1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.0 to GLib 2.23.1
2 ===================================================
4 * GObject performance work has landed:
5 - Construction of simple objects is much faster
6 - Interface lookup is lock-free and constant-time now
7 - Reduced locking overhead when dealing with types
9 * GType now has a G_DEFINE_INTERFACE convenience macro
11 * GIO gained GUtf8InputStream, an input stream that
12 performs utf-8 validation
14 * GLib now has byte-swap macros for gsize and gssize
17 557151 Determining the newly_constructed boolean in gobject.c...
18 557100 Performance improvements for GObjectClasses that don't...
19 501166 Warning message says IA__g_type_init instead of g_type_init
20 585375 Performance and Contention problems with g_type_class_ref...
21 587892 Race in GType when instantiating the same class for the...
22 603270 Input Stream validating utf8
23 603476 gioenums.h:62: error: comma at end of enumerator list
24 603540 g_time_val_from_iso8601 uses uninitialised variable
25 603982 Stack overflow when reading file async with filter
26 604645 G_DEFINE_INTERFACE_* documentation is not generated
27 604875 Use of sa_len conflicts with system header
28 320482 provide G_DEFINE_TYPE like macros for interfaces
30 * Updated translations:
38 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.22.x to GLib 2.23.0
39 ===================================================
42 - GConverter: a generic interface for stateful conversions of data,
43 suitable for charset conversion, compression, decompression, regexp
44 replacement. Concrete implementations are GCharsetConverter,
45 GZlibCompressor and GZlibDecompressor. GConverterInputStream,
46 GConverterOutputStream are stream implementations that convert data
47 while loading or saving it.
48 - GMounts can now have a 'default location': a path that reflects
49 the main entry point for the user (e.g. the home directory).
50 - As a consequence of the compression support, GIO depends on zlib now.
53 - G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE_DYNAMIC: a convenience macro for adding
54 interfaces to dynamic types.
57 - The -pthread flag has been added to all gmodule .pc files, because
58 it is not generally permissible to load modules that are linked
59 against libpthread if the program has not been compiled with threading
63 601637 GUnixFDMessage should contain a GUnixFDList
64 585566 GSocketListener API issues
65 572252 Bug in g_file_test() function.
66 600550 g_app_info_create_from_commandline doesn't treat arguments properly
67 541236 not detecting exact content type
68 350200 [PATCH] GTypeModule derived class unref does not unload plugin
69 589631 Please enclose literal values with double quotes
70 577711 cross compile check for g++ broken
71 600620 Support X-GNOME-FullName in GAppInfo
72 598899 GWin32DirectoryMonitor is broken
73 593809 Nautilus does not restore the position of the icons on the desktop...
74 563627 g_get_prgname() threadsafety
75 600141 Add -pthread to gmodule pkg-config
76 593856 file and directory monitors don't work when glib is compiled...
77 324930 Nautilus should disallow copying of symlink to FAT drive early
78 587300 Deadlock when calling g_cancellable_disconnect in a...
79 595138 GFile not robust with invalid input
80 591216 Warning building resolver.o
81 590016 Does not compile under MinGW32 + Wine
82 591214 Warnings building gcancellable.o
83 561998 Have specific entry points (paths) for mounts...
84 508157 Add G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE_DYNAMIC
85 535159 g_file_has_parent
87 * Updated translations:
99 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.22.1 to GLib 2.22.2
100 ===================================================
103 - Support case-sensitive globs in the shared mime database,
104 including support for the newer cache format that allows these.
105 Case-sensitive globs have been introduced in shared-mime-info
109 - Speed up creation of simple objects
112 597194 Typo in _G_TYPE_CVH macro
114 * Updated translations:
118 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.22.0 to GLib 2.22.1
119 ===================================================
122 596064 Test file marked for translation
123 595972 possibly invalid search in mime_info_cache_dir_add_...
124 596561 C99 style of declaration of variable in gmessages.c
125 596314 g_utf16_to_utf8 returns an invalid UTF8 string
126 596748 g_async_result_get_source_object returns a new ref
127 593809 Nautilus does not restore the position of the icons...
128 593775 uses inotify_init1 unconditionally
130 * Updated translations:
135 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.6 to GLib 2.22.0
136 ===================================================
138 * Add gdb python macros to make gobject debugging more pleasant
141 579050 Allow making selected critical and warning messages non-fatal
142 594759 g_socket_send_message fails due to invalid sendmsg params
143 593941 GNetworkAddress skipping addresses when enumerating
144 594597 Fix build with srcdir != builddir
145 595619 Include gdb pretty printers
147 * Changes that might affect bindings:
148 - The error parameter of g_simple_async_result_set_from_error has been
151 * Updated translations:
185 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.5 to GLib 2.21.6
186 ===================================================
188 * Minor API additions:
189 g_mkstemp_full is a variant of g_mkstemp that allows to specify flags
193 593232 g_rand_new: read no more than requested from /dev/urandom
194 591995 use saved errno
195 589491 g_time_val_from_iso8601 doesn't handle some cases
196 593406 Permissions set to 777 after copying via Nautilus
197 594034 Add g_mkstemp_full()
199 * Updated translations:
220 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.4 to GLib 2.21.5
221 ===================================================
223 * A performance problem with trashing of many files has been fixed
225 * GResolver now invalidates the libc resolv.conf cache as needed
227 * Minor api additions:
228 - g_cancellable_make_pollfd returns a boolean now. And there is a
229 new function g_cancellable_release_fd that can be used to released
230 the resources used by a GCancellable.
233 589988 Compilation error on Solaris 9 (missing stdint.h)
234 588901 gtcpconnection.c won't compile
235 584246 GResolver needs to call res_init() when network state changes
236 591714 Figure out failure handling for g_cancellable_make_pollfd()
237 591532 redundent '/' returned from g_file_resolve_relative_path
238 591378 Use MSG_NOSIGNAL in GSocket if it's available
239 589649 API documentation migration for Base64 Encoding
240 591840 configure fails with autoconf 2.64
242 * Updated translations:
266 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.3 to GLib 2.21.4
267 ===================================================
269 * GTree is now refcounted
272 587938 Undocumented limitation for g_str_equal
273 587773 refcounts for GTree
275 * Updated translations:
285 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.2 to GLib 2.21.3
286 ===================================================
288 * GMappedFile is refcounted now
290 * Mainloop: It is now possible to set per-thread default contexts,
291 with g_main_context_push_thread_default.
