1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
2 =================================================
4 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
5 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
7 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
8 [Federico Mena Quintero]
10 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
11 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
12 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
13 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
14 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
15 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
16 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
17 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
18 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
19 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
20 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
21 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
23 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
24 =================================================
26 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
27 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
28 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
29 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
31 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
32 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
33 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
35 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
36 =================================================
38 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
39 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
40 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
41 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
43 * Documentation updates [Owen]
44 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
46 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
47 =================================================
49 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
50 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
51 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
52 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
53 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
54 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
55 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
57 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
58 =================================================
60 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
61 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
62 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
63 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
64 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
65 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
66 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
67 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
68 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
69 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
70 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
72 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
73 =================================================
75 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
76 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
77 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
78 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
79 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
80 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
81 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
82 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
84 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
85 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
87 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
88 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
89 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
91 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
93 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
94 =================================================
96 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
97 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
98 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
99 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
101 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
102 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
103 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
104 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
105 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
106 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
107 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
108 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
109 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
110 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
111 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
112 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
113 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
115 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
117 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
118 =================================================
120 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
121 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
122 with context [Matthias Clasen]
123 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
124 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
125 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
126 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
127 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
128 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
129 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
130 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
131 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
132 * GObject [Tim Janik]
133 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
134 like 'swapped-signal'.
135 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
136 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
137 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
138 init() implementations
139 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
140 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
141 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
142 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
143 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
145 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
147 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
148 =================================================
150 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
151 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
152 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
153 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
154 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
155 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
156 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
157 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
159 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
160 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
161 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
162 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
163 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
164 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
165 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
166 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
167 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
168 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
169 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
170 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
172 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
173 =================================================
175 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
176 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
177 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
178 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
179 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
180 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
182 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
183 =================================================
185 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
186 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
187 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
188 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
189 if necessary [Manish Singh]
190 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
191 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
192 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
193 * Bug and portability fixes
194 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
196 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
198 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
199 =================================================
201 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
202 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
204 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
206 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
208 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
209 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
210 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
211 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
213 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
214 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
216 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
217 =================================================
219 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
220 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
221 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
222 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
223 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
224 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
225 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
226 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
227 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
228 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
229 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
230 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
231 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
232 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
233 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
235 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
236 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
237 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
238 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
239 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
240 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
241 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
243 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
244 =================================
246 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
247 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
248 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
249 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
250 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
251 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
252 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
253 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
254 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
255 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
256 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
258 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
259 =================================
261 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
262 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
263 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
264 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
265 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
266 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
267 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
268 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
269 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
270 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
271 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
273 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
274 =================================
276 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
277 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
278 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
279 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
280 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
281 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
282 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
283 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
284 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
285 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
286 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
288 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
289 =================================
291 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
292 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
293 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
294 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
296 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
297 =================================
299 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
300 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
301 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
302 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
303 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
304 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
305 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
306 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
307 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
308 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
309 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
310 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
311 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
314 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
315 =================================
317 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
318 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
319 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
320 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
321 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
322 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
323 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
324 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
325 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
326 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
327 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
328 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
329 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
330 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
331 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
332 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
335 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
336 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
339 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
340 =================================
342 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
343 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
344 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
345 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
346 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
348 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
349 ======================================
351 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
352 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
353 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
354 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
355 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
357 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
359 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
360 ===================================
362 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
363 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
364 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
365 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
366 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
367 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
368 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
370 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
373 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
374 ===================================
376 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
377 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
378 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
379 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
380 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
381 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
382 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
383 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
384 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
386 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
389 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
390 ===================================
392 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
393 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
394 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
395 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
396 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
397 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
398 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
400 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
401 ===================================
403 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
404 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
405 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
406 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
407 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
408 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
409 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
410 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
412 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
413 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
417 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
418 ===================================
420 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
421 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
422 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
423 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
424 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
425 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
426 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
427 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
428 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
430 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
431 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
433 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
434 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
437 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
438 ===================================
440 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
441 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
442 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
443 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
444 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
445 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
446 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
447 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
448 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
449 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
451 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
452 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
453 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
457 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
458 ==================================
460 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
461 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
462 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
463 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
464 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
466 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
469 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
470 ==================================
472 * Documentation updates [Owen]
473 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
474 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
475 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
478 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
481 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
482 ==================================
484 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
485 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
486 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
487 * Minor hash table optimizations
488 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
489 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
490 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
491 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
492 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
493 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
494 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
495 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
496 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
497 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
498 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
501 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
502 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
503 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
507 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
508 ==================================
510 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
511 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
512 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
513 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
515 * GDate const, convenience fixups
516 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
517 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
518 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
519 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
523 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
524 ==================================
526 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
527 declarations from header files.
528 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
529 * Bug and Portability fixes
532 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
533 ==================================
535 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
538 * Documentation improvements
541 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
542 ==================================
546 * More user_data support in various functions.
547 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
548 * Unicode handling improvements.
549 * Implemented debugging traps.
550 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
551 * Various new small utility functions.
552 * Random number generator precision improvements.
553 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
554 * Many Win32 improvements.
555 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
556 * Many documentation improvements.
557 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
559 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
560 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
561 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
562 * Hashtable API additions.
563 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
564 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
568 * Added many convenience functions.
569 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
570 * Reworked property change notification.
571 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
572 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
573 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
574 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
575 * Added support for abstract types.
576 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
577 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
578 and parameter conversions.
579 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
580 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
582 * Implemented GValueArray.
583 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
584 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
585 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
586 * Varrags value collection improvements.
587 * Implemented debugging traps.
588 * Made things thread-safe.
589 * Many documentation improvements.
590 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
593 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
594 ==================================
598 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
599 * Improvements to error reporting
600 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
601 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
602 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
603 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
604 not to be freed. [Darin]
605 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
606 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
607 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
608 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
609 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
610 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
611 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
612 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
613 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
614 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
615 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
616 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
617 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
618 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
619 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
620 * Many documentation improvements.
625 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
626 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
627 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
628 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
629 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
633 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
634 =========================
636 * New GObject library added including object system based on
637 the GTK+ object system.
638 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
639 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
640 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
642 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
643 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
644 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
645 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
646 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
647 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
648 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
649 * Double ended queue implementation.
650 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
651 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
652 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
653 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
654 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
655 more tightly defined semantics.
656 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.