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Announcing GNU parted 1.8.1


From: David Cantrell
Subject: Announcing GNU parted 1.8.1
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:31:17 -0500
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Announcing GNU parted-1.8.1. The primary goal of this release is to address bugs and other errors in the 1.8.0 release. Please report any problems you find with this release to:

        address@hidden

Summary of changes:
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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.

Where to download:
-----------------
parted-1.8.1 is available in tar+bz2 and tar+gz formats on ftp.gnu.org:

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

The SHA-1 digests of the archives are available in the FTP directory.

--
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA




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