1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
2 =================================================
4 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
5 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
6 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
7 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
9 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
10 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
12 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
13 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
14 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
15 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
16 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
18 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
19 =================================================
20 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
21 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
22 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
23 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
25 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
26 =================================================
28 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
29 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
31 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
32 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
33 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
35 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
36 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
37 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
38 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
41 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
42 =================================================
44 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
45 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
46 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
47 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
49 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
50 - Accept -? [Matthias]
51 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
52 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
53 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
54 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
56 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
58 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
59 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
61 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
62 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
63 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
64 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
65 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
66 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
67 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
68 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
69 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
70 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
71 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
73 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
74 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
75 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
76 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
77 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
78 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
79 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
80 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
81 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
82 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
83 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
84 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
85 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
86 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
87 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
88 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
90 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
91 =================================================
93 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
94 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
95 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
96 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
97 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
99 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
100 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
101 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
102 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
103 when check for executables [Tor]
104 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
105 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
106 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
107 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
108 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
109 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
110 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
112 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
113 =================================================
116 - GOption, a commandline option parser
117 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
118 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
119 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
120 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
122 * Miscellaneous new functions
123 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
124 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
125 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
126 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
127 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
128 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
129 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
130 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
131 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
132 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
134 * Performance improvements
135 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
136 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
137 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
138 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
139 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
142 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
143 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
144 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
145 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
146 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
147 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
148 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
151 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
152 =================================================
153 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
154 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
155 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
156 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
157 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
158 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
159 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
161 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
162 =================================================
163 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
164 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
166 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
168 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
169 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
170 allocated memory [Matthias]
171 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
173 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
174 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
175 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
176 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
178 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
179 =================================================
181 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
182 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
184 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
186 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
187 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
188 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
189 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
190 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
192 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
193 =================================================
195 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
196 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
197 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
199 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
200 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
201 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
202 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
203 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
204 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
205 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
206 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
207 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
208 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
210 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
211 =================================================
212 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
213 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
214 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
215 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
216 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
219 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
220 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
221 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
222 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
223 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
224 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
226 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
227 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
228 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
229 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
230 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
231 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
232 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
233 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
235 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
236 =================================================
238 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
239 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
241 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
242 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
243 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
244 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
245 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
246 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
247 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
248 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
249 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
251 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
252 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
254 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
255 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
257 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
258 =================================================
259 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
260 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
261 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
262 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
263 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
264 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
265 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
266 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
267 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
268 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
270 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
271 =================================================
273 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
274 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
275 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
276 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
277 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
278 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
280 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
281 =================================================
283 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
284 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
286 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
287 [Federico Mena Quintero]
289 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
290 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
291 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
292 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
293 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
294 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
295 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
296 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
297 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
298 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
299 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
300 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
302 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
303 =================================================
305 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
306 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
307 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
308 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
310 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
311 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
312 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
314 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
315 =================================================
317 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
318 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
319 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
320 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
322 * Documentation updates [Owen]
323 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
325 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
326 =================================================
328 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
329 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
330 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
331 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
332 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
333 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
334 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
336 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
337 =================================================
339 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
340 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
341 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
342 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
343 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
344 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
345 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
346 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
347 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
348 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
349 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
351 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
352 =================================================
354 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
355 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
356 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
357 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
358 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
359 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
360 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
361 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
363 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
364 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
366 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
367 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
368 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
370 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
372 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
373 =================================================
375 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
376 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
377 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
378 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
380 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
381 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
382 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
383 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
384 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
385 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
386 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
387 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
388 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
389 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
390 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
391 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
392 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
394 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
396 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
397 =================================================
399 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
400 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
401 with context [Matthias Clasen]
402 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
403 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
404 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
405 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
406 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
407 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
408 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
409 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
410 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
411 * GObject [Tim Janik]
412 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
413 like 'swapped-signal'.
