1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
2 ===================================================
4 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
6 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
8 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
10 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
11 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
14 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
15 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
16 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
17 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
18 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
20 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
21 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
23 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
24 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
25 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
27 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
30 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
31 ===================================================
34 - Support 64-bit integers
35 - Allow optional text before and after the options
39 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
40 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
41 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
42 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
43 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
44 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
45 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
46 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
47 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
48 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
50 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
51 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
53 * Updated translation (es)
55 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
56 ===================================================
58 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
59 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
61 * Base64 encoding support
65 * GOption supports floating point numbers
67 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
70 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
71 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
72 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
73 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
74 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
75 329789 option-test.c type confusion
76 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
77 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
78 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
79 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
80 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
82 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
84 334646 goption + error out params
85 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
86 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
87 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
88 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
89 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
90 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
91 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
92 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
93 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
94 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
95 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
96 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
98 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
99 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
102 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
103 ===================================================
106 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
107 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
108 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
110 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
113 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
114 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
116 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
119 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
120 ==================================================
123 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
125 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
126 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
127 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
128 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
129 number of bytes to check is specified
131 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
132 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
134 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
135 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
137 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
139 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
140 =================================================
143 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
144 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
145 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
147 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
148 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
150 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
152 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
153 =================================================
156 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
157 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
158 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
159 now be turned on at runtime by setting
160 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
163 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
164 extension [Albert Chin]
165 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
166 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
167 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
168 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
170 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
172 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
173 =================================================
176 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
177 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
181 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
182 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
183 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
185 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
189 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
190 =================================================
193 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
194 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
196 * Change g_filename_display_name and
197 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
198 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
199 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
201 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
202 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
205 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
207 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
208 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
210 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
213 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
215 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
218 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
219 =================================================
222 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
223 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
224 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
227 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
229 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
230 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
231 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
232 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
235 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
236 floating reference. [Tim]
237 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
240 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
241 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
243 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
244 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
246 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
247 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
249 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
252 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
253 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
254 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
255 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
256 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
257 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
258 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
259 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
260 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
262 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
263 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
264 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
265 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
266 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
267 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
268 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
269 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
272 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
273 =================================================
276 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
277 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
278 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
279 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
282 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
285 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
286 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
287 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
288 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
289 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
290 variants [Martyn Russell]
293 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
294 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
297 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
300 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
301 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
302 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
303 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
304 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
305 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
306 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
307 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
309 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
311 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
312 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
313 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
314 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
317 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
318 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
319 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
321 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
322 =================================================
324 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
325 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
326 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
328 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
329 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
332 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
333 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
334 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
336 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
339 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
340 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
341 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
342 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
343 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
344 never worked as intended.
345 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
346 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
347 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
348 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
349 efficient and scalable implementation.
350 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
353 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
354 unnecessary recursion.
357 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
358 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
359 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
363 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
366 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
367 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
368 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
372 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
373 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
374 since they are in glib.h
377 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
378 =================================================
379 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
380 * Fix build problems on OS X
381 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
382 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
383 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
384 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
385 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
387 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
388 =================================================
389 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
390 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
391 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
392 in GValues should also be changed to access
393 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
395 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
396 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
398 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
399 =================================================
400 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
401 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
403 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
404 =================================================
405 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
407 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
408 work on s390 [Matthias]
409 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
411 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
413 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
414 =================================================
415 * Thread-related changes
416 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
417 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
418 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
419 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
420 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
421 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
422 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
423 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
424 "make check" to fail when using older versions
425 of gettext [Matthias]
426 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
427 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
429 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
431 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
432 =================================================
433 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
434 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
435 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
436 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
437 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
438 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
440 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
442 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
443 =================================================
445 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
446 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
447 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
448 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
450 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
451 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
453 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
454 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
455 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
456 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
457 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
460 =================================================
461 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
462 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
463 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
464 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
466 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
467 =================================================
469 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
470 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
471 * Misc new functions:
472 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
