jordi Mas), cs(Marek Černocký), lt(Aurimas Černius),
  pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), ro(Andre Klapper),
  tr(Emin Tufan Çetin), zh_TW(Yi-Jyun Pan)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * glibmm >= 2.14.0
  * gtkmm  >= 2.16.0

Hi Mike,

Your suggestion works for me.  I will change the upcoming release NEWS file to use the new gitlab nomenclature for issue/merge requests.

Curtis

New Preliminary Release Notes
-----------------------------
  This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and
  language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings
  * Fix can't shrink LVM partition due to pvresize prompt
  * Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures
  * Honour resize2fs minimum FS sizes

Bug Fixes
---------
  * Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 (#794253)
  * Implement opening and closing of LUKS mappings (#795617)
  * Fix null pointer check accidentally disabled (#796293)
  * Add logo.png for automatic GitLab/GitHub project avatar
  * Fix volume label is incorrect for bitlocker encrypted partitions (#795127)
  * Update URL links to https://gparted.org (#796411)
  * Avoid unnecessary string change (!1)
  * Fix can't shrink LVM partition due to pvresize prompt (#1)(#2)(!3)
  * Remove support for obsolete devkit-disks automount inhibitor (!2)
  * Add GitLab CI jobs to build and test GParted (!4)
  * Recognise additional GRUB2 core.img signatures (!5)
  * Reduce the time taken by the GitLab CI jobs (!6)
  * Stop xmllint scrollkeeper-omf.dtd fetch fail breaking CI tests (#9)(!7)
  * Honour resize2fs minimum FS sizes (#8)(!8)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Robert Ancell, Piotr Drąg and Mike
  Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  ca(Jordi Mas), cs(Marek Černocký), lt(Aurimas Černius),
  pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), ro(Andre Klapper),
  tr(Emin Tufan Çetin), zh_TW(Yi-Jyun Pan)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * glibmm >= 2.14.0
  * gtkmm  >= 2.16.0