1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
2 ===================================================
5 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
6 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
7 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
8 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
11 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
12 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
13 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
14 files and directories now
17 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
18 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
19 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
20 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
21 315437 extern inline -> static inline
22 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
23 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
24 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
25 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
26 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
27 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
28 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
29 505058 xattr namespace docs
30 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
31 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
32 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
33 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
34 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
35 503051 Small bug in glib interface
36 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
37 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
38 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
39 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
40 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
41 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
43 * Updated translations:
45 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
54 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
55 ===================================================
59 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
60 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
61 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
64 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
67 * GTest: a test framework
72 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
75 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
76 get the stack of open elements
77 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
79 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
83 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
84 success, instead of void
85 - Various performance improvements
88 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
89 a free function for leftover elements
92 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
93 to ease error propagation
95 * Internationalization:
96 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
97 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
99 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
102 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
103 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
104 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
105 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
106 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
107 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
108 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
109 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
110 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
111 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
112 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
113 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
114 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
115 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
116 490637 gobject documentation patch
117 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
118 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
119 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
120 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
121 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
122 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
123 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
124 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
125 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
126 503222 Need context to translate
127 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
128 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
129 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
130 71704 file include order
131 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
132 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
133 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
134 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
135 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
136 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
137 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
138 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
139 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
140 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
141 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
142 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
143 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
144 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
145 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
146 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
147 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
148 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
149 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
151 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
152 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
153 443648 MD5 digest support
154 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
155 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
156 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
157 500507 GHashTableIter API
159 * Translation updates
160 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
168 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
169 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
174 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
175 ===================================================
180 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
181 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
182 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
184 * Updated translations:
186 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
192 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
193 ===================================================
196 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
197 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
198 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
199 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
200 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
201 478349 Broken link to gettext website
202 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
204 * Updated translations:
211 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
212 ===================================================
215 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
216 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
217 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
218 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
219 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
220 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
221 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
222 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
223 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
224 468694 Typoes in documentation
225 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
226 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
227 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
228 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
230 * Updated translations:
235 Canadian English (en_CA)
236 British English (en_GB)
252 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
256 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
264 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
265 ===================================================
267 * Last-minute API additions:
268 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
269 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
274 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
275 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
276 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
278 * Updated translations:
285 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
289 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
290 ===================================================
292 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
293 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
294 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
297 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
298 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
301 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
302 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
303 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
304 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
305 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
306 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
307 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
308 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
309 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
311 * Updated translations
320 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
321 ===================================================
323 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
324 caused trouble for C++ bindings
327 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
328 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
330 * Updated translations
331 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
335 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
336 ===================================================
338 * xdg-user-dirs support:
339 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
340 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
343 - new api to duplicate slices
345 * Regular expression support:
346 - GRegex is a boxed type now
349 44793 make check failing in trunk
350 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
351 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
352 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
353 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
354 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
356 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
357 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
358 57693 g_string_vprintf()
359 442029 add g_slice_dup()
360 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
361 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
363 * Updated translations:
371 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
372 ===================================================
375 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
376 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
377 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
380 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
381 ===================================================
384 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
387 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
389 * Regular expression support:
390 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
391 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
392 replacement have been added
393 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
395 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
399 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
400 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
401 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
402 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
403 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
404 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
406 * Updated translations:
408 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
411 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
412 ===================================================
415 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
418 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
420 * Updated translations:
421 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
422 British English (en_GB)
424 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
430 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
431 ===================================================
435 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
436 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
437 to obtain information about the compiled regex
440 - Fix roundtrip problems
441 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
444 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
447 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
450 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
451 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
454 * Updated transations:
455 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
460 =================================================
462 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
463 a balanced binary tree.
465 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
468 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
469 for GTimer when available.
471 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
472 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
474 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
477 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
480 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
481 about zero-width characters.
483 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
486 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
487 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
488 be positioned before the function declaration.
490 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
491 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
493 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
496 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
497 to define types in modules.
