1 GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*-
3 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
7 Increased limit for msdos partitions from 16 to 64
9 parted has improved support for partitionable loopback devices
13 libparted: avoid an invalid free when creating many partitions in
14 a GPT partition table. [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
16 The msdos partition table claimed a maximum partition count of 16
17 but would allow you to go beyond that. This resulted in the kernel
18 not being informed of those partitions. Corrected to enforce the
21 parted now exits nonzero for certain failures already diagnosed as "Error".
22 For example, before this change, parted would exit successfully in spite
23 of "Error: ...unrecognised disk label" and "Error:... both GPT primary
24 and backup partition tables are corrupted".
26 libparted: given a GPT table with a partition table array of length, say 9,
27 (usually, there are at least 128 entries) and when run in interactive mode
28 with the backup header not at the end of the device where it belongs, parted
29 would offer to fix it by moving the backup header to the end. If you
30 accepted, parted could corrupt both headers, truncating their on-disk
31 PTE arrays. Now, parted handles this case.
33 libparted: gpt_disk_duplicate now copies the flags over to the new
34 disk object. Previously the flags would be undefined.
36 libparted can now read partition tables with a number of partition
37 array entries that is different from the default of 128. Before,
38 it would fail to recognize them and could even read beyond the end
39 of a heap-allocated buffer.
41 libparted: no longer aborts (failed assertion) due to a nilfs2_probe bug
42 [bug introduced in parted-2.4 with the addition of nilfs2 support]
44 libparted: no longer aborts when reading a truncated GPT-formatted device
45 [bug present at least as far back as RHEL4's parted-1.6.19]
47 libparted: works with a two-component linux kernel version number like 3.0
48 [bug present since the beginning]
50 libparted: strengthen the pc98 test so that it is much less likely to
51 cause an MSDOS partition table to be mistakenly identified as pc98.
52 [bug present since the beginning]
54 libparted no longer gets a failed assertion when probing a partition
55 with an HFS or HFS+ signature, but with invalid ->total_blocks and/or
58 parted now uses ext_range device sysfs attribute to determine maximum number
59 of partitions the device can hold. With this change, parted now correctly
60 informs kernel about new partitions on partitionable MD RAID devices.
62 ** Changes in behavior
64 Floppy drives are no longer scanned on linux: they cannot be partitioned
65 anyhow, and some users have a misconfigured BIOS that claims to have a
66 floppy when they don't, and scanning gets hung up.
68 parted: mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying end
69 of the partition. If the end is specified using MiB, GiB, etc. unit, parted
70 subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now
71 possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on.
73 Device-mapper devices ( LVM, dmraid ) no longer insert a 'p' between the
74 base device name and the partition number unless the last character of
75 the base device name is a digit. This brings parted into compliance with
76 the partition naming of kpartx and "linux since the dawn of time", but
77 differs from the way that dmraid 1.0.0-rc16-3 operates. A patch to
78 correct dmraid has been submitted to ataraid-list@redhat.com. Without
79 this patch, parted and dmraid will both create duplicate partition devices
80 named /dev/mapper/foo1 and /dev/mapper/foop1.
82 Add the ability to set the boot flag on the GPT PMBR. This is needed
83 for some BIOS systems that refuse to boot from GPT unless this is set.
84 disk_set and disk_toggle commands can be used to set the pmbr_boot
87 The flag is also displayed in a new line, 'Disk Flags:' like this:
90 Disk /home/bcl/disk.img: 4295MB
91 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
95 Using -m the flags are added after the model name field:
97 /root/disk.img:4295MB:file:512:512:gpt::pmbr_boot;
101 "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.
102 xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
103 only .tar.xz files is enough.
106 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.0 (2011-05-30) [stable]
110 Fix numerous small leaks in both the library and the UI.
112 ** Changes in behavior
114 Remove all FS-related (file system-related) sub-commands; these commands
115 are no longer recognized because they were all dependent on parted "knowing"
116 too much about file system: mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check, resize.
117 This change removes not just the user interface bits, but also the
118 library functions and nearly all of the underlying FS-munging code.
