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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

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

GParted 0.31.0 is planned for release on Mar 19, 2018.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 743318 - configure script missing check for scrollkeeper dependency
Curtis Gedak has provided a patch.

Yes - Bug 790842 - Report libparted messages into operation details at the point at which they occur
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set

Yes - Bug 790418 - "Unable to inform the kernel of the change" message may lead to corrupted partition table
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set

Yes - Bug 791875 - Rollback specific failed partition change steps
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set

Yes - Bug 787204 - Minimum and maximum size of the UDF partition/disk
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set based upon initial work by Pali Rohár.

Yes - Bug 792052 - Add support for changing UDF label/uuid and show disk usage
Pali Rohár has created a patch.

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.


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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

A patch set to address Bug 790842 - Report libparted messages into operation details at the point at which they occur has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for improving libparted log message handling.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

A patch set to address Bug 790418 - "Unable to inform the kernel of the change" message may lead to corrupted partition table has been committed to the repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this improvement to try to avoid libparted failing to inform kernel about partition changes.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

A patch set to address Bug 791875 - Rollback specific failed partition change steps has been committed to the respository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for improving the handling of specific failed partition change steps.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

A patch for Bug 792052 - Add support for changing UDF label/uuid and show disk usage has been committed to the repository.  Thanks to Pali Rohár for enhancing UDF support.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

A patch set to address Bug 787204 - Minimum and maximum size of the UDF partition/disk has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood and Pali Rohár for this enhancement.

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A patch set to address Bug 743318 - configure script missing check for scrollkeeper dependency has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Curtis Gedak for working on this.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

GParted 0.31.0 is planned for release on Mar 19, 2018.

Preliminary Release Notes
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  This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and
  language translation updates.

### Key changes include:

  * Add support for changing UDF label/uuid and show UDF disk usage
  * Rollback specific failed partition change steps

Bug Fixes
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  * Report libparted messages in log at point in which these occur (#790842)
  * Avoid libparted failing to inform kernel about partition changes (#790418)
  * Rollback specific failed partition change steps (#791875)
  * Add support for changing UDF label/uuid and show UDF disk usage (#792052)
  * Base Min and Max size of the UDF partition/disk on block size (#787204)
  * Reduce dependency on scrollkeeper (#743318)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Pali Rohár, Mike Fleetwood, and
  Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
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  ar(Khaled Hosny), cs(Marek Cernocky), da(Alan Mortensen, Ask Hjorth Larsen),
  de(Mario Blättermann, Christian Kirbach), es(Daniel Mustieles), hr(gogo),
  hu(Balázs Úr), id(Kukuh Syafaat), it(Milo Casagrande),
  kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov), lt(Aurimas Černius),
  nl(Justin van Steijn, Nathan Follens), pl(Piotr Drąg),
  pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), ro(Daniel Șerbănescu),
  sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić), sv(Anders Jonsson)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * No change.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.31.0)

GParted 0.31.0 was released on March 19, 2018.