293 * glib-mkenums supports a @basename@ substitution, in addition
297 - Vfs implementations can support storing of per-file metadata.
298 - GCancellable can now be subclassed.
299 - Unmount and eject methods now optionally allow interaction, via
300 variants that take a GMountOperation object.
303 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -?
304 579449 FileChoosers no longer work if an idle handler is active
305 579933 mainloop FD_CLOEXEC has a race condition
306 579984 alternate GMainContext support
307 585937 gio/gsocket.c (glib 2.21.2) does not compile (Windows/mingw)
308 586675 Runtime library location
309 586797 Add GCancellables to GSocket ops
310 586868 g_filename_complete_get_completions doesn't always return...
311 587415 g_resolver_lookup_by_name_finish returns a freed list
312 587434 regression tests fail, at least on x86_64
313 586928 Avoid g++ warning in g_error()
315 * Updated translations:
320 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.1 to GLib 2.21.2
321 ===================================================
324 - g_socket_speaks_ipv4 is a new function to check if a socket can
326 - g_socket_listener_add_address gained a new effective_address out
328 - GIO now returns special icons for XDG user directories, by the
329 name folder-music, folder-documents, etc.
330 - GIO gained support for starting/stopping of drives, which can be used
331 in connection with external hard disk enclosures, disk arrays, iSCSI
332 devices, etc. See g_file_start/stop_mountable.
335 - g_reload_user_special_dirs_cache is a new function to force GLib to
336 reload the XDG user directory mapping from disk.
339 584574 glib compile failure on Mac OS X with gunixresolver.c and...
340 585566 GSocketListener API issues
341 584255 Incorrect freeing of thread pool in GThreadedSocketService
342 585088 g_string_chunk_insert_len stops at nul bytes
343 585360 Monitor fontconfig configuration files using gio causes m...
344 580103 Terminal starts on Display :0.0 when started on :0.1 in D...
345 580301 network: a few issues on old darwin
346 583398 SRV weight sorting is incorrect
347 584176 build fixes on FreeBSD
348 585189 g_cancellable_reset() must be called in same thread as g_...
349 585280 compilation dies on gio/gsocket.c, needs sys/uio.h to con...
350 585281 gio/gunixfdmessage.c needs sys/types.h for platforms that...
351 585478 don't leak the inotify fd
352 585575 g_socket_listener_add_inet_port() doesn't do the right thing
353 585599 g_socket_listener_add_socket() consumes the socket
354 585676 GEmblem doesn't reference its 'icon' if that is set as a ...
355 585717 "bytes" nautilus translation to french is not shown in th...
356 541276 XDG directories should have their own icons
357 585726 Grammatical error in GList documentation
358 585520 Wrong warning option in documentation
359 585673 GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated glib symbols
360 585591 Starting/stopping drives
362 * Updated translations:
367 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.0 to GLib 2.21.1
368 ===================================================
371 - Support for network IO has been added, including a low-level
372 socket API and a high-level API for network connections and
374 - Support for read-write access with GIOStream and its subclasses.
375 - GMount gained a pre-unmount signal.
378 576104Implement GMount::pre-unmount
379 578769 implement GWinHttpFileInputStream::close_fn
380 582856 gsocket.c doesn't compile on Solaris
381 569375 g[u]intptr undocumented
382 573246 [FIX] g_desktop_app_info_dup() can access NULL pointer
383 575013 g_cancellable_push_current() does not allow NULL
384 577884 live-g-file.c:461: error: format ‘%d’ expects type ...
385 578499 g_output_stream_splice and stream closing with gnio strea...
386 579558 Application employing gvfs crashes with only libgvfscommo...
387 583001 SIGPIPE (grr!)
388 583061 Please add convenience function to connect to machines by...
389 583198 typo in error message
390 583206 use g_set_error_literal where appropriate
391 583229 void function g_async_initable_init_async returns value
392 583324 locking problem in g_main_context_iterate()
393 583408 void function g_socket_control_message_serialize returns ...
394 578786 wrong and confusing error message
395 583205 g_inet_address_to_bytes has no length outparam
396 583196 mem leak in keyfile test
397 583663 GSocketType enum ends with a comma
398 569024 Make g_error_new_valist public
399 569376 missing G_G[U]INTPTR_FORMAT
400 580347 off-by-1 bug in GWinHttpFile
402 * Updated translations:
408 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.x to GLib 2.21.0
409 ===================================================
412 - New helper functions g_cancellable_connect/disconnect to avoid
413 race conditions when connecting to the "cancelled" signal on
415 - New types and methods for dealing with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (and
416 UNIX domain socket addresses under UNIX). This does not include code
417 for actual socket I/O.
418 - GResolver provides asynchronous and cancellable APIs for resolving
419 hostnames, reverse lookup of IP addresses and resolving SRV records.
421 * Glib now provides hash and comparison functions for int64 and double
422 types, suitable for use with GHashTable.
424 * GArray, GPtrArray and GByteArray can be ref counted now, and have
428 572844 Helper for GCancellable::cancelled connect/disconnect
429 578363 goption docs should be improved
430 548466 async/cancellable DNS resolver
431 579830 param spec strings should use P_()
432 579862 requesting xattr::foo ends up calling getxattr(..., user...
433 580453 Hash and equal functions for gint64 and gdouble
434 580450 Reference counting and boxed types for arrays
435 580194 gresolver doesn't build on Solaris
436 580301 network: a few issues on old darwin
437 580299 network: include sys/types.h before sys/socket.h to insur...
438 572508 gmarkup speedup
439 580546 g_strtoull() referenced in documentation...
440 580656 g_key_file_set_string_list erroneously asserts list != NULL
441 579272 leaks in g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gpointer
444 * Updated translations:
450 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.0 to GLib 2.20.1
451 ===================================================
454 575555 Use fsync() when replacing files to avoid data loss on
455 575708 runaway inotify madness
456 575270 GVolumeMonitor::mount-pre-unmount not being emitted
457 577128 glib make check Failed to execute child process...
