[parted-devel] Announcing GNU parted 1.8.3

[LarryT]

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David Cantrell wrote:
> 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,
>
>   
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