gparted/NEWS

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0.3.8   (2008-07-10)
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NOTES
	This release of GParted consists of bug fixes, and language
	translation updates.
	
	Key changes include:
	  - Corrected errors in "Round to cylinders" boundary math
	  - Added "Round to cylinders" check box for copy and move/resize
	  - Enhanced to parse devices from /proc/partitions if file exists
	  - Fixed problem with command line devices being ignored
	  - Removed absolute requirement for hal-lock

BUG FIXES
	* Fixed problem with no devices being detected (#363340)
	* Reduced time for scanning all devices (#453555)
	* Fixed problem with incorrect BIOS setting for floppy drives (351753)
	* Fixed partition resizing that incorrectly became a move too (432525)
	* Corrected problem where some disk space was unassignable (525137)
	* Fixed action incorrectly recognized for move/resize (438570)
	* Added proper plural handling for po files (315291)
	* Changed wording of root privilege required warning (534072)
	* Fixed three grammatical errors (#533637)

TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
	* cs(Adrian Gunis, Lucas Lommer), es(Jorge Gonzalez),
	  nl(Tino Meinen), pl(Wadim Dziedzic), pt_BR(Djavan Fagundes),
	  sk(Pavol Klačanský), sv(Daniel Nylander), lt.po(Gintautas Miliauskas)

DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
	* hal-lock absolute requirement removed.  The gparted script will
	  search for and use hal-lock only if it is found in the path.


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0.3.7   (2008-04-29)
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NOTES
	This GParted release consists of bug fixes, and language translation
	updates.
	
	Key changes include:
	  - Fixed bug for partition sizes greater than or equal to 1 TeraByte
	  - Created gparted manual page
	  - Implemented hal-lock to prevent gnome automounting of partitions

BUG FIXES
	* Corrected math in partition creation/resize dialogs that prevented
	  operations on partition sizes >= 1 TB (#524948)
	* Implemented hal-lock to prevent partition automounting (#324220)
	  - gparted script calls hal-lock which calls gpartedbin executable
	  - thanks to Deji Akingunola for hal-lock idea
	* Added manual page documentation (subset of bug #329584)
	* Changed Set Disklabel menu to Create Partition table,
	  improved disk erasure warnings, and removed double
	  confirmation (#422070) 
	* Improved readability of text for translators in Create Partition
	  Table dialog (#529063)
	* Adjusted desktop entries to align with specifications (#518975)
	* Updated gparted.desktop to align with Human Interface
	  Guidelines (#440012)
	* Moved gparted install to sbin instead of bin (#509495)
	* Added MAINTAINERS file (#524276)
	  - thanks to Marcel Telka for committing file to repository
	* Enhanced to use po/LINGUAS for LINGUAS (#467459)
	  - thanks to Christian Persch for small patch
	* Ensured hour portion of time is always displayed (#438590)
	* Removed text color hard coding (#413810)
	* Aligned README file with GNU coding standards (#529625)

TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
	* cs(Adrian Gunis), es(Jorge Gonzalez), hu(Gabor Kelemen),
	  nl(Tino Meinen), sk(Pavol Klačanský)

DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
	* hal-lock used by gparted script to acquire device locks


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0.3.6   (2008-03-26)
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NOTES
	GParted now has support for partition labels (also known as
	volume labels).  To change partition labels, use the GParted
	menu option "Partition -> Label".

	Full partition label support (read and write) is available for
	the following file systems:
	     ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, jfs, ntfs, reiserfs, and xfs.

	Partial support (set volume label on filesystem creation only)
	is available for:
	     hfs, linux-swap, and reiser4.

BUG FIXES
	* Added partition label (volume label) support (#338528)
	* Fixed maximum path length (#481768)

TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
	* eu(Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), he(Mark Krapivner),
	  hu(Gabor Kelemen), ne(Pawan Chitrakar), sk(Pavol Klačanský)

	* Added two files for tranlation
	  - src/Dialog_Partition_Label.cc
	  - src/OperationLabelPartition.cc

DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
	* mtools package required to read and write fat16 and fat32 labels.
	* vol_id command required to read linux-swap labels.


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0.3.5   (2007-02-04)
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NOTES
	This release is the first one from a new set of project
	maintainers (Laurent de Trogoff, and Curtis Gedak).  The
	release includes changes from the unofficial 0.3.4 release as
	well as bug fixes, and language translations.

	*Many Thanks* go to Bart Hakvoort.
	Without Bart's work, there would be no GParted.

BUG FIXES
	* Applied debian patch 04_Win_GParted.cc.diff (#470387)
	  - Fixed "crashes when rescanning devices after any operation"
	  - Thanks to Denis Sirotkin for this patch.
	* Applied debian patch 03_fdi_robustification.patch (#324220)
	  - Installed a signal handler for cleaning up the automount disabling
	    FDI, so that it will be cleaned up on program crashes, too.
	  - Thanks to Martin Pitt for this improved patch.
	* Applied debian patch 02_fix-build-failure-with-g++-4.3.patch
	  - Fix build failures with g++-4.3.

TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
	* ar(Djihed Afifi), ca(David Planella),
	  eu(Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), fi(Ilkka Tuohela),
	  he(Yair Hershkovitz), ko(Changwoo Ryu),
	  lt(Gintautas Miliauskas), mk(Jovan Naumovski),
	  oc(Yannig Marchegay), pa(Amanpreet Singh Alam),
	  pt_BR(Djavan Fagundes), ru(Yuri Myasoedov),
	  si(Danishka Navin), sv(Daniel Nylander), sv(Daniel Nylander) 

DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
	* no change.


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0.3.4 (unofficial) TO 0.0.1 (first test release)
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NOTES
	All of the GParted releases prior to gparted-0.3.5 were created
	by Bart Hakvoort.  Bart is the original author of GParted.
	This NEWS file was not updated during the previous releases.