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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

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

GParted 0.33.0 is planned for release on Dec 13, 2018.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - MR!17 - Gtk2 modernisation
Luca Bacci has provided a patchset.

Yes - MR!12 - Add minix file system support
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR!13 - Support copying and moving of unsupported partition content
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #10 - Gparted fails to resize btrfs partition that is mounted read-only - MR!14
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #12 - Update GParted appdata file - MR!15
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #23 - GParted doesn't detect APFS Apple File system - MR!18
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #27 - GParted may report incorrect usage for SWRAID partitions instead of unknown - MR!19
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR!20 Minor namespace and scope operator tidy-ups
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR!11 - Update bugzilla references
Curtis Gedak and Mike Fleetwood 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 not actively working on this enhancement.

no - Bug 671784 - enhancement: convert partitions from one file system to another
Massimiliano Ghilardi is not actively working on this enhancement.


Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch set to address MR!11 - Update bugzilla references has been committed to the git repository.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch set to address MR!12 - Add minix file system support 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 (0.33.0)

A patch set to address MR!13 - Support copying and moving of unsupported partition content has been committed to the git repository.  A big thanks to Mike Fleetwood for enabling this additional functionality.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch set to address Issue #10 - Gparted fails to resize btrfs partition that is mounted read-only has been committed to the git respository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this bug fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch set to address Issue #12 - Update GParted appdata file - MR!15 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for updating the file license.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch set to address Issue #23 - GParted doesn't detect APFS Apple File system - MR!18 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this file system recognition enhancement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

Patchset MR!17 - Gtk2 modernisation has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Luca Bacci for this enhancement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch to address Issue #27 - GParted may report incorrect usage for SWRAID partitions instead of unknown - MR!19 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this bug fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

A patch set to address MR!20 Minor namespace and scope operator tidy-ups has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this code cleanup.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

GParted 0.33.0 is planned for release on Dec 13, 2018.

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

### Key changes include:

  * Support copying and moving of unsupported partition content
  * Add minix file system support
  * Recognise APFS Apple file system
  * Gtk2 code modernisation

Bug Fixes
---------
  * Recognise APFS Apple file system (#23, !18)
  * Fix tries to resize BTRFS mounted read-only (#10, !14)
  * Update bug links from Bugzilla to GitLab issues (!11)
  * Add minix file system support (!12)
  * Support copying and moving of unsupported partition content (!13)
  * Update GParted appdata file license (#12, !15)
  * Gtk2 code modernisation (!17)
  * Fix false usage figures for busy SWRAID members (#27, !19)
  * Minor namespace and scope operator tidy-ups (!20)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Luca Bacci, Mike Fleetwood, and
  Curtis Gedak.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  cs(Marek Černocký), da(Alan Mortensen), de(Mario Blättermann, Bernd Homuth),
  el(Efstathios Iosifidis), eo(ristjan Schmidt), es(Daniel Mustieles),
  hr(gogo), id(Kukuh Syafaat), lt(Aurimas Černius),
  pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle), ru(Stas Solovey),
  sv(Anders Jonsson), tr(Emin Tufan Çetin)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * gtkmm >= 2.24.0


Edit: mfleetwo: Upper case L for Luca in Code Credits

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.33.0)

GParted 0.33.0 was released on December 13, 2018.