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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

With the next release of GParted (0.19.0) we plan to work on enhancements and bug fixes.

GParted 0.19.0 is planned for release June 10, 2014.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.19.0 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 721516 - Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] filesystems
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 729800 - Prevent GSource double-destroy warning messages
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 729139 - Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 690542 - Partition Information Dialog Warning not readable
Curtis Gedak has provided a patchset.

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 723842 - GParted resizes the wrong filesystem (does not pass the devid to btrfs filesystem resize)
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 not actively working on this enhancement.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

2 Reply by psusi (edited by psusi 2014-02-25 20:50:06)

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

Hi Curtis, how about Bug 721516 - Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] filesystems?

Also to register on this forum it wanted to know the name of the creator of gparted and said it was on the gparted site.  I can't find it there and had to look in the AUTHORS file to remember.

And GAH! it asked again just to post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

Also to register on this forum it wanted to know the name of the creator of gparted and said it was on the gparted site.  I can't find it there and had to look in the AUTHORS file to remember.

The forum suffered from spam in the past, so we had to install some "antispam measures".
You can find the name of the creator of gparted in the contact page.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

Thanks Phillip for the heads up on the Bug 721516 - Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] filesystems.

That one had somehow slipped between the cracks such that I was not aware of it.  I have added it to this list for consideration for the next release.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

A patch set to address Bug 721516 - Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] filesystems has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks to Phillip Susi, Curtis Gedak and Laurent de Trogoff for developing and testing this change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

A patch set to address Bug 690542 - Partition Information Dialog Warning not readable has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks to Curtis Gedak for producing this change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

A patch to address Bug 729800 - Prevent GSource double-destroy warning messages has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks goes to Geoff Hill and Phillip Susi for providing patches that fixed the problem.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

A patch to address Bug 729139 - Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior has been committed to the code repository.  Thanks goes to Phillip Susi for developing this patch.  Note that the crash behaviour is very difficult to reproduce.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

GParted 0.19.0 is planned for release June 10, 2014.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted includes some important bug fixes and
  language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior
  * Make partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens

Bug Fixes
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  * Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior (#729139)
  * Make partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens (#690542)
  * Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] file systems (#721516)
  * Prevent GLib-CRITICAL Source ID not found warning messages (#729800)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi,
  Piotr Drąg, and Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
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  cs(Marek Černocký), da(Joe Hansen), de(Jan Simon), es(Daniel Mustieles),
  gd(GunChleoc), id(Andika Triwidada), ko(Seong-ho Cho), lv(Rūdolfs Mazurs),
  pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Ferreira)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.0)

GParted 0.19.0 was released on June 10, 2014.