Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.12.0)

A patch by Mike Fleetwood to address Bug 642842 - nilfs is not detected has been committed to the Gnome git repository.

Patches by Mike Fleetwood to add the ability to resize nilfs2 file systems have been committed to the Gnome git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.
See Bug 642842 - nilfs is not detected

Thanks to work from Rogier Goossens the following bugs have been addressed:

Bug 667278 - Add support for setting UUID
Bug 668486 - GParted fails to detect multiple md (SWRaid) devices

An enhancement to address Bug 668491 - Formatting small FAT32 partitions (32MB) violates FAT32 specifications has been committed to the Gnome git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.

Further patches for Bug 667278 - Add support for setting UUID have been committed.  These patches add the ability to change the UUID of an NTFS file system.

GParted 0.12.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, February 21, 2012.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted adds some exciting new features, and
  includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Add support for nilfs2 including resizing
  * Add ability to change UUID
  * Add read-only support for LVM PVs
  * Enable GPT expansion when growing RAID

Bug Fixes
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  * Add support for nilfs2 including resizing (#642842)
    - Requires libparted 2.4+ or utils-linux 2.20+ for nilfs2 detection
    - Requires nilfs-utils 2.1+ and Linux 3.0+ for nilfs2 resize support
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for these patches
  * Prevent unitialized OperationDetail member access
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this small patch
  * Create common methods for mount and umount in btrfs, jfs, nilfs2, and xfs
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for these patches
  * Add read-only support for LVM PVs (#160787)
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for these patches
  * Don't ignore any errors resizing btrfs on Linux >= 3.2 (#669389)
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for these patches

  * Display pop-up dialog on libparted exceptions
    - Fixes Bug #566935 - Unable to expand GPT partition when growing RAID
    - Thanks to Phillip Susi for this patch
  * Reduce graphic processing requirement for pulse bar
    - Debian #499193 - gparted: 100% cpu usage
    - Debian #519764 - gparted: Lots of animation makes use over SSH
                       X-tunnel slow

  * Add support to change UUID (#667278)
    - Thanks to Rogier Goossens for these patches
  * Fix detection of multiple SW RAID (md) devices (#668486)
    - Thanks to Rogier Goossens for this small patch

  * Fix build to correctly link to gthread (#667412)
    - Thanks to Vincent Untz for this small patch

  * Fix long scan problem when BIOS floppy setting incorrect (#667511)
    - Ubuntu launchpad #910379
  * Enhance documentation for UUIDs and copying partitions (#608308)
  * Fix en_CA parameter missing percent sign translation error (#660180)
  * Avoid warning display when moving start of extended partition
  * Increase FAT32 minimum size to 33 MiB (#668491)

Translations (new/updated)
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  cs(Marek Černocký), da(Joe Hansen), de(Mario Blättermann),
  es(Daniel Mustieles), ja(Jiro Matsuzawa), nb(Kjartan Maraas),
  sl(Matej Urbančič), te(Praveen Illa)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * nilfs-utils package is required for optional nilfs2 support.
    - nilfs2 resizing requires nilfs-utils 2.1+ and Linux 3.0+.
  * ntfs-3g package version > 2012.1.15 is required to change NTFS UUID.
    - requires new ntfslabel options --new-serial and --new-half-serial.

Thanks for the correction Rogier.  I will update the release notes accordingly for the actual release.