1.0.60 (1.1alpha1, 2010-xx-xx) ============================== Features added since the last feature release include: ------------------------------------------------------ * Mount point management * Support for new "sector based" alignment (vs. the traditional cylinder based alignment) required for compatibility with newer disks (where the phyisical sector size is 4096 bytes) * SMART status reports * Support new file systems: BTRFS, HPFS, LUKS, OCFS2 and ZFS * Support GPT partition tables. * Support for setting volume labels on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems * Export and import a partition table in a human readable and editable format similar, but for technical reasons not identical, to sfdisk's. * Support for backend plugins that do the heavy lifting. The first (and for now only) implementation is libparted-based. * New operation: Shredding (i.e., securely deleting) a partition * A configuration dialog including settings for: * File system colors * The default file system for new partitions * Applying operations as non-root * Setting the log level for the log output dock. * The backend plugin to use * How to shred: Overwrite with zeros (faster) or random data (slower, but more secure) * Allow editing start and end sectors in size dialogs in a new "advanced" dialog section. * Instantly align partition start and end in size dialogs if partition alignment is on. * Show a progress dialog when scanning for devices. * A device properties dialog. Additional changes: ------------------- * Allow the Information dock widget to be docked at the top of bottom * The partition list view now has more information available in additional columns. The user can sort the columns and turn individual columns on and off. * Use the icon suggested by KDE's Solid backend in the Devices list. * Always select the first device on program start. * Use KDE's KIO for file transfer where possible. * Performance improvements in the dialog to change a partition's size. * The KPart and KCM have been removed. * Allow hiding/showing the menu bar. * Add a context menu to the log output with entries to save or clear the log. * GUI support for devices with more than 2^31 sectors. * Format sector and size values according to KDE settings for number formatting in New Partition, Resize and Insert dialogs. * Allow fractional sizes in New Partition, Resize and Insert dialogs. 1.0.2 (2010-04-23) ================== * Copy a file system's UUID to the copied file system when creating a file system from another one. * Implement a workaround for a libparted bug that makes it sometimes fail to commit changes to the OS in versions earlier than 2.2. * Update the partition's file system and re-check for constraints if the partition's role is changed in the "Create New Partition" dialog. This fixes a bug where the user was not able to grow an extended partition if he'd previously selected a file system that cannot grow beyond a certain size. * Always use the correct icons in modified ok/cancel buttons in dialogs and message boxes * Fix a crash when operations to create, resize and delete an extended partitions where incorrectly merged into one (bug 232092) 1.0.1 (2010-01-09) ================== * Fix a bug that made it impossible to activate or deactivate a swap file system. * Correctly handle linux swap even with newer parted versions. * Ask for an administrator's password on startup so that non-KDE users can run the application from their launcher. * Use the "blkid" command as an alternative to "vol_id" if the latter is unavailable. * Do not crash when using the Oxygen style under KDE SC 4.4. * Do not crash when the user clicks in the partition widget with newer g++ versions. * Sort devices by name after scanning. * Don't disable updates for the partition widget while applying operations. This leads to corrupted graphics unter Qt4.6. * Work around a LibParted segmentation fault when the Linux Device Mapper is used and /dev/mapper has non-existing entries. * The above also works around a LibParted problem when the BIOS has a floppy drive configured but none is actually present. * Set item height in the partition and devices lists to 32 pixel to make them look less condensed. 1.0.0 (2009-08-17) ================== None. 1.0.0-RC1 (2009-08-03) ====================== * Correctly handle ext4 file systems even with patched parted 1.8.8 (and hopefully 1.8.9 too). Patch by Fatih Asici . (bug #195243) * Clear the partition flags for a copied partition in the preview. (bug #202346) * Write the new start sector to the partition's boot sector if an NTFS file system was moved or copied. (bug #202329) 1.0.0-BETA3 (2009-06-04) ======================== * Set the default file system in the New-Partition-dialog, don't just rely on it being the first one in the list. * Sort items in file system combo boxes case-insensitively. * Fix a bug where the total free space available could get smaller and smaller when moving an existing partition in a dialog. * Fix a bug that the progress information wasn't set as window title for the top level application window. * Speed up copying file systems (and thus moving, resizing and copying). * Add some basic timing output to the detailed report for copying file systems. * Find a file system's mount point even if it is identified by label in fstab. * Add support for reading file system labels from FAT16 and FAT32. * Fix a bug where the volume label for a linuxswap file system was lost when resizing it. * Make sure all interesting information shown in labels anywhere in the application is user-selectable with the mouse. * Display the UUID for most file systems that support it. * Always show the current file system in the partition properties dialog's file system combo box, even if it cannot be created, is too big or too small. 1.0.0-BETA2 (2009-04-30) ======================== * Add an application icon contributed by David Miller. * Allow setting the file system label in the dialog when creating a new partition. * Add a context menu to operation list. * Use a shell script to run partition manager as a child of hal-lock. This should in theory (and according to the hal-lock manpage) avoid notifications for new devices, but doesn't seem to work that well. * Fix a bug that would keep the user from deleting a newly created logical partition because the application thought there were higher-numbered partitions still mounted. * Add a kcm for KDE Partition Manager. If this is built and installed or not can be (like it already is the case with the KPart) configured via cmake. 1.0.0-BETA1 (2009-01-13) ======================== * Fix a potential crash when merging a New Operation and a Create File System Operation. * Set extended partitions as busy as long as logical partitions inside them are mounted. * Don't silently succeed when unmounting a partition that cannot in fact be unmounted because it has no mount points. * Prevent creating a new partition table on a device with mounted partitions. * Add tooltips to partition widgets. * Don't show cd/dvd readers or writers as devices even if libparted reports them. * Add support for ext4. * Fix calculation of reserved/free blocks for ext2/3/4. * Output reason why a mount or unmount might have failed. * Fix minimum width for extended partitions in the partition table widget. * Fix a bug where a partition table just created would not disappear when the operation to create it was undone. * Don't allow creating partitions smaller than the device's cylinder size. * Fix an error that could lead to some space (a few megabytes) between two partitions being wasted. 1.0.0-ALPHA2 (2008-09-24) ========================= * Add and install a .desktop file. * Don't allow the user to close the main window while operations are being applied. * Handle activating and deactivating swap. Also, swap does have labels. * Don't try to print a mount point in the partition properties dialog if there is none. * Show partition table type name and used/max primary partitions in the info pane. * All disk label types but msdos are read only for now, until the support situation for them improves. * Set default value for maximum number of primaries from 255 to 4. * Actually set the correct disk label type before applying the operation to create a new disk label. * Don't update the partition table widget while operations are being applied. This fixes a race condition that would potentially crash the application when applying operations. * Update devices in the GUI after creating a new disk label or undoing operations. * Set the operation state of all operations to StateNone when temporarily undoing them right before starting the thread to apply them. This fixes a crash when an operation fails and the remaining ones are undone twice. * Update bug report address and homepage in the aboutdata. * Unblock SIGCHLD in main so Kubuntu's kdesudo can run the application as root. * If udevadm settle fails, try to call udevsettle to better support older systems. * Fix the minimum size calculations for partition widgets. * Add some doxygen documentation. 1.0.0-ALPHA1 (2008-09-18) ========================= * First public release