[parted-devel] Announcing GNU parted 1.8.2

[David Cantrell]

Announcing GNU parted-1.8.2.  Many thanks to everyone who helped make 
this release possible!

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 the ped_device_cache_remove() function to remove a device from the
   cache.  This is necessary for some things that use libparted,
   including pyparted.
* Fix a segfault in ped_assert() where the wrong pointer is freed in the
   backtrace handler.
* Only call _disk_warn_loss(disk) in do_mklabel() if disk is not NULL.
   Fixes a segfault when initializing new volumes.
* Dynamically allocate space for exception messages.
* Output a backtrace when catching SEGV_MAPPER or a general SIGSEGV.

parted:
* Destroy all objects before return when called with --list or
   --all option.
* Zero sized device is shown as 0.00B and not -0.00kB.
* Implement 'print devices' command.
* Alias 'print list' to 'print all'.
* Alias 'mktable' to 'mklabel'.

misc:
* Other bug fixes, documentation updates, and translation improvements.
* Code and API clean-ups.


You can download GNU parted 1.8.2 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-1.8.2.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.2.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
Red Hat / Westford, MA