[parted-devel] Announcing GNU parted 1.8.7

[David Cantrell]

Announcing GNU parted-1.8.7.  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:
- Prevent compilation of DASD code on GNU Hurd systems.
- Integrate new unit testing framework for parted and libparted.
- Fix primary partition cylinder alignment error for DOS disk labels.
- Use PED_PARTITION_NORMAL in place of PED_PARTITION_PRIMARY.
- Avoid segfault due to a double free on reiserfs support.

parted:
- Fix script mode (-s) for mkfs command in parted.
- Suppress "you are not superuser..." warning in script mode.
- Fix off-by-one bug in parted when displaying information about the
  disk.
- Do not translate partition names in the 'parted print' command.  This
  causes problems for non-Latin-based character sets.
- Send errors to stderr rather than stdout.
- Handle command line options independent of the order.
- Abort on any invalid option and handle -v and -h first.
- Only display the update /etc/fstab message when there has been a
  change to the disk (a shorter and more direct message too).


You can download GNU parted 1.8.7 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-1.8.7.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.7.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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