[parted-devel] Announcing GNU parted 1.8.1
David Cantrell
dcantrell at redhat.com
Mon Dec 4 04:31:17 CET 2006
Announcing GNU parted-1.8.1. The primary goal of this release is to
address bugs and other errors in the 1.8.0 release. Please report any
problems you find with this release to:
parted-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Summary of changes:
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libparted:
* Rework backtrace support.
* Code cleanups.
* Added --enable-selinux configure option to enable linking libparted
with libselinux and libsepol.
* Disable ext2fs resize for now, tell user to use resize2fs.
parted:
* Fix loop in print_all().
* Introduce the -list command-line switch.
* Make mktable aliased to mklabel.
* Warn before mklabel and mkfs.
* Code cleanups in _partition_warn_busy(), _disk_warn_busy(),
_partition_warn_loss(), and _disk_warn_loss().
* Avoid warning about user permissions when using --version.
* Fix 'print' command help.
* Proper print when there are no extended partitions, but partition names.
misc:
* Generate SHA-1 digest of the archive files and upload those along with
the actual archive files.
* Update translation files.
* Remove automatically generated files from version control.
Where to download:
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parted-1.8.1 is available in tar+bz2 and tar+gz formats on ftp.gnu.org:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/
The SHA-1 digests of the archives are available in the FTP directory.
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David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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