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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.1)

Before the GParted 0.20.0 release, we plan to create a bug-fix release 0.19.1.

GParted 0.19.1 is planned for release July 15, 2014.

Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.19.1 include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 731752 - Write after free cross thread race in PipeCapture::_OnReadable()
Mike Fleetwood has developed a patch.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.1)

A patch to fix a potential crash situation outlined in Bug 731752 - Write after free cross thread race in PipeCapture::_OnReadable() has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for reporting and patching this critical bug.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.1)

GParted 0.19.1 is planned for release July 15, 2014.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted includes a critical bug fix for a potential
  crash.  The crash is rare, but if the crash happens while applying
  operations then data loss might occur.  Also included are language
  translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Prevent cross thread write after free in _OnReadable()

Bug Fixes
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  * Prevent cross thread write after free in _OnReadable() (#731752)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
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  el(MarMav, Tom Tryfonidis), es(Daniel Mustieles)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * no change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.19.1)

GParted 0.19.1 was released on July 15, 2014.