1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
3 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
4 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
5 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
6 * Minor hash table optimizations
7 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
8 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
9 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
10 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
11 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
12 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
13 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
14 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
15 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
16 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
17 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
19 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
21 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
22 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
23 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
24 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
26 * GDate const, convenience fixups
27 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
28 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
29 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
30 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
33 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
35 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
36 declarations from header files.
37 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
38 * Bug and Portability fixes
40 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
42 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
45 * Documentation improvements
47 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
49 * More user_data support in various functions.
50 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
51 * Unicode handling improvements.
52 * Implemented debugging traps.
53 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
54 * Various new small utility functions.
55 * Random number generator precision improvements.
56 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
57 * Many Win32 improvements.
58 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
59 * Many documentation improvements.
60 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
62 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
63 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
64 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
65 * Hashtable API additions.
66 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
67 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
69 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
73 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
74 * Improvements to error reporting
75 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
76 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
77 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
78 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
79 not to be freed. [Darin]
80 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
81 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
82 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
83 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
84 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
85 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
86 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
87 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
88 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
89 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
90 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
91 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
92 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
93 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
94 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
95 * Many documentation improvements.
100 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
101 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
102 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
103 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
104 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
107 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
109 * New GObject library added including object system based on
110 the GTK+ object system.
111 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
112 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
113 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
115 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
116 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
117 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
118 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
119 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
120 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
121 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
122 * Double ended queue implementation.
123 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
124 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
125 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
126 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
127 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
128 more tightly defined semantics.
129 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.