1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
2 ===================================================
4 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
7 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
8 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
9 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
10 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
11 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
12 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
14 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
18 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
19 =================================================
22 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
24 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
27 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
28 ===================================================
31 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
33 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
37 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
39 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
42 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
43 ===================================================
46 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
50 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
52 * Updated translations (fi)
54 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
55 ===================================================
57 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
59 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
61 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
63 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
64 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
67 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
68 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
69 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
70 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
71 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
73 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
74 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
76 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
77 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
78 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
80 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
83 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
84 ===================================================
87 - Support 64-bit integers
88 - Allow optional text before and after the options
92 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
93 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
94 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
95 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
96 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
97 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
98 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
99 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
100 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
101 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
103 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
104 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
106 * Updated translation (es)
108 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
109 ===================================================
111 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
112 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
114 * Base64 encoding support
116 * Unicode 5.0 support
118 * GOption supports floating point numbers
120 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
123 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
124 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
125 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
126 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
127 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
128 329789 option-test.c type confusion
129 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
130 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
131 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
132 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
133 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
135 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
137 334646 goption + error out params
138 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
139 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
140 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
141 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
142 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
143 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
144 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
145 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
146 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
147 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
148 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
149 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
151 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
152 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
155 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
156 ===================================================
159 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
160 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
161 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
163 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
166 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
167 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
169 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
172 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
173 ==================================================
176 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
178 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
179 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
180 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
181 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
182 number of bytes to check is specified
184 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
185 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
187 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
188 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
190 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
192 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
193 =================================================
196 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
197 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
198 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
200 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
201 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
203 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
205 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
206 =================================================
209 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
210 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
211 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
212 now be turned on at runtime by setting
213 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
216 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
217 extension [Albert Chin]
218 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
219 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
220 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
221 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
223 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
225 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
226 =================================================
229 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
230 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
234 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
235 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
236 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
238 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
242 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
243 =================================================
246 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
247 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
249 * Change g_filename_display_name and
250 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
251 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
252 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
254 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
255 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
258 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
260 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
261 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
263 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
266 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
268 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
271 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
272 =================================================
275 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
276 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
277 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
280 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
282 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
283 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
284 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
285 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
288 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
289 floating reference. [Tim]
290 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
293 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
294 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
296 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
297 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
299 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
300 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
302 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
305 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
306 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
307 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
308 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
309 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
310 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
311 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
312 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
313 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
315 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
316 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
317 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
318 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
319 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
320 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
321 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
322 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
325 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
326 =================================================
329 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
330 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
331 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
332 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
335 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
338 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
339 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
340 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
341 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
342 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
343 variants [Martyn Russell]
346 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
347 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
350 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
353 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
354 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
355 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
356 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
357 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
358 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
359 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
360 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
362 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
364 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
365 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
366 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
367 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
370 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
371 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
372 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
374 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
375 =================================================
377 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
378 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
379 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
381 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
382 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
385 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
386 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
387 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
389 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
392 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
393 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
394 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
395 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
396 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
397 never worked as intended.
398 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
399 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
400 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
401 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
402 efficient and scalable implementation.
403 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
406 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
407 unnecessary recursion.
