1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
2 ===================================================
4 * More fixes for 64-bit Windows
7 - Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows
10 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
11 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
12 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
13 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
14 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
15 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
16 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
17 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
18 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
19 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
20 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop
21 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
22 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
23 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
24 547262 Missing link in the docs
26 * Updated translations:
37 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
42 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
43 ===================================================
45 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
47 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
48 the user_data outside of callbacks
51 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
52 g_mount_guess_content_type
53 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
55 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
59 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
60 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
61 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
62 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
63 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
64 529694 SELinux context setting support
65 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
66 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
67 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
68 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
69 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
70 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
71 546079 leak in xdgmime
72 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
73 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
75 * Updated translations:
87 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
88 ===================================================
91 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
92 g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
93 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
94 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
95 g_volume_get_activation_root
98 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
99 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
101 * Internationalization:
102 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
105 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
106 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
109 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
110 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
111 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
112 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
113 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
114 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
115 541794 drive-eject-button signal
116 541793 activation root for volumes
117 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
118 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
119 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
120 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
121 406120 g_ascii_strtod
122 334234 "printf" format error
123 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
124 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
125 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
126 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
127 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
128 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
129 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
130 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
131 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
133 * Updated translation:
139 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
140 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
143 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
144 ===================================================
147 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
150 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
151 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
152 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
153 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
154 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
155 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
156 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
157 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
158 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
159 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
160 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
161 535947 want g_set_error_literal
162 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
163 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
164 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
165 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
166 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
167 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
168 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
169 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
170 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
171 536733 gio build failure on Irix
172 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
173 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
174 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
175 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
176 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
178 Updated translations:
183 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
184 ===================================================
186 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
188 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
189 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
191 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
194 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
197 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
198 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
199 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
200 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
201 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
202 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
203 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
204 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
205 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
206 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
207 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
208 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
209 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
210 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
211 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
212 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
213 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
214 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
215 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
216 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
217 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
219 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
220 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
221 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
222 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
223 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
224 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
225 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
226 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
227 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
229 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
230 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
231 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
232 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
233 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
235 * Translation updates:
239 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
243 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
244 ===================================================
246 * Update to Unicode 5.1
248 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
250 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
252 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
253 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
254 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
256 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
258 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
260 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
261 additional GIO modules
263 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
266 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
268 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
269 rate at which events are reported
271 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
274 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
275 size of the written data.
278 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
279 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
280 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
281 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
283 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
284 315437 extern inline -> static inline
285 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
286 alphanumerics into half width
287 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
288 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
289 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
290 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
291 526619 make test-report crash
292 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
293 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
294 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
295 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
296 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
297 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
298 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
299 501651 Update glib/libcharset
300 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
301 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
302 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
303 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
304 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
305 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
306 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
307 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
308 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
309 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
310 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
311 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
312 describe purpose of nick and blurb
313 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
314 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
315 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
316 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
318 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
319 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
320 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
321 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
322 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
323 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
324 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
325 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
326 524950 Minor documentation typos.
327 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
328 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
329 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
330 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
331 534759 Build failure in gio
332 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
333 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
334 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
335 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
336 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
337 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
338 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
340 * Updated translations:
346 Candian English (en_CA)
347 British English (en_GB)
356 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
368 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
369 ===================================================
371 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
373 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
376 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
377 ===================================================
379 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
382 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
383 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
385 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
388 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
389 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
390 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
391 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
392 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
393 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
394 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
395 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
396 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
397 518720 No MIME type for empty files
398 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
399 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
400 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
402 * Updated translations:
404 Bengali India (bn_IN)
416 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
423 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
424 ===================================================
427 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
428 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
429 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
430 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
431 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
432 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
433 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
436 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
437 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
438 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
439 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
440 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
443 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
445 * Updated translations:
447 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
449 British English (en_GB)
455 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
457 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
461 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
462 ===================================================
464 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
467 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
468 should be mounted automatically
469 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
470 the default handler for a file
471 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
472 launch the default handler for a URI
473 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
475 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
476 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
477 - There is the beginning of a test suite
478 - standard::description: new file attribute
479 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
482 - class initialization is now threadsafe
484 * Updated translations:
496 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
501 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
502 ===================================================
504 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
507 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
508 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
509 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
510 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
511 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
514 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
