GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*-
-* Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (????-??-??) [stable]
+* 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.
+ Before this release, Parted could operate only on disks with a sector
+ size of 512 bytes. However, disk manufacturers are already making disks
+ with an exposed hardware sector size of 4096 bytes. Prior versions of
+ Parted cannot even read a partition table on such a device, not to
+ mention create or manipulate existing partition tables.
+ Due to internal design and time constraints, the following
+ less-common partition table types are currently disabled:
+ amiga, bsd, aix, pc98
+ "bsd" and "amiga" are mostly done, but had a few minor problems,
+ so may remain disabled until someone requests that they be revived.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ big-endian systems can once again read GPT partition tables
+ [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
+
+ ped_partition_is_busy no longer calls libparted's exception handler,
+ since doing so caused trouble with anaconda/pyparted when operating on
+ dmraid devices.
+
+ Partitions in a GPT table are no longer assigned the "microsoft
+ reserved partition" type. Before this change, each partition would
+ be listed with a type of "msftres" by default.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2009-07-23) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ parted now preserves the protective MBR (PMBR) in GPT type labels.
+ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
+ 002473.html
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html
+
+ gpt_read now uses SizeOfPartitionEntry instead of the size of
+ GuidPartitionEntry_t. This ensures that *all* of the partition
+ entries are correctly read.
+ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
+ 002465.html
+ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/\
+ 20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt
+
+ mklabel (interactive mode) now correctly asks for confirmation, when
+ replacing an existent label, without outputting an error message.
+ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/\
+ 002739.html
+
+ resize now handles FAT16 file systems with a 64k cluster. This
+ configuration is not common, but it is possible.
+ http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
+
+ parted now ignores devices of the type /dev/md* when probing. These
+ types of devices should be handled by the device-mapper capabilities
+ of parted.
+ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
+ 002781.html
+
+ The parted documentation now describes the differences in the options
+ passed to mkpart for the label types.
+ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
+ 002782.html
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ include/parted/beos.h, include/parted/gnu.h and include/parted/linux.h
+ have been removed. The symbols contained in these files (GNUSpecific,
+ ped_device_new_from_store, BEOSSpecific, LinuxSpecific, LINUX_SPECIFIC)
+ were moved to the individual files that need them.
+
+ In libparted, the linux-swap "filesystem" types are now called
+ "linux-swap(v0)" and "linux-swap(v1)" rather than "linux-swap(old)"
+ and "linux-swap(new)" as in parted 1.8, or "linux-swap" as in older
+ versions; "old" and "new" generally make poor names, and v1 is the
+ only format supported by current Linux kernels. Aliases for all
+ previous names are available.
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8.1 (2007-12-17) [stable]
-FIXME: fill in details
+** FIXME: fill in details
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8 (2007-08-09) [stable]
+
+** GNU parted is now licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3
+ or higher. See the COPYING file for more details.
+
+** libparted:
+ - Add compute_block_counts() to improve ext2fs support.
+ - Properly detect 'ext2 fs too small' cases.
+ - Move formatting commands out of translatable strings.
+ - Read an msdos partition table from a device with 2K sectors.
+ - Remove always-false "Unable to open" diagnostic in ped_disk_new(),
+ leave the "unrecognized disk label" diagnostic.
+ - Don't leak partition table buffer in amiga_read().
+ - Don't read/write initialized memory with DEBUG turned on off for
+ 'mklabel bsd' and 'mklabel amiga' command calls.
+ - Turn off DEBUG in libparted.c to avoid initializing all allocated
+ memory to '1' bits.
+ - Correct handling of HeaderSize field in GPT labels.
+ - Fix block number used when checking for ext2 fs state.
+ - Add detection support for Xen virtual block devices (/dev/xvd*).
+ - When reading DASD labels, check the filesystem type as well as
+ partition flags to determine what's on the partition.
+ - Add _dm_probe_all() from Debian to probe for all device-mapper
+ devices.
+
+** parted:
+ - Fixed exception handling in mkpart and mkpartfs commands.
