1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
2 ===================================================
5 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
8 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
11 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
12 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
13 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
14 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
16 * Updated translations:
20 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
21 ===================================================
24 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
27 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
29 * Updated translations:
30 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
31 British English (en_GB)
33 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
39 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
40 ===================================================
44 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
45 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
46 to obtain information about the compiled regex
49 - Fix roundtrip problems
50 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
53 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
56 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
59 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
60 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
63 * Updated transations:
64 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
68 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
69 =================================================
71 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
72 a balanced binary tree.
74 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
77 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
78 for GTimer when available.
80 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
81 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
83 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
86 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
89 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
90 about zero-width characters.
92 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
95 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
96 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
97 be positioned before the function declaration.
99 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
100 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
102 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
105 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
106 to define types in modules.
108 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
110 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
111 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
112 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
116 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
117 ===================================================
120 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
121 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
122 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
123 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
124 unconvertable characters in place instead of
125 replacing them by NUL
128 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
129 string with NUL bytes
130 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
131 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
133 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
134 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
135 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
136 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
138 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
139 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
142 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
143 ===================================================
145 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
148 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
149 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
150 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
151 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
152 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
153 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
155 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
156 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
159 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
160 =================================================
163 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
165 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
168 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
169 ===================================================
172 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
174 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
178 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
180 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
183 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
184 ===================================================
187 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
191 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
193 * Updated translations (fi)
195 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
196 ===================================================
198 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
200 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
202 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
204 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
205 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
208 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
209 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
210 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
211 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
212 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
214 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
215 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
217 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
218 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
219 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
221 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
224 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
225 ===================================================
228 - Support 64-bit integers
229 - Allow optional text before and after the options
233 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
234 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
235 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
236 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
237 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
238 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
239 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
240 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
241 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
242 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
244 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
245 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
247 * Updated translation (es)
249 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
250 ===================================================
252 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
253 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
255 * Base64 encoding support
257 * Unicode 5.0 support
259 * GOption supports floating point numbers
261 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
264 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
265 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
266 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
267 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
268 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
269 329789 option-test.c type confusion
270 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
271 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
272 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
273 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
274 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
276 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
278 334646 goption + error out params
279 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
280 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
281 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
282 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
283 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
284 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
285 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
286 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
287 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
288 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
289 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
290 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
292 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
293 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
296 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
297 ===================================================
300 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
301 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
302 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
304 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
307 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
308 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
310 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
313 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
314 ==================================================
317 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
319 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
320 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
321 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
322 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
323 number of bytes to check is specified
325 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
326 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
328 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
329 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
331 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
333 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
334 =================================================
337 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
338 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
339 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
341 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
342 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
344 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
346 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
347 =================================================
350 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
351 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
352 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
353 now be turned on at runtime by setting
354 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
357 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
358 extension [Albert Chin]
359 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
360 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
361 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
362 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
364 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
366 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
367 =================================================
370 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
371 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
375 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
376 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
377 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
379 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
383 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
384 =================================================
387 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
388 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
390 * Change g_filename_display_name and
391 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
392 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
393 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
395 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
396 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
399 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
401 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
402 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
404 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
407 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
409 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
412 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
413 =================================================
416 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
417 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
418 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
421 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
423 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
424 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
425 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
426 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
429 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
430 floating reference. [Tim]
431 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
434 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
435 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
437 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
438 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
440 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
441 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
443 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
446 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
447 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
448 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
449 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
450 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
451 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
452 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
453 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
454 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
456 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
457 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
458 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
459 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
460 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
461 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
462 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
463 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
466 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
467 =================================================
470 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
471 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
472 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
473 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
476 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
479 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
480 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
481 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
482 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
483 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
484 variants [Martyn Russell]
487 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
488 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
491 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
494 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
495 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
496 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
497 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
498 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
499 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
500 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
501 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
503 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
505 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
506 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
507 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
508 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
511 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
512 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
513 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
515 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
516 =================================================
518 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
519 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
520 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
522 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
523 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
526 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
527 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
528 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
530 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
533 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
534 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
535 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
536 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
537 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
538 never worked as intended.
539 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
540 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
541 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
542 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
543 efficient and scalable implementation.
544 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
547 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
548 unnecessary recursion.