515 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
516 385132 solaris gettext support fix
517 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
518 510292 GOption main help not shown
519 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
520 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
521 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
522 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
524 * Updated translations:
537 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
538 ===================================================
541 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
542 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
543 that are longer than 64 bytes
546 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
547 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
548 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
551 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
552 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
553 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
554 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
555 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
556 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
557 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
558 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
560 * Updated translations:
567 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
568 ===================================================
571 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
572 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
573 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
574 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
577 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
578 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
579 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
580 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
581 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
582 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
583 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
585 * Updated translations:
594 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
595 ===================================================
598 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
599 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
600 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
601 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
604 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
605 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
606 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
607 files and directories now
610 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
611 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
612 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
613 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
614 315437 extern inline -> static inline
615 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
616 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
617 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
618 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
619 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
620 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
621 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
622 505058 xattr namespace docs
623 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
624 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
625 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
626 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
627 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
628 503051 Small bug in glib interface
629 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
630 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
631 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
632 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
633 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
634 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
636 * Updated translations:
638 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
647 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
648 ===================================================
652 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
653 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
654 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
657 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
660 * GTest: a test framework
665 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
668 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
669 get the stack of open elements
670 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
672 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
676 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
677 success, instead of void
678 - Various performance improvements
681 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
682 a free function for leftover elements
685 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
686 to ease error propagation
688 * Internationalization:
689 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
690 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
692 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
695 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
696 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
697 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
698 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
699 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
700 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
701 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
702 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
703 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
704 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
705 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
706 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
707 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
708 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
709 490637 gobject documentation patch
710 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
711 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
712 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
713 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
714 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
715 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
716 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
717 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
718 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
719 503222 Need context to translate
720 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
721 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
722 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
723 71704 file include order
724 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
725 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
726 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
727 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
728 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
729 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
730 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
731 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
732 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
733 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
734 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
735 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
736 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
737 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
738 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
739 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
740 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
741 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
742 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
744 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
745 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
746 443648 MD5 digest support
747 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
748 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
749 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
750 500507 GHashTableIter API
752 * Translation updates
753 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
761 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
762 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
767 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
768 ===================================================
773 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
774 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
775 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
777 * Updated translations:
779 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
785 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
786 ===================================================
789 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
790 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
791 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
792 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
793 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
794 478349 Broken link to gettext website
795 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
797 * Updated translations:
804 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
805 ===================================================
808 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
809 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
810 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
811 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
812 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
813 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
814 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
815 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
816 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
817 468694 Typoes in documentation
818 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
819 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
820 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
821 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
823 * Updated translations:
828 Canadian English (en_CA)
829 British English (en_GB)
845 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
849 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
857 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
858 ===================================================
860 * Last-minute API additions:
861 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
862 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
867 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
868 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
869 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
871 * Updated translations:
878 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
882 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
883 ===================================================
885 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
886 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
887 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
890 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
891 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
894 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
895 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
896 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
897 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
898 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
899 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
900 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
901 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
902 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
904 * Updated translations
913 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
914 ===================================================
916 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
917 caused trouble for C++ bindings
920 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
921 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
923 * Updated translations
924 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
928 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
929 ===================================================
931 * xdg-user-dirs support:
932 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
933 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
936 - new api to duplicate slices
938 * Regular expression support:
939 - GRegex is a boxed type now
942 44793 make check failing in trunk
943 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
944 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
945 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
946 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
947 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
949 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
950 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
951 57693 g_string_vprintf()
952 442029 add g_slice_dup()
953 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
954 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
956 * Updated translations:
964 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
965 ===================================================
968 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
969 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
970 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
973 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
974 ===================================================
977 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
980 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
982 * Regular expression support:
983 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
984 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
985 replacement have been added
986 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
988 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
992 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
993 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
994 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
995 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
996 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
997 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
999 * Updated translations:
1001 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1004 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
1005 ===================================================
1008 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
1011 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
1013 * Updated translations:
1014 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1015 British English (en_GB)
1017 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1023 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
1024 ===================================================
1028 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
1029 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
1030 to obtain information about the compiled regex
1033 - Fix roundtrip problems
1034 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
1037 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
1040 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
1043 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
1044 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
1047 * Updated transations:
1048 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
1052 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
1053 =================================================
1055 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
1056 a balanced binary tree.
1058 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
1061 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
1062 for GTimer when available.
1064 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
1065 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
1067 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
1070 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
1073 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
1074 about zero-width characters.
1076 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
1079 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
1080 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
1081 be positioned before the function declaration.
1083 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
1084 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
1086 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
1089 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
1090 to define types in modules.
