[parted-devel] Announcing GNU parted 1.8.3

[David Cantrell]

Announcing GNU parted-1.8.3.  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:
* Header file clean ups.
* Sync the linux-swap header according to the Linux kernel sources.
* Enable support for swsusp partitions and the ability to differentiate
  between old and new versions of linux-swap partitions.
* Renaming PARTITION_EXT to PARTITION_DOS_EXT in the DOS disklabel
  code (consitency with Linux kernel source).
* Added libparted.pc pkg-config file.
* Remove unused functions, ifdefs, and other code.
* Deprecate ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favor of
  ped_disk_type_[register|unregister].
* Small test program fixes (in label.c and common.c).
* Make functions const-correct.
* Handle systems where libreadline is not available.
* Preserve starting sector for primary NTFS 3.1 partitions on DOS
  disklabel.
* Handle 2048-byte logical sectors in linux_read().
* Use PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT macro in place of 512.
* Don't assume logical sector size is <= 512B on AIX.
* Detect HFS write failure.
* Use mkstemp() in place of mktemp().
* Added HFS+ resize support.
* Don't build DASD support on non-zSeries hardware.

parted/partprobe:
* Use fputs() and putchar() in place for printf(), when possible.
* Detect/report stdout write errors.
* Accept the --version and --help options.
* Fix memory leaks in parted(8).

general:
* Synchronize the manual page and --help documentation.
* GNU autoconf and automake updates.
* 'gcc -Wall -Wshadow' warning cleanups.
* Don't define _GNU_SOURCE manually.
* Documentation updates and cleanups (AUTHORS, copyright notices, etc).
* Use gnulib (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/).


You can download GNU parted 1.8.3 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-1.8.3.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.3.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 <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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