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Topic: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

With the next release we plan to focus on improvements and bug fixes.

GParted 1.3.0 is planned for release on May 3, 2021.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Issue #131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung / MR !65
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #137 - Creating exfat partition with a label fails with error / MR !66
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !67 - Add support for reading exFAT usage and updating the UUID
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #136 - 1.2.0: test suite is failing in test_PipeCapture / MR !72 - Accept NUL as a valid UTF-8 character again
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #101 - Crash changing Partition type in "Create new partition" dialog / MR !73
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #85 - Please install gpartedbin under /usr/libexec instead of /usr/sbin / MR !75
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #147 - GitLab CI test failure from *.CreateAndGrow/jfs / MR !76 - Exclude more GitLab CI file system tests needing loop devices
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #145 - Sporadic failure of test case My/SupportedFileSystemsTest.CreateAndReadUUID/reiser4 / MR !77 - Ignore test failure when reiser4 reports null UUID
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #148 - Encrypted file systems are no longer recognised / MR !78 - Restore detection of encrypted file systems
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #152 - GParted crashed when trying to probe an encrypted partition containing content that libparted doesn't recognise / MR !79 - Fix crash probing libparted unrecognised encrypted file system
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #59 - Resize of LUKS2 encrypted file system fails with "Nothing to read on input" / MR !80 - Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings by supplying the needed passphrase
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !68 - Fix minor typos in docs and MR !71 - Fix minor typos in comments
Yuri Chornoivan has provided patches.

Yes - MR !69 - Add Ukrainian translation of docs and MR !70 - Add Ukrainian screenshot
Yuri Chornoivan has provided patches.


TEMPLATE
No - Issue #83 - template description of issue / MR !55
Author name has provided a patch / patch set.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung / MR !65 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for fixing this bug.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch to address Issue #137 - Creating exfat partition with a label fails with error / MR !66 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 (1.3.0)

A patch to address MR !68 - Fix minor typos in docs has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Yuri Chornoivan for this fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch to address MR !69 - Add Ukrainian translation of docs has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Yuri Chornoivan for new language translation.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address MR !67 - Add support for reading exFAT usage and updating the UUID has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for the upstream enhancement request and for implementing the corresponding enhancement in GParted.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #136 - 1.2.0: test suite is failing in test_PipeCapture / MR !72 - Accept NUL as a valid UTF-8 character again has been commited to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this improvement.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #101 - Crash changing Partition type in "Create new partition" dialog / MR !73 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 (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #85 - Please install gpartedbin under /usr/libexec instead of /usr/sbin / MR !75 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 (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #147 - GitLab CI test failure from *.CreateAndGrow/jfs / MR !76 - Exclude more GitLab CI file system tests needing loop devices has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for maintaining GitLab CI.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #145 - Sporadic failure of test case My/SupportedFileSystemsTest.CreateAndReadUUID/reiser4 / MR !77 - Ignore test failure when reiser4 reports null UUID has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for working on this reiser4 issue.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #148 - Encrypted file systems are no longer recognised / MR !78 - Restore detection of encrypted file systems has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for fixing this small regression.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #152 - GParted crashed when trying to probe an encrypted partition containing content that libparted doesn't recognise / MR !79 - Fix crash probing libparted unrecognised encrypted file system has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for fixing this regression.

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

A patch set to address Issue #59 - Resize of LUKS2 encrypted file system fails with "Nothing to read on input" / MR !80 - Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings by supplying the needed passphrase 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 (1.3.0)

GParted 1.3.0 is planned for release on May 3, 2021.

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

### Key changes include:

  * Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings
  * Improved exFAT support
  * Fix crash in Create New Partition dialog when changing type
  * Avoid GParted hanging when non-named device is hung

Bug Fixes
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  * Stop GParted hanging when non-named device is hung (#131, !65)
  * Avoid detecting exfat-utils commands as exfatprogs commands (#137, !66)
  * Add support for reading exFAT usage and updating the UUID (!67)
  * Fix minor typos in docs (!68) and comments (!71)
  * Add Ukrainian translation of docs (!69, !70)
  * Fix test suite failing in test_PipeCapture (#136, !72)
  * Fix crash in Create New Partition dialog when changing type (#101, !73)
  * Install gpartedbin under /usr/libexec instead of /usr/sbin (#85, !75)
  * Exclude more GitLab CI file system tests needing loop devices (#147, !76)
  * Ignore test failure when reiser4 reports null UUID (#145, !77)
  * Restore detection of encrypted file systems (#148, !78)
  * Fix crash probing libparted unrecognised encrypted file system (#152, !79)
  * Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings with passphrase (#59, !80)

Code Credits
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  Code enhancements are courtesy of Yuri Chornoivan and Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
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  ca(Jordi Mas), hu(Balázs Úr), id(Kukuh Syafaat), lt(Aurimas Černius),
  pt(Hugo Carvalho), sk(Dušan Kazik), sv(Anders Jonsson), uk(Yuri Chornoivan)

Dependencies (new/updated)
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  * n/a

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Re: Development Plans for the next release of GParted (1.3.0)

GParted 1.3.0 was released on May 3, 2021.