499 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
501 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
502 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
503 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
507 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
508 ===================================================
511 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
512 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
513 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
514 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
515 unconvertable characters in place instead of
516 replacing them by NUL
519 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
520 string with NUL bytes
521 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
522 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
524 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
525 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
526 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
527 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
529 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
530 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
533 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
534 ===================================================
536 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
539 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
540 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
541 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
542 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
543 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
544 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
546 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
547 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
550 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
551 =================================================
554 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
556 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
559 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
560 ===================================================
563 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
565 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
569 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
571 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
574 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
575 ===================================================
578 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
582 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
584 * Updated translations (fi)
586 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
587 ===================================================
589 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
591 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
593 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
595 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
596 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
599 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
600 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
601 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
602 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
603 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
605 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
606 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
608 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
609 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
610 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
612 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
615 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
616 ===================================================
619 - Support 64-bit integers
620 - Allow optional text before and after the options
624 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
625 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
626 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
627 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
628 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
629 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
630 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
631 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
632 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
633 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
635 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
636 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
638 * Updated translation (es)
640 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
641 ===================================================
643 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
644 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
646 * Base64 encoding support
648 * Unicode 5.0 support
650 * GOption supports floating point numbers
652 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
655 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
656 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
657 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
658 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
659 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
660 329789 option-test.c type confusion
661 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
662 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
663 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
664 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
665 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
667 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
669 334646 goption + error out params
670 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
671 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
672 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
673 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
674 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
675 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
676 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
677 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
678 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
679 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
680 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
681 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
683 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
684 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
687 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
688 ===================================================
691 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
692 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
693 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
695 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
698 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
699 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
701 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
704 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
705 ==================================================
708 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
710 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
711 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
712 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
713 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
714 number of bytes to check is specified
716 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
717 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
719 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
720 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
722 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
724 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
725 =================================================
728 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
729 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
730 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
732 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
733 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
735 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
737 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
738 =================================================
741 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
742 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
743 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
744 now be turned on at runtime by setting
745 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
748 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
749 extension [Albert Chin]
750 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
751 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
752 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
753 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
755 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
757 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
758 =================================================
761 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
762 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
766 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
767 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
768 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
770 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
774 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
775 =================================================
778 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
779 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
781 * Change g_filename_display_name and
782 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
783 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
784 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
786 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
787 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
790 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
792 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
793 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
795 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
798 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
800 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
803 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
804 =================================================
807 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
808 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
809 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
812 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
814 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
815 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
816 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
817 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
820 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
821 floating reference. [Tim]
822 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
825 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
826 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
828 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
829 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
831 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
832 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
834 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
837 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
838 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
839 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
840 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
841 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
842 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
843 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
844 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
845 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
847 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
848 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
849 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
850 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
851 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
852 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
853 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
854 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
857 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
858 =================================================
861 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
862 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
863 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
864 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
867 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
870 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
871 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
872 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
873 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
874 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
875 variants [Martyn Russell]
878 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
879 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
882 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
885 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
886 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
887 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
888 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
889 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
890 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
891 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
892 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
894 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
896 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
897 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
898 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
899 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
902 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
903 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
904 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
906 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
907 =================================================
909 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
910 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
911 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
913 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
914 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
917 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
918 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
919 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
921 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
924 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
925 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
926 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
927 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
928 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
929 never worked as intended.
930 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
931 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
932 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
933 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
934 efficient and scalable implementation.
935 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
938 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
939 unnecessary recursion.