1092 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
1094 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
1095 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
1096 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
1100 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
1101 ===================================================
1104 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
1105 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
1106 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
1107 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
1108 unconvertable characters in place instead of
1109 replacing them by NUL
1112 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
1113 string with NUL bytes
1114 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
1115 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
1116 it considers a digit
1117 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
1118 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
1119 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
1120 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
1122 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
1123 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1126 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
1127 ===================================================
1129 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
1132 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
1133 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
1134 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
1135 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
1136 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
1137 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
1139 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
1140 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
1143 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
1144 =================================================
1147 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
1149 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
1152 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
1153 ===================================================
1156 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
1158 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
1162 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
1164 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
1167 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
1168 ===================================================
1171 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
1175 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
1177 * Updated translations (fi)
1179 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
1180 ===================================================
1182 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1184 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1186 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1188 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1189 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1192 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1193 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1194 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1195 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1196 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1198 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1199 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1201 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1202 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1203 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1205 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1208 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1209 ===================================================
1212 - Support 64-bit integers
1213 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1217 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1218 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1219 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1220 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1221 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1222 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1223 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1224 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1225 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1226 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1228 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1229 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1231 * Updated translation (es)
1233 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1234 ===================================================
1236 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1237 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1239 * Base64 encoding support
1241 * Unicode 5.0 support
1243 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1245 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1248 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1249 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1250 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1251 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1252 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1253 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1254 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1255 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1256 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1257 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1258 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1260 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1262 334646 goption + error out params
1263 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1264 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1265 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1266 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1267 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1268 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1269 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1270 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1271 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1272 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1273 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1274 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1276 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1277 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1280 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1281 ===================================================
1284 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1285 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1286 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1288 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1291 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1292 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1294 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1297 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1298 ==================================================
1301 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1303 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1304 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1305 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1306 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1307 number of bytes to check is specified
1309 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1310 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1312 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1313 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1315 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1317 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1318 =================================================
1321 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1322 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1323 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1325 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1326 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1328 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1330 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1331 =================================================
1333 * Memory management:
1334 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1335 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1336 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1337 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1338 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1341 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1342 extension [Albert Chin]
1343 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1344 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1345 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1346 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1348 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1350 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1351 =================================================
1354 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1355 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1359 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1360 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1361 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1363 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1367 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1368 =================================================
1371 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1372 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1374 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1375 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1376 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1377 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1379 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1380 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1383 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1385 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1386 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1388 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1391 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1393 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1396 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1397 =================================================
1399 * Memory management:
1400 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1401 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1402 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1405 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1407 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1408 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1409 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1410 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1413 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1414 floating reference. [Tim]
1415 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1418 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1419 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1421 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1422 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1424 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1425 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1427 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1430 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1431 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1432 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1433 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1434 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1435 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1436 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1437 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1438 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1440 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1441 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1442 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1443 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1444 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1445 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1446 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1447 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1450 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1451 =================================================
1454 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1455 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1456 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1457 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1460 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1463 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1464 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1465 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1466 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1467 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1468 variants [Martyn Russell]
1471 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1472 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1475 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1478 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1479 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1480 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1481 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1482 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1483 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1484 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1485 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1487 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1489 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1490 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1491 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1492 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1495 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1496 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1497 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1499 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1500 =================================================
1502 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1503 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1504 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1506 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1507 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1510 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1511 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1512 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1514 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1516 * Memory management:
1517 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1518 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1519 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1520 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1521 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1522 never worked as intended.
1523 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1524 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1525 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1526 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1527 efficient and scalable implementation.
1528 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1531 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1532 unnecessary recursion.