410 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
411 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
412 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
416 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
419 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
420 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
421 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
425 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
426 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
427 since they are in glib.h
430 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
431 =================================================
432 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
433 * Fix build problems on OS X
434 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
435 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
436 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
437 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
438 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
440 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
441 =================================================
442 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
443 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
444 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
445 in GValues should also be changed to access
446 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
448 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
449 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
451 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
452 =================================================
453 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
454 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
456 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
457 =================================================
458 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
460 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
461 work on s390 [Matthias]
462 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
464 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
466 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
467 =================================================
468 * Thread-related changes
469 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
470 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
471 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
472 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
473 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
474 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
475 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
476 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
477 "make check" to fail when using older versions
478 of gettext [Matthias]
479 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
480 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
482 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
484 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
485 =================================================
486 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
487 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
488 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
489 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
490 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
491 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
493 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
495 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
496 =================================================
498 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
499 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
500 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
501 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
503 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
504 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
506 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
507 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
508 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
509 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
510 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
512 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
513 =================================================
514 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
515 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
516 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
517 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
519 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
520 =================================================
522 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
523 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
524 * Misc new functions:
525 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
526 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
527 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
529 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
530 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
531 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
532 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
535 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
536 =================================================
538 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
539 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
540 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
541 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
543 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
544 - Accept -? [Matthias]
545 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
546 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
547 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
548 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
550 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
552 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
553 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
555 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
556 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
557 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
558 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
559 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
560 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
561 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
562 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
563 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
564 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
565 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
567 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
568 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
569 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
570 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
571 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
572 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
573 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
574 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
575 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
576 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
577 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
578 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
579 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
580 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
581 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
582 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
584 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
585 =================================================
587 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
588 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
589 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
590 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
591 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
593 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
594 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
595 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
596 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
597 when check for executables [Tor]
598 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
599 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
600 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
601 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
602 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
603 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
604 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
606 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
607 =================================================
610 - GOption, a commandline option parser
611 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
612 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
613 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
614 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
616 * Miscellaneous new functions
617 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
618 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
619 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
620 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
621 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
622 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
623 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
624 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
625 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
626 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
628 * Performance improvements
629 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
630 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
631 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
632 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
633 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
636 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
637 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
638 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
639 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
640 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
641 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
642 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
645 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
646 =================================================
647 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
648 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
649 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
650 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
651 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
652 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
653 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
655 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
656 =================================================
657 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
658 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
660 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
662 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
663 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
664 allocated memory [Matthias]
665 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
667 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
668 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
669 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
670 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
672 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
673 =================================================
675 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
676 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
678 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
680 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
681 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
682 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
683 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
684 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
686 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
687 =================================================
689 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
690 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
691 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
693 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
694 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
695 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
696 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
697 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
698 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
699 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
700 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
701 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
702 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
704 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
705 =================================================
706 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
707 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
708 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
709 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
710 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
713 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
714 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
715 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
716 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
717 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
718 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
720 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
721 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
722 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
723 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
724 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
725 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
726 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
727 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
729 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
730 =================================================
732 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
733 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
735 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
736 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
737 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
738 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
739 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
740 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
741 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
742 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
743 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
745 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
746 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
748 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
749 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
751 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
752 =================================================
753 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
754 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
755 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
756 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
757 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
758 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
759 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
760 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
761 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
762 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
764 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
765 =================================================
767 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
768 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
769 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
770 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
771 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
772 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
774 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
775 =================================================
777 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
778 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
780 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
781 [Federico Mena Quintero]
783 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
784 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
785 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
786 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
787 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
788 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
789 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
790 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
791 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
792 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
793 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
794 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
796 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
797 =================================================
799 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
800 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
801 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
802 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
804 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
805 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
806 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
808 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
809 =================================================
811 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
812 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
813 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
814 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
816 * Documentation updates [Owen]
817 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
819 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
820 =================================================
822 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
823 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
824 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
825 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
826 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
827 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
828 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
830 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
831 =================================================
833 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
834 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
835 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
836 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
837 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
838 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
839 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
840 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
841 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
842 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
843 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
845 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
846 =================================================
848 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
849 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
850 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
851 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
852 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
853 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
854 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
855 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
857 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
858 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
860 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
861 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
862 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
864 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
866 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
867 =================================================
869 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
870 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
871 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
872 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
874 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
875 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
876 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
877 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
878 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
879 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
880 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
881 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
882 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
883 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
884 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
885 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
886 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
888 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
890 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
891 =================================================
893 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
894 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
895 with context [Matthias Clasen]
896 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
897 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
898 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
899 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
900 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
901 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
902 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
903 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
904 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
905 * GObject [Tim Janik]
906 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
907 like 'swapped-signal'.