942 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
943 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
944 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
948 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
951 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
952 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
953 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
957 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
958 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
959 since they are in glib.h
962 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
963 =================================================
964 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
965 * Fix build problems on OS X
966 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
967 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
968 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
969 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
970 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
972 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
973 =================================================
974 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
975 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
976 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
977 in GValues should also be changed to access
978 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
980 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
981 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
983 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
984 =================================================
985 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
986 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
988 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
989 =================================================
990 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
992 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
993 work on s390 [Matthias]
994 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
996 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
998 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
999 =================================================
1000 * Thread-related changes
1001 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1002 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1003 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1004 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1005 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1006 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1007 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1008 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1009 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1010 of gettext [Matthias]
1011 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1012 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1014 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1016 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1017 =================================================
1018 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1019 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1020 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1021 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1022 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1023 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1025 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1027 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1028 =================================================
1030 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1031 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1032 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1033 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1035 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1036 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1038 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1039 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1040 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1041 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1042 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1044 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1045 =================================================
1046 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1047 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1048 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1049 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1051 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1052 =================================================
1054 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1055 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1056 * Misc new functions:
1057 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1058 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1059 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1061 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1062 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1063 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1064 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1067 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1068 =================================================
1070 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1071 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1072 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1073 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1075 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1076 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1077 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1078 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1079 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1080 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1082 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1084 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1085 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1087 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1088 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1089 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1090 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1091 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1092 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1093 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1094 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1095 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1096 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1097 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1099 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1100 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1101 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1102 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1103 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1104 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1105 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1106 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1107 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1108 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1109 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1110 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1111 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1112 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1113 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1114 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1116 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1117 =================================================
1119 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1120 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1121 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1122 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1123 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1125 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1126 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1127 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1128 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1129 when check for executables [Tor]
1130 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1131 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1132 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1133 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1134 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1135 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1136 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1138 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1139 =================================================
1142 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1143 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1144 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1145 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1146 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1148 * Miscellaneous new functions
1149 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1150 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1151 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1152 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1153 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1154 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1155 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1156 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1157 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1158 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1160 * Performance improvements
1161 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1162 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1163 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1164 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1165 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1168 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1169 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1170 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1171 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1172 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1173 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1174 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1177 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1178 =================================================
1179 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1180 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1181 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1182 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1183 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1184 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1185 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1187 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1188 =================================================
1189 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1190 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1192 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1194 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1195 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1196 allocated memory [Matthias]
1197 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1199 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1200 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1201 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1202 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1204 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1205 =================================================
1207 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1208 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1210 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1212 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1213 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1214 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1215 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1216 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1218 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1219 =================================================
1221 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1222 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1223 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1225 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1226 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1227 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1228 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1229 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1230 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1231 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1232 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1233 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1234 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1236 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1237 =================================================
1238 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1239 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1240 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1241 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1242 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1245 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1246 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1247 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1248 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1249 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1250 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1252 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1253 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1254 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1255 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1256 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1257 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1258 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1259 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1261 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1262 =================================================
1264 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1265 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1267 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1268 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1269 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1270 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1271 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1272 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1273 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1274 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1275 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1277 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1278 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1280 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1281 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1283 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1284 =================================================
1285 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1286 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1287 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1288 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1289 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1290 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1291 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1292 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1293 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1294 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1296 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1297 =================================================
1299 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1300 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1301 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1302 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1303 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1304 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1306 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1307 =================================================
1309 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1310 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1312 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1313 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1315 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1316 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1317 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1318 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1319 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1320 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1321 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1322 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1323 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1324 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1325 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1326 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1328 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1329 =================================================
1331 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1332 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1333 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1334 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1336 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1337 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1338 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1340 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1341 =================================================
1343 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1344 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1345 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1346 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1348 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1349 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1351 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1352 =================================================
1354 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1355 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1356 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1357 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1358 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1359 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1360 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1362 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1363 =================================================
1365 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1366 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1367 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1368 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1369 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1370 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1371 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1372 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1373 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1374 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1375 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1377 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1378 =================================================
1380 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1381 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1382 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1383 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1384 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1385 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1386 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1387 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1389 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1390 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1392 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1393 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1394 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1396 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1398 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1399 =================================================
1401 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1402 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1403 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1404 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1406 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1407 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1408 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1409 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1410 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1411 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1412 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1413 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1414 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1415 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1416 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1417 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1418 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1420 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1422 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1423 =================================================
1425 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1426 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1427 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1428 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1429 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1430 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1431 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1432 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1433 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1434 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1435 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1436 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1437 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1438 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1439 like 'swapped-signal'.