473 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
474 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
476 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
477 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
478 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
479 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
482 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
483 =================================================
485 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
486 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
487 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
488 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
490 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
491 - Accept -? [Matthias]
492 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
493 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
494 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
495 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
497 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
499 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
500 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
502 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
503 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
504 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
505 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
506 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
507 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
508 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
509 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
510 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
511 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
512 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
514 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
515 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
516 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
517 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
518 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
519 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
520 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
521 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
522 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
523 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
524 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
525 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
526 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
527 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
528 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
529 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
531 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
532 =================================================
534 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
535 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
536 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
537 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
538 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
540 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
541 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
542 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
543 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
544 when check for executables [Tor]
545 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
546 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
547 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
548 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
549 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
550 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
551 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
553 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
554 =================================================
557 - GOption, a commandline option parser
558 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
559 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
560 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
561 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
563 * Miscellaneous new functions
564 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
565 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
566 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
567 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
568 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
569 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
570 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
571 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
572 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
573 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
575 * Performance improvements
576 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
577 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
578 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
579 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
580 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
583 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
584 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
585 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
586 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
587 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
588 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
589 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
592 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
593 =================================================
594 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
595 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
596 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
597 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
598 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
599 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
600 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
602 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
603 =================================================
604 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
605 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
607 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
609 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
610 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
611 allocated memory [Matthias]
612 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
614 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
615 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
616 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
617 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
619 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
620 =================================================
622 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
623 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
625 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
627 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
628 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
629 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
630 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
631 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
633 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
634 =================================================
636 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
637 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
638 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
640 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
641 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
642 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
643 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
644 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
645 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
646 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
647 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
648 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
649 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
651 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
652 =================================================
653 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
654 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
655 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
656 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
657 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
660 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
661 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
662 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
663 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
664 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
665 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
667 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
668 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
669 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
670 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
671 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
672 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
673 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
674 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
676 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
677 =================================================
679 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
680 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
682 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
683 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
684 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
685 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
686 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
687 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
688 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
689 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
690 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
692 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
693 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
695 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
696 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
698 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
699 =================================================
700 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
701 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
702 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
703 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
704 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
705 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
706 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
707 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
708 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
709 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
711 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
712 =================================================
714 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
715 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
716 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
717 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
718 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
719 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
721 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
722 =================================================
724 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
725 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
727 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
728 [Federico Mena Quintero]
730 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
731 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
732 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
733 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
734 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
735 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
736 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
737 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
738 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
739 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
740 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
741 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
743 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
744 =================================================
746 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
747 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
748 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
749 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
751 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
752 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
753 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
755 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
756 =================================================
758 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
759 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
760 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
761 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
763 * Documentation updates [Owen]
764 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
766 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
767 =================================================
769 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
770 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
771 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
772 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
773 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
774 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
775 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
777 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
778 =================================================
780 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
781 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
782 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
783 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
784 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
785 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
786 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
787 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
788 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
789 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
790 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
792 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
793 =================================================
795 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
796 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
797 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
798 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
799 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
800 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
801 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
802 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
804 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
805 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
807 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
808 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
809 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
811 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
813 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
814 =================================================
816 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
817 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
818 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
819 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
821 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
822 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
823 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
824 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
825 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
826 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
827 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
828 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
829 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
830 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
831 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
832 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
833 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
835 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
837 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
838 =================================================
840 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
841 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
842 with context [Matthias Clasen]
843 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
844 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
845 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
846 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
847 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
848 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
849 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
850 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
851 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
852 * GObject [Tim Janik]
853 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
854 like 'swapped-signal'.
