Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.12.1)

An enhancement to address Bug #668281 - minimal file-system resize API? (FAT and HFS* only) has been committed to the Gnome git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.

This enhancement  enables GParted to take advantage of a new file system resize library made available with the parted-3.1 release on March 2, 2012.

A small patch has been provided by Mike Fleetwood to address Bug 672654 - Pasting into an existing partition may shrink GParted's representation of it.  This patch has been committed to the git repository.

A minor release (0.12.1) is scheduled for April 9, 2012.

The release notes so far are:

Preliminary Release Notes
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This release enables GParted to use the new file system resize library
(for FAT16/32 and HFS/+) available with parted 3.1.  Also included are bug
fixes and language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Enable new file system resize library available with parted-3.1
  * Handle more than 15 partitions on a disk device with parted-3.1
  * Ensure space for EBR when resizing Extended partition
  * Ensure Align to MiB does not overlap following partition

Bug Fixes
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  * Enable minimal file system resize API (FAT and HFS* only) (#668281)
    - Requires libparted-3.1+
    - Thanks go to Jim Meyering for returning FAT16/32 and HFS/+
      file system resizing ability in a new library with parted 3.1.
  * Properly handle more than 15 partitions on a disk (#632345)
    - Requires libparted-3.1+
  * Ensure space for EBR when resizing Extended partition (#664050)
  * Improve reiser4 file system uuid reading method
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this small patch
  * Fix uninitialised read when pasting into an existing partition (#672654)
    - Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this small patch
  * Add requested partition details to log if resize/move fails
  * Use cached method first to read UUID to shorten device scan time
  * Rework Align to MiB adjustments to end sector of partition
  * Ensure Align to MiB does not overlap following partition (#661744)
  * Fix two typos in en_CA translation (#670097)
  * Fix typographical error in en_CA translation (#672359)

Translations (new/updated)
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  cs(Marek Černocký), de(Mario Blättermann), es(Daniel Mustieles),
  gl(Fran Diéguez), lt(Algimantas Margevičius), lv(Rudolfs Mazurs),
  ml(Anish A), nb(Kjartan Maraas), pt_BR(Gabriel Speckhahn),
  ro(Daniel Șerbănescu), sl(Matej Urbančič), sv(Daniel Nylander)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.

A patch provided by Joan Lledó to address Bug 673246 - Attempt Data Rescue - Failed to open read-only view has been committed to the git repository.