458 573673 Always show "backup" directories
459 578369 g_time_val_from_iso8601() parses timezones incorrectly
460 578002 Fix a small typo in GFile docs
461 578017 G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED docs
463 * Updated translations:
494 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.9 to GLib 2.20.0
495 ===================================================
497 * Base64 support: Avoid integer overflows. CVE-2008-4316
500 574019 GChecksum: document and guarantee hex characters in lower case
501 573454 Unable copy/move files to directories symlinked to gvfs share
502 561172 gnome-open fails on local URIs with anchors
503 573970 crash in gunixvolumemonitor:update_mounts when unmounting
504 573843 g_get_current_dir returns non-absolute path
506 * Updated translations:
522 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.8 to GLib 2.19.9
523 ===================================================
526 - Considerable speedup
529 - Add G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION flag to allow replacing
530 the destination of a copying operation as if it did not exit before.
531 - Be more careful when classifying files as desktop files
532 - Support desktop file key X-GIO-NoFuse which disables the use
533 of fuse pathnames for %u and %U arguments
536 572672 glib/gthread.c: argument is different type
537 572464 Doc for g_file_get_contents
538 572151 “it's” and “its” confused in docs and comments
539 570501 g_win32_get_system_data_dirs uses invalid conversion...
540 167569 g_string_append_printf crashes on win32 when used...
541 572508 gmarkup speedup
542 560564 Replacing a symlink with its linked file truncates...
543 549298 impossible to copy files with p (pipe) flag
544 543183 Clarify docs for g_file_has_prefix
545 540461 g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size() doesn't behave...
546 573462 GEmblemedIcon leak
547 573421 Clarify message format in GMountOperation
548 573658 Deadlock in giomodule.c
549 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -?
550 573527 Wrong shell to run config.status in Makefile.in.in
551 573128 A couple of typos in GObject documentation
553 * Updated translations:
555 British English (en_GB)
565 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
570 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
571 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
574 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.7 to GLib 2.19.8
575 ===================================================
577 * GIO: Fix missing exports of new API
579 * Fix strict aliasing warnings and violations to make Glib work
583 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.6 to GLib 2.19.7
584 ===================================================
587 - GFile gained an attribute for the actual file size in bytes
588 - GMountOperation gained an "aborted' signal that allows to abort
589 a mount operation from the backend side
592 523742 Use noinst for non-installable libraries
593 566747 URIs opened with firefox %u load as local files
594 541225 Can't compile gio on AIX duplicate case value in gioerror.c
595 571598 GAsyncResult with NULL gobject
596 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
598 * Updates translations:
603 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
610 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.5 to GLib 2.19.6
611 ===================================================
613 * New format macro to print goffset data: G_OFFSET_FORMAT
616 - Add a GFilter{Input,Output}Stream::close-base-stream properties which
617 determine whether the base stream will be closed when the filter stream
619 - g_data_input_stream_read_line and ..._read_until have asynchronous
623 568294 A wrong reference in the description of g_bookmark_file_...
624 563141 RFE: define G_OFFSET_FORMAT
625 569105 g_time_val_to_iso8601() assumes time_t==long
626 568394 dropping the last reference to a stream filter closes...
627 568741 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't work
628 568723 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't take count == -1
629 568575 _async functions for GDataInputStream
631 * Updated translations:
637 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
638 Traditional Chinese (zy_TW)
641 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.4 to GLib 2.19.5
642 ===================================================
644 * Update included PCRE to 7.8
646 * g_base64_decode_inplace: New function to do base64 decoding in place
649 567138 get_package_directory_from_module() does not free ...
650 566569 gregex docs clarification
651 566573 g_match_info_fetch_pos docs
652 564728 Add function to decode base64 encoded data in place
653 567838 G_STRUCT_OFFSETOF fails to compile under icc 9.1
654 567977 textdomain() macro should not return NULL ...
655 512779 --disable-regex breaks compilation
656 566770 error code 0 for Too many open files is useless
657 565484 g_content_type_guess passes non-UTF8 text to XDG ...
659 * Updated translations:
666 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.3 to GLib 2.19.4
667 ===================================================
670 - Use O_NOATIME when sniffing mimetypes
671 - Add a convenience method to check if a GSimpleAsyncResult
675 560676 function access for g_threads_supported
676 565905 There is no g_context_group_set_translation_domain
677 564210 SUN Studio 12 has supported visibility attribute
678 565136 GObject's "notify" signal parameters are wrong in gtk-doc
679 565831 error in interface creation sample
680 566348 g_file_open_tmp uses the wrong g_mkstemp on win32
681 566064 Add NOATIME flag to query_info_flags
682 566170 g_async_result_verify_source_object
684 * Updated translations:
686 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
687 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
688 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
691 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.1 to GLib 2.19.3
692 ===================================================
695 508021 Add support for the CRIS and CRISv32 architectures
696 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permission to use
697 558458 Cannot build gio tests on Solaris using SUN cc
698 555465 GUnix{Input,Output}Stream lacks fd/close_fd_at_close property
699 558298 Hide ecryptfs mounts
700 515777 incorrect date&time on copy
701 562452 Ensure we return G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED if cancelling
702 g_simple_async_result_run_in_thread
703 473150 g_type_module_use inconsistently increases the use
704 counter in case of error
705 563150 G_GU?INT*_MODIFIER/FORMAT docs
706 563156 Document printing and scanning gunichar values
708 * Updated translations:
713 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.0 to GLib 2.19.1
714 ===================================================
717 - g_icon_to_string, g_icon_new_for_string: GIcon serialization support
718 - G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON: new file attribute for preview images
719 - g_app_info_get_commandline: new function to get the full commandline
720 - g_mount_shadow, g_mount_unshadow, g_mount_is_shadowed: New functions
721 to 'shadow' mounts (i.e. hide them from the UI when they already
722 have a different representation, like a bookmark)
725 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion
726 557087 mem leak in g_content_types_get_registered
727 556921 gpoll.h breaks hal compilation
728 557210 g_compute_checksum_for_* asserts with less than 2 bytes
729 558381 Add support for compile time assertions
730 558185 'parent' variable in g_local_file_get_child_for_display_name()
731 hits g_object_unref(NULL) assertion
732 558513 g_warn_if_fail FIXME in gtestutils
733 558672 NULL key lookup using g_hash_table_lookup_extended()
734 555740 gicon serialization
735 557182 preview functionality
736 528320 Incorrect icons displayed for files with custom mimetype icons
737 556910 Memory leak: sub
738 557592 Missing include in gwinhttpfile.c
739 556415 Crash on Windows 2000 in g_winhttp_vfs_init()
740 555935 Clarify the mechanism of overwriting properties
741 552776 ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r not mentioned
742 559448 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
743 561212 GFileReadMoreCallback API doc refers to non-existant function
744 560569 gkeyfile doesn't use the set list_separator in some cases
745 560568 gkeyfile docs buglet
746 559413 g_option_group_set_error_hook docs buglet
747 562378 callback return value not respected for callback option
749 559110 Do not include libintl.h after glibintl.h
750 557603 carbon check output misplaced
751 562544 g_key_file_get_string and g_key_file_get_value
752 documentation does not explain the difference
753 547264 Missing "no flags" flag
754 562638 GDebugKey key member should be const
755 562639 g_parse_debug_flags() parsing "help"
756 562549 g_byte_array_free should tell how free data
757 559452 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
758 559462 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
759 559517 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
760 562538 GObject interface tutorial shouldn't finalise with
761 "Please forget everything"
762 561352 Leak of icon description
763 561375 Leaks mountpoint description
764 561807 inotify_sub.c: dup_dirname() fails to remove trailing '/'
765 562393 g_buffered_input_stream_read_byte broken if data available
766 541715 win32 : patch for warnings and signature problems in recent code
767 547481 g_data_input_stream_read_line behaves not as stated in the docs
768 548163 Nautilus displays wrong error message for too long file names
769 559633 gtk_image_new_from_gicon does not always work for .desktop files
770 555486 – No way to recover command line from GAppInfo
772 * Translation updates:
777 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.1 to GLib 2.19.0
778 ===================================================
780 * Rewrite GHashTable to use open addressing with quadratic probing instead
781 of chaining. This has the potential to reduce memory fragmentation
782 significantly, while being slightly faster due to better locality and
783 no need to call alloc/free functions for nodes. Benchmarks suggest it
784 also uses less memory overall.
