Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.8.0)

Bug 586910 - MBR does not reflect the GPT partition map is now fixed when used with libparted-2.3.
Requires libparted-2.3 which is bundled with GParted Live since version 0.6.0-7.

GParted 0.7.1 was released on December 13, 2010 and includes fixes for the following three bugs:

Bug 634553 - ntfsresize fails on RAID array

Bug 629592 - Unable to find Mount Point if it contains a Space Character

Bug 586910 - MBR does not reflect the GPT partition map
Requires libparted-2.3 which is bundled with GParted Live since version 0.6.0-7.

A fix to prevent the visual disk display area from disappearing has been committed to the git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted (0.8.0).

The relevant bug report is Ubuntu Launchpad Bug 583746 - Partition graph disappears after a swap partition has been deleted

The planned release date for GParted 0.8.0 is February 15, 2011.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  The GParted team is proud to announce the addition of the ability to
  attempt data rescue for lost partitions.

  This new feature uses the gpart command to guess the partition
  table.  Discovered file systems can be mounted read-only so that you
  can copy data to other media.

  Also included in this release are bug fixes, and language
  translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Add attempt data rescue for lost partitions
  * Fix paste destination partition smaller than source
  * Prevent visual disk display area from disappearing

Bug Fixes
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  * Add attempt data rescue for lost partitions (#171215)
    - Requires gpart
    - Thanks go to Joan Lledó for the patch implementing this new feature
  * Fix paste destination partition smaller than source (#639393)
  * Fix minor cylinder alignment rounding error (size < 1 cylinder)
  * Add possible causes for failure to detect or read file systems
  * Increase robustness of help manual launch
  * Prevent visual disk display area from disappearing
    - Ubuntu launchpad #583746

Translations (new/updated)
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  ar(Khaled Hosny), cs(Marek Černocký), da(Ask H. Larsen),
  de(Mario Blättermann), es(Daniel Mustieles, Paulo E Ojeda, Jorge González),
  et(Mattias Põldaru), fr(Bruno Brouard), he(Yaron Shahrabani),
  kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), sl(Matej Urbančič), sv(Daniel Nylander),
  ru(Yuri Myasoedov)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * gpart package is required for attempt data rescue
  * a default file manager is used, if available, for attempt data
    rescue to display discovered file systems.