1535 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1536 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1537 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1541 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1544 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1545 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1546 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1550 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1551 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1552 since they are in glib.h
1555 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1556 =================================================
1557 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1558 * Fix build problems on OS X
1559 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1560 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1561 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1562 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1563 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1565 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1566 =================================================
1567 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1568 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1569 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1570 in GValues should also be changed to access
1571 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1573 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1574 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1576 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1577 =================================================
1578 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1579 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1581 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1582 =================================================
1583 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1585 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1586 work on s390 [Matthias]
1587 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1589 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1591 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1592 =================================================
1593 * Thread-related changes
1594 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1595 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1596 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1597 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1598 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1599 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1600 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1601 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1602 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1603 of gettext [Matthias]
1604 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1605 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1607 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1609 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1610 =================================================
1611 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1612 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1613 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1614 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1615 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1616 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1618 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1620 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1621 =================================================
1623 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1624 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1625 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1626 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1628 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1629 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1631 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1632 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1633 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1634 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1635 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1637 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1638 =================================================
1639 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1640 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1641 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1642 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1644 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1645 =================================================
1647 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1648 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1649 * Misc new functions:
1650 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1651 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1652 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1654 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1655 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1656 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1657 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1660 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1661 =================================================
1663 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1664 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1665 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1666 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1668 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1669 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1670 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1671 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1672 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1673 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1675 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1677 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1678 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1680 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1681 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1682 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1683 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1684 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1685 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1686 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1687 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1688 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1689 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1690 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1692 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1693 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1694 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1695 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1696 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1697 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1698 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1699 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1700 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1701 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1702 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1703 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1704 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1705 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1706 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1707 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1709 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1710 =================================================
1712 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1713 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1714 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1715 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1716 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1718 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1719 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1720 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1721 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1722 when check for executables [Tor]
1723 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1724 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1725 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1726 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1727 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1728 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1729 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1731 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1732 =================================================
1735 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1736 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1737 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1738 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1739 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1741 * Miscellaneous new functions
1742 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1743 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1744 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1745 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1746 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1747 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1748 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1749 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1750 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1751 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1753 * Performance improvements
1754 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1755 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1756 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1757 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1758 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1761 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1762 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1763 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1764 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1765 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1766 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1767 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1770 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1771 =================================================
1772 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1773 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1774 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1775 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1776 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1777 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1778 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1780 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1781 =================================================
1782 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1783 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1785 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1787 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1788 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1789 allocated memory [Matthias]
1790 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1792 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1793 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1794 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1795 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1797 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1798 =================================================
1800 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1801 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1803 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1805 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1806 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1807 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1808 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1809 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1811 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1812 =================================================
1814 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1815 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1816 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1818 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1819 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1820 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1821 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1822 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1823 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1824 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1825 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1826 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1827 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1829 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1830 =================================================
1831 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1832 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1833 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1834 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1835 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1838 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1839 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1840 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1841 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1842 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1843 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1845 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1846 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1847 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1848 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1849 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1850 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1851 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1852 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1854 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1855 =================================================
1857 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1858 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1860 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1861 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1862 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1863 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1864 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1865 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1866 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1867 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1868 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1870 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1871 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1873 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1874 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1876 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1877 =================================================
1878 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1879 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1880 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1881 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1882 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1883 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1884 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1885 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1886 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1887 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1889 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1890 =================================================
1892 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1893 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1894 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1895 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1896 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1897 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1899 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1900 =================================================
1902 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1903 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1905 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1906 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1908 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1909 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1910 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1911 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1912 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1913 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1914 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1915 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1916 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1917 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1918 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1919 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1921 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1922 =================================================
1924 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1925 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1926 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1927 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1929 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1930 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1931 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1933 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1934 =================================================
1936 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1937 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1938 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1939 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1941 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1942 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1944 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1945 =================================================
1947 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1948 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1949 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1950 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1951 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1952 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1953 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1955 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1956 =================================================
1958 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1959 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1960 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1961 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1962 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1963 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1964 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1965 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1966 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1967 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1968 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1970 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1971 =================================================
1973 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1974 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1975 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1976 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1977 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1978 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1979 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1980 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1982 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1983 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1985 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1986 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1987 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1989 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1991 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1992 =================================================
1994 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1995 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1996 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1997 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1999 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
2000 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
2001 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2002 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
2003 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
2004 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
2005 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
2006 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
2007 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
2008 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
2009 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
2010 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
2011 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
2013 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
2015 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
2016 =================================================
2018 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
2019 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
2020 with context [Matthias Clasen]
2021 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
2022 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
2023 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
2024 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
2025 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
2026 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
2027 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
2028 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
2029 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
2030 * GObject [Tim Janik]
2031 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
2032 like 'swapped-signal'.
