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1.0.60 (1.1alpha1, 2010-xx-xx)
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Features added since the last feature release include:
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* Mount point management
* Support for new "sector based" alignment (vs. the traditional cylinder based
alignment) required for compatibility with newer disks (where the phyisical
sector size is 4096 bytes)
* SMART status reports
* Support new file systems: BTRFS, HPFS, LUKS, OCFS2 and ZFS
* Support GPT partition tables.
* Support for setting volume labels on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems
* Export and import a partition table in a human readable and editable format
similar, but for technical reasons not identical, to sfdisk's.
* Support for backend plugins that do the heavy lifting. The first (and for now
only) implementation is libparted-based.
* New operation: Shredding (i.e., securely deleting) a partition
* A configuration dialog including settings for:
* File system colors
* The default file system for new partitions
* Applying operations as non-root
* Setting the log level for the log output dock.
* The backend plugin to use
* How to shred: Overwrite with zeros (faster) or random data (slower, but
more secure)
* Allow editing start and end sectors in size dialogs in a new "advanced"
dialog section.
* Instantly align partition start and end in size dialogs if partition
alignment is on.
* Show a progress dialog when scanning for devices.
* A device properties dialog.
Additional changes:
-------------------
* Allow the Information dock widget to be docked at the top of bottom
* The partition list view now has more information available in additional
columns. The user can sort the columns and turn individual columns on and off.
* Use the icon suggested by KDE's Solid backend in the Devices list.
* Always select the first device on program start.
* Use KDE's KIO for file transfer where possible.
* Performance improvements in the dialog to change a partition's size.
* The KPart and KCM have been removed.
* Allow hiding/showing the menu bar.
* Add a context menu to the log output with entries to save or clear the log.
* GUI support for devices with more than 2^31 sectors.
* Format sector and size values according to KDE settings for number formatting
in New Partition, Resize and Insert dialogs.
* Allow fractional sizes in New Partition, Resize and Insert dialogs.
1.0.2 (2010-04-23)
==================
* Copy a file system's UUID to the copied file system when creating a file
system from another one.
* Implement a workaround for a libparted bug that makes it sometimes fail to
commit changes to the OS in versions earlier than 2.2.
* Update the partition's file system and re-check for constraints if the
partition's role is changed in the "Create New Partition" dialog. This fixes
a bug where the user was not able to grow an extended partition if he'd
previously selected a file system that cannot grow beyond a certain size.
* Always use the correct icons in modified ok/cancel buttons in dialogs and
message boxes
* Fix a crash when operations to create, resize and delete an extended
partitions where incorrectly merged into one (bug 232092)
1.0.1 (2010-01-09)
==================
* Fix a bug that made it impossible to activate or deactivate a swap file
system.
* Correctly handle linux swap even with newer parted versions.
* Ask for an administrator's password on startup so that non-KDE users can run
the application from their launcher.
* Use the "blkid" command as an alternative to "vol_id" if the latter is
unavailable.
* Do not crash when using the Oxygen style under KDE SC 4.4.
* Do not crash when the user clicks in the partition widget with newer
g++ versions.
* Sort devices by name after scanning.
* Don't disable updates for the partition widget while applying operations.
This leads to corrupted graphics unter Qt4.6.
* Work around a LibParted segmentation fault when the Linux Device Mapper is
used and /dev/mapper has non-existing entries.
* The above also works around a LibParted problem when the BIOS has a floppy
drive configured but none is actually present.
* Set item height in the partition and devices lists to 32 pixel to make them
look less condensed.
1.0.0 (2009-08-17)
==================
None.
1.0.0-RC1 (2009-08-03)
======================
* Correctly handle ext4 file systems even with patched parted 1.8.8 (and
hopefully 1.8.9 too). Patch by Fatih Asici <fatih@pardus.org.tr>. (bug
#195243)
* Clear the partition flags for a copied partition in the preview. (bug
#202346)
* Write the new start sector to the partition's boot sector if an NTFS file
system was moved or copied. (bug #202329)
1.0.0-BETA3 (2009-06-04)
========================
* Set the default file system in the New-Partition-dialog, don't just rely on
it being the first one in the list.
* Sort items in file system combo boxes case-insensitively.
* Fix a bug where the total free space available could get smaller and smaller
when moving an existing partition in a dialog.
* Fix a bug that the progress information wasn't set as window title for the
top level application window.
* Speed up copying file systems (and thus moving, resizing and copying).
* Add some basic timing output to the detailed report for copying file systems.
* Find a file system's mount point even if it is identified by label in fstab.
* Add support for reading file system labels from FAT16 and FAT32.
* Fix a bug where the volume label for a linuxswap file system was lost when
resizing it.
* Make sure all interesting information shown in labels anywhere in the
application is user-selectable with the mouse.
* Display the UUID for most file systems that support it.
* Always show the current file system in the partition properties dialog's file
system combo box, even if it cannot be created, is too big or too small.
1.0.0-BETA2 (2009-04-30)
========================
* Add an application icon contributed by David Miller.
* Allow setting the file system label in the dialog when creating a new partition.
* Add a context menu to operation list.
* Use a shell script to run partition manager as a child of hal-lock. This
should in theory (and according to the hal-lock manpage) avoid notifications
for new devices, but doesn't seem to work that well.
* Fix a bug that would keep the user from deleting a newly created logical
partition because the application thought there were higher-numbered
partitions still mounted.
* Add a kcm for KDE Partition Manager. If this is built and installed or not
can be (like it already is the case with the KPart) configured via cmake.
1.0.0-BETA1 (2009-01-13)
========================
* Fix a potential crash when merging a New Operation and a Create File System
Operation.
* Set extended partitions as busy as long as logical partitions inside them
are mounted.
* Don't silently succeed when unmounting a partition that cannot in fact be
unmounted because it has no mount points.
* Prevent creating a new partition table on a device with mounted partitions.
* Add tooltips to partition widgets.
* Don't show cd/dvd readers or writers as devices even if libparted reports
them.
* Add support for ext4.
* Fix calculation of reserved/free blocks for ext2/3/4.
* Output reason why a mount or unmount might have failed.
* Fix minimum width for extended partitions in the partition table widget.
* Fix a bug where a partition table just created would not disappear when the
operation to create it was undone.
* Don't allow creating partitions smaller than the device's cylinder size.
* Fix an error that could lead to some space (a few megabytes) between two
partitions being wasted.
1.0.0-ALPHA2 (2008-09-24)
=========================
* Add and install a .desktop file.
* Don't allow the user to close the main window while operations are being
applied.
* Handle activating and deactivating swap. Also, swap does have labels.
* Don't try to print a mount point in the partition properties dialog if there
is none.
* Show partition table type name and used/max primary partitions in the info
pane.
* All disk label types but msdos are read only for now, until the support
situation for them improves.
* Set default value for maximum number of primaries from 255 to 4.
* Actually set the correct disk label type before applying the operation to
create a new disk label.
* Don't update the partition table widget while operations are being applied.
This fixes a race condition that would potentially crash the application when
applying operations.
* Update devices in the GUI after creating a new disk label or undoing
operations.
* Set the operation state of all operations to StateNone when temporarily
undoing them right before starting the thread to apply them. This fixes a
crash when an operation fails and the remaining ones are undone twice.
* Update bug report address and homepage in the aboutdata.
* Unblock SIGCHLD in main so Kubuntu's kdesudo can run the application as root.
* If udevadm settle fails, try to call udevsettle to better support older
systems.
* Fix the minimum size calculations for partition widgets.
* Add some doxygen documentation.
1.0.0-ALPHA1 (2008-09-18)
=========================
* First public release
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