1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
4 * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
5 * Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
7 - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
8 - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
9 - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references
10 to other environment variables
11 - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
12 buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
13 - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
14 - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
15 - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order
16 - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
17 - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
18 - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
19 - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
20 - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
22 - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
24 - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
25 search path syntax conventions
26 - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
27 structure fields through their offsets
28 * Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
31 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
33 * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
34 * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
35 * New string join/split/free routines
38 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
40 * New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
41 object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
42 * glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
43 (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
44 be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
45 * Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
46 sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
47 * New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
48 associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
49 * New inline functions for bit masks tests.
50 * GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
51 * New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
52 platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
53 a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
54 People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
55 associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
56 * New utility functions:
57 g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
58 g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
59 g_strnfill(), g_memdup().
60 * Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
61 changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
62 * The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
63 new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
64 keyed data of GtkObjects).
65 * New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
66 * Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
67 * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
68 * Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
70 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
72 * Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
73 * fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
75 What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
77 * An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
78 * Bugfix for pointer arrays.
80 What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
82 * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
83 shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
85 * There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
86 * Fixups all over the place.
87 * gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
88 * API extensions for GList and GSList.
89 * New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
90 * GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
91 * Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
92 * Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
93 mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
94 * More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
95 * Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
97 * Generic functions for TAB completions.
98 * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.