GParted 0.12.1 (2012-04-09)

Release Notes

This release enables GParted to use the new file system resize library (for FAT16/32 and HFS/+) available with parted 3.1. Also included are bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

• Enable new file system resize library available with parted-3.1
• Handle more than 15 partitions on a disk device with parted-3.1
• Ensure space for EBR when resizing Extended partition
• Ensure Align to MiB does not overlap following partition

Bug Fixes

• Enable minimal file system resize API (FAT and HFS* only) (#668281)
  • Requires libparted-3.1+
  • Thanks go to Jim Meyering for returning FAT16/32 and HFS/+ file system resizing ability in a new library with parted 3.1.
• Properly handle more than 15 partitions on a disk (#632345)
  • Requires libparted-3.1+
• Ensure space for EBR when resizing Extended partition (#664050)
• Improve reiser4 file system uuid reading method
  • Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this small patch
• Fix uninitialised read when pasting into an existing partition (#672654)
  • Thanks to Mike Fleetwood for this small patch
• Fix for FS size & flags becoming unknown after change UUID (#673245) & Fix for FS flags becoming unknown after change label
  • Thanks to Rogier Goossens for these patches
• Fix attempt data rescue fail to open read-only view (#673246)
  • Thanks to Joan Lledó for this small patch
• Add requested partition details to log if resize/move fails
• Use cached method first to read UUID to shorten device scan time
• Rework Align to MiB adjustments to end sector of partition
• Ensure Align to MiB does not overlap following partition (#661744)
• Fix two typos in en_CA translation (#670097)
• Fix typographical error in en_CA translation (#672359)

Translations (new/updated)

ar(Khaled Hosny), cs(Marek Černocký), da(Ask H. Larsen), de(Mario Blättermann), es(Daniel Mustieles), fa(Arash Mousavi), fr(Claude Paroz), gl(Fran Diéguez), it(Milo Casagrande), lt(Algimantas Margevičius), lv(Rudolfs Mazurs), ml(Anish A), nb(Kjartan Maraas), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Gabriel Speckhahn), ro(Daniel Șerbănescu), sl(Matej Urbančič), sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Мирослав Николић), sv(Daniel Nylander), te(Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli), uk(Daniel Korostil)

Dependencies (new/updated)

• no change.

Checksums

MD5SUM:

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SHA2SUM:

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