partitionmanager/CHANGELOG.md

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 fatih@pardus.org.tr. (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