+ - Add the --dry-run option to the partprobe command.
+ - Update docs: cannot specify 'primary' for a partition on a loop
+ device.
+ - Remove unused functions (get_spaces).
+ - Fix off-by-one error in str_list_print_wrap().
+ - Use xmalloc() and xrealloc() to check return values.
+ - Fix invalid command line argument handling.
+ - Close memory leaks in parted.c and table.c.
+ - Fix warnings when compiling with translation support enabled.
+ - Use a consistent prompt when asking for a file system type.
+ - Update docs: don't reference old versions of gzip.
+
+** misc:
+ - Improve the testing framework in the tests/ subdirectory. Build out
+ more of the testing scripts so we can start using that to ensure we
+ don't introduce regressions in releases.
+ - Support testing with tmpfs filesystems on Linux.
+ - Work around inadequate libreadline in the configure script.
+ - Don't include config.h from internal headers.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.7 (2007-05-09) [stable]
+
+** libparted:
+ - Prevent compilation of DASD code on GNU Hurd systems.
+ - Integrate new unit testing framework for parted and libparted.
+ - Fix primary partition cylinder alignment error for DOS disk labels.
+ - Use PED_PARTITION_NORMAL in place of PED_PARTITION_PRIMARY.
+ - Avoid segfault due to a double free on reiserfs support.
+
+** parted:
+ - Fix script mode (-s) for mkfs command in parted.
+ - Suppress "you are not superuser..." warning in script mode.
+ - Fix off-by-one bug in parted when displaying information about the
+ disk.
+ - Do not translate partition names in the 'parted print' command.
+ This causes problems for non-Latin-based character sets.
+ - Send errors to stderr rather than stdout.
+ - Handle command line options independent of the order.
+ - Abort on any invalid option and handle -v and -h first.
+ - Only display the update /etc/fstab message when there has been a
+ change to the disk (a shorter and more direct message too).
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.6 (2007-03-20) [stable]
+
+** Revert the implementation of the linux-swap(new) and linux-swap(old) types.
+ The type is 'linux-swap' for v1, v2, and s1suspend swap partitions on Linux.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.5 (2007-03-20) [stable]
+
+** Another minor update. Both versions 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 lacked po translation
+ files. These are included with version 1.8.5.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.4 (2007-03-19) [stable]
+
+** Minor bug fix release for 1.8.3 to fix build issues on various
+ platforms:
+ - Use 'uname -m' to determine if we build on System Z or not.
+ - Include <parted/vtoc.h> in <parted/fdasd.h> for format1_label_t
+ definition.
+ - Remove unused variables in libparted/arch/linux.c (-Werror).
+ - Check return values on fgets() and asprint() in libparted/arch/linux.c
+ (-Werror).
+ - Check for tgetent() in libtinfo in the configure script.
+ - Move some macro definitions in <parted/disk.h> to fix a compile
+ problem with gcc-4.1.2 as indicated here:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2007-03/msg00008.html
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.3 (2007-03-16) [stable]
+
+** libparted:
+ - Header file clean ups.
+ - Sync the linux-swap header according to the Linux kernel sources.
+ - Enable support for swsusp partitions and the ability to differentiate
+ between old and new versions of linux-swap partitions.
+ - Renaming PARTITION_EXT to PARTITION_DOS_EXT in the DOS disklabel
+ code (consitency with Linux kernel source).
+ - Added libparted.pc pkg-config file.
+ - Remove unused functions, ifdefs, and other code.
+ - Deprecate ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favor of
+ ped_disk_type_[register|unregister].
+ - Small test program fixes (in label.c and common.c).
+ - Make functions const-correct.
+ - Handle systems where libreadline is not available.
+ - Preserve starting sector for primary NTFS 3.1 partitions on DOS
+ disklabel.
+ - Handle 2048-byte logical sectors in linux_read().
+ - Use PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT macro in place of 512.
+ - Don't assume logical sector size is <= 512B on AIX.