908 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
909 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
910 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
911 init() implementations
912 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
913 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
914 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
915 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
916 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
918 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
920 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
921 =================================================
923 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
924 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
925 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
926 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
927 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
928 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
929 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
930 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
932 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
933 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
934 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
935 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
936 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
937 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
938 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
939 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
940 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
941 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
942 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
943 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
945 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
946 =================================================
948 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
949 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
950 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
951 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
952 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
953 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
955 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
956 =================================================
958 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
959 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
960 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
961 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
962 if necessary [Manish Singh]
963 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
964 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
965 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
966 * Bug and portability fixes
967 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
969 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
971 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
972 =================================================
974 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
975 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
977 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
979 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
981 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
982 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
983 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
984 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
986 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
987 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
989 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
990 =================================================
992 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
993 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
994 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
995 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
996 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
997 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
998 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
999 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1000 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1001 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1002 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1003 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1004 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1005 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1006 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1008 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1009 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1010 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1011 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1012 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1013 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1014 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1016 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1017 =================================
1019 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1020 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1021 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1022 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1023 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1024 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1025 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1026 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1027 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1028 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1029 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1031 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1032 =================================
1034 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1035 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1036 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1037 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1038 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1039 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1040 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1041 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1042 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1043 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1044 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1046 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1047 =================================
1049 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1050 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1051 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1052 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1053 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1054 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1055 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1056 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1057 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1058 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1059 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1061 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1062 =================================
1064 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1065 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1066 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1067 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1069 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1070 =================================
1072 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1073 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1074 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1075 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1076 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1077 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1078 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1079 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1080 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1081 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1082 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1083 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1084 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1087 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1088 =================================
1090 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1091 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1092 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1093 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1094 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1095 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1096 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1097 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1098 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1099 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1100 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1101 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1102 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1103 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1104 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1105 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1108 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1109 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1112 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1113 =================================
1115 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1116 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1117 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1118 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1119 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1121 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1122 ======================================
1124 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1125 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1126 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1127 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1128 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1130 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1132 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1133 ===================================
1135 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1136 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1137 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1138 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1139 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1140 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1141 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1143 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1146 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1147 ===================================
1149 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1150 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1151 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1152 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1153 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1154 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1155 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1156 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1157 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1159 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1162 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1163 ===================================
1165 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1166 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1167 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1168 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1169 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1170 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1171 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1173 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1174 ===================================
1176 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1177 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1178 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1179 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1180 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1181 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1182 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1183 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1185 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1186 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1190 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1191 ===================================
1193 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1194 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1195 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1196 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1197 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1198 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1199 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1200 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1201 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1203 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1204 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1206 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1207 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1210 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1211 ===================================
1213 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1214 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1215 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1216 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1217 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1218 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1219 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1220 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1221 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1222 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1224 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1225 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1226 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1230 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1231 ==================================
1233 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1234 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1235 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1236 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1237 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1239 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1242 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1243 ==================================
1245 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1246 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1247 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1248 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1251 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1254 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1255 ==================================
1257 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1258 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1259 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1260 * Minor hash table optimizations
1261 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1262 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1263 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1264 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1265 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1266 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1267 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1268 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1269 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1270 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1271 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1274 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1275 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1276 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1280 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1281 ==================================
1283 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1284 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1285 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1286 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1288 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1289 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1290 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1291 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1292 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1296 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1297 ==================================
1299 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1300 declarations from header files.
1301 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1302 * Bug and Portability fixes
1305 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1306 ==================================
1308 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1311 * Documentation improvements
1314 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1315 ==================================
1319 * More user_data support in various functions.
1320 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1321 * Unicode handling improvements.
1322 * Implemented debugging traps.
1323 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1324 * Various new small utility functions.
1325 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1326 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1327 * Many Win32 improvements.
1328 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1329 * Many documentation improvements.
1330 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1332 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1333 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1334 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1335 * Hashtable API additions.
1336 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1337 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1341 * Added many convenience functions.
1342 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1343 * Reworked property change notification.
1344 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1345 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1346 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1347 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1348 * Added support for abstract types.
1349 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1350 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1351 and parameter conversions.
1352 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1353 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1355 * Implemented GValueArray.
1356 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1357 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1358 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1359 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1360 * Implemented debugging traps.
1361 * Made things thread-safe.
1362 * Many documentation improvements.
1363 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1366 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1367 ==================================
1371 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1372 * Improvements to error reporting
1373 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1374 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1375 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1376 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1377 not to be freed. [Darin]
1378 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1379 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1380 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1381 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1382 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1383 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1384 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1385 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1386 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1387 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1388 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1389 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1390 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1391 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1392 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1393 * Many documentation improvements.
1398 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1399 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1400 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1401 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1402 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1406 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1407 =========================
1409 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1410 the GTK+ object system.
1411 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1412 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1413 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1415 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1416 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1417 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1418 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1419 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1420 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1421 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1422 * Double ended queue implementation.
1423 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1424 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1425 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1426 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1427 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1428 more tightly defined semantics.
1429 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.