CAUTION: Possible thread timing issue with GParted 0.16.0

On April 24, 2013 we released GParted 0.16.0 to address Bug 697727 - Segfault in Gparted 0.15.0 when copying partition. Since then we have discovered another potential issue with timing and multiple threads. This issue appears to occur on older GNU/Linux distributions. In fact the issue was not apparent in our testing of GParted 0.16.0 on recent distros.

See Bug 695279 - GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9.

Recommendation

Until this problem is resolved we advise using GParted Live 0.14.1-6.

We highly recommend that you BACKUP your DATA before using any partitioning tool.

Regards, Curtis Gedak - April 25, 2013

GParted 0.16.0 (2013-04-24)

Release Notes

This release of GParted includes a critical bug fix for a crash that might cause loss of data while moving or copying a partition. We strongly recommend that all users of GParted 0.15.0 upgrade to GParted 0.16.0 to avoid data loss. Also included are bug fixes, enhancements and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

• Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions
• Fix GParted scans forever blank disk in virtual machine
• Add support for f2fs file system

Bug Fixes

• Avoid crash in GParted when moving or copying partitions (#697727)
• Fix GParted scans forever blank disk in virtual machine (#697518)
• Add support for f2fs file system (#695396)
• Improve clearing of file system signatures (#688882)
• Fix absolutely full ntfs reported as error (#697946)

Code Credits

Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood, Patrick Verner, Phillip Susi, and Curtis Gedak

Translations (new/updated)

ca(Pau Iranzo), ca@valencia(Carles Ferrando, Pau Iranzo), cs(Marek Černocký), de(Christian Kirbach, Wolfgang Stöggl), es(Nicolás Satragno, Daniel Mustieles), fr(Claude Paroz), hu(Gabor Kelemen), it(Milo Casagrande), lt(Aurimas Černius), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Ferreira), po(Piotr Drąg), ro(Daniel Șerbănescu), sl(Matej Urbančič, Martin Srebotnjak), sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić), tr(Muhammet Kara)

Dependencies (new/updated)

• f2fs-tools package is required for optional f2fs support.

Checksums

MD5SUM:

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SHA1SUM:

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