libparted: raise dos partition limit from 16 to 64

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@@ -4,9 +4,15 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** New features
 
+  Increased limit for msdos partitions from 16 to 64
+
   parted has improved support for partitionable loopback devices
 
 ** Bug fixes
+  The msdos partition table claimed a maximum partition count of 16
+  but would allow you to go beyond that.  This resulted in the kernel
+  not being informed of those partitions.  Corrected to enforce the
+  limit.
 
   parted now exits nonzero for certain failures already diagnosed as "Error".
   For example, before this change, parted would exit successfully in spite
@@ -38,13 +44,37 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   with an HFS or HFS+ signature, but with invalid ->total_blocks and/or
   ->block_size values.
 
+  parted now uses ext_range device sysfs attribute to determine maximum number
+  of partitions the device can hold.  With this change, parted now correctly
+  informs kernel about new partitions on partitionable MD RAID devices.
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
+  Floppy drives are no longer scanned on linux: they cannot be partitioned
+  anyhow, and some users have a misconfigured BIOS that claims to have a
+  floppy when they don't, and scanning gets hung up.
+
   parted: mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying end
   of the partition. If the end is specified using MiB, GiB, etc. unit, parted
   subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now
   possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on.
 
+  Device-mapper devices ( LVM, dmraid ) no longer insert a 'p' between the
+  base device name and the partition number unless the last character of
+  the base device name is a digit.  This brings parted into compliance with
+  the partition naming of kpartx and "linux since the dawn of time", but
+  differs from the way that dmraid 1.0.0-rc16-3 operates.  A patch to
+  correct dmraid has been submitted to ataraid-list@redhat.com.  Without
+  this patch, parted and dmraid will both create duplicate partition devices
+  named /dev/mapper/foo1 and /dev/mapper/foop1.
+
+** Build-related
+
+  "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.
+  xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
+  only .tar.xz files is enough.
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.0 (2011-05-30) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
@@ -624,7 +654,7 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
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-Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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