GParted 0.30.0 (2017-10-10)

Release Notes

This release of GParted includes an interim fix to enable running GParted as root under Wayland in addition to other bug fixes and language translation updates.

ATTENTION PACKAGERS:

The installation location of the gparted script has changed and package scripts calling pkexec can be dropped.

This release provides an interim workaround to allow GParted to run under Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the X11 display. This must be enabled while building the software with:

  ./configure --enable-xhost-root

Pkexec from polkit has been made the first choice graphical SU program as all the desktops have settled on using polkit as the privileged access mechanism. See "Installing polkit's Action File" section in the README file for when an additional installation step may be needed.

Also changed is that execution of the graphical SU program has been moved from gparted.desktop to the gparted shell wrapper. Therefore gparted can be run either by an unprivileged user or by root and as such is installed in $prefix/bin rather than $prefix/sbin. This additionally means distributions can drop their pkexec scripts used to launch gparted.

Key changes include:

• Interim fix for GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
• Fix reading Unicode labels when no FS specific tools available
• Safely quote and escape external programs arguments

Bug Fixes

• Interim fix for GParted fails to run as root under Wayland (#776437)
• Fix message failed to execute "mkudffs" when not installed (#786050)
• Fix reading Unicode labels when no FS specific tools available (#786502)
• Update list of prohibited fat label characters (#787202)
• Fix detection of file system images (#787181)
• Safely quote and escape external programs arguments (#787203)
• Fix problems with space in device names (#649509)
• Remove minor bits of legacy from DMRaid module (#788007)
• Remove whole_device partition flag (#788308)

Code Credits

Code enhancements are courtesy of Pali Rohár and Mike Fleetwood.

Translations (new/updated)

ca(Carles Ferrando Garcia, Jordi Mas), cs(Marek Černocký), de(Mario Blättermann), en_GB(Andre Klapper), es(Daniel Mustieles), fi(Jiri Grönroos), fr(Claude Paroz), hr(gogo), hu(Gabor Kelemen, Balázs Meskó, Balázs Úr), id(Kukuh Syafaat, Andika Triwidada), lv(Rūdolfs Mazurs), nl(Hannie Dumoleyn), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Fontenelle, Andre Klapper), ro(Daniel Șerbănescu, Andre Klapper), sk(Dušan Kazik), sr(Мирослав Николић), sr@latin(Miroslav Nikolić), sv(Anders Jonsson), vi(Trần Ngọc Quân), zh_CN(Andre Klapper), zh_TW(Andre Klapper)

Dependencies (new/updated)

• Uses pkexec command (part of polkit) for root privilege escalation when available.
• Uses xhost command to grant and revoke root access to the display when configured to do so.

Checksums

MD5SUM:

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SHA1SUM:

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