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Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

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

GParted 1.6.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, February 26, 2023.

Candidates under consideration include:

Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Issue #227 - Unable to allocate 1 MiB between partitions when moving to the right / MR !112 - Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving common partition boundary to the right
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !113 - Fix occasional GitLab CI test jobs failures on BlockSpecial unit tests
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #230 - Missing progress bar text reset when applying operation / MR !114 - Clear progress bar text when starting it
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !116 - Systemd mount masking and udev rule location updates
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !117 - Require C++11 compilations
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !118 - Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !119 - Tidy-ups for file system interface classes
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - Issue #241 - Move appstream metadata out of legacy path / MR !120 - Install AppStream file into ${datadir}/metainfo
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.

Yes - MR !121 - Document future Debian/Ubuntu build time dependency in README
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.

Yes - MR !115 - Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID
Marcin Zepp has provided a patch.


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 (1.6.0)

A patch set to address Issue #227 - Unable to allocate 1 MiB between partitions when moving to the right / MR !112 - Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving common partition boundary to the right 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 (1.6.0)

A patch set to address MR !113 - Fix occasional GitLab CI test jobs failures on BlockSpecial unit tests 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 (1.6.0)

A patch set to address Issue #230 - Missing progress bar text reset when applying operation / MR !114 - Clear progress bar text when starting it has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for fixing this display bug.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch to address MR !115 - Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks to Marcin Zepp for fixing this crash.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch set to address MR !116 - Systemd mount masking and udev rule location updates has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for these updates.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch set to address MR !117 - Require C++11 compilations has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for these updates.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch set to address MR !118 - Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for this code simplification.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch set to address MR !119 - Tidy-ups for file system interface classes has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for improving the maintainability of the code base.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch set to address Issue #241 - Move appstream metadata out of legacy path / MR !120 - Install AppStream file into ${datadir}/metainfo 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 (1.6.0)

GParted 1.6.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, February 26, 2023.

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

### Key changes include:

  * Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving partition boundary right
  * Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID
  * Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart

Bug Fixes
---------
  * Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving partition boundary right (#227, !112)
  * Fix GitLab CI test jobs failures on BlockSpecial unit tests (!113)
  * Fix Missing progress bar text reset when applying operation (#230, !114)
  * Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID (!115)
  * Update systemd mount masking and udev rule location (!116)
  * Require C++11 compilation (!117)
  * Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart (!118)
  * Tidy-ups for file system interface classes (!119)
  * Move appstream metadata out of legacy path (#241, !120)

Code Credits
------------
  Code enhancements are courtesy of Marcin Zepp and Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)
--------------------------
  cs(Daniel Rusek), da(Alan Mortensen), de(Jürgen Benvenuti),
  es(Daniel Mustieles), eu(Asier Sarasua Garmendia), fa(Danial Behzadi),
  fur(Fabio Tomat), ga(katerine Papava), gl(Fran Dieguez),
  he(Yosef Or Boczko), hu(Balázs Úr), id(Kukuh Syafaat),
  ie(Olga Smirnova), ka(Ekaterine Papava), kk(Baurzhan Muftakhidinov),
  lt(Aurimas Černius), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt(Hugo Carvalho),
  pt_BR(marcelocripe, Juliano de Souza Camargo), ro(Florentina Mușat),
  ru(Sergej A), sk(Dušan Kazik), sv(Anders Jonsson),
  tr(Sabri Ünal, Emin Tufan), uk(Yuri Chornoivan),
  zh_CN(Luming Zh, Boyuan Yang), zh_TW(Woodman Tuen, Cheng-Chia Tseng)

Dependencies (new/updated)
--------------------------
  * gpart is no longer needed because the "Attempt Data Rescue"
    feature has been removed.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

A patch to address MR !121 - Document future Debian/Ubuntu build time dependency in README has been committed to the git repository.  Thanks goes to Mike Fleetwood for adding this build depency for some upcoming distros.

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Re: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (1.6.0)

GParted 1.6.0 was released on February 26, 2024.