1 (edited by gedakc 2023-02-13 19:45:38)

Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

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

GParted 1.5.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - MR !99 - Fix undeclared identifier 'basename' build failure with musl libc
Markus Volk has provided a patch.

Yes - MR !100 - Fix NULL == 0 assumption in call to ped_partition_flag_next()
Dominika Liberda has provided a patch.

Yes - Issue #193 - path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory / MR !102
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !103 - Fix make distcheck failure found in GitLab CI job unbuntu_test
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !104 - Add Alpine Linux CI jobs and resolve label and UUID issues with FAT16/32
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !105 - Update used btrfs file system commands, new minimum is btrfs-progs 4.5
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !106 - Update AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to LT_INIT in configure.ac
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

Yes - MR !107 - Migrate from intltool to gettext translation
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #164 - GParted crashes copying NTFS partition to starting beyond 2TiB / MR !108 - Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !109 - Enable repair when checking exfat file systems
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

Yes - Issue #217 - GitLab CI test job failing with new mkfs.xfs error "Filesystem must be larger than 300MB." / MR !110 - Increase minimum XFS size to 300 MiB
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #220 - Format to Cleared not clearing "pdc" ataraid signature / MR !111 - Erase all Promise FastTrack RAID signatures
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.


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

Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch to address MR !99 - Fix undeclared identifier 'basename' build failure with musl libc has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Markus Volk for this improvement.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch to address MR !100 - Fix NULL == 0 assumption in call to ped_partition_flag_next() has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Dominika Liberda for this fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address Issue #193 - path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory / MR !102 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address MR !103 - Fix make distcheck failure found in GitLab CI job unbuntu_test has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address MR !104 - Add Alpine Linux CI jobs and resolve label and UUID issues with FAT16/32 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for these enhancements.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address MR !105 - Update used btrfs file system commands, new minimum is btrfs-progs 4.5 has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for ongoing improvements and support of btrfs in GParted.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch to address MR !106 - Update AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to LT_INIT in configure.ac has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this update.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address MR !107 - Migrate from intltool to gettext translation has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this update.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address Issue #164 - GParted crashes copying NTFS partition to starting beyond 2TiB / MR !108 - Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB 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 (1.5.0)

A patch to address MR !109 - Enable repair when checking exfat file systems 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 (1.5.0)

A patch set to address Issue #217 - GitLab CI test job failing with new mkfs.xfs error "Filesystem must be larger than 300MB." / MR !110 - Increase minimum XFS size to 300 MiB has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this fix and for maintaining the GitLab CI test jobs.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

A patch set to address Issue #220 - Format to Cleared not clearing "pdc" ataraid signature / MR !111 - Erase all Promise FastTrack RAID signatures has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this fix.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

GParted 1.5.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.

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

### Key changes include:

  * Fix path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory
  * Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB
  * Enable repair when checking exfat file systems

Bug Fixes
---------
  * Fix undeclared identifier 'basename' build failure with musl libc (!99)
  * Fix NULL == 0 assumption in call to ped_partition_flag_next() (!100)
  * Fix path used to resize btrfs needs to be a directory (#193, !102)
  * Fix make distcheck failure found in GitLab CI job unbuntu_test (!103)
  * Add Alpine Linux CI jobs and resolve FAT16/32 label and UUID issues (!104)
  * Update used btrfs file system commands, btrfs-progs 4.5 required (!105)
  * Update AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to LT_INIT in configure.ac (!106)
  * Migrate from intltool to gettext translation (!107)
  * Fix crash when copying NTFS to starting beyond 2 TiB (#164, !108)
  * Enable repair when checking exfat file systems (!109)
  * Increase minimum XFS size to 300 MiB (#217, !110)
  * Erase all Promise FastTrack RAID signatures (#220, !111)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Markus Volk, Dominika Liberda and
  Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  ca(Jordi Mas), da(Alan Mortensen), de(Jürgen Benvenuti),
  fr(Irénée THIRION), he(Yaron Shahrabani, Yosef Or Boczko), hr(Goran Vidović),
  hu(Balázs Úr), id(Andika Triwidada, Kukuh Syafaat),
  ka(Temuri Doghonadze, Zurab Kargareteli), ko(Seong-ho Cho),
  nl(Nathan Follens), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt(Hugo Carvalho),
  pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle, Enrico Nicoletto), ru(Aleksandr Melman, Sergej A),
  sk(Dušan Kazik), sl(Matej Urbančič), sr(Мирослав Николић),
  sv(Anders Jonsson, Luna Jernberg), tr(Sabri Ünal, Muhammet Kara),
  uk(Yuri Chornoivan)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * btrfs-progs >= 4.5 package is required for btrfs file system support.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.5.0)

GParted 1.5.0 was released on February 21, 2023.