+ - Detect HFS write failure.
+ - Use mkstemp() in place of mktemp().
+ - Added HFS+ resize support.
+ - Don't build DASD support on non-zSeries hardware.
+
+** parted/partprobe:
+ - Use fputs() and putchar() in place for printf(), when possible.
+ - Detect/report stdout write errors.
+ - Accept the --version and --help options.
+ - Fix memory leaks in parted(8).
+
+** general:
+ - Synchronize the manual page and --help documentation.
+ - GNU autoconf and automake updates.
+ - 'gcc -Wall -Wshadow' warning cleanups.
+ - Don't define _GNU_SOURCE manually.
+ - Documentation updates and cleanups (AUTHORS, copyright notices,
+ etc).
+ - Use gnulib (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/).
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.2 (2007-01-12) [stable]
+
+** libparted:
+ - Add the ped_device_cache_remove() function to remove a device from
+ the cache. This is necessary for some things that use libparted,
+ including pyparted.
+ - Fix a segfault in ped_assert() where the wrong pointer is freed in
+ the backtrace handler.
+ - Only call _disk_warn_loss(disk) in do_mklabel() if disk is not NULL.
+ Fixes a segfault when initializing new volumes.
+ - Dynamically allocate space for exception messages.
+ - Output a backtrace when catching SEGV_MAPPER or a general SIGSEGV.
+
+** parted:
+ - Destroy all objects before return when called with --list or --all
+ option.
+ - Zero sized device is shown as 0.00B and not -0.00kB.
+ - Implement 'print devices' command.
+ - Alias 'print list' to 'print all'.
+ - Alias 'mktable' to 'mklabel'.
+
+** misc:
+ - Other bug fixes, documentation updates, and translation improvements.
+ - Code and API clean-ups.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.1 (2006-12-04) [stable]
+
+** libparted:
+ - Rework backtrace support.
+ - Code cleanups.
+ - Added --enable-selinux configure option to enable linking libparted with
+ libselinux and libsepol.
+ - Disable ext2fs resize for now, tell user to use resize2fs.
+
+** parted:
+ - Fix loop in print_all().
+ - Introduce the -list command-line switch.
+ - Make mktable aliased to mklabel.
+ - Warn before mklabel and mkfs.
+ - Code cleanups in _partition_warn_busy(), _disk_warn_busy(),
+ _partition_warn_loss(), and _disk_warn_loss().
+ - Avoid warning about user permissions when using --version.
+ - Fix 'print' command help.
+ - Proper print when there are no extended partitions, but partition names.
+
+** misc:
+ - Generate SHA-1 digest of the archive files and upload those along with the
+ actual archive files.
+ - Update translation files.
+ - Remove automatically generated files from version control.
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.0 (2006-11-17) [stable]
+
+** libparted:
+ - GPT fixes:
+ - Correctly handle disks with non-512 byte sector sizes
+ - Support LUN resizing (see new space, allow parted to use it)
+ - Prevent overlap of LastUsableLBA and PartitionEntryLBA in backup GPT
+ - Prevent SIGFPE when FAT sector size is 0
+ - Add ped_exception_get_handler()
+ - DASD support for IBM zSeries systems
+ - AIX disk label support
+ - Detect Promise SX8 storage devices
+ - Macintosh (ppc and x86) disk label improvements:
+ - Prevent LVM and RAID partition types from corrupting the table
+ - Fix removal of driver partition
+ - Add support binary units (MiB, KiB, GiB)
+ - In ped_register_disk_type(), handle disk_types==NULL case
+ - In ped_unregister_disk_type(), handle case where type is not registered
+ - Fix geometry read problems on 64-bit Macs (and probably other 64-bit systems)
+ - Add support for /dev/mapper devices via libdevmapper library
+ - Detect Apple_Boot partition types correctly on MacOS X 10.4 systems
+
+** parted:
+ - Various bug fixes, signal handling fixes, and spelling error fixes
+ - UI improvements to display more information about the disk and transport
+ layer
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