551 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
552 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
553 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
557 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
560 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
561 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
562 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
566 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
567 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
568 since they are in glib.h
571 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
572 =================================================
573 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
574 * Fix build problems on OS X
575 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
576 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
577 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
578 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
579 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
581 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
582 =================================================
583 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
584 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
585 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
586 in GValues should also be changed to access
587 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
589 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
590 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
592 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
593 =================================================
594 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
595 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
597 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
598 =================================================
599 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
601 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
602 work on s390 [Matthias]
603 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
605 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
607 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
608 =================================================
609 * Thread-related changes
610 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
611 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
612 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
613 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
614 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
615 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
616 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
617 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
618 "make check" to fail when using older versions
619 of gettext [Matthias]
620 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
621 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
623 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
625 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
626 =================================================
627 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
628 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
629 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
630 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
631 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
632 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
634 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
636 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
637 =================================================
639 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
640 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
641 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
642 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
644 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
645 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
647 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
648 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
649 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
650 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
651 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
653 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
654 =================================================
655 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
656 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
657 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
658 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
660 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
661 =================================================
663 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
664 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
665 * Misc new functions:
666 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
667 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
668 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
670 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
671 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
672 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
673 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
676 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
677 =================================================
679 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
680 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
681 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
682 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
684 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
685 - Accept -? [Matthias]
686 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
687 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
688 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
689 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
691 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
693 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
694 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
696 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
697 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
698 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
699 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
700 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
701 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
702 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
703 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
704 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
705 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
706 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
708 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
709 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
710 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
711 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
712 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
713 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
714 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
715 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
716 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
717 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
718 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
719 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
720 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
721 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
722 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
723 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
725 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
726 =================================================
728 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
729 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
730 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
731 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
732 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
734 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
735 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
736 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
737 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
738 when check for executables [Tor]
739 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
740 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
741 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
742 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
743 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
744 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
745 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
747 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
748 =================================================
751 - GOption, a commandline option parser
752 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
753 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
754 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
755 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
757 * Miscellaneous new functions
758 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
759 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
760 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
761 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
762 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
763 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
764 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
765 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
766 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
767 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
769 * Performance improvements
770 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
771 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
772 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
773 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
774 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
777 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
778 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
779 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
780 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
781 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
782 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
783 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
786 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
787 =================================================
788 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
789 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
790 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
791 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
792 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
793 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
794 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
796 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
797 =================================================
798 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
799 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
801 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
803 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
804 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
805 allocated memory [Matthias]
806 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
808 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
809 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
810 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
811 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
813 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
814 =================================================
816 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
817 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
819 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
821 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
822 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
823 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
824 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
825 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
827 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
828 =================================================
830 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
831 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
832 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
834 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
835 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
836 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
837 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
838 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
839 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
840 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
841 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
842 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
843 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
845 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
846 =================================================
847 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
848 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
849 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
850 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
851 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
854 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
855 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
856 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
857 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
858 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
859 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
861 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
862 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
863 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
864 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
865 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
866 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
867 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
868 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
870 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
871 =================================================
873 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
874 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
876 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
877 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
878 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
879 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
880 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
881 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
882 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
883 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
884 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
886 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
887 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
889 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
890 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
892 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
893 =================================================
894 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
895 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
896 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
897 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
898 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
899 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
900 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
901 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
902 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
903 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
905 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
906 =================================================
908 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
909 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
910 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
911 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
912 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
913 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
915 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
916 =================================================
918 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
919 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
921 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
922 [Federico Mena Quintero]
924 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
925 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
926 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
927 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
928 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
929 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
930 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
931 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
932 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
933 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
934 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
935 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
937 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
938 =================================================
940 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
941 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
942 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
943 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
945 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
946 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
947 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
949 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
950 =================================================
952 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
953 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
954 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
955 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
957 * Documentation updates [Owen]
958 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
960 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
961 =================================================
963 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
964 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
965 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
966 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
967 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
968 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
969 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
971 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
972 =================================================
974 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
975 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
976 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
977 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
978 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
979 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
980 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
981 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
982 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
983 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
984 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
986 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
987 =================================================
989 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
990 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
991 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
992 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
993 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
994 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
995 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
996 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
998 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
999 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1001 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1002 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1003 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1005 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1007 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1008 =================================================
1010 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1011 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1012 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1013 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1015 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1016 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1017 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1018 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1019 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1020 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1021 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1022 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1023 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1024 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1025 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1026 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1027 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1029 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1031 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1032 =================================================
1034 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1035 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1036 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1037 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1038 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1039 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1040 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1041 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1042 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1043 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1044 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1045 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1046 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1047 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1048 like 'swapped-signal'.