119 The code embedded in Parted by which it knew about those file systems
120 was so old, unmaintainable and buggy that while seemingly drastic,
121 this change is like removing a gangrenous toe.
123 Here is the list of removed functions:
125 ped_file_system_clobber
127 ped_file_system_create
128 ped_file_system_close
129 ped_file_system_check
131 ped_file_system_resize
132 ped_file_system_get_create_constraint
133 ped_file_system_get_resize_constraint
134 ped_file_system_get_copy_constraint
136 This change also removes the corresponding function members
137 from "struct _PedFileSystemOps":
139 clobber open create close check copy resize get_create_constraint
140 get_resize_constraint get_copy_constraint
143 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.4 (2011-05-18) [stable]
147 parted no longer allows the modification of certain in-use partitions.
148 In particular, before this fix, parted would permit removal or modification
149 of any in-use partition on a dmraid and any in-use partition beyond the 15th
150 on a regular scsi disk.
152 Improve support of DASD devices on the s390 architecture.
153 Parted now supports all DASD types (CKD and FBA), DASD formats (CDL,
154 LDL, CMS non-reserved, and CMS reserved), and DASD drivers (ECKD, FBA,
155 and DIAG) in all combinations supported by the Linux kernel. As before,
156 only CDL format on CKD DASD using the ECKD driver is supported for
157 read-write operations (create, delete, move, re-size, etc.). However,
158 the implicit partition present on LDL- and CMS-formatted disks is now
159 correctly recognized for read-only operations. In detail:
161 - parted now correctly handles LDL-format disks with a block
162 size other than 4096 (bug fix)
164 - parted now recognizes the CMS disk format, both reserved
165 and non-reserved (enhancement)
167 - parted now supports FBA DASD devices (enhancement)
169 - parted now supports the DIAG driver when running in a
170 virtual machine under z/VM (enhancement)
172 libparted: raise the limit on the maximum start sector and the
173 maximum number of sectors in a "loop" partition table from 2^32 to 2^64.
174 [bug introduced in parted-2.1]
176 libparted once again recognizes a whole-disk FAT partition
177 [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
179 libparted now recognizes scsi disks with a high major (128-135) as scsi
182 an msdos partition table on a very small device (smaller than one cylinder)
183 is now recognized. [bug introduced in parted-2.2]
185 libparted: zero-length devices (other than files) are ignored rather than
186 throwing an exception.
188 libparted: gpt label creation can no longer divide by zero with a
189 defective device or when a concurrent writer modifies the PE-size
190 bytes in the small interval between the write and subsequent read
191 of the primary GPT header.
193 ** Changes in behavior
195 "parted $dev print" now prints information about the device (model, size,
196 transport, sector size) even when it fails to recognize the disk label.
198 specifying partition start or end values using MiB, GiB, etc. suffixes
199 now makes parted do what I want, i.e., use that precise value, and not
200 some other that is up to 500KiB or 500MiB away from what I specified.
201 Before, to get that behavior, you would have had to use carefully chosen
202 values with units of bytes ("B") or sectors ("s") to obtain the same
203 result, and with sectors, your usage would not be portable between devices
204 with varying sector sizes. This change does not affect how parted handles
205 suffixes like KB, MB, GB, etc.
208 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.3 (2010-05-28) [stable]
212 parted now recognizes ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices
214 parted now recognizes Linux Software RAID Arrays
216 libparted has a new partition flag to check for diagnostic (aka recovery
217 or reserved) partitions: PED_PARTITION_DIAG
221 When libparted deferenced a /dev/mapper/foo symlink, it would keep the
222 resulting /dev/dm-N name and sometimes use it later, even though it
223 had since become stale and invalid. It no longer stores the result
224 of dereferencing a /dev/mapper symlink.
226 libparted's msdos_partition_is_flag_available function now always reports
227 that the "hidden" flag is not available for an extended partition.
228 Similarly, msdos_partition_get_flag(p,PED_PARTITION_HIDDEN) always returns 0
229 for an extended partition.
231 libparted uses a more accurate heuristic to distinguish between
232 ext4 and ext3 partitions.
234 libparted now properly checks the return value of dm_task_run when
235 operating on devicemapper devices.