1440 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1441 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1442 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1443 init() implementations
1444 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1445 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1446 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1447 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1448 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1450 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1452 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1453 =================================================
1455 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1456 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1457 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1458 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1459 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1460 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1461 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1462 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1463 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1464 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1465 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1466 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1467 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1468 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1469 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1470 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1471 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1472 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1473 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1474 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1475 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1477 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1478 =================================================
1480 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1481 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1482 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1483 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1484 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1485 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1487 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1488 =================================================
1490 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1491 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1492 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1493 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1494 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1495 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1496 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1497 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1498 * Bug and portability fixes
1499 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1501 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1503 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1504 =================================================
1506 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1507 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1508 Johannes Stezenbach]
1509 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1510 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1511 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1513 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1514 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1515 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1516 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1518 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1519 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1521 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1522 =================================================
1524 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1525 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1526 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1527 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1528 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1529 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1530 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1531 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1532 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1533 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1534 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1535 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1536 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1537 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1538 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1540 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1541 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1542 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1543 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1544 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1545 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1546 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1548 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1549 =================================
1551 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1552 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1553 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1554 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1555 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1556 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1557 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1558 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1559 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1560 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1561 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1563 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1564 =================================
1566 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1567 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1568 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1569 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1570 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1571 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1572 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1573 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1574 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1575 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1576 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1578 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1579 =================================
1581 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1582 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1583 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1584 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1585 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1586 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1587 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1588 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1589 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1590 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1591 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1593 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1594 =================================
1596 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1597 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1598 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1599 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1601 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1602 =================================
1604 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1605 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1606 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1607 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1608 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1609 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1610 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1611 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1612 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1613 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1614 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1615 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1616 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1619 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1620 =================================
1622 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1623 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1624 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1625 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1626 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1627 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1628 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1629 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1630 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1631 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1632 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1633 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1634 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1635 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1636 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1637 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1640 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1641 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1644 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1645 =================================
1647 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1648 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1649 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1650 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1651 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1653 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1654 ======================================
1656 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1657 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1658 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1659 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1660 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1662 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1664 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1665 ===================================
1667 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1668 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1669 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1670 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1671 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1672 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1673 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1675 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1678 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1679 ===================================
1681 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1682 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1683 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1684 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1685 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1686 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1687 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1688 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1689 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1691 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1694 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1695 ===================================
1697 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1698 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1699 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1700 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1701 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1702 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1703 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1705 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1706 ===================================
1708 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1709 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1710 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1711 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1712 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1713 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1714 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1715 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1717 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1718 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1722 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1723 ===================================
1725 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1726 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1727 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1728 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1729 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1730 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1731 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1732 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1733 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1735 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1736 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1738 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1739 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1742 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1743 ===================================
1745 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1746 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1747 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1748 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1749 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1750 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1751 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1752 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1753 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1754 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1756 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1757 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1758 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1762 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1763 ==================================
1765 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1766 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1767 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1768 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1769 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1771 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1774 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1775 ==================================
1777 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1778 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1779 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1780 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1783 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1786 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1787 ==================================
1789 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1790 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1791 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1792 * Minor hash table optimizations
1793 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1794 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1795 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1796 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1797 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1798 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1799 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1800 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1801 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1802 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1803 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1806 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1807 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1808 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1812 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1813 ==================================
1815 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1816 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1817 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1818 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1820 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1821 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1822 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1823 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1824 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1828 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1829 ==================================
1831 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1832 declarations from header files.
1833 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1834 * Bug and Portability fixes
1837 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1838 ==================================
1840 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1843 * Documentation improvements
1846 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1847 ==================================
1851 * More user_data support in various functions.
1852 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1853 * Unicode handling improvements.
1854 * Implemented debugging traps.
1855 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1856 * Various new small utility functions.
1857 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1858 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1859 * Many Win32 improvements.
1860 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1861 * Many documentation improvements.
1862 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1864 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1865 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1866 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1867 * Hashtable API additions.
1868 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1869 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1873 * Added many convenience functions.
1874 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1875 * Reworked property change notification.
1876 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1877 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1878 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1879 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1880 * Added support for abstract types.
1881 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1882 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1883 and parameter conversions.
1884 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1885 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1887 * Implemented GValueArray.
1888 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1889 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1890 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1891 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1892 * Implemented debugging traps.
1893 * Made things thread-safe.
1894 * Many documentation improvements.
1895 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1898 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1899 ==================================
1903 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1904 * Improvements to error reporting
1905 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1906 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1907 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1908 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1909 not to be freed. [Darin]
1910 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1911 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1912 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1913 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1914 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1915 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1916 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1917 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1918 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1919 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1920 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1921 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1922 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1923 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1924 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1925 * Many documentation improvements.
1930 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1931 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1932 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1933 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1934 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1938 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1939 =========================
1941 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1942 the GTK+ object system.
1943 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1944 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1945 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1947 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1948 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1949 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1950 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1951 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1952 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1953 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1954 * Double ended queue implementation.
1955 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1956 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1957 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1958 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1959 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1960 more tightly defined semantics.
1961 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.