* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** New features
+
+ parted now recognizes ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ libparted's msdos_partition_is_flag_available function now always reports
+ that the "hidden" flag is not available for an extended partition.
+ Similarly, msdos_partition_get_flag(p,PED_PARTITION_HIDDEN) always returns 0
+ for an extended partition.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.2 (2010-02-26) [stable]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ The default alignment (--align option) for newly created partitions has
+ been changed to optimal.
+
+** New features
+
+ The ped_device_get_*_alignment() functions now return a sane default
+ value instead of NULL when the so called topology information is incomplete.
+ The default minimum alignment aligns to physical sector size, the default
+ optimal alignment is 1MiB, which is what vista and windows 7 do.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ Parted no longer uses a physical sector size of 0 or of any other
+ value smaller than the logical sector size.
+
+ dos: creating an HFS or HFS+ partition in an msdos partition table
+ used to set the partition type to 0x83. That is wrong. The required
+ number is 0xaf, and that is what is used now.
+
+ gpt: read-only operation could clobber MBR part of hybrid GPT+MBR table
+ [bug introduced in parted-2.1]
+
+ gpt: a read-only operation like "parted $dev print" would overwrite $dev's
+ protective MBR when exactly one of the primary and backup GPT tables was
+ found to be corrupt.
+ [bug introduced prior to parted-1.8.0]
+
+ sun: the version, sanity and nparts VTOC fields were ignored by libparted.
+ Those fields are properly initialized now. The nparts (number of partitions)
+ field is initialized to 8 (max. number of sun partitions) rather that to a
+ real number of partitions. This solution is compatible with Linux kernel
+ and Linux fdisk.
+
+ "make install" no longer installs tests programs named disk and label
+
+ libparted: try harder to inform kernel of partition changes.
+ Previously when editing partitions, occasionally the kernel would
+ fail to be informed of partition changes. When this happened future
+ problems would occur because the kernel had incorrect information.
+ For example, if this problem arose when resizing or creating a
+ new partition, then an incorrect partition size might be displayed
+ or a user might encounter a failure to format or delete a newly
+ created partition, respectively.
+
+ libparted: committing a disk that was returned by ped_disk_duplicate
+ would always result in ped_disk_clobber being called (and thus the first
+ and last 9KiB of the disk being zeroed), even if the duplicated disk,
+ was not returned by ped_disk_fresh().
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.1 (2009-12-20) [stable]
+
+** New features
+
+ new --align=<align> commandline option which can have the following values:
+ none: Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type
+ cylinder: Align partitions to cylinders (the default)
+ minimal: Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+ optimal: Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
+ The minimal and optimal values will use layout information provided by the
+ disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical
+ blocks on the disks. The mininal value uses the minimum aligment needed to
+ align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance
+ degradation. Where as the optimal value uses a multiple of the physical
+ block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance.
+ The min and opt values will only work when compiled with
+ libblkid >= 2.17 and running on a kernel >= 2.6.31, otherwise they will
+ behave as the none --align value.
+
+ libparted: new functions to set per disk (instead of per partition) flags:
+ ped_disk_set_flag()
+ ped_disk_get_flag()
+ ped_disk_is_flag_available()
+ ped_disk_flag_get_name()
+ ped_disk_flag_get_by_name()
+ ped_disk_flag_next()
+
+ libparted: new per disk flag: PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT. This flag
+ (which defaults to true) controls if disk types for which cylinder alignment
+ is optional do cylinder alignment when a new partition gets added.
+
+ libparted: new functions to return per-partition-table-type limits:
+ - ped_disk_max_partition_start_sector: Return the largest representable
+ start sector number for a given "disk".
+ - ped_disk_max_partition_length: Return the maximum partition length
+ for a given "disk".
+
+ new command "align-check TYPE N" to determine whether the starting sector
+ of partition N is TYPE(minimal|optimal)-aligned for the disk. E.g.,
+ parted -s /dev/sda align-check min 1 && echo partition 1 is min-aligned
+ parted -s /dev/sda align-check opt 2 && echo partition 2 is opt-aligned
+ The same libblkid and kernel version requirements apply as for --align
+
+ Add functions to libparted to get minimal and optimal alignment
+ information from devices:
+ ped_device_get_minimal_aligned_constraint()
+ ped_device_get_optimal_aligned_constraint()
+ ped_device_get_minimum_alignment()
+ ped_device_get_optimum_alignment()
+ The same libblkid and kernel version requirements apply as for --align
+
+ Add ped_disk_get_partition_alignment() function to libparted to get
+ information about alignment enforced by the disk type.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ parted can once again create partition tables on loop devices.
+ Before, "parted -s /dev/loop0 mklabel gpt" would fail.
+ [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
+
+ improved >512-byte sector support: for example, printing a table on a
+ 4k-sector disk would show "Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/512B",
+ when the sizes should have been "4096B/4096B".
+
+ gpt tables are more rigorously checked; before, partition entry array CRCs
+ were not checked, and we would mistakenly use the AlternateLBA member of a
+ known-corrupt primary table.
+
+ improved dasd disk support, in previous versions calling
+ ped_disk_new_fresh() or ped_disk_duplicate() on a dasd type PedDisk
+ would fail. This is fixed now.
+
+ handle device nodes created by lvm build with udev synchronisation enabled
+ properly.
+
+ when printing tables, parted no longer truncates flag names
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]
+
** Improvements
Parted now supports disks with sector size larger than 512 bytes.
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