237 allow using ped_device_cache_remove(dev) followed by a (later)
238 ped_device_destroy() without corrupting the device cache.
240 when creating an ext2 file system[*], Parted no longer creates an
241 invalid one when its size is 2TiB or larger.
242 [*] Remember, now all FS-creation operations are deprecated in Parted.
243 This is not an indicator that we'll be supporting this code.
244 On the contrary, it is slated to be removed.
246 ** Changes in behavior
248 libparted no longer issues an exception/warning about >512-byte
249 sector support being "HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL". It seems to have matured
250 enough to be usable at least with GPT and MSDOS partition tables.
253 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.2 (2010-02-26) [stable]
255 ** Changes in behavior
257 The default alignment (--align option) for newly created partitions has
258 been changed to optimal.
262 The ped_device_get_*_alignment() functions now return a sane default
263 value instead of NULL when the so called topology information is incomplete.
264 The default minimum alignment aligns to physical sector size, the default
265 optimal alignment is 1MiB, which is what vista and windows 7 do.
269 Parted no longer uses a physical sector size of 0 or of any other
270 value smaller than the logical sector size.
272 dos: creating an HFS or HFS+ partition in an msdos partition table
273 used to set the partition type to 0x83. That is wrong. The required
274 number is 0xaf, and that is what is used now.
276 gpt: read-only operation could clobber MBR part of hybrid GPT+MBR table
277 [bug introduced in parted-2.1]
279 gpt: a read-only operation like "parted $dev print" would overwrite $dev's
280 protective MBR when exactly one of the primary and backup GPT tables was
282 [bug introduced prior to parted-1.8.0]
284 sun: the version, sanity and nparts VTOC fields were ignored by libparted.
285 Those fields are properly initialized now. The nparts (number of partitions)
286 field is initialized to 8 (max. number of sun partitions) rather that to a
287 real number of partitions. This solution is compatible with Linux kernel
290 "make install" no longer installs tests programs named disk and label
292 libparted: try harder to inform kernel of partition changes.
293 Previously when editing partitions, occasionally the kernel would
294 fail to be informed of partition changes. When this happened future
295 problems would occur because the kernel had incorrect information.
296 For example, if this problem arose when resizing or creating a
297 new partition, then an incorrect partition size might be displayed
298 or a user might encounter a failure to format or delete a newly
299 created partition, respectively.
301 libparted: committing a disk that was returned by ped_disk_duplicate
302 would always result in ped_disk_clobber being called (and thus the first
303 and last 9KiB of the disk being zeroed), even if the duplicated disk,
304 was not returned by ped_disk_fresh().
307 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.1 (2009-12-20) [stable]
311 new --align=<align> commandline option which can have the following values:
312 none: Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type
313 cylinder: Align partitions to cylinders (the default)
314 minimal: Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
315 optimal: Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information
316 The minimal and optimal values will use layout information provided by the
317 disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical
318 blocks on the disks. The mininal value uses the minimum aligment needed to
319 align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance
320 degradation. Where as the optimal value uses a multiple of the physical
321 block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance.
322 The min and opt values will only work when compiled with
323 libblkid >= 2.17 and running on a kernel >= 2.6.31, otherwise they will
324 behave as the none --align value.
326 libparted: new functions to set per disk (instead of per partition) flags:
329 ped_disk_is_flag_available()
330 ped_disk_flag_get_name()
331 ped_disk_flag_get_by_name()
334 libparted: new per disk flag: PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT. This flag
335 (which defaults to true) controls if disk types for which cylinder alignment
336 is optional do cylinder alignment when a new partition gets added.
338 libparted: new functions to return per-partition-table-type limits:
339 - ped_disk_max_partition_start_sector: Return the largest representable
340 start sector number for a given "disk".
341 - ped_disk_max_partition_length: Return the maximum partition length
344 new command "align-check TYPE N" to determine whether the starting sector
345 of partition N is TYPE(minimal|optimal)-aligned for the disk. E.g.,
346 parted -s /dev/sda align-check min 1 && echo partition 1 is min-aligned
347 parted -s /dev/sda align-check opt 2 && echo partition 2 is opt-aligned
348 The same libblkid and kernel version requirements apply as for --align
350 Add functions to libparted to get minimal and optimal alignment
351 information from devices:
352 ped_device_get_minimal_aligned_constraint()
353 ped_device_get_optimal_aligned_constraint()
354 ped_device_get_minimum_alignment()
355 ped_device_get_optimum_alignment()
356 The same libblkid and kernel version requirements apply as for --align
358 Add ped_disk_get_partition_alignment() function to libparted to get
359 information about alignment enforced by the disk type.
