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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

With the next release of GParted we plan to add new enhancements to GParted.

GParted 0.28.0 is planned for release on February 14, 2017.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 776002 - Update help with additional partition flags
Curtis Gedak has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 771244 - gparted does not recognize the iso9660 file system in cloned Ubuntu USB boot drives
Curtis Gedak and Mike Fleetwood have provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 776173 - Missing sys/sysmacros.h #include, needed for experimental glibc versions
Michał Górny has provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 775475 - Mount Point column displayed for encrypted file systems even when empty
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 775932 - Refactor mostly applying of operations
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Bug 774818 - Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

No - Bug 627701 - option to encrypt new partitions (using LUKS)
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.

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

No - Bug 755429 - Add read-only display of LVM volume groups and logical volumes
Wrolf Courtney 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.
Because there have been no other reports of this issue since 2012, the problem is either extremely rare or has been fixed in upstream ntfs-3g and this work-around patch is not required.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A patch set to address Bug 775475 - Mount Point column displayed for encrypted file systems even when empty has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this enhancement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A patch set to Bug 775932 - Refactor mostly applying of operations has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this preparatory work to make way for upcoming LUKS encrypted partition support.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A patch to Bug 776002 - Update help with additional partition flags has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks to Curtis Gedak for this documentation update.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A patch to Bug 776173 - Missing sys/sysmacros.h #include, needed for experimental glibc versions has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks to Michał Górny for this patch.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A patch set to address Bug 771244 - gparted does not recognize the iso9660 file system in cloned Ubuntu USB boot drives has been committed to the git repository.

Thanks to Mike Fleetwood and Curtis Gedak for this enhancement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

A large patch set to address Bug 774818 - Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase has been committed to the git repository.

A big thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for improving GParted with this significant enhancement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

GParted 0.28.0 is planned for release on February 14, 2017.

Preliminary Release Notes
-------------------------
  This release adds partial read-write support for LUKS encrypted file
  systems.  GParted can't create, open or close LUKS encryption
  volumes; however it can copy, resize and manipulate file systems
  inside open LUKS volumes and move closed LUKS volumes.  (Resizing
  requires Linux kernel >= 3.6 and libparted >= 3.2 for online
  partition resizing).

  Also included are bug fixes and language translation updates.

  REMINDER:

  You are strongly advised to backup you data before editing
  partitions as a failure can lead to data loss.  This is especially
  true for encrypted data where all of the data can become permanently
  inaccessible after a failure.  Please refer to the Cryptsetup FAQ [1]
  for backup and recovery advice of encrypted data.

  [1]: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetu … dQuestions

### Key changes include:

  * Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase
  * Add detection of iso9660 file system

Bug Fixes
---------

  * Implement LUKS read-write actions NOT requiring a passphrase (#774818)
  * Fix mount column shown for non-mounted encrypted file systems (#775475)
  * Refactor mostly applying of operations (#775932)
  * Update help with additional partition flags (#776002)
  * Include sys/sysmacros.h for major and minor macros (#776173)
  * Add detection of iso9660 file system (#771244)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Michał Górny, Mike Fleetwood
  and Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  cs(Marek Černocký), da(Alan Mortensen), de(Bernd Homuth),
  es(Daniel Mustieles), kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), pl(Piotr Drąg),
  pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), sk(Dušan Kazik)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * cryptsetup command is required to work with LUKS encrypted
    volumes.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.28.0)

GParted 0.28.0 was released on February 14, 2017.