855 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
856 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
857 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
858 init() implementations
859 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
860 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
861 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
862 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
863 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
865 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
867 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
868 =================================================
870 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
871 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
872 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
873 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
874 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
875 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
876 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
877 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
879 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
880 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
881 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
882 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
883 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
884 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
885 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
886 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
887 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
888 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
889 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
890 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
892 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
893 =================================================
895 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
896 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
897 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
898 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
899 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
900 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
902 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
903 =================================================
905 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
906 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
907 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
908 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
909 if necessary [Manish Singh]
910 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
911 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
912 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
913 * Bug and portability fixes
914 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
916 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
918 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
919 =================================================
921 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
922 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
924 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
926 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
928 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
929 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
930 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
931 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
933 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
934 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
936 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
937 =================================================
939 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
940 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
941 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
942 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
943 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
944 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
945 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
946 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
947 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
948 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
949 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
950 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
951 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
952 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
953 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
955 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
956 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
957 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
958 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
959 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
960 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
961 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
963 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
964 =================================
966 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
967 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
968 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
969 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
970 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
971 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
972 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
973 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
974 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
975 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
976 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
978 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
979 =================================
981 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
982 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
983 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
984 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
985 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
986 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
987 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
988 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
989 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
990 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
991 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
993 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
994 =================================
996 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
997 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
998 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
999 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1000 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1001 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1002 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1003 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1004 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1005 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1006 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1008 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1009 =================================
1011 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1012 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1013 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1014 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1016 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1017 =================================
1019 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1020 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1021 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1022 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1023 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1024 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1025 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1026 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1027 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1028 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1029 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1030 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1031 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1034 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1035 =================================
1037 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1038 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1039 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1040 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1041 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1042 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1043 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1044 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1045 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1046 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1047 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1048 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1049 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1050 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1051 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1052 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1055 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1056 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1059 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1060 =================================
1062 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1063 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1064 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1065 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1066 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1068 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1069 ======================================
1071 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1072 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1073 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1074 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1075 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1077 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1079 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1080 ===================================
1082 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1083 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1084 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1085 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1086 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1087 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1088 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1090 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1093 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1094 ===================================
1096 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1097 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1098 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1099 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1100 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1101 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1102 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1103 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1104 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1106 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1109 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1110 ===================================
1112 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1113 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1114 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1115 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1116 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1117 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1118 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1120 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1121 ===================================
1123 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1124 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1125 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1126 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1127 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1128 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1129 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1130 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1132 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1133 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1137 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1138 ===================================
1140 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1141 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1142 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1143 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1144 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1145 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1146 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1147 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1148 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1150 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1151 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1153 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1154 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1157 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1158 ===================================
1160 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1161 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1162 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1163 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1164 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1165 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1166 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1167 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1168 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1169 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1171 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1172 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1173 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1177 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1178 ==================================
1180 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1181 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1182 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1183 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1184 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1186 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1189 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1190 ==================================
1192 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1193 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1194 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1195 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1198 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1201 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1202 ==================================
1204 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1205 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1206 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1207 * Minor hash table optimizations
1208 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1209 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1210 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1211 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1212 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1213 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1214 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1215 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1216 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1217 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1218 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1221 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1222 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1223 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1227 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1228 ==================================
1230 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1231 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1232 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1233 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1235 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1236 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1237 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1238 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1239 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1243 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1244 ==================================
1246 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1247 declarations from header files.
1248 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1249 * Bug and Portability fixes
1252 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1253 ==================================
1255 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1258 * Documentation improvements
1261 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1262 ==================================
1266 * More user_data support in various functions.
1267 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1268 * Unicode handling improvements.
1269 * Implemented debugging traps.
1270 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1271 * Various new small utility functions.
1272 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1273 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1274 * Many Win32 improvements.
1275 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1276 * Many documentation improvements.
1277 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1279 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1280 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1281 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1282 * Hashtable API additions.
1283 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1284 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1288 * Added many convenience functions.
1289 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1290 * Reworked property change notification.
1291 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1292 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1293 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1294 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1295 * Added support for abstract types.
1296 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1297 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1298 and parameter conversions.
1299 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1300 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1302 * Implemented GValueArray.
1303 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1304 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1305 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1306 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1307 * Implemented debugging traps.
1308 * Made things thread-safe.
1309 * Many documentation improvements.
1310 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1313 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1314 ==================================
1318 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1319 * Improvements to error reporting
1320 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1321 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1322 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1323 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1324 not to be freed. [Darin]
1325 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1326 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1327 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1328 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1329 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1330 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1331 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1332 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1333 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1334 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1335 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1336 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1337 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1338 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1339 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1340 * Many documentation improvements.
1345 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1346 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1347 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1348 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1349 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1353 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1354 =========================
1356 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1357 the GTK+ object system.
1358 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1359 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1360 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1362 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1363 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1364 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1365 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1366 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1367 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1368 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1369 * Double ended queue implementation.
1370 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1371 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1372 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1373 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1374 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1375 more tightly defined semantics.
1376 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.