release notes:
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gptfdisk/code/ci/master/tree/NEWS
1.0.9 (4/14/2022):
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- Removed stray debugging code that caused "partNum is {x}" to be printed
when changing a partition's name with sgdisk (-c/--change-name).
- Added support for aligning partitions' end points, as well as their start
points. This support affects the default partition size when using 'n' in
gdisk; it affects the default partition size in cgdisk; and it's activated
by the new '-I' option in sgdisk. See the programs' respective man pages
for details. This feature is intended to help with LUKS2 encryption, which
reacts badly to partitions that are not sized as exact multiples of the
encryption block size.
- Added check for too-small disks (most likely to be an issue when trying
to use a too-small disk image); program now aborts if this happens.
- Added the ability to build sgdisk and cgdisk for Windows.
- Added new type codes:
* FreeBSD nandfs (0xa506)
* Apple APFS Pre-Boot (0xaf0b)
* Apple APFS Recovery (0xaf0c)
* ChromeOS firmware (0x7f03)
* ChromeOS mini-OS (0x7f04)
* ChromeOS hibernate (0x7f05)
* U-Boot boot loader (0xb000)
* 27 (!) codes for Fuchsia (0xf100 to 0xf11a)
- Fixed build problems with recent versions of ncurses.
- Fixed bug that caused cgdisk to report incorrect partition attributes.
- Consolidated Makefiles for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, macOS, and Windows
(32- and 64-bit). The old OS-specific Makefiles remain in case the new
consolidated Makefile has problems, but the old ones are deprecated.
(The Solaris support in the new Makefile is untested.)
update 1.0.6 to 1.0.8
NEWS 1.0.8 (6/9/2021):
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- Fixed double byte swap operation on writes of partition name data on
big-endian systems; this is in addition to the double byte swap fix on
reading partition label data fixed in 1.0.7. (Thanks to Erik Larsson for
both fixes.)
- Added feature to gdisk and sgdisk to enable swapping the byte order of
partition names, so as to correct disks already affected by the preceding
bug. This option is 'b' on the experts' menu in gdisk and
-b/--byte-swap-name in sgdisk. This seems advanced/obscure enough that I
don't want to clutter cgdisk's menu with this option, so I haven't added
it there.
- Added type code for the Barebox boot loader (0xbb00;
4778ED65-BF42-45FA-9C5B-287A1DC4AAB1).
- Trivial code cleanup.
News: 1.0.7 (2021-03-10)
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- Fixed bug that caused spurious warnings about the partition table
header claiming an invalid size of partition entries when reading
some MBR disks.
- Added ARM64 as an architecture for the Mac builds of gdisk and fixparts.
The official GPT fdisk binaries of these files for macOS are now
"universal" x86-64/ARM64 binaries, so they will run natively on the new M1
(ARM64) Macs. The sgdisk and cgdisk binaries, though, remain built only
for x86-64, because they rely on libraries that are not easily built in
"universal" form.
- Fixed double byte swap operation on partition label data on big-endian
CPUs. This resulted in partition names becoming gibberish on such CPUs.
- Added three new type codes:
- 0x0701 - Microsoft Storage Replica
- 0x0702 - ArcaOS Type 1
- 0x8401 - Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) block device
update 1.0.5 to 1.0.6
news:
1.0.6 (1/13/2021):
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- Fixed bug that could cause segfault if GPT header claimed partition
entries are oversized. See:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0256
- Fixed bug that could cause a crash if a badly-formatted MBR disk was
read. See:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-0308
- Renamed the partition type "Freedesktop $BOOT" to "XBOOTLDR partition".
- Added several more Freedesktop partition table type codes (0x8312 through
0x831C).
- Fixed type code definition in diskio-unix.cc that prevented 32-bit builds
from correctly handling disks over 4 TiB in size.
- Minor tweaks to get the software to compile on FreeBSD; that seems to have
fallen into disrepair.