1049 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1050 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1051 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1052 init() implementations
1053 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1054 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1055 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1056 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1057 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1059 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1061 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1062 =================================================
1064 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1065 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1066 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1067 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1068 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1069 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1070 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1071 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1072 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1073 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1074 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1075 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1076 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1077 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1078 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1079 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1080 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1081 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1082 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1083 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1084 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1086 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1087 =================================================
1089 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1090 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1091 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1092 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1093 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1094 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1096 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1097 =================================================
1099 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1100 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1101 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1102 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1103 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1104 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1105 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1106 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1107 * Bug and portability fixes
1108 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1110 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1112 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1113 =================================================
1115 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1116 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1117 Johannes Stezenbach]
1118 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1119 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1120 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1122 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1123 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1124 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1125 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1127 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1128 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1130 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1131 =================================================
1133 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1134 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1135 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1136 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1137 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1138 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1139 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1140 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1141 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1142 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1143 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1144 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1145 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1146 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1147 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1149 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1150 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1151 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1152 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1153 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1154 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1155 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1157 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1158 =================================
1160 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1161 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1162 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1163 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1164 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1165 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1166 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1167 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1168 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1169 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1170 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1172 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1173 =================================
1175 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1176 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1177 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1178 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1179 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1180 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1181 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1182 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1183 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1184 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1185 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1187 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1188 =================================
1190 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1191 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1192 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1193 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1194 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1195 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1196 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1197 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1198 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1199 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1200 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1202 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1203 =================================
1205 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1206 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1207 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1208 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1210 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1211 =================================
1213 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1214 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1215 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1216 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1217 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1218 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1219 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1220 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1221 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1222 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1223 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1224 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1225 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1228 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1229 =================================
1231 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1232 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1233 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1234 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1235 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1236 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1237 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1238 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1239 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1240 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1241 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1242 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1243 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1244 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1245 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1246 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1249 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1250 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1253 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1254 =================================
1256 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1257 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1258 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1259 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1260 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1262 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1263 ======================================
1265 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1266 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1267 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1268 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1269 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1271 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1273 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1274 ===================================
1276 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1277 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1278 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1279 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1280 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1281 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1282 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1284 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1287 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1288 ===================================
1290 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1291 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1292 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1293 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1294 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1295 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1296 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1297 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1298 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1300 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1303 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1304 ===================================
1306 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1307 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1308 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1309 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1310 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1311 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1312 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1314 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1315 ===================================
1317 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1318 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1319 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1320 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1321 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1322 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1323 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1324 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1326 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1327 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1331 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1332 ===================================
1334 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1335 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1336 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1337 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1338 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1339 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1340 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1341 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1342 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1344 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1345 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1347 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1348 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1351 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1352 ===================================
1354 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1355 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1356 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1357 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1358 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1359 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1360 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1361 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1362 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1363 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1365 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1366 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1367 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1371 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1372 ==================================
1374 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1375 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1376 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1377 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1378 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1380 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1383 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1384 ==================================
1386 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1387 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1388 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1389 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1392 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1395 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1396 ==================================
1398 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1399 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1400 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1401 * Minor hash table optimizations
1402 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1403 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1404 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1405 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1406 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1407 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1408 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1409 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1410 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1411 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1412 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1415 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1416 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1417 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1421 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1422 ==================================
1424 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1425 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1426 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1427 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1429 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1430 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1431 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1432 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1433 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1437 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1438 ==================================
1440 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1441 declarations from header files.
1442 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1443 * Bug and Portability fixes
1446 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1447 ==================================
1449 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1452 * Documentation improvements
1455 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1456 ==================================
1460 * More user_data support in various functions.
1461 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1462 * Unicode handling improvements.
1463 * Implemented debugging traps.
1464 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1465 * Various new small utility functions.
1466 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1467 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1468 * Many Win32 improvements.
1469 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1470 * Many documentation improvements.
1471 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1473 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1474 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1475 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1476 * Hashtable API additions.
1477 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1478 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1482 * Added many convenience functions.
1483 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1484 * Reworked property change notification.
1485 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1486 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1487 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1488 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1489 * Added support for abstract types.
1490 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1491 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1492 and parameter conversions.
1493 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1494 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1496 * Implemented GValueArray.
1497 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1498 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1499 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1500 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1501 * Implemented debugging traps.
1502 * Made things thread-safe.
1503 * Many documentation improvements.
1504 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1507 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1508 ==================================
1512 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1513 * Improvements to error reporting
1514 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1515 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1516 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1517 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1518 not to be freed. [Darin]
1519 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1520 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1521 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1522 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1523 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1524 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1525 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1526 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1527 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1528 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1529 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1530 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1531 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1532 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1533 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1534 * Many documentation improvements.
1539 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1540 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1541 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1542 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1543 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1547 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1548 =========================
1550 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1551 the GTK+ object system.
1552 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1553 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1554 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1556 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1557 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1558 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1559 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1560 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1561 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1562 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1563 * Double ended queue implementation.
1564 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1565 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1566 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1567 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1568 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1569 more tightly defined semantics.
1570 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.