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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

With the next release of GParted (0.18.0) we plan to work on enhancements and bug fixes.

GParted 0.18.0 is planned for release February 19, 2014.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.18.0 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 711098 - Default partition table can not handle > 2 TiB disks
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 723543 - Shrink ext2/3/4 results in attempt to set partition smaller than file system
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 721988 - Crash when creating new partition on disk with loop label
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 342682 - too much information in 'features' dialog
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 723232 - BitLocker Disk Encryption not recognised
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 721565 - License text contains obsolete FSF postal address
Daniel Mustieles has provided a patch.

No - Bug 467925 - gparted: add progress bar during operation
Phillip Susi is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 683643 - Doesn't properly support partitionless drives.
Phillip Susi is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 688883 - Improve SSD handling by using TRIM
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 696149 - Double refresh of display introduced with default unallocated space selection
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 690953 - Partition name support
Sinlu Bes is working on this enhancement.

No - Bug 691681 - Improve Partition Info dialog to be Partition properties dialog
Sinlu Bes is working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 627701 - option to encrypt new partitions (using LUKS)
Matthias Gehre is working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 671784 - enhancement: convert partitions from one file system to another
Massimiliano Ghilardi is working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 673166 - NTFS partition trashed when resized to minimum size
Vladimir Panteleev has provided a patch.  Further testing is required.


With the 1.0.0 release of GParted we plan to work on preparing GParted to work with GNOME 3.0.
The release will become 1.0.0 if and when we drop support for the gtkmm-2.4 API.  The plan with the first few releases is to maintain compatibility with both gtkmm-2.4 and gtkmm-3.0.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 1.0.0 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
no - Bug 652044 - uses deprecated APIs
Colin Watson has created an initial patch.  More development work and testing is required.
Curtis Gedak is working on this enhancement.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

A patch set to address Bug 711098 - Default partition table can not handle > 2 TiB disks has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks to Phillip Susi.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

A patch to address Bug 721988 - Crash when creating new partition on disk with loop label has been committed to the code repository.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

A patch to address Bug 721565 - License text contains obsolete FSF postal address has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks to Daniel Mustieles.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

A patch to address Bug 342682 - too much information in 'features' dialog has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for making the file system support dialog viewable on screens as small as 800x600.  Thanks also goes to LarryT for testing each of the patch sets.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

A patch to address Bug 723232 - BitLocker Disk Encryption not recognised has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

A patch to address Bug 723543 - Shrink ext2/3/4 results in attempt to set partition smaller than file system has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks goes to Phillip Susi and Mike Fleetwood for their work on this issue.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

GParted 0.18.0 is planned for release on Wednesday, February 19, 2014.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted fixes a resize/move problem introduced in
  0.16.2 that could affect ext2/3/4, ntfs, and reiserfs file systems
  in certain situations.  Also included are bug fixes and language
  translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Fix partition size less than ext2/3/4, ntfs, reiserfs file system
  * Fix default partition table can not handle > 2 TiB disks
  * Prevent crash when creating new partition on disk with loop label

Bug Fixes
---------
  * Fix partition size less than ext2/3/4, ntfs, reiserfs file system (#723543)
  * Fix default partition table can not handle > 2 TiB disks (#711098)
  * Prevent crash when creating new partition on disk with loop label (#721988)
  * Replace obsolete FSF postal address in copyright notices (#721565)
  * Make file system support dialog viewable on 800x600 screens (#342682)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi,
  Daniel Mustieles, and Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  cs(Marek Černocký), el(Dimitris Spingos ), es(Daniel Mustieles),
  gd(GunChleoc), gl(Fran Diéguez), hu(Gabor Kelemen), ko(Seong-ho Cho),
  sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Мирослав Николић)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * no change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.18.0)

GParted 0.18.0 was released on February 19, 2014.