414 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
415 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
416 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
417 init() implementations
418 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
419 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
420 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
421 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
422 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
424 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
426 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
427 =================================================
429 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
430 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
431 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
432 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
433 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
434 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
435 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
436 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
438 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
439 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
440 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
441 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
442 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
443 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
444 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
445 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
446 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
447 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
448 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
449 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
451 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
452 =================================================
454 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
455 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
456 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
457 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
458 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
459 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
461 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
462 =================================================
464 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
465 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
466 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
467 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
468 if necessary [Manish Singh]
469 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
470 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
471 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
472 * Bug and portability fixes
473 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
475 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
477 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
478 =================================================
480 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
481 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
483 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
485 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
487 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
488 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
489 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
490 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
492 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
493 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
495 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
496 =================================================
498 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
499 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
500 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
501 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
502 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
503 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
504 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
505 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
506 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
507 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
508 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
509 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
510 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
511 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
512 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
514 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
515 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
516 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
517 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
518 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
519 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
520 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
522 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
523 =================================
525 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
526 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
527 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
528 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
529 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
530 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
531 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
532 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
533 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
534 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
535 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
537 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
538 =================================
540 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
541 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
542 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
543 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
544 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
545 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
546 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
547 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
548 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
549 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
550 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
552 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
553 =================================
555 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
556 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
557 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
558 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
559 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
560 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
561 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
562 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
563 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
564 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
565 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
567 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
568 =================================
570 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
571 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
572 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
573 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
575 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
576 =================================
578 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
579 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
580 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
581 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
582 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
583 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
584 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
585 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
586 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
587 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
588 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
589 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
590 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
593 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
594 =================================
596 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
597 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
598 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
599 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
600 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
601 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
602 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
603 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
604 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
605 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
606 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
607 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
608 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
609 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
610 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
611 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
614 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
615 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
618 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
619 =================================
621 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
622 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
623 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
624 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
625 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
627 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
628 ======================================
630 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
631 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
632 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
633 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
634 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
636 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
638 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
639 ===================================
641 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
642 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
643 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
644 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
645 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
646 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
647 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
649 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
652 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
653 ===================================
655 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
656 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
657 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
658 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
659 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
660 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
661 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
662 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
663 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
665 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
668 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
669 ===================================
671 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
672 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
673 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
674 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
675 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
676 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
677 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
679 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
680 ===================================
682 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
683 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
684 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
685 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
686 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
687 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
688 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
689 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
691 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
692 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
696 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
697 ===================================
699 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
700 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
701 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
702 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
703 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
704 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
705 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
706 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
707 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
709 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
710 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
712 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
713 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
716 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
717 ===================================
719 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
720 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
721 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
722 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
723 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
724 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
725 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
726 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
727 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
728 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
730 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
731 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
732 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
736 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
737 ==================================
739 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
740 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
741 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
742 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
743 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
745 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
748 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
749 ==================================
751 * Documentation updates [Owen]
752 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
753 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
754 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
757 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
760 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
761 ==================================
763 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
764 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
765 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
766 * Minor hash table optimizations
767 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
768 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
769 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
770 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
771 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
772 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
773 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
774 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
775 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
776 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
777 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
780 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
781 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
782 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
786 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
787 ==================================
789 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
790 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
791 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
792 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
794 * GDate const, convenience fixups
795 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
796 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
797 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
798 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
802 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
803 ==================================
805 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
806 declarations from header files.
807 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
808 * Bug and Portability fixes
811 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
812 ==================================
814 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
817 * Documentation improvements
820 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
821 ==================================
825 * More user_data support in various functions.
826 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
827 * Unicode handling improvements.
828 * Implemented debugging traps.
829 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
830 * Various new small utility functions.
831 * Random number generator precision improvements.
832 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
833 * Many Win32 improvements.
834 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
835 * Many documentation improvements.
836 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
838 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
839 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
840 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
841 * Hashtable API additions.
842 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
843 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
847 * Added many convenience functions.
848 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
849 * Reworked property change notification.
850 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
851 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
852 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
853 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
854 * Added support for abstract types.
855 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
856 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
857 and parameter conversions.
858 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
859 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
861 * Implemented GValueArray.
862 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
863 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
864 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
865 * Varrags value collection improvements.
866 * Implemented debugging traps.
867 * Made things thread-safe.
868 * Many documentation improvements.
869 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
872 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
873 ==================================
877 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
878 * Improvements to error reporting
879 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
880 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
881 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
882 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
883 not to be freed. [Darin]
884 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
885 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
886 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
887 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
888 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
889 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
890 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
891 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
892 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
893 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
894 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
895 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
896 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
897 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
898 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
899 * Many documentation improvements.
904 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
905 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
906 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
907 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
908 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
912 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
913 =========================
915 * New GObject library added including object system based on
916 the GTK+ object system.
917 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
918 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
919 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
921 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
922 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
923 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
924 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
925 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
926 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
927 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
928 * Double ended queue implementation.
929 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
930 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
931 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
932 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
933 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
934 more tightly defined semantics.
935 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.