This is to announce parted-2.3, a stable release. This is mainly a bug-fix release. Each of the three "feature additions" is small and safe-looking.
Here's its home page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
Thanks to everyone who has been contributing.
Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.3.tar.gz (2.9MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.3.tar.xz (1.4MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.3.tar.gz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.3.tar.xz.sig
To reduce load on the main server, use a mirror listed at:
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify parted-2.3.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16
and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.65.70-64f8f
Automake 1.11a
Gettext 0.18
Gnulib v0.0-3955-g8ab5996
Gperf 3.0.3
./NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.3 (2010-05-28) [stable]
** New features
parted now recognizes ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices
parted now recognizes Linux Software RAID Arrays
libparted has a new partition flag to check for diagnostic (aka recovery
or reserved) partitions: PED_PARTITION_DIAG
** Bug fixes
When libparted deferenced a /dev/mapper/foo symlink, it would keep the
resulting /dev/dm-N name and sometimes use it later, even though it
had since become stale and invalid. It no longer stores the result
of dereferencing a /dev/mapper symlink.
libparted's msdos_partition_is_flag_available function now always reports
that the "hidden" flag is not available for an extended partition.
Similarly, msdos_partition_get_flag(p,PED_PARTITION_HIDDEN) always returns 0
for an extended partition.
libparted uses a more accurate heuristic to distinguish between
ext4 and ext3 partitions.
libparted now properly checks the return value of dm_task_run when
operating on devicemapper devices.
allow using ped_device_cache_remove(dev) followed by a (later)
ped_device_destroy() without corrupting the device cache.
when creating an ext2 file system[*], Parted no longer creates an
invalid one when its size is 2TiB or larger.
[*] Remember, now all FS-creation operations are deprecated in Parted.
This is not an indicator that we'll be supporting this code.
On the contrary, it is slated to be removed.
** Changes in behavior
libparted no longer issues an exception/warning about >512-byte
sector support being "HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL". It seems to have matured
enough to be usable at least with GPT and MSDOS partition tables.
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This announcement was also posted at:
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