From 48ea38118fc9c601eca616680a65327cb4dcdcfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:25:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated for version 1.8.0rc1.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/parted/upstream/trunk@822 2d424fd7-7fe2-0310-af74-8bc65edeb173
---
 NEWS         | 43 +++++++++++++++----------------------------
 configure.ac |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 719dab6..12fb314 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,32 +1,19 @@
-1.7.0
+1.8.0
 =====
 libparted:
-* support for Apple GUIDs to GPT code
-* BeOS/ZETA/Haiku support
-* probe /dev/hd? before /dev/sd?
-* prefer /sys/block to /proc/partitions where possible
-* fix of ext2 "strange layout" bug (EXPERIMENTAL) 
-* Linux: detection of sector sizes not equal to 512
-* GPT handles sector sizes not equal to 512 correctly now (EXPERIMENTAL)
-* ext2 handles sector sizes not equal to 512 correctly now (EXPERIMENTAL)
-* added ped_device_get_constraint to support device-dependent constraints
-* API documentation moved to Doxygen
+* 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)
 
 parted:
-* new formatter for "print" command
-* removed copyright preamble and introduced "version" command
-* SIGSEGV handler
-* fixed "rescue" command core dump
-* 'mkpart' and 'mkpartfs' align partitions to physical block size boundaries
-  now
-* 'mkpart' and 'mkpartfs' let the user set a partition name where supported now
-* 'print' accepts 'free' argument to display free space information
-* 'print' accepts 'all' argument to display information about all
-   detected devices
-* position and size of partitions are displayed with up to two
-  digits after the decimal dot (depending on the unit and value)
-
-manual:
-* cut down substantially.  Lots of general content will be moved to the GNU
-  Storage Guide. 
-
+* Various bug fixes, signal handling fixes, and spelling error fixes
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7e89974..1211852 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ dnl if backwards compatibility has been broken (eg. functions removed,
 dnl function signatures changed),
 dnl set PED_BINARY_AGE _and_ PED_INTERFACE_AGE to 0.
 PED_MAJOR_VERSION=1
-PED_MINOR_VERSION=7
+PED_MINOR_VERSION=8
 PED_MICRO_VERSION=0
 PED_INTERFACE_AGE=0
 PED_BINARY_AGE=0
-PED_VERSION_SUFFIX=trunk
+PED_VERSION_SUFFIX=rc1
 PED_VERSION=$PED_MAJOR_VERSION.$PED_MINOR_VERSION.$PED_MICRO_VERSION$PED_VERSION_SUFFIX
 
 LT_RELEASE=$PED_MAJOR_VERSION.$PED_MINOR_VERSION
-- 
2.11.0