786 * Make g_poll available as public api
788 * New macros g_assert_error and g_assert_no_error to assert
789 that a GError is set or unset
791 * g_cancellable_make_pollfd: New method to make a GPollFD for a cancellable
793 * g_app_info_can_delete, g_app_info_delete, g_app_info_reset_type_associations:
794 New functions to clean up app infos and content types
796 * When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris when possible,
797 and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris.
800 505361 gunixinputstream.c assumes poll() available
801 509446 portable blocking gio cancellation
802 553820 gpoll.c: undeclared identifier
803 553724 python interpretter path not patched in correctly
804 553857 gbacktrace.h requires signal.h
805 553447 g_assert_no_error()
806 554092 glib doesn't return G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT et al on OS X
807 528670 Always pass file:/// uri's in GAppLaunchContext
808 555224 Improve g_format_size_for_display doc
809 555309 giochannel breaks on error
810 554790 g_convert() misbehaves with winiconv versions
811 555314 mem leak in gmarkup
812 555313 GFileAttribute boxed type get_type function should...
813 552861 glib-2.0.m4 calls system(3) without storing its result
814 554557 Patch to fix gcc warnings about missing format specifiers
815 552107 Small libtool fixes
816 551355 Make glib build with libtool 2.2
817 555311 format not a string literal and no format arguments
818 556101 static mutex yields warnings with g++
819 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion
820 526456 Open addressing in GHashTable
821 553426 cancellable clarifications
822 545350 GAppInfo deletion
823 545351 Reset associations for content type
824 552168 volume's mount not mounted after g_volume_mount_finish
825 554970 segfault when update-desktop-database is not available...
826 554745 GFileAttributeInfoList should be boxed
827 555121 Improved build-time handling of gio module-dir
828 555711 Wrong fallback order of mimetype icons
829 555331 Deprecate adoption of mounts
830 556335 make check fails in abicheck.sh
831 556334 Warning when building without selinux support
832 556422 g_file_enumerator_next_file: unclear...
834 * Updated translations:
838 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
843 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.0 to GLib 2.18.1
844 ===================================================
847 550433 g_test_init doesn't recognize --help
848 523463 Core dump in gmain.c:2482:IA__g_main_context_check
849 551228 G_STRFUNC on recent Sun compiler should be expanded...
850 551410 gtestutils.c: using printf without prototype
851 551731 g_date_set_time[_t] docs should mention what timezone
852 548321 <string.h> is not included in gi18n-lib.h
853 551149 xdgmime mem leak
854 550647 synchronous pipe I/O when reading mount reply
855 551887 Docs for g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename aren't...
856 551681 g_content_type_guess() too naive with filenames
857 552352 g_app_info_launch doesn't work if "Path" key...
858 551408 gmodule.def generated to builddir...
859 552359 g_file_info_get_icon should return GThemedIcon, and...
861 * Updated translations:
863 Bengali India (bn_IN)
864 British English (en_GB)
873 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.7 to GLib 2.18.0
874 ===================================================
877 - rework the g_poll() implementation to match poll() semantics more closely
880 324234 Using g_io_add_watch_full() to wait for connect() to return...
881 548278 Async GETs connections are always terminated unexpectedly...
