1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.0 to GLib 2.18.1
2 ===================================================
5 550433 g_test_init doesn't recognize --help
6 523463 Core dump in gmain.c:2482:IA__g_main_context_check
7 551228 G_STRFUNC on recent Sun compiler should be expanded...
8 551410 gtestutils.c: using printf without prototype
9 551731 g_date_set_time[_t] docs should mention what timezone
10 548321 <string.h> is not included in gi18n-lib.h
11 551149 xdgmime mem leak
12 550647 synchronous pipe I/O when reading mount reply
13 551887 Docs for g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename aren't...
14 551681 g_content_type_guess() too naive with filenames
15 552352 g_app_info_launch doesn't work if "Path" key...
16 551408 gmodule.def generated to builddir...
17 552359 g_file_info_get_icon should return GThemedIcon, and...
19 * Updated translations:
22 British English (en_GB)
31 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.7 to GLib 2.18.0
32 ===================================================
35 - rework the g_poll() implementation to match poll() semantics more closely
38 324234 Using g_io_add_watch_full() to wait for connect() to return...
39 548278 Async GETs connections are always terminated unexpectedly...
40 500246 Bug fixes for giowin32
41 523939 Example program for GValue
42 550096 GBookmarkFile parser is not forward compatible
43 550040 Move GString, rand and printf tests to the unit test framework
44 550104 trivial documentation fix for g_get_home_dir
45 548988 g_file_replace fails on Windows when the target file exists
46 550059 Wrong docs for g_emblemed_icon_add_emblem
47 548800 Missing a g_object_get_type function
48 550056 Missing documentation for g_emblemed_icon_get_emblems
50 * Updated translations:
70 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
71 ===================================================
73 * More fixes for 64-bit Windows
76 - Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows
79 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
80 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
81 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
82 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
83 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
84 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
85 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
86 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
87 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
88 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
89 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop
90 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
91 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
92 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
93 547262 Missing link in the docs
95 * Updated translations:
104 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
106 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
111 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
112 ===================================================
114 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
116 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
117 the user_data outside of callbacks
120 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
121 g_mount_guess_content_type
122 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
124 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
128 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
129 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
130 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
131 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
132 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
133 529694 SELinux context setting support
134 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
135 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
136 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
137 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
138 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
139 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
140 546079 leak in xdgmime
141 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
142 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
144 * Updated translations:
151 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
156 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
157 ===================================================
160 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
161 g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
162 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
163 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
164 g_volume_get_activation_root
167 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
168 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
170 * Internationalization:
171 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
174 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
175 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
178 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
179 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
180 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
181 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
182 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
183 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
184 541794 drive-eject-button signal
185 541793 activation root for volumes
186 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
187 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
188 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
189 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
190 406120 g_ascii_strtod
191 334234 "printf" format error
192 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
193 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
194 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
195 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
196 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
197 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
198 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
199 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
200 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
202 * Updated translation:
208 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
209 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
212 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
213 ===================================================
216 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
219 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
220 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
221 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
222 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
223 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
224 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
225 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
226 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
227 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
228 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
229 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
230 535947 want g_set_error_literal
231 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
232 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
233 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
234 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
235 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
236 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
237 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
238 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
239 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
240 536733 gio build failure on Irix
241 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
242 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
243 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
244 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
245 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
247 Updated translations:
252 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
253 ===================================================
255 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
257 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
258 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
260 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
263 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
266 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
267 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
268 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
269 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
270 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
271 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
272 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
273 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
274 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
275 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
276 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
277 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
278 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
279 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
280 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
281 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
282 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
283 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
284 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
285 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
286 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
288 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
289 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
290 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
291 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
292 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
293 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
294 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
295 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
296 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
298 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
299 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
300 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
301 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
302 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
304 * Translation updates:
308 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
312 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
313 ===================================================
315 * Update to Unicode 5.1
317 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
319 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
321 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
322 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
323 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
325 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
327 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
329 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
330 additional GIO modules
332 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
335 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
337 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
338 rate at which events are reported
340 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
343 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
344 size of the written data.
347 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
348 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
349 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
350 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
352 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
353 315437 extern inline -> static inline
354 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
355 alphanumerics into half width
356 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
357 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
358 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
359 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
360 526619 make test-report crash
361 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
362 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
363 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
364 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
365 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
366 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
367 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
368 501651 Update glib/libcharset
369 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
370 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
371 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
372 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
373 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
374 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
375 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
376 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
377 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
378 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
379 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
380 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
381 describe purpose of nick and blurb
382 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
383 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
384 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
385 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
387 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
388 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
389 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
390 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
391 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
392 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
393 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
394 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
395 524950 Minor documentation typos.