363 parted can once again create partition tables on loop devices.
364 Before, "parted -s /dev/loop0 mklabel gpt" would fail.
365 [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
367 improved >512-byte sector support: for example, printing a table on a
368 4k-sector disk would show "Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/512B",
369 when the sizes should have been "4096B/4096B".
371 gpt tables are more rigorously checked; before, partition entry array CRCs
372 were not checked, and we would mistakenly use the AlternateLBA member of a
373 known-corrupt primary table.
375 improved dasd disk support, in previous versions calling
376 ped_disk_new_fresh() or ped_disk_duplicate() on a dasd type PedDisk
377 would fail. This is fixed now.
379 handle device nodes created by lvm build with udev synchronisation enabled
382 when printing tables, parted no longer truncates flag names
385 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]
389 Parted now supports disks with sector size larger than 512 bytes.
390 Before this release, Parted could operate only on disks with a sector
391 size of 512 bytes. However, disk manufacturers are already making disks
392 with an exposed hardware sector size of 4096 bytes. Prior versions of
393 Parted cannot even read a partition table on such a device, not to
394 mention create or manipulate existing partition tables.
395 Due to internal design and time constraints, the following
396 less-common partition table types are currently disabled:
397 amiga, bsd, aix, pc98
398 "bsd" and "amiga" are mostly done, but had a few minor problems,
399 so may remain disabled until someone requests that they be revived.
403 big-endian systems can once again read GPT partition tables
404 [bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]
406 ped_partition_is_busy no longer calls libparted's exception handler,
407 since doing so caused trouble with anaconda/pyparted when operating on
410 Partitions in a GPT table are no longer assigned the "microsoft
411 reserved partition" type. Before this change, each partition would
412 be listed with a type of "msftres" by default.
415 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.9.0 (2009-07-23) [stable]
419 parted now preserves the protective MBR (PMBR) in GPT type labels.
420 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
422 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html
424 gpt_read now uses SizeOfPartitionEntry instead of the size of
425 GuidPartitionEntry_t. This ensures that *all* of the partition
426 entries are correctly read.
427 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/\
429 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/\
430 20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt
432 mklabel (interactive mode) now correctly asks for confirmation, when
433 replacing an existent label, without outputting an error message.
434 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/\
437 resize now handles FAT16 file systems with a 64k cluster. This
438 configuration is not common, but it is possible.
439 http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
441 parted now ignores devices of the type /dev/md* when probing. These
442 types of devices should be handled by the device-mapper capabilities
444 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
447 The parted documentation now describes the differences in the options
448 passed to mkpart for the label types.
449 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/\
452 ** Changes in behavior
454 include/parted/beos.h, include/parted/gnu.h and include/parted/linux.h
455 have been removed. The symbols contained in these files (GNUSpecific,
456 ped_device_new_from_store, BEOSSpecific, LinuxSpecific, LINUX_SPECIFIC)
457 were moved to the individual files that need them.
459 In libparted, the linux-swap "filesystem" types are now called
460 "linux-swap(v0)" and "linux-swap(v1)" rather than "linux-swap(old)"
461 and "linux-swap(new)" as in parted 1.8, or "linux-swap" as in older
462 versions; "old" and "new" generally make poor names, and v1 is the
463 only format supported by current Linux kernels. Aliases for all
464 previous names are available.
466 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8.1 (2007-12-17) [stable]
468 ** FIXME: fill in details
470 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.8 (2007-08-09) [stable]
472 ** GNU parted is now licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3
473 or higher. See the COPYING file for more details.
476 - Add compute_block_counts() to improve ext2fs support.
477 - Properly detect 'ext2 fs too small' cases.
478 - Move formatting commands out of translatable strings.