882 500246 Bug fixes for giowin32
883 523939 Example program for GValue
884 550096 GBookmarkFile parser is not forward compatible
885 550040 Move GString, rand and printf tests to the unit test framework
886 550104 trivial documentation fix for g_get_home_dir
887 548988 g_file_replace fails on Windows when the target file exists
888 550059 Wrong docs for g_emblemed_icon_add_emblem
889 548800 Missing a g_object_get_type function
890 550056 Missing documentation for g_emblemed_icon_get_emblems
892 * Updated translations:
912 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
913 ===================================================
915 * More fixes for 64-bit Windows
918 - Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows
921 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
922 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
923 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
924 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
925 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
926 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
927 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
928 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
929 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
930 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
931 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop
932 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
933 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
934 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
935 547262 Missing link in the docs
937 * Updated translations:
946 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
948 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
953 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
954 ===================================================
956 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
958 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
959 the user_data outside of callbacks
962 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
963 g_mount_guess_content_type
964 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
966 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
970 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
971 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
972 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
973 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
974 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
975 529694 SELinux context setting support
976 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
977 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
978 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
979 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
980 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
981 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
982 546079 leak in xdgmime
983 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
984 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
986 * Updated translations:
993 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
998 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
999 ===================================================
1002 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
1003 g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
1004 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
1005 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
1006 g_volume_get_activation_root
1009 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
1010 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
1012 * Internationalization:
1013 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
1016 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
1017 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
1020 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
1021 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
1022 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
1023 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
1024 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
1025 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
1026 541794 drive-eject-button signal
1027 541793 activation root for volumes
1028 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
1029 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
1030 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
1031 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
1032 406120 g_ascii_strtod
1033 334234 "printf" format error
1034 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
1035 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
1036 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
1037 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
1038 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
1039 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
1040 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
1041 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
1042 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
1044 * Updated translation:
1050 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
1051 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
1054 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
1055 ===================================================
1058 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
1061 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
1062 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
1063 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
1064 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
1065 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
1066 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
1067 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
1068 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
1069 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
1070 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
1071 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
1072 535947 want g_set_error_literal
1073 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
1074 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
1075 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
1076 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
1077 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
1078 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
1079 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
1080 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
1081 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
1082 536733 gio build failure on Irix
1083 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
1084 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
1085 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
1086 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
1087 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
1089 Updated translations:
1094 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
1095 ===================================================
1097 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
1099 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
1100 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
1102 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
1103 icons for mime types
1105 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
1108 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
1109 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
1110 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
1111 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
1112 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
1113 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
1114 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
1115 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
1116 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
1117 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
1118 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
1119 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
1120 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
1121 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
1122 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
1123 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
1124 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
1125 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
1126 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
1127 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
1128 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
1130 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
1131 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
1132 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
1133 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
1134 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
1135 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
1136 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
1137 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
1138 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
1140 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
1141 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
1142 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
1143 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
1144 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
1146 * Translation updates:
1150 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1154 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
1155 ===================================================
1157 * Update to Unicode 5.1
1159 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
1161 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
1163 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
1164 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
1165 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
1167 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
1169 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
1171 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
1172 additional GIO modules
1174 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
1177 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
1179 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
1180 rate at which events are reported
1182 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
1185 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
1186 size of the written data.
1189 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
1190 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
1191 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
1192 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
1194 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
1195 315437 extern inline -> static inline
1196 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
1197 alphanumerics into half width
1198 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
1199 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
1200 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
1201 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
1202 526619 make test-report crash
1203 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
1204 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
1205 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
1206 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
1207 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
1208 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
1209 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
1210 501651 Update glib/libcharset
1211 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
1212 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
1213 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
1214 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
1215 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
1216 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
1217 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
1218 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
1219 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
1220 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
1221 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
1222 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
1223 describe purpose of nick and blurb
1224 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
1225 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
1226 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
1227 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
1228 521672 compile error
1229 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
1230 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
1231 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
1232 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
1233 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
1234 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
1235 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
1236 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
1237 524950 Minor documentation typos.
1238 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
1239 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
1240 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
1241 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
1242 534759 Build failure in gio
1243 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
1244 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
1245 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
1246 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
1247 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
1248 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
1249 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
1251 * Updated translations:
1257 Candian English (en_CA)
1258 British English (en_GB)
1267 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1279 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
1280 ===================================================
1282 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
1284 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
1287 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
1288 ===================================================
1290 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
1293 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
1294 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
1296 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
1299 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
1300 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
1301 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
1302 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
1303 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
1304 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
1305 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
1306 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
1307 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
1308 518720 No MIME type for empty files
1309 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
1310 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
1311 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
1313 * Updated translations:
1315 Bengali India (bn_IN)
1327 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1334 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
1335 ===================================================
1338 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
1339 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
1340 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
1341 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
1342 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
1343 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
1344 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
1347 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
1348 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
1349 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
1350 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
1351 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
1354 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
1356 * Updated translations:
1358 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1360 British English (en_GB)
1366 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1368 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
1372 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
1373 ===================================================
1375 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
1378 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
1379 should be mounted automatically
1380 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
1381 the default handler for a file
1382 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
1383 launch the default handler for a URI
1384 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
1386 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
1387 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
1388 - There is the beginning of a test suite
1389 - standard::description: new file attribute
1390 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
1393 - class initialization is now threadsafe
1395 * Updated translations:
1407 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
1412 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
1413 ===================================================
1415 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
1418 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
1419 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
1420 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
1421 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
1422 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
1425 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
1426 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
1427 385132 solaris gettext support fix
1428 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
1429 510292 GOption main help not shown
1430 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
1431 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
1432 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
1433 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
1435 * Updated translations:
1448 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
1449 ===================================================
1452 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
1453 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
1454 that are longer than 64 bytes
1457 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
1458 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
1459 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
1462 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
1463 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
1464 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
1465 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
1466 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
1467 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
1468 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
1469 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
1471 * Updated translations:
1478 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
1479 ===================================================
1482 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
1483 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
1484 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
1485 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
1488 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
1489 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
1490 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
1491 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
1492 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
1493 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
1494 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
1496 * Updated translations:
1505 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
1506 ===================================================
1508 * Portability fixes:
1509 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
1510 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
1511 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
1512 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
1515 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
1516 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
1517 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
1518 files and directories now
1521 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
1522 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
1523 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
1524 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
1525 315437 extern inline -> static inline
1526 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
1527 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
1528 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
1529 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
1530 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
1531 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
1532 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
1533 505058 xattr namespace docs
1534 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
1535 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
1536 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
1537 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
1538 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
1539 503051 Small bug in glib interface
1540 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
1541 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
1542 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
1543 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
1544 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
1545 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
1547 * Updated translations:
1549 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1558 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
1559 ===================================================
1563 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
1564 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
1565 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
1568 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
1571 * GTest: a test framework
1576 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
1579 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
1580 get the stack of open elements
1581 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
1583 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
1587 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
1588 success, instead of void
1589 - Various performance improvements
1592 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
1593 a free function for leftover elements
1596 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
1597 to ease error propagation
1599 * Internationalization:
1600 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
1601 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
1603 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
1606 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
1607 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
1608 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
1609 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
1610 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
1611 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
1612 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
1613 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
1614 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
1615 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
1616 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
1617 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
1618 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
1619 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
1620 490637 gobject documentation patch
1621 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
1622 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
1623 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
1624 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
1625 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
1626 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
1627 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
1628 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
1629 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
1630 503222 Need context to translate
1631 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
1632 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
1633 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
1634 71704 file include order
1635 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
1636 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
1637 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
1638 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
1639 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
1640 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
