[parted-devel] parted-3.8 released [stable]

[Brian C. Lane]

This is to announce parted-3.8, a stable release. This is the same as the
3.7.14 alpha release except that gnulib has been updated.

The full set of changes since parted 3.7:

Brian C. Lane (21):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      README-release: Fix typos in doxygen instructions
      Cleanup zero as null pointer constant warnings
      libparted: Catch FAT metadata triggered errors
      resize: Make sure 32bit build cannot overflow frag_count
      resize: Make sure hfsc_new_cachetable cannot overflow on 32bit
      fdasd: Make sure data set name is positive
      parted: Fix partition number allocation in do_print
      maint: Update to latest gnulib and bootstrap script
      maint: Update copyright statements to 2026
      NEWS: Update news for next release
      version 3.7.13
      maint: post-release administrivia
      hurd: Fix gnu_read problems with block size > 512b
      NEWS: Update news for next release
      maint: Update to latest gnulib
      version 3.7.14
      maint: post-release administrivia
      maint: Update to latest gnulib
      NEWS: Releasing stable version 3.8
      version 3.8

Colin Watson (1):
      maint: Distribute Doxyfile

Victor Couty (1):
      Adding support for ExFAT filesystem

bug-parted at gnu.org (1):
      bug#80795: [PATCH] build: mark functions with const attribute, per gcc warnings

Brian
 [on behalf of the parted maintainers]
==================================================================

Here is the GNU parted home page:
    https://gnu.org/s/parted/

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.8.tar.xz
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.8.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the SHA256 and SHA3-256 checksums:

  File: parted-3.8.tar.xz
  SHA256 sum:   a2b7811f47b0ddb1f7b1d0aa456f7c1270da70708ce231c2fe054c7199eafa63
  SHA3-256 sum: dd794daa59755a9201d7cc493bcdf35903e231d48f93f7bdc79a780fcd8bf594

Verify the SHA256 checksum with either sha256sum, sha256, or
'shasum -a 256'.

Verify the SHA3-256 checksum with 'cksum -a sha3 -l 256 --base64'
from coreutils-9.8.

Use a .sig file 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-3.8.tar.xz.sig parted-3.8.tar.xz

The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:

  pub   ed25519/FF9868A2D488A5A9 2026-04-14 [SC]
        Key fingerprint = 872F 3A8A 0B84 905A FFBC  8766 FF98 68A2 D488 A5A9
  uid                 [ultimate] Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com>

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  gpg --locate-external-key bcl at redhat.com

  gpg --recv-keys FF9868A2D488A5A9

  wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=parted&download=1' | gpg --import -

As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:

  wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
  gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify parted-3.8.tar.xz.sig parted-3.8.tar.xz

This release is based on the parted git repository, available as

  git clone https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/parted.git

with commit 5f600791b40a48c51aeb6db0432e67a29e8e7951 tagged as v3.8.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:

  https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=parted.git;a=shortlog;h=v3.8

or run this command from a git-cloned parted directory:

  git shortlog v3.7.14..v3.8

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.72
  Automake 1.18.1
  Gettext 0.25.1
  Gnulib 2026-09-23 0b416a8a26dbdaea4f413d4fb0c41ef8ea846e4d
  Gperf 3.2.1

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 3.8 (2026-09-23) [stable]

  Promoting alpha release to stable release 3.8

-- 
Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart - osbuild