479 - Read an msdos partition table from a device with 2K sectors.
480 - Remove always-false "Unable to open" diagnostic in ped_disk_new(),
481 leave the "unrecognized disk label" diagnostic.
482 - Don't leak partition table buffer in amiga_read().
483 - Don't read/write initialized memory with DEBUG turned on off for
484 'mklabel bsd' and 'mklabel amiga' command calls.
485 - Turn off DEBUG in libparted.c to avoid initializing all allocated
487 - Correct handling of HeaderSize field in GPT labels.
488 - Fix block number used when checking for ext2 fs state.
489 - Add detection support for Xen virtual block devices (/dev/xvd*).
490 - When reading DASD labels, check the filesystem type as well as
491 partition flags to determine what's on the partition.
492 - Add _dm_probe_all() from Debian to probe for all device-mapper
496 - Fixed exception handling in mkpart and mkpartfs commands.
497 - Add the --dry-run option to the partprobe command.
498 - Update docs: cannot specify 'primary' for a partition on a loop
500 - Remove unused functions (get_spaces).
501 - Fix off-by-one error in str_list_print_wrap().
502 - Use xmalloc() and xrealloc() to check return values.
503 - Fix invalid command line argument handling.
504 - Close memory leaks in parted.c and table.c.
505 - Fix warnings when compiling with translation support enabled.
506 - Use a consistent prompt when asking for a file system type.
507 - Update docs: don't reference old versions of gzip.
510 - Improve the testing framework in the tests/ subdirectory. Build out
511 more of the testing scripts so we can start using that to ensure we
512 don't introduce regressions in releases.
513 - Support testing with tmpfs filesystems on Linux.
514 - Work around inadequate libreadline in the configure script.
515 - Don't include config.h from internal headers.
517 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.7 (2007-05-09) [stable]
520 - Prevent compilation of DASD code on GNU Hurd systems.
521 - Integrate new unit testing framework for parted and libparted.
522 - Fix primary partition cylinder alignment error for DOS disk labels.
523 - Use PED_PARTITION_NORMAL in place of PED_PARTITION_PRIMARY.
524 - Avoid segfault due to a double free on reiserfs support.
527 - Fix script mode (-s) for mkfs command in parted.
528 - Suppress "you are not superuser..." warning in script mode.
529 - Fix off-by-one bug in parted when displaying information about the
531 - Do not translate partition names in the 'parted print' command.
532 This causes problems for non-Latin-based character sets.
533 - Send errors to stderr rather than stdout.
534 - Handle command line options independent of the order.
535 - Abort on any invalid option and handle -v and -h first.
536 - Only display the update /etc/fstab message when there has been a
537 change to the disk (a shorter and more direct message too).
539 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.6 (2007-03-20) [stable]
541 ** Revert the implementation of the linux-swap(new) and linux-swap(old) types.
542 The type is 'linux-swap' for v1, v2, and s1suspend swap partitions on Linux.
544 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.5 (2007-03-20) [stable]
546 ** Another minor update. Both versions 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 lacked po translation
547 files. These are included with version 1.8.5.
549 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.4 (2007-03-19) [stable]
551 ** Minor bug fix release for 1.8.3 to fix build issues on various
553 - Use 'uname -m' to determine if we build on System Z or not.
554 - Include <parted/vtoc.h> in <parted/fdasd.h> for format1_label_t
556 - Remove unused variables in libparted/arch/linux.c (-Werror).
557 - Check return values on fgets() and asprint() in libparted/arch/linux.c
559 - Check for tgetent() in libtinfo in the configure script.
560 - Move some macro definitions in <parted/disk.h> to fix a compile
561 problem with gcc-4.1.2 as indicated here:
562 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2007-03/msg00008.html
564 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.3 (2007-03-16) [stable]
567 - Header file clean ups.
568 - Sync the linux-swap header according to the Linux kernel sources.
569 - Enable support for swsusp partitions and the ability to differentiate
570 between old and new versions of linux-swap partitions.
571 - Renaming PARTITION_EXT to PARTITION_DOS_EXT in the DOS disklabel
572 code (consitency with Linux kernel source).
573 - Added libparted.pc pkg-config file.
