[parted-devel] parted-1.9.0 released [stable]
Joel Granados
jgranado at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 21:07:44 UTC 2009
This is to announce parted-1.9.0, a release we're calling "stable",
because we think it's solid enough for general use.
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=shortlog
Thanks to all people who have been testing pre-release, reporting bugs,
contributing code, suggesting enhancements, and answering user
questions on the mailing lists!
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Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.9.0.tar.gz (2.6MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.9.0.tar.xz (1.2MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.9.0.tar.gz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.9.0.tar.xz.sig
[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify parted-1.9.0.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16
and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.63
Automake 1.11
Gnulib v0.0-2287-gfeb2268
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2009-07-23) [stable]
** Bug fixes
parted now preserves the protective MBR (PMBR) in GPT type labels.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
002473.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html
gpt_read now uses SizeOfPartitionEntry instead of the size of
GuidPartitionEntry_t. This ensures that *all* of the partition
entries are correctly read.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
002465.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/\
20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt
mklabel (interactive mode) now correctly asks for confirmation, when
replacing an existent label, without outputting an error message.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/\
002739.html
resize now handles FAT16 file systems with a 64k cluster. This
configuration is not common, but it is possible.
http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
parted now ignores devices of the type /dev/md* when probing. These
types of devices should be handled by the device-mapper capabilities
of parted.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
002781.html
The parted documentation now describes the differences in the options
passed to mkpart for the label types.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
002782.html
** Changes in behavior
include/parted/beos.h, include/parted/gnu.h and include/parted/linux.h
have been removed. The symbols contained in these files (GNUSpecific,
ped_device_new_from_store, BEOSSpecific, LinuxSpecific, LINUX_SPECIFIC)
were moved to the individual files that need them.
In libparted, the linux-swap "filesystem" types are now called
"linux-swap(v0)" and "linux-swap(v1)" rather than "linux-swap(old)"
and "linux-swap(new)" as in parted 1.8, or "linux-swap" as in older
versions; "old" and "new" generally make poor names, and v1 is the
only format supported by current Linux kernels. Aliases for all
previous names are available.
Regards.
--
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.
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