1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
3 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
4 declarations from header files.
5 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
6 * Bug and Portability fixes
8 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
10 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
13 * Documentation improvements
15 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
17 * More user_data support in various functions.
18 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
19 * Unicode handling improvements.
20 * Implemented debugging traps.
21 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
22 * Various new small utility functions.
23 * Random number generator precision improvements.
24 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
25 * Many Win32 improvements.
26 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
27 * Many documentation improvements.
28 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
30 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
31 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
32 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
33 * Hashtable API additions.
34 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
35 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
37 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
41 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
42 * Improvements to error reporting
43 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
44 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
45 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
46 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
47 not to be freed. [Darin]
48 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
49 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
50 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
51 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
52 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
53 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
54 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
55 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
56 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
57 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
58 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
59 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
60 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
61 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
62 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
63 * Many documentation improvements.
68 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
69 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
70 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
71 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
72 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
75 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
77 * New GObject library added including object system based on
78 the GTK+ object system.
79 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
80 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
81 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
83 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
84 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
85 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
86 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
87 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
88 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
89 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
90 * Double ended queue implementation.
91 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
92 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
93 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
94 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
95 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
96 more tightly defined semantics.
97 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.