Announcing GNU parted-1.8.8. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible!
NOTE: GNU parted is now licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or higher. See the COPYING file for more details. This release continues our plan with the 1.8.x branch as only minor feature improvements and bug fixes are present. A summary of the changes in this release: libparted: - Add compute_block_counts() to improve ext2fs support. - Properly detect 'ext2 fs too small' cases. - Move formatting commands out of translatable strings. - Read an msdos partition table from a device with 2K sectors. - Remove always-false "Unable to open" diagnostic in ped_disk_new(), leave the "unrecognized disk label" diagnostic. - Don't leak partition table buffer in amiga_read(). - Don't read/write initialized memory with DEBUG turned on off for 'mklabel bsd' and 'mklabel amiga' command calls. - Turn off DEBUG in libparted.c to avoid initializing all allocated memory to '1' bits. - Correct handling of HeaderSize field in GPT labels. - Fix block number used when checking for ext2 fs state. - Add detection support for Xen virtual block devices (/dev/xvd*). - When reading DASD labels, check the filesystem type as well as partition flags to determine what's on the partition. - Add _dm_probe_all() from Debian to probe for all device-mapper devices. parted: - Fixed exception handling in mkpart and mkpartfs commands. - Add the --dry-run option to the partprobe command. - Update docs: cannot specify 'primary' for a partition on a loop device. - Remove unused functions (get_spaces). - Fix off-by-one error in str_list_print_wrap(). - Use xmalloc() and xrealloc() to check return values. - Fix invalid command line argument handling. - Close memory leaks in parted.c and table.c. - Fix warnings when compiling with translation support enabled. - Use a consistent prompt when asking for a file system type. - Update docs: don't reference old versions of gzip. misc: - Improve the testing framework in the tests/ subdirectory. Build out more of the testing scripts so we can start using that to ensure we don't introduce regressions in releases. - Support testing with tmpfs filesystems on Linux. - Work around inadequate libreadline in the configure script. - Don't include config.h from internal headers. You can download GNU parted 1.8.8 from ftp.gnu.org in the /gnu/parted directory. Archives are available as tar+gzip or tar+bz2 files. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.8.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.8.tar.bz2 The SHA-1 digest of the archives are available in <filename>.sha1 files in the same directory. Please see the parted web site at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ for the latest new, mailing list instructions, and bug reporting information. Thanks, -- David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat / Westford, MA
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