1641 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
1642 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
1643 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
1644 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
1645 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
1646 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
1647 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
1648 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
1649 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
1650 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
1651 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
1652 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
1653 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
1655 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
1656 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
1657 443648 MD5 digest support
1658 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
1659 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
1660 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
1661 500507 GHashTableIter API
1663 * Translation updates
1664 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1672 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1673 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
1678 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
1679 ===================================================
1681 * Update PCRE to 7.4
1684 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
1685 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
1686 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
1688 * Updated translations:
1690 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1696 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
1697 ===================================================
1700 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
1701 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
1702 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
1703 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
1704 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
1705 478349 Broken link to gettext website
1706 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
1708 * Updated translations:
1715 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
1716 ===================================================
1719 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
1720 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
1721 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
1722 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
1723 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
1724 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
1725 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
1726 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
1727 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
1728 468694 Typoes in documentation
1729 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
1730 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
1731 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
1732 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
1734 * Updated translations:
1739 Canadian English (en_CA)
1740 British English (en_GB)
1756 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
1760 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
1768 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
1769 ===================================================
1771 * Last-minute API additions:
1772 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
1773 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
1775 * Update PCRE to 7.2
1778 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
1779 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
1780 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
1782 * Updated translations:
1789 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
1793 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
1794 ===================================================
1796 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
1797 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
1798 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
1801 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
1802 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
1805 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
1806 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
1807 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
1808 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
1809 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
1810 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
1811 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
1812 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
1813 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
1815 * Updated translations
1824 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
1825 ===================================================
1827 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
1828 caused trouble for C++ bindings
1831 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
1832 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
1834 * Updated translations
1835 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1839 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
1840 ===================================================
1842 * xdg-user-dirs support:
1843 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
1844 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
1847 - new api to duplicate slices
1849 * Regular expression support:
1850 - GRegex is a boxed type now
1853 44793 make check failing in trunk
1854 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
1855 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
1856 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
1857 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
1858 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
1859 447583 GStaticRWLock
1860 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
1861 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
1862 57693 g_string_vprintf()
1863 442029 add g_slice_dup()
1864 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
1865 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
1867 * Updated translations:
1875 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
1876 ===================================================
1879 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
1880 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
1881 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
1884 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
1885 ===================================================
1888 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
1891 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
1893 * Regular expression support:
1894 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
1895 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
1896 replacement have been added
1897 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
1899 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
1903 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
1904 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
1905 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
1906 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
1907 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
1908 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
1910 * Updated translations:
1912 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1915 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
1916 ===================================================
1919 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
1922 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
1924 * Updated translations:
1925 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1926 British English (en_GB)
1928 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1934 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
1935 ===================================================
1939 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
1940 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
1941 to obtain information about the compiled regex
1944 - Fix roundtrip problems
1945 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
1948 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
1951 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
1954 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
1955 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
1958 * Updated transations:
1959 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
1963 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
1964 =================================================
1966 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
1967 a balanced binary tree.
1969 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
1972 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
1973 for GTimer when available.
1975 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
1976 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
1978 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
1981 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
1984 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
1985 about zero-width characters.
1987 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
1990 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
1991 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
1992 be positioned before the function declaration.
1994 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
1995 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
1997 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
2000 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
2001 to define types in modules.
2003 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
2005 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
2006 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
2007 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
2011 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
2012 ===================================================
2015 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
2016 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
2017 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
2018 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
2019 unconvertable characters in place instead of
2020 replacing them by NUL
2023 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
2024 string with NUL bytes
2025 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
2026 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
2027 it considers a digit
2028 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
2029 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
2030 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
2031 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
2033 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
2034 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
2037 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
2038 ===================================================
2040 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
2043 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
2044 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
2045 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
2046 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
2047 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
2048 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
2050 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
2051 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
2054 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
2055 =================================================
2058 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
2060 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
2063 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
2064 ===================================================
2067 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
2069 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
2073 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
2075 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
2078 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
2079 ===================================================
2082 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
2086 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
2088 * Updated translations (fi)
2090 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
2091 ===================================================
2093 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
2095 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
2097 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
2099 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
2100 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
2103 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
2104 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
2105 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
2106 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
2107 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
2109 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
2110 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
2112 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
2113 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
2114 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
2116 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
2119 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
2120 ===================================================
2123 - Support 64-bit integers
2124 - Allow optional text before and after the options
2128 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
2129 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
2130 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
2131 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
2132 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
2133 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
2134 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
2135 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
2136 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
2137 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
2139 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
2140 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
2142 * Updated translation (es)
2144 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
2145 ===================================================
2147 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
2148 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
2150 * Base64 encoding support
2152 * Unicode 5.0 support
2154 * GOption supports floating point numbers
2156 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
2159 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
2160 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
2161 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
2162 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
2163 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
2164 329789 option-test.c type confusion
2165 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
2166 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
2167 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
2168 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
2169 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
2171 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
2173 334646 goption + error out params
2174 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
2175 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
2176 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
2177 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
2178 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
2179 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
2180 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
2181 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
2182 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
2183 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
2184 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
2185 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
2187 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
2188 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
2191 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
2192 ===================================================
2195 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
2196 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
2197 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
2199 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
2202 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
2203 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
2205 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
2208 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
2209 ==================================================
2212 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
2214 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
2215 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2216 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
2217 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
2218 number of bytes to check is specified
2220 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
2221 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
2223 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
2224 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
2226 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
2228 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
2229 =================================================
2232 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
2233 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
2234 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
2236 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
2237 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
2239 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
2241 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
2242 =================================================
2244 * Memory management:
2245 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
2246 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
2247 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
2248 now be turned on at runtime by setting
2249 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
2252 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
2253 extension [Albert Chin]
2254 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
2255 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
2256 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
2257 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
2259 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
2261 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
2262 =================================================
2265 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
2266 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
2270 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
2271 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
2272 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2274 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
2278 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
2279 =================================================
2282 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
2283 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
2285 * Change g_filename_display_name and
2286 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
2287 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
2288 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
2290 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
2291 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
2294 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
2296 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
2297 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
2299 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
2302 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
2304 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
2307 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
2308 =================================================
2310 * Memory management:
2311 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
2312 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
2313 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
2316 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
2318 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
2319 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
2320 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
2321 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
2324 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
2325 floating reference. [Tim]
2326 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
2329 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
2330 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
2332 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
2333 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
2335 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
2336 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
2338 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
2341 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
2342 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
2343 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
2344 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2345 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
2346 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
2347 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
2348 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
2349 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
2351 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
2352 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
2353 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
2354 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
2355 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
2356 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
2357 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
2358 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
2361 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
2362 =================================================
2365 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
2366 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
2367 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
2368 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
2371 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
2374 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
2375 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
2376 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
2377 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
2378 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
2379 variants [Martyn Russell]
2382 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
2383 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
2386 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
2389 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
2390 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
2391 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
2392 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
2393 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
2394 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
2395 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
2396 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
2398 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
2400 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
2401 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
2402 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
2403 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
2406 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
2407 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
2408 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
2410 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
2411 =================================================
2413 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
2414 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
2415 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
2417 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
2418 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
2421 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
2422 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
2423 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
2425 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
2427 * Memory management:
2428 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
2429 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
2430 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
2431 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
2432 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
2433 never worked as intended.
