Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.21.0)
With the next release of GParted (0.21.0) we plan to work on enhancements and bug fixes.
GParted 0.21.0 is planned for release on January 26, 2015.
Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.21.0 include:
Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 738706 - GParted doesn't support ext4 on RHEL/CentOS 5.x
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.
Yes - Bug 738471 - ReFS file system is not recognised
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 740004 - use pkg-config to check for version of libparted
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 741211 - Remove unnecessary duplicate actions when resizing a partition
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 739805 - GNOME is incorrectly capitalised on the website and else where
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.
Yes - Bug 742511 - Creation of reiser4 file systems fails with unsupported warning
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.
Yes - Bug 742920 - GParted internal copy is overstepping partition boundaries
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.
No - Bug 688883 - Improve SSD handling by using TRIM
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.
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 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.