v4.0.0-rc.1

v4.0.0-rc.1 (2023-11-18)

Behaviour changes

• Opening a GptDisk now succeeds even if one header is invalid
  (use the only_valid_headers config flag to get the old behaviour back)

Changes

• Bump MSRV to 1.63

• Remove initialized state & configuration

• add the option to allow the partition count to be changed

• add the option to only open a disk if both headers are valid

• add the option to keep the backup partition readonly

• split GptDisk::remove_partition into two functions remove_partition and remove_partition_by_guid

• add GptDisk::header function which allows to get the current header (either primary or backup)

• add GptDisk::take_partitions

• remove GptDisk::update_partitions_safe and replace it with a config option readonly_backup

• remove GptDisk::update_partitions_embedded and replace it with the config option change_partition_count

• add GptDisk::device_ref

• add GptDisk::device_mut

• crc32 are now stored in the header after it has been written instead of always being zeros

• Add DragonFlyBSD as partition and OS type

• GptDisk now accepts a generic DiskDevice

• add ChromeOS RWFW partition type

• improve error reporting, returning HeaderError or the new GptError

• add HeaderBuilder to simplify creating a header (replaces Header::compute_new)

• add GptDisk::take_device

• Support custom partition GUIDs