2434 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
2435 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
2436 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
2437 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
2438 efficient and scalable implementation.
2439 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2442 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
2443 unnecessary recursion.
2446 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
2447 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
2448 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
2452 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
2455 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
2456 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
2457 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
2461 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
2462 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
2463 since they are in glib.h
2466 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
2467 =================================================
2468 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
2469 * Fix build problems on OS X
2470 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2471 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
2472 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
2473 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
2474 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
2476 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
2477 =================================================
2478 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
2479 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
2480 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
2481 in GValues should also be changed to access
2482 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
2484 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
2485 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2487 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
2488 =================================================
2489 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
2490 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
2492 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
2493 =================================================
2494 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
2496 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
2497 work on s390 [Matthias]
2498 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
2500 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
2502 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
2503 =================================================
2504 * Thread-related changes
2505 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
2506 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
2507 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
2508 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
2509 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
2510 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
2511 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
2512 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
2513 "make check" to fail when using older versions
2514 of gettext [Matthias]
2515 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2516 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
2518 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
2520 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
2521 =================================================
2522 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
2523 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
2524 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
2525 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
2526 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
2527 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
2529 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
2531 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
2532 =================================================
2534 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
2535 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
2536 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
2537 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
2539 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2540 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
2542 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
2543 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
2544 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
2545 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
2546 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
2548 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
2549 =================================================
2550 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
2551 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
2552 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2553 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
2555 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
2556 =================================================
2558 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
2559 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
2560 * Misc new functions:
2561 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
2562 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
2563 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
2565 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
2566 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
2567 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
2568 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
2571 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
2572 =================================================
2574 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
2575 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
2576 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
2577 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
2579 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
2580 - Accept -? [Matthias]
2581 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
2582 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
2583 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
2584 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2586 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
2588 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
2589 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
2591 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
2592 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
2593 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
2594 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
2595 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
2596 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
2597 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
2598 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
2599 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
2600 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
2601 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
2603 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
2604 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
2605 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
2606 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
2607 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
2608 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
2609 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
2610 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
2611 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
2612 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
2613 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
2614 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
2615 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
2616 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
2617 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
2618 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
2620 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
2621 =================================================
2623 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
2624 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
2625 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
2626 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
2627 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
2629 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
2630 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
2631 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
2632 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
2633 when check for executables [Tor]
2634 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
2635 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
2636 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
2637 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
2638 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
2639 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
2640 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
2642 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
2643 =================================================
2646 - GOption, a commandline option parser
2647 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
2648 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
2649 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
2650 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
2652 * Miscellaneous new functions
2653 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
2654 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
2655 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
2656 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
2657 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
2658 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
2659 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
2660 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
2661 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
2662 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
2664 * Performance improvements
2665 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
2666 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
2667 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
2668 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
2669 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
2672 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
2673 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
2674 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
2675 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
2676 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
2677 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
2678 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
2681 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
2682 =================================================
2683 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
2684 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
2685 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
2686 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2687 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2688 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
2689 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
2691 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
2692 =================================================
2693 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
2694 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
2696 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
2698 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
2699 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
2700 allocated memory [Matthias]
2701 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
2703 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
2704 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
2705 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
2706 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
2708 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
2709 =================================================
2711 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
2712 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
2714 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
2716 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
2717 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
2718 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
2719 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
2720 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
2722 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
2723 =================================================
2725 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
2726 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
2727 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
2729 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
2730 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
2731 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
2732 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
2733 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
2734 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
2735 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
2736 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
2737 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
2738 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
2740 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
2741 =================================================
2742 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
2743 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
2744 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
2745 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
2746 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
2749 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
2750 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
2751 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
2752 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
2753 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
2754 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
2756 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
2757 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
2758 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
2759 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
2760 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
2761 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
2762 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
2763 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
2765 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
2766 =================================================
2768 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
2769 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
2771 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
2772 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
2773 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
2774 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
2775 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
2776 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
2777 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
2778 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
2779 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2781 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
2782 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
2784 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
2785 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
2787 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
2788 =================================================
2789 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
2790 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
2791 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
2792 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
2793 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
2794 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
2795 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
2796 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
2797 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
2798 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
2800 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
2801 =================================================
2803 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
2804 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
2805 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
2806 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
2807 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
2808 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
2810 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
2811 =================================================
2813 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
2814 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
2816 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
2817 [Federico Mena Quintero]
2819 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
2820 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
2821 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
2822 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
2823 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
2824 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
2825 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
2826 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
2827 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
2828 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
2829 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
2830 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
2832 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
2833 =================================================
2835 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
2836 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
2837 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
2838 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
2840 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
2841 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
2842 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
2844 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
2845 =================================================
2847 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
2848 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
2849 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
2850 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
2852 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2853 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
2855 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
2856 =================================================
2858 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
2859 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
2860 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
2861 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
2862 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
2863 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
2864 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
2866 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
2867 =================================================
2869 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
2870 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
2871 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
2872 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2873 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
2874 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
2875 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
2876 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
2877 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
2878 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
2879 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
2881 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
2882 =================================================
2884 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
2885 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
2886 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
2887 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
2888 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
2889 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2890 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
2891 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
2893 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
2894 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2896 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
2897 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
2898 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
2900 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
2902 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
2903 =================================================
2905 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
2906 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
2907 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
2908 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
2910 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
2911 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
2912 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2913 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
2914 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
2915 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
2916 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
2917 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
2918 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
2919 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
2920 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
2921 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
2922 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
2924 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
2926 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
2927 =================================================
2929 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
2930 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
2931 with context [Matthias Clasen]
2932 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
2933 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
2934 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
2935 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
2936 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
2937 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
2938 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
2939 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
2940 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
2941 * GObject [Tim Janik]
2942 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
2943 like 'swapped-signal'.