2033 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
2034 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
2035 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
2036 init() implementations
2037 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
2038 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
2039 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
2040 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
2041 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
2043 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
2045 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
2046 =================================================
2048 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
2049 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
2050 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
2051 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
2052 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
2053 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
2054 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
2055 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
2056 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2057 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
2058 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
2059 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2060 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
2061 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
2062 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
2063 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
2064 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
2065 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
2066 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
2067 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
2068 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2070 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
2071 =================================================
2073 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
2074 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2075 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
2076 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
2077 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
2078 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
2080 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
2081 =================================================
2083 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2084 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
2085 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
2086 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
2087 if necessary [Manish Singh]
2088 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2089 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
2090 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2091 * Bug and portability fixes
2092 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
2094 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
2096 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
2097 =================================================
2099 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
2100 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
2101 Johannes Stezenbach]
2102 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
2103 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
2104 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
2106 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
2107 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
2108 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2109 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
2111 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
2112 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
2114 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
2115 =================================================
2117 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
2118 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
2119 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
2120 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
2121 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
2122 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
2123 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
2124 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
2125 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
2126 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
2127 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
2128 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
2129 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
2130 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2131 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
2133 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
2134 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
2135 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
2136 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
2137 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
2138 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
2139 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
2141 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
2142 =================================
2144 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
2145 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
2146 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
2147 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2148 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
2149 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
2150 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
2151 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
2152 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
2153 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
2154 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
2156 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
2157 =================================
2159 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2160 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2161 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2162 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2163 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2164 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2165 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2166 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2167 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2168 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2169 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2171 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
2172 =================================
2174 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2175 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2176 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2177 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2178 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2179 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2180 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2181 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2182 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2183 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2184 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2186 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2187 =================================
2189 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2190 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2191 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2192 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2194 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2195 =================================
2197 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2198 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2199 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2200 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2201 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2202 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2203 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2204 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2205 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2206 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2207 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2208 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2209 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2212 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2213 =================================
2215 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2216 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2217 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2218 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2219 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2220 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2221 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2222 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2223 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2224 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2225 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2226 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2227 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2228 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2229 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2230 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2233 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2234 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2237 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2238 =================================
2240 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2241 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2242 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2243 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2244 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2246 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2247 ======================================
2249 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2250 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2251 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2252 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2253 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2255 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2257 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2258 ===================================
2260 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2261 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2262 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2263 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2264 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2265 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2266 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2268 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2271 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2272 ===================================
2274 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2275 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2276 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2277 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2278 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2279 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2280 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2281 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2282 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2284 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2287 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2288 ===================================
2290 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2291 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2292 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2293 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2294 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2295 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2296 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2298 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2299 ===================================
2301 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2302 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2303 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2304 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2305 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2306 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2307 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2308 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2310 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2311 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2315 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2316 ===================================
2318 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2319 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2320 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2321 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2322 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2323 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2324 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2325 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2326 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2328 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2329 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2331 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2332 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2335 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2336 ===================================
2338 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2339 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2340 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2341 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2342 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2343 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2344 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2345 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2346 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2347 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2349 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2350 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2351 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2355 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2356 ==================================
2358 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2359 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2360 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2361 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2362 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2364 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2367 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2368 ==================================
2370 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2371 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2372 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2373 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2376 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2379 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2380 ==================================
2382 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2383 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2384 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2385 * Minor hash table optimizations
2386 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2387 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2388 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2389 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2390 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2391 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2392 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2393 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2394 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2395 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2396 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2399 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2400 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2401 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2405 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2406 ==================================
2408 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2409 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2410 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2411 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2413 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2414 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2415 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2416 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2417 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2421 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2422 ==================================
2424 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2425 declarations from header files.
2426 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2427 * Bug and Portability fixes
2430 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2431 ==================================
2433 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2436 * Documentation improvements
2439 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2440 ==================================
2444 * More user_data support in various functions.
2445 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2446 * Unicode handling improvements.
2447 * Implemented debugging traps.
2448 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2449 * Various new small utility functions.
2450 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2451 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2452 * Many Win32 improvements.
2453 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2454 * Many documentation improvements.
2455 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2457 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2458 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2459 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2460 * Hashtable API additions.
2461 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2462 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2466 * Added many convenience functions.
2467 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2468 * Reworked property change notification.
2469 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2470 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2471 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2472 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2473 * Added support for abstract types.
2474 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2475 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2476 and parameter conversions.
2477 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2478 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2480 * Implemented GValueArray.
2481 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2482 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2483 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2484 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2485 * Implemented debugging traps.
2486 * Made things thread-safe.
2487 * Many documentation improvements.
2488 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2491 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2492 ==================================
2496 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2497 * Improvements to error reporting
2498 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2499 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2500 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2501 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2502 not to be freed. [Darin]
2503 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2504 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2505 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2506 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2507 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2508 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2509 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2510 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2511 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2512 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2513 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2514 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2515 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2516 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2517 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2518 * Many documentation improvements.
2523 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2524 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2525 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2526 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2527 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2531 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2532 =========================
2534 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2535 the GTK+ object system.
2536 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2537 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2538 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2540 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2541 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2542 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2543 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2544 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2545 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2546 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2547 * Double ended queue implementation.
2548 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2549 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2550 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2551 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2552 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2553 more tightly defined semantics.
2554 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.