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@@ -1,12 +1,176 @@ -1.0.5 (?/?/2020): +1.0.10 (?/??/2023): +------------------- + +- Fixed problem that caused sgdisk to crash with errors about being unable + to read the disk's partition table when compiled with the latest popt + (commit 740, which is pre-release as I type; presumably version 1.19 and + later once released). + +- Updated guid.cc to deal with minor change in libuuid. + +- Fixed potential NULL derefernce bug in sgdisk. Thanks to Damian Kurek + for this fix. + +- The partition number of "0" can now be used to reference newly-created + partitions when the --largest-new=0 option to sgdisk is used. Thanks to + David Joaquín Shourabi Porcel for this improvement. + +- Make explicit casts in gptcurses.cc to eliminate compiler warnings about + mis-matched types in printw() statements. + +- Minor code cleanup based on valgrind analysis. + +- In previous versions, rEFInd accepted only integer values for partition + start points, end points, and sizes, and it interpreted decimal values + incorrectly. That is, if you typed "+9.5G" as the partition end point, + you'd end up with something just 9 sectors in size. This version now + truncates decimal numbers to their integral values, so you'd get a 9 GiB + partition instead. + +1.0.9 (4/14/2022): +------------------ + +- 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.) + +1.0.8 (6/9/2021): ----------------- +- 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. + +1.0.7 (3/10/2021): +------------------ + +- 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 + +1.0.6 (1/13/2021): +------------------ + +- 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. + +1.0.5 (2/17/2020): +------------------ + - Fixed typos and minor formatting issues in man pages - Changed number of columns in type code output ("sgdisk -L" and equivalents in gdisk and cgdisk) from 3 to 2, since some descriptions are long enough that they're ambiguous with three columns. +- Makefile change: Add $(LDLIBS) support to enable clean static builds (for + libintl). + +- You can now put the 0xEE partition last in a hybrid MBR using sgdisk. + (Previously, this was possible with gdisk but not with sgdisk.) See the + sgdisk man page for details. + +- Added numerous type codes for Container Linux, Veracrypt, and + Freedesktop.org's Discoverable Partitions Specification + +- Partition type name searches are now case-insensitive. + +- It's now possible to quit out of partition type name searches by typing + "q". + +- When changing a partition type code, the default is now the current + type code, not a platform-specific type code. + +- The UEFI GPT fdisk project + (https://sourceforge.net/projects/uefigptfdisk/) hasn't been updated since + 2016, and is now broken; binaries don't compile with modern GCC + toolchains, and even when dropping back to Ubuntu 14.04, which worked for + GPT fdisk 1.0.4, the resulting binary hangs on launch. Therefore, I'm + dropping support for the EFI build of gdisk, at least unless and until + UEFI GPT fdisk is fixed. + +- Apple no longer supports building i386 or "fat" binaries in XCode (or if + they do, they're making it hard), so I've removed that support. GPT fdisk + macOS binaries are now x86-64 only. Similarly, building now seems to + require macOS 10.9 or later, so that's now the minimum macOS version. I've + also re-built my Mac build environment and tweaked Makefile.mac + appropriately. + 1.0.4 (7/5/2018): ----------------- |