2944 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
2945 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
2946 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
2947 init() implementations
2948 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
2949 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
2950 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
2951 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
2952 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
2954 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
2956 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
2957 =================================================
2959 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
2960 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
2961 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
2962 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
2963 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
2964 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
2965 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
2966 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
2967 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2968 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
2969 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
2970 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2971 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
2972 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
2973 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
2974 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
2975 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
2976 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
2977 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
2978 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
2979 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2981 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
2982 =================================================
2984 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
2985 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2986 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
2987 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
2988 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
2989 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
2991 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
2992 =================================================
2994 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2995 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
2996 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
2997 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
2998 if necessary [Manish Singh]
2999 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
3000 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
3001 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
3002 * Bug and portability fixes
3003 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
3005 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
3007 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
3008 =================================================
3010 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
3011 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
3012 Johannes Stezenbach]
3013 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
3014 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
3015 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
3017 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
3018 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
3019 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
3020 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
3022 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
3023 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
3025 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
3026 =================================================
3028 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
3029 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
3030 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
3031 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
3032 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
3033 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
3034 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
3035 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
3036 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
3037 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
3038 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
3039 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
3040 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
3041 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3042 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
3044 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
3045 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
3046 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
3047 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
3048 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
3049 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
3050 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
3052 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
3053 =================================
3055 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
3056 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
3057 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
3058 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3059 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
3060 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
3061 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
3062 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
3063 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
3064 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
3065 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
3067 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
3068 =================================
3070 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
3071 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
3072 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
3073 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
3074 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3075 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
3076 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
3077 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
3078 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
3079 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
3080 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
3082 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
3083 =================================
3085 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
3086 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
3087 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
3088 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
3089 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3090 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
3091 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
3092 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
3093 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
3094 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
3095 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
3097 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
3098 =================================
3100 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
3101 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
3102 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
3103 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
3105 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
3106 =================================
3108 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
3109 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
3110 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
3111 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
3112 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
3113 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
3114 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
3115 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
3116 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
3117 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
3118 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
3119 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
3120 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
3123 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
3124 =================================
3126 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
3127 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
3128 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
3129 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
3130 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
3131 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
3132 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
3133 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
3134 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
3135 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
3136 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
3137 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
3138 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
3139 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
3140 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
3141 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
3144 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
3145 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
3148 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
3149 =================================
3151 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3152 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
3153 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
3154 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
3155 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
3157 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
3158 ======================================
3160 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
3161 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
3162 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
3163 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
3164 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
3166 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
3168 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
3169 ===================================
3171 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
3172 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
3173 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
3174 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
3175 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
3176 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
3177 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
3179 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
3182 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
3183 ===================================
3185 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
3186 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
3187 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
3188 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
3189 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
3190 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
3191 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
3192 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
3193 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
3195 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
3198 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
3199 ===================================
3201 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
3202 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
3203 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3204 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
3205 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
3206 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
3207 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
3209 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
3210 ===================================
3212 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
3213 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
3214 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
3215 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
3216 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
3217 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
3218 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
3219 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
3221 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
3222 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
3226 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
3227 ===================================
3229 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
3230 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
3231 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
3232 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
3233 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
3234 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
3235 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
3236 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
3237 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
3239 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
3240 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
3242 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
3243 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
3246 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
3247 ===================================
3249 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
3250 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
3251 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
3252 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
3253 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
3254 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
3255 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
3256 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
3257 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
3258 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
3260 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
3261 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
3262 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
3266 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
3267 ==================================
3269 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3270 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
3271 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
3272 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
3273 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
3275 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
3278 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
3279 ==================================
3281 * Documentation updates [Owen]
3282 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
3283 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
3284 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
3287 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
3290 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
3291 ==================================
3293 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
3294 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
3295 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
3296 * Minor hash table optimizations
3297 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3298 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
3299 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
3300 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
3301 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
3302 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
3303 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
3304 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
3305 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
3306 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
3307 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
3310 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
3311 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
3312 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
3316 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
3317 ==================================
3319 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
3320 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
3321 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
3322 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
3324 * GDate const, convenience fixups
3325 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
3326 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
3327 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
3328 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
3332 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
3333 ==================================
3335 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
3336 declarations from header files.
3337 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
3338 * Bug and Portability fixes
3341 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
3342 ==================================
3344 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
3347 * Documentation improvements
3350 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
3351 ==================================
3355 * More user_data support in various functions.
3356 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
3357 * Unicode handling improvements.
3358 * Implemented debugging traps.
3359 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
3360 * Various new small utility functions.
3361 * Random number generator precision improvements.
3362 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
3363 * Many Win32 improvements.
3364 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
3365 * Many documentation improvements.
3366 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
3368 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
3369 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
3370 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
3371 * Hashtable API additions.
3372 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
3373 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
3377 * Added many convenience functions.
3378 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
3379 * Reworked property change notification.
3380 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
3381 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
3382 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
3383 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
3384 * Added support for abstract types.
3385 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
3386 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
3387 and parameter conversions.
3388 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
3389 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
3391 * Implemented GValueArray.
3392 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
3393 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
3394 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
3395 * Varrags value collection improvements.
3396 * Implemented debugging traps.
3397 * Made things thread-safe.
3398 * Many documentation improvements.
3399 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
3402 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
3403 ==================================
3407 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
3408 * Improvements to error reporting
3409 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
3410 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
3411 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
3412 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
3413 not to be freed. [Darin]
3414 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
3415 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
3416 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
3417 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
3418 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
3419 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
3420 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
3421 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
3422 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
3423 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
3424 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
3425 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
3426 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
3427 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
3428 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
3429 * Many documentation improvements.
3434 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
3435 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
3436 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
3437 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
3438 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
3442 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
3443 =========================
3445 * New GObject library added including object system based on
3446 the GTK+ object system.
3447 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
3448 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
3449 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
3451 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
3452 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
3453 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
3454 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
3455 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
3456 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
3457 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
3458 * Double ended queue implementation.
3459 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
3460 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
3461 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
3462 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
3463 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
3464 more tightly defined semantics.
3465 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.