1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
3 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
4 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
5 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
6 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
8 * GDate const, convenience fixups
9 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
10 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
11 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
12 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
15 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
17 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
18 declarations from header files.
19 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
20 * Bug and Portability fixes
22 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
24 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
27 * Documentation improvements
29 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
31 * More user_data support in various functions.
32 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
33 * Unicode handling improvements.
34 * Implemented debugging traps.
35 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
36 * Various new small utility functions.
37 * Random number generator precision improvements.
38 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
39 * Many Win32 improvements.
40 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
41 * Many documentation improvements.
42 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
44 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
45 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
46 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
47 * Hashtable API additions.
48 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
49 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
51 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
55 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
56 * Improvements to error reporting
57 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
58 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
59 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
60 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
61 not to be freed. [Darin]
62 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
63 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
64 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
65 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
66 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
67 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
68 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
69 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
70 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
71 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
72 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
73 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
74 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
75 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
76 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
77 * Many documentation improvements.
82 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
83 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
84 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
85 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
86 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
89 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
91 * New GObject library added including object system based on
92 the GTK+ object system.
93 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
94 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
95 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
97 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
98 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
99 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
100 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
101 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
102 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
103 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
104 * Double ended queue implementation.
105 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
106 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
107 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
108 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
109 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
110 more tightly defined semantics.
111 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.