574 - Remove unused functions, ifdefs, and other code.
575 - Deprecate ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favor of
576 ped_disk_type_[register|unregister].
577 - Small test program fixes (in label.c and common.c).
578 - Make functions const-correct.
579 - Handle systems where libreadline is not available.
580 - Preserve starting sector for primary NTFS 3.1 partitions on DOS
582 - Handle 2048-byte logical sectors in linux_read().
583 - Use PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT macro in place of 512.
584 - Don't assume logical sector size is <= 512B on AIX.
585 - Detect HFS write failure.
586 - Use mkstemp() in place of mktemp().
587 - Added HFS+ resize support.
588 - Don't build DASD support on non-zSeries hardware.
591 - Use fputs() and putchar() in place for printf(), when possible.
592 - Detect/report stdout write errors.
593 - Accept the --version and --help options.
594 - Fix memory leaks in parted(8).
597 - Synchronize the manual page and --help documentation.
598 - GNU autoconf and automake updates.
599 - 'gcc -Wall -Wshadow' warning cleanups.
600 - Don't define _GNU_SOURCE manually.
601 - Documentation updates and cleanups (AUTHORS, copyright notices,
603 - Use gnulib (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/).
605 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.2 (2007-01-12) [stable]
608 - Add the ped_device_cache_remove() function to remove a device from
609 the cache. This is necessary for some things that use libparted,
611 - Fix a segfault in ped_assert() where the wrong pointer is freed in
612 the backtrace handler.
613 - Only call _disk_warn_loss(disk) in do_mklabel() if disk is not NULL.
614 Fixes a segfault when initializing new volumes.
615 - Dynamically allocate space for exception messages.
616 - Output a backtrace when catching SEGV_MAPPER or a general SIGSEGV.
619 - Destroy all objects before return when called with --list or --all
621 - Zero sized device is shown as 0.00B and not -0.00kB.
622 - Implement 'print devices' command.
623 - Alias 'print list' to 'print all'.
624 - Alias 'mktable' to 'mklabel'.
627 - Other bug fixes, documentation updates, and translation improvements.
628 - Code and API clean-ups.
630 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.1 (2006-12-04) [stable]
633 - Rework backtrace support.
635 - Added --enable-selinux configure option to enable linking libparted with
636 libselinux and libsepol.
637 - Disable ext2fs resize for now, tell user to use resize2fs.
640 - Fix loop in print_all().
641 - Introduce the -list command-line switch.
642 - Make mktable aliased to mklabel.
643 - Warn before mklabel and mkfs.
644 - Code cleanups in _partition_warn_busy(), _disk_warn_busy(),
645 _partition_warn_loss(), and _disk_warn_loss().
646 - Avoid warning about user permissions when using --version.
647 - Fix 'print' command help.
648 - Proper print when there are no extended partitions, but partition names.
651 - Generate SHA-1 digest of the archive files and upload those along with the
652 actual archive files.
653 - Update translation files.
654 - Remove automatically generated files from version control.
656 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8.0 (2006-11-17) [stable]
660 - Correctly handle disks with non-512 byte sector sizes
661 - Support LUN resizing (see new space, allow parted to use it)
662 - Prevent overlap of LastUsableLBA and PartitionEntryLBA in backup GPT
663 - Prevent SIGFPE when FAT sector size is 0
664 - Add ped_exception_get_handler()
665 - DASD support for IBM zSeries systems
666 - AIX disk label support
667 - Detect Promise SX8 storage devices
668 - Macintosh (ppc and x86) disk label improvements:
669 - Prevent LVM and RAID partition types from corrupting the table
670 - Fix removal of driver partition
671 - Add support binary units (MiB, KiB, GiB)
672 - In ped_register_disk_type(), handle disk_types==NULL case
673 - In ped_unregister_disk_type(), handle case where type is not registered
674 - Fix geometry read problems on 64-bit Macs (and probably other 64-bit systems)
675 - Add support for /dev/mapper devices via libdevmapper library
676 - Detect Apple_Boot partition types correctly on MacOS X 10.4 systems
679 - Various bug fixes, signal handling fixes, and spelling error fixes
680 - UI improvements to display more information about the disk and transport
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