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3 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
6 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2009-07-23) [stable]
10 parted now preserves the protective MBR (PMBR) in GPT type labels.
11 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
13 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html
15 gpt_read now uses SizeOfPartitionEntry instead of the size of
16 GuidPartitionEntry_t. This ensures that *all* of the partition
17 entries are correctly read.
18 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
20 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/\
21 20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt
23 mklabel (interactive mode) now correctly asks for confirmation, when
24 replacing an existent label, without outputting an error message.
25 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/\
28 resize now handles FAT16 file systems with a 64k cluster. This
29 configuration is not common, but it is possible.
30 http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
32 parted now ignores devices of the type /dev/md* when probing. These
33 types of devices should be handled by the device-mapper capabilities
35 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
38 The parted documentation now describes the differences in the options
39 passed to mkpart for the label types.
40 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
43 ** Changes in behavior
45 include/parted/beos.h, include/parted/gnu.h and include/parted/linux.h
46 have been removed. The symbols contained in these files (GNUSpecific,
47 ped_device_new_from_store, BEOSSpecific, LinuxSpecific, LINUX_SPECIFIC)
48 were moved to the individual files that need them.
50 In libparted, the linux-swap "filesystem" types are now called
51 "linux-swap(v0)" and "linux-swap(v1)" rather than "linux-swap(old)"
52 and "linux-swap(new)" as in parted 1.8, or "linux-swap" as in older
53 versions; "old" and "new" generally make poor names, and v1 is the
54 only format supported by current Linux kernels. Aliases for all
55 previous names are available.
57 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8.1 (2007-12-17) [stable]
59 FIXME: fill in details
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