[parted-devel] Announcing GNU parted-1.8.0

[David Cantrell]

GNU parted 1.8.0 is now available.  Many thanks to all involved with the 
development and testing of this release.

WHAT'S NEW?

libparted:
* GPT fixes:
      - Correctly handle disks with non-512 byte sector sizes
      - Support LUN resizing (see new space, allow parted to use it)
      - Prevent overlap of LastUsableLBA and PartitionEntryLBA in
        backup GPT
* Prevent SIGFPE when FAT sector size is 0
* Add ped_exception_get_handler()
* DASD support for IBM zSeries systems
* AIX disk label support
* Detect Promise SX8 storage devices
* Macintosh (ppc and x86) disk label improvements:
      - Prevent LVM and RAID partition types from corrupting the table
      - Fix removal of driver partition
* Add support binary units (MiB, KiB, GiB)
* In ped_register_disk_type(), handle disk_types==NULL case
* In ped_unregister_disk_type(), handle case where type is not
   registered
* Fix geometry read problems on 64-bit Macs (and probably other 64-bit
   systems)
* Add support for /dev/mapper devices via libdevmapper library
* Detect Apple_Boot partition types correctly on MacOS X 10.4 systems

parted:
* Various bug fixes, signal handling fixes, and spelling error fixes
* UI improvements to display more information about the disk and
   transport layer

WHERE?

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

See the web site (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml) for 
more information about GNU parted and how to report bugs.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA