1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
2 ===================================================
4 * More fixes for 64-bit Windows
7 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
8 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
9 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
10 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
11 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
12 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
13 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
14 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
15 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
16 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
17 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop
18 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
19 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
20 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
21 547262 Missing link in the docs
23 * Updated translations:
34 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
39 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
40 ===================================================
42 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
44 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
45 the user_data outside of callbacks
48 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
49 g_mount_guess_content_type
50 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
52 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
56 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
57 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
58 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
59 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
60 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
61 529694 SELinux context setting support
62 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
63 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
64 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
65 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
66 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
67 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
68 546079 leak in xdgmime
69 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
70 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
72 * Updated translations:
84 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
85 ===================================================
88 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
89 g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
90 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
91 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
92 g_volume_get_activation_root
95 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
96 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
98 * Internationalization:
99 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
102 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
103 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
106 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
107 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
108 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
109 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
110 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
111 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
112 541794 drive-eject-button signal
113 541793 activation root for volumes
114 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
115 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
116 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
117 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
118 406120 g_ascii_strtod
119 334234 "printf" format error
120 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
121 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
122 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
123 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
124 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
125 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
126 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
127 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
128 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
130 * Updated translation:
136 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
137 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
140 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
141 ===================================================
144 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
147 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
148 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
149 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
150 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
151 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
152 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
153 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
154 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
155 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
156 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
157 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
158 535947 want g_set_error_literal
159 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
160 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
161 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
162 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
163 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
164 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
165 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
166 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
167 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
168 536733 gio build failure on Irix
169 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
170 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
171 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
172 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
173 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
175 Updated translations:
180 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
181 ===================================================
183 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
185 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
186 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
188 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
191 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
194 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
195 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
196 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
197 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
198 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
199 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
200 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
201 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
202 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
203 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
204 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
205 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
206 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
207 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
208 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
209 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
210 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
211 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
212 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
213 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
214 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
216 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
217 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
218 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
219 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
220 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
221 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
222 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
223 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
224 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
226 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
227 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
228 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
229 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
230 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
232 * Translation updates:
236 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
240 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
241 ===================================================
243 * Update to Unicode 5.1
245 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
247 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
249 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
250 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
251 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
253 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
255 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
257 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
258 additional GIO modules
260 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
263 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
265 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
266 rate at which events are reported
268 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
271 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
272 size of the written data.
275 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
276 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
277 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
278 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
280 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
281 315437 extern inline -> static inline
282 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
283 alphanumerics into half width
284 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
285 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
286 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
287 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
288 526619 make test-report crash
289 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
290 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
291 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
292 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
293 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
294 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
295 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
296 501651 Update glib/libcharset
297 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
298 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
299 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
300 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
301 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
302 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
303 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
304 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
305 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
306 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
307 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
308 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
309 describe purpose of nick and blurb
310 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
311 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
312 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
313 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
315 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
316 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
317 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
318 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
319 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
320 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
321 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
322 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
323 524950 Minor documentation typos.
324 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
325 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
326 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
327 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
328 534759 Build failure in gio
329 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
330 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
331 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
332 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
333 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
334 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
335 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
337 * Updated translations:
343 Candian English (en_CA)
344 British English (en_GB)
353 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
365 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
366 ===================================================
368 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
370 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
373 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
374 ===================================================
376 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
379 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
380 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
382 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
385 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
386 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
387 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
388 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
389 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
390 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
391 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
392 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
393 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
394 518720 No MIME type for empty files
395 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
396 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
397 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
399 * Updated translations:
401 Bengali India (bn_IN)
413 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
420 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
421 ===================================================
424 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
425 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
426 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
427 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
428 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
429 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
430 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
433 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
434 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
435 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
436 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
437 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
440 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
442 * Updated translations:
444 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
446 British English (en_GB)
452 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
454 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
458 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
459 ===================================================
461 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
464 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
465 should be mounted automatically
466 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
467 the default handler for a file
468 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
469 launch the default handler for a URI
470 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
472 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
473 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
474 - There is the beginning of a test suite
475 - standard::description: new file attribute
476 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
479 - class initialization is now threadsafe
481 * Updated translations:
493 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
498 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
499 ===================================================
501 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
504 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
505 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
506 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
507 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
508 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
511 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
512 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
513 385132 solaris gettext support fix
514 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
515 510292 GOption main help not shown
516 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
517 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
518 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
519 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
521 * Updated translations:
534 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
535 ===================================================
538 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
539 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
540 that are longer than 64 bytes
543 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
544 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
545 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
548 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
549 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
550 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
551 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
552 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
553 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
554 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
555 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
557 * Updated translations:
564 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
565 ===================================================
568 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
569 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
570 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
571 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
574 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
575 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
576 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
577 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
578 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
579 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
580 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
582 * Updated translations:
591 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
592 ===================================================
595 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
596 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
597 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
598 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
601 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
602 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
603 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
604 files and directories now
607 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
608 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
609 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
610 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
611 315437 extern inline -> static inline
612 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
613 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
614 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
615 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
616 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
617 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
618 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
619 505058 xattr namespace docs
620 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
621 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
622 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
623 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
624 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
625 503051 Small bug in glib interface
626 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
627 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
628 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
629 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
630 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
631 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
633 * Updated translations:
635 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
644 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
645 ===================================================
649 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
650 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
651 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
654 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
657 * GTest: a test framework
662 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
665 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
666 get the stack of open elements
667 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
669 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
673 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
674 success, instead of void
675 - Various performance improvements
678 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
679 a free function for leftover elements
682 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
683 to ease error propagation
685 * Internationalization:
686 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
687 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
689 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
692 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
693 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
694 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
695 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
696 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
697 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
698 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
699 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
700 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
701 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
702 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
703 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
704 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
705 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
706 490637 gobject documentation patch
707 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
708 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
709 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
710 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
711 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
712 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
713 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
714 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
715 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
716 503222 Need context to translate
717 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
718 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
719 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
720 71704 file include order
721 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
722 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
723 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
724 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
725 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
726 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
727 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
728 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
729 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
730 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
731 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
732 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
733 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
734 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
735 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
736 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
737 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
738 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
739 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
741 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
742 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
743 443648 MD5 digest support
744 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
745 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
746 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
747 500507 GHashTableIter API
749 * Translation updates
750 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
758 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
759 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
764 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
765 ===================================================
770 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
771 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
772 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
774 * Updated translations:
776 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
782 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
783 ===================================================
786 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
787 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
788 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
789 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
790 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
791 478349 Broken link to gettext website
792 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
794 * Updated translations:
801 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
802 ===================================================
805 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
806 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
807 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
808 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
809 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
810 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
811 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
812 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
813 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
814 468694 Typoes in documentation
815 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
816 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
817 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
818 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
820 * Updated translations:
825 Canadian English (en_CA)
826 British English (en_GB)
842 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
846 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
854 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
855 ===================================================
857 * Last-minute API additions:
858 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
859 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
864 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
865 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
866 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
868 * Updated translations:
875 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
879 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
880 ===================================================
882 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
883 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
884 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
887 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
888 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
891 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
892 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
893 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
894 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
895 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
896 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
897 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
898 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
899 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
901 * Updated translations
910 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
911 ===================================================
913 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
914 caused trouble for C++ bindings
917 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
918 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
920 * Updated translations
921 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
925 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
926 ===================================================
928 * xdg-user-dirs support:
929 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
930 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
933 - new api to duplicate slices
935 * Regular expression support:
936 - GRegex is a boxed type now
939 44793 make check failing in trunk
940 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
941 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
942 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
943 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
944 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
946 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
947 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
948 57693 g_string_vprintf()
949 442029 add g_slice_dup()
950 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
951 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
953 * Updated translations:
961 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
962 ===================================================
965 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
966 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
967 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
970 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
971 ===================================================
974 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
977 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
979 * Regular expression support:
980 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
981 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
982 replacement have been added
983 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
985 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
989 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
990 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
991 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
992 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
993 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
994 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
996 * Updated translations:
998 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1001 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
1002 ===================================================
1005 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
1008 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
1010 * Updated translations:
1011 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1012 British English (en_GB)
1014 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1020 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
1021 ===================================================
1025 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
1026 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
1027 to obtain information about the compiled regex
1030 - Fix roundtrip problems
1031 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
1034 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
1037 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
1040 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
1041 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
1044 * Updated transations:
1045 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
1049 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
1050 =================================================
1052 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
1053 a balanced binary tree.
1055 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
1058 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
1059 for GTimer when available.
1061 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
1062 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
1064 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
1067 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
1070 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
1071 about zero-width characters.
1073 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
1076 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
1077 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
1078 be positioned before the function declaration.
1080 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
1081 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
1083 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
1086 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
1087 to define types in modules.
1089 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
1091 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
1092 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
1093 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
1097 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
1098 ===================================================
1101 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
1102 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
1103 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
1104 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
1105 unconvertable characters in place instead of
1106 replacing them by NUL
1109 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
1110 string with NUL bytes
1111 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
1112 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
1113 it considers a digit
1114 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
1115 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
1116 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
1117 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
1119 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
1120 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1123 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
1124 ===================================================
1126 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
1129 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
1130 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
1131 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
1132 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
1133 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
1134 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
1136 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
1137 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
1140 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
1141 =================================================
1144 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
1146 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
1149 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
1150 ===================================================
1153 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
1155 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
1159 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
1161 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
1164 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
1165 ===================================================
1168 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
1172 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
1174 * Updated translations (fi)
1176 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
1177 ===================================================
1179 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1181 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1183 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1185 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1186 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1189 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1190 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1191 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1192 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1193 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1195 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1196 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1198 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1199 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1200 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1202 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1205 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1206 ===================================================
1209 - Support 64-bit integers
1210 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1214 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1215 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1216 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1217 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1218 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1219 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1220 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1221 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1222 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1223 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1225 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1226 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1228 * Updated translation (es)
1230 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1231 ===================================================
1233 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1234 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1236 * Base64 encoding support
1238 * Unicode 5.0 support
1240 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1242 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1245 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1246 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1247 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1248 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1249 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1250 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1251 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1252 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1253 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1254 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1255 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1257 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1259 334646 goption + error out params
1260 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1261 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1262 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1263 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1264 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1265 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1266 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1267 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1268 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1269 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1270 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1271 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1273 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1274 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1277 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1278 ===================================================
1281 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1282 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1283 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1285 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1288 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1289 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1291 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1294 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1295 ==================================================
1298 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1300 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1301 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1302 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1303 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1304 number of bytes to check is specified
1306 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1307 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1309 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1310 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1312 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1314 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1315 =================================================
1318 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1319 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1320 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1322 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1323 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1325 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1327 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1328 =================================================
1330 * Memory management:
1331 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1332 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1333 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1334 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1335 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1338 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1339 extension [Albert Chin]
1340 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1341 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1342 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1343 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1345 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1347 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1348 =================================================
1351 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1352 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1356 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1357 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1358 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1360 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1364 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1365 =================================================
1368 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1369 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1371 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1372 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1373 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1374 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1376 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1377 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1380 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1382 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1383 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1385 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1388 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1390 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1393 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1394 =================================================
1396 * Memory management:
1397 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1398 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1399 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1402 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1404 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1405 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1406 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1407 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1410 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1411 floating reference. [Tim]
1412 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1415 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1416 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1418 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1419 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1421 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1422 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1424 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1427 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1428 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1429 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1430 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1431 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1432 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1433 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1434 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1435 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1437 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1438 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1439 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1440 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1441 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1442 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1443 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1444 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1447 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1448 =================================================
1451 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1452 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1453 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1454 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1457 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1460 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1461 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1462 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1463 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1464 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1465 variants [Martyn Russell]
1468 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1469 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1472 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1475 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1476 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1477 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1478 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1479 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1480 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1481 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1482 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1484 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1486 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1487 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1488 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1489 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1492 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1493 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1494 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1496 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1497 =================================================
1499 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1500 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1501 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1503 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1504 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1507 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1508 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1509 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1511 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1513 * Memory management:
1514 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1515 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1516 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1517 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1518 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1519 never worked as intended.
1520 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1521 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1522 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1523 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1524 efficient and scalable implementation.
1525 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1528 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1529 unnecessary recursion.
1532 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1533 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1534 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1538 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1541 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1542 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1543 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1547 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1548 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1549 since they are in glib.h
1552 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1553 =================================================
1554 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1555 * Fix build problems on OS X
1556 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1557 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1558 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1559 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1560 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1562 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1563 =================================================
1564 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1565 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1566 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1567 in GValues should also be changed to access
1568 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1570 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1571 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1573 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1574 =================================================
1575 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1576 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1578 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1579 =================================================
1580 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1582 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1583 work on s390 [Matthias]
1584 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1586 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1588 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1589 =================================================
1590 * Thread-related changes
1591 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1592 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1593 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1594 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1595 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1596 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1597 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1598 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1599 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1600 of gettext [Matthias]
1601 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1602 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1604 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1606 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1607 =================================================
1608 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1609 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1610 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1611 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1612 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1613 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1615 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1617 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1618 =================================================
1620 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1621 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1622 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1623 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1625 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1626 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1628 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1629 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1630 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1631 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1632 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1634 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1635 =================================================
1636 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1637 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1638 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1639 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1641 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1642 =================================================
1644 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1645 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1646 * Misc new functions:
1647 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1648 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1649 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1651 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1652 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1653 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1654 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1657 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1658 =================================================
1660 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1661 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1662 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1663 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1665 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1666 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1667 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1668 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1669 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1670 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1672 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1674 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1675 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1677 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1678 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1679 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1680 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1681 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1682 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1683 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1684 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1685 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1686 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1687 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1689 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1690 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1691 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1692 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1693 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1694 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1695 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1696 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1697 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1698 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1699 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1700 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1701 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1702 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1703 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1704 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1706 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1707 =================================================
1709 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1710 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1711 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1712 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1713 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1715 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1716 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1717 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1718 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1719 when check for executables [Tor]
1720 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1721 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1722 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1723 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1724 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1725 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1726 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1728 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1729 =================================================
1732 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1733 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1734 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1735 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1736 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1738 * Miscellaneous new functions
1739 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1740 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1741 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1742 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1743 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1744 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1745 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1746 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1747 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1748 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1750 * Performance improvements
1751 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1752 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1753 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1754 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1755 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1758 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1759 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1760 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1761 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1762 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1763 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1764 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1767 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1768 =================================================
1769 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1770 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1771 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1772 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1773 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1774 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1775 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1777 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1778 =================================================
1779 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1780 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1782 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1784 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1785 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1786 allocated memory [Matthias]
1787 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1789 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1790 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1791 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1792 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1794 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1795 =================================================
1797 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1798 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1800 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1802 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1803 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1804 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1805 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1806 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1808 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1809 =================================================
1811 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1812 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1813 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1815 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1816 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1817 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1818 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1819 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1820 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1821 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1822 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1823 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1824 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1826 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1827 =================================================
1828 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1829 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1830 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1831 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1832 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1835 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1836 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1837 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1838 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1839 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1840 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1842 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1843 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1844 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1845 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1846 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1847 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1848 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1849 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1851 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1852 =================================================
1854 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1855 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1857 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1858 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1859 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1860 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1861 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1862 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1863 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1864 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1865 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1867 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1868 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1870 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1871 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1873 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1874 =================================================
1875 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1876 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1877 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1878 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1879 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1880 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1881 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1882 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1883 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1884 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1886 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1887 =================================================
1889 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1890 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1891 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1892 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1893 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1894 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1896 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1897 =================================================
1899 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1900 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1902 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1903 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1905 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1906 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1907 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1908 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1909 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1910 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1911 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1912 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1913 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1914 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1915 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1916 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1918 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1919 =================================================
1921 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1922 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1923 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1924 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1926 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1927 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1928 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1930 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1931 =================================================
1933 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1934 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1935 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1936 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1938 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1939 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1941 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1942 =================================================
1944 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1945 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1946 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1947 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1948 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1949 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1950 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1952 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1953 =================================================
1955 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1956 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1957 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1958 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1959 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1960 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1961 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1962 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1963 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1964 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1965 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1967 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1968 =================================================
1970 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1971 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1972 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1973 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1974 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1975 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1976 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1977 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1979 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1980 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1982 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1983 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1984 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1986 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1988 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1989 =================================================
1991 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1992 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1993 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1994 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1996 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1997 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1998 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1999 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
2000 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
2001 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
2002 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
2003 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
2004 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
2005 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
2006 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
2007 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
2008 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
2010 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
2012 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
2013 =================================================
2015 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
2016 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
2017 with context [Matthias Clasen]
2018 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
2019 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
2020 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
2021 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
2022 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
2023 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
2024 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
2025 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
2026 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
2027 * GObject [Tim Janik]
2028 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
2029 like 'swapped-signal'.
2030 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
2031 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
2032 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
2033 init() implementations
2034 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
2035 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
2036 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
2037 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
2038 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
2040 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
2042 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
2043 =================================================
2045 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
2046 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
2047 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
2048 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
2049 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
2050 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
2051 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
2052 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
2053 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2054 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
2055 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
2056 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2057 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
2058 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
2059 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
2060 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
2061 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
2062 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
2063 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
2064 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
2065 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2067 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
2068 =================================================
2070 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
2071 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2072 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
2073 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
2074 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
2075 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
2077 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
2078 =================================================
2080 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2081 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
2082 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
2083 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
2084 if necessary [Manish Singh]
2085 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2086 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
2087 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2088 * Bug and portability fixes
2089 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
2091 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
2093 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
2094 =================================================
2096 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
2097 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
2098 Johannes Stezenbach]
2099 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
2100 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
2101 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
2103 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
2104 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
2105 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2106 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
2108 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
2109 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
2111 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
2112 =================================================
2114 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
2115 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
2116 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
2117 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
2118 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
2119 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
2120 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
2121 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
2122 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
2123 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
2124 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
2125 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
2126 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
2127 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2128 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
2130 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
2131 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
2132 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
2133 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
2134 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
2135 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
2136 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
2138 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
2139 =================================
2141 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
2142 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
2143 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
2144 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2145 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
2146 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
2147 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
2148 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
2149 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
2150 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
2151 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
2153 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
2154 =================================
2156 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2157 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2158 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2159 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2160 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2161 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2162 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2163 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2164 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2165 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2166 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2168 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
2169 =================================
2171 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2172 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2173 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2174 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2175 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2176 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2177 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2178 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2179 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2180 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2181 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2183 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2184 =================================
2186 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2187 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2188 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2189 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2191 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2192 =================================
2194 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2195 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2196 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2197 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2198 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2199 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2200 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2201 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2202 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2203 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2204 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2205 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2206 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2209 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2210 =================================
2212 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2213 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2214 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2215 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2216 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2217 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2218 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2219 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2220 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2221 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2222 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2223 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2224 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2225 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2226 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2227 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2230 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2231 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2234 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2235 =================================
2237 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2238 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2239 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2240 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2241 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2243 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2244 ======================================
2246 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2247 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2248 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2249 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2250 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2252 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2254 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2255 ===================================
2257 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2258 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2259 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2260 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2261 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2262 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2263 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2265 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2268 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2269 ===================================
2271 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2272 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2273 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2274 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2275 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2276 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2277 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2278 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2279 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2281 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2284 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2285 ===================================
2287 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2288 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2289 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2290 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2291 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2292 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2293 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2295 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2296 ===================================
2298 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2299 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2300 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2301 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2302 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2303 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2304 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2305 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2307 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2308 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2312 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2313 ===================================
2315 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2316 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2317 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2318 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2319 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2320 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2321 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2322 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2323 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2325 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2326 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2328 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2329 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2332 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2333 ===================================
2335 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2336 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2337 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2338 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2339 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2340 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2341 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2342 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2343 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2344 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2346 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2347 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2348 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2352 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2353 ==================================
2355 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2356 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2357 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2358 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2359 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2361 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2364 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2365 ==================================
2367 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2368 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2369 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2370 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2373 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2376 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2377 ==================================
2379 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2380 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2381 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2382 * Minor hash table optimizations
2383 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2384 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2385 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2386 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2387 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2388 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2389 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2390 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2391 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2392 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2393 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2396 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2397 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2398 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2402 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2403 ==================================
2405 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2406 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2407 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2408 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2410 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2411 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2412 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2413 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2414 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2418 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2419 ==================================
2421 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2422 declarations from header files.
2423 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2424 * Bug and Portability fixes
2427 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2428 ==================================
2430 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2433 * Documentation improvements
2436 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2437 ==================================
2441 * More user_data support in various functions.
2442 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2443 * Unicode handling improvements.
2444 * Implemented debugging traps.
2445 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2446 * Various new small utility functions.
2447 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2448 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2449 * Many Win32 improvements.
2450 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2451 * Many documentation improvements.
2452 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2454 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2455 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2456 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2457 * Hashtable API additions.
2458 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2459 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2463 * Added many convenience functions.
2464 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2465 * Reworked property change notification.
2466 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2467 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2468 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2469 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2470 * Added support for abstract types.
2471 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2472 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2473 and parameter conversions.
2474 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2475 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2477 * Implemented GValueArray.
2478 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2479 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2480 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2481 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2482 * Implemented debugging traps.
2483 * Made things thread-safe.
2484 * Many documentation improvements.
2485 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2488 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2489 ==================================
2493 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2494 * Improvements to error reporting
2495 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2496 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2497 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2498 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2499 not to be freed. [Darin]
2500 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2501 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2502 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2503 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2504 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2505 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2506 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2507 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2508 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2509 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2510 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2511 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2512 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2513 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2514 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2515 * Many documentation improvements.
2520 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2521 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2522 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2523 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2524 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2528 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2529 =========================
2531 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2532 the GTK+ object system.
2533 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2534 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2535 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2537 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2538 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2539 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2540 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2541 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2542 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2543 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2544 * Double ended queue implementation.
2545 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2546 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2547 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2548 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2549 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2550 more tightly defined semantics.
2551 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.