Comment 16 for bug 305280

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Dmytro Korzhevin (korg) wrote : Re: [need-update] Gparted to latest stable 0.4.2 (added ext4 support) in Ubuntu Jaunty

Release Name: gparted-0.4.2

Notes:
NOTES
 The big news for this GParted release is support for ext4 file systems,
 and the addition of an application help manual.

 Key changes include:
   - Added support for ext4 file system
     - Support for ext4 is built into version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel
     - e2fsprogs version 1.41.0 or higher required
   - Created application help manual
   - Updated gparted manual page
   - Made text beside field labels selectable (i.e., copy/paste UUID)
   - Added lvm2 physical volume detection
   - Reduced file system information disk reads to improve performance
   - Fixed application crash when saving details and locale not set
   - Enhanced copy/paste checks when MBR/EBR involved

Changes:
BUG FIXES
 * Added additional category to desktop file (#568937)
 * Created application help manual (#329584)
 * Reworded caution message when applying operations (#564952)
 * Recognized linux-swap(new)/(old) as linux-swap (#419515)
 * Improved text for libparted not found error message (#565682)
 * Added support for ext4 file system (#503112)
 * Removed doubled space in front of fdl license link (#556114)
 * Added lvm2 physical volume detection (small part of #160787)

TRANSLATIONS (new/updated)
 * ca(David Planella), cs(Adrian Gunis), de(Mario Blättermann),
   el(Evgenia Petoumenou), es(Jorge Gonzalez), fr(Claude Paroz),
   it(Milo Casagrande), pl(Tomasz Dominikowski),
   pt_BR(Fábio Nogueira, Fabrício Godoy, Leonardo Gregianin,
         Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Djavan Fagundes),
   sk(Pavol Klačanský), sv(Daniel Nylander),
   th(Pongpichit Panna, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)

DEPENDENCIES (new/updated)
 * e2fsprogs v1.41.0 or higher required for ext4 file system support