396 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
397 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
398 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
399 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
400 534759 Build failure in gio
401 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
402 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
403 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
404 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
405 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
406 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
407 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
409 * Updated translations:
415 Candian English (en_CA)
416 British English (en_GB)
425 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
437 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
438 ===================================================
440 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
442 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
445 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
446 ===================================================
448 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
451 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
452 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
454 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
457 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
458 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
459 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
460 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
461 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
462 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
463 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
464 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
465 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
466 518720 No MIME type for empty files
467 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
468 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
469 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
471 * Updated translations:
473 Bengali India (bn_IN)
485 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
492 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
493 ===================================================
496 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
497 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
498 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
499 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
500 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
501 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
502 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
505 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
506 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
507 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
508 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
509 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
512 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
514 * Updated translations:
516 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
518 British English (en_GB)
524 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
526 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
530 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
531 ===================================================
533 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
536 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
537 should be mounted automatically
538 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
539 the default handler for a file
540 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
541 launch the default handler for a URI
542 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
544 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
545 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
546 - There is the beginning of a test suite
547 - standard::description: new file attribute
548 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
551 - class initialization is now threadsafe
553 * Updated translations:
565 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
570 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
571 ===================================================
573 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
576 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
577 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
578 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
579 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
580 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
583 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
584 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
585 385132 solaris gettext support fix
586 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
587 510292 GOption main help not shown
588 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
589 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
590 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
591 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
593 * Updated translations:
606 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
607 ===================================================
610 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
611 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
612 that are longer than 64 bytes
615 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
616 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
617 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
620 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
621 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
622 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
623 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
624 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
625 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
626 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
627 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
629 * Updated translations:
636 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
637 ===================================================
640 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
641 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
642 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
643 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
646 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
647 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
648 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
649 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
650 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
651 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
652 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
654 * Updated translations:
663 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
664 ===================================================
667 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
668 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
669 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
670 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
673 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
674 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
675 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
676 files and directories now
679 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
680 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
681 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
682 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
683 315437 extern inline -> static inline
684 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
685 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
686 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
687 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
688 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
689 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
690 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
691 505058 xattr namespace docs
692 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
693 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
694 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
695 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
696 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
697 503051 Small bug in glib interface
698 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
699 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
700 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
701 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
702 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
703 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
705 * Updated translations:
707 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
716 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
717 ===================================================
721 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
722 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
723 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
726 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
729 * GTest: a test framework
734 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
737 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
738 get the stack of open elements
739 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
741 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
745 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
746 success, instead of void
747 - Various performance improvements
750 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
751 a free function for leftover elements
754 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
755 to ease error propagation
757 * Internationalization:
758 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
759 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
761 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
764 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
765 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
766 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
767 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
768 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
769 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
770 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
771 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
772 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
773 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
774 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
775 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
776 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
777 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
778 490637 gobject documentation patch
779 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
780 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
781 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
782 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
783 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
784 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
785 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
786 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
787 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
788 503222 Need context to translate
789 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
790 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
791 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
792 71704 file include order
793 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
794 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
795 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
796 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
797 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
798 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
799 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
800 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
801 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
802 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
803 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
804 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
805 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
806 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
807 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
808 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
809 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
810 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
811 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
813 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
814 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
815 443648 MD5 digest support
816 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
817 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
818 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
819 500507 GHashTableIter API
821 * Translation updates
822 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
830 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
831 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
836 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
837 ===================================================
842 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
843 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
844 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
846 * Updated translations:
848 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
854 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
855 ===================================================
858 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
859 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
860 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
861 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
862 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
863 478349 Broken link to gettext website
864 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
866 * Updated translations:
873 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
874 ===================================================
877 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
878 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
879 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
880 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
881 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
882 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
883 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
884 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
885 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
886 468694 Typoes in documentation
887 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
888 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
889 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
890 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
892 * Updated translations:
897 Canadian English (en_CA)
898 British English (en_GB)
914 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
918 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
926 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
927 ===================================================
929 * Last-minute API additions:
930 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
931 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
936 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
937 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
938 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
940 * Updated translations:
947 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
951 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
952 ===================================================
954 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
955 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
956 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
959 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
960 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
963 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
964 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
965 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
966 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
967 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
968 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
969 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
970 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
971 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
973 * Updated translations
982 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
983 ===================================================
985 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
986 caused trouble for C++ bindings
989 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
990 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
992 * Updated translations
993 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
997 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
998 ===================================================
1000 * xdg-user-dirs support:
1001 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
1002 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
1005 - new api to duplicate slices
1007 * Regular expression support:
1008 - GRegex is a boxed type now
1011 44793 make check failing in trunk
1012 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
1013 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
1014 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
1015 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
1016 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
1017 447583 GStaticRWLock
1018 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
1019 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
1020 57693 g_string_vprintf()
1021 442029 add g_slice_dup()
1022 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
1023 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
1025 * Updated translations:
1033 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
1034 ===================================================
1037 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
1038 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
1039 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
1042 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
1043 ===================================================
1046 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
1049 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
1051 * Regular expression support:
1052 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
1053 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
1054 replacement have been added
1055 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
1057 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
1061 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
1062 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
1063 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
1064 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
1065 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
1066 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
1068 * Updated translations:
1070 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1073 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
1074 ===================================================
1077 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
1080 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
1082 * Updated translations:
1083 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
1084 British English (en_GB)
1086 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1092 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
1093 ===================================================
1097 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
1098 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
1099 to obtain information about the compiled regex
1102 - Fix roundtrip problems
1103 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
1106 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
1109 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
1112 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
1113 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
1116 * Updated transations:
1117 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
1121 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
1122 =================================================
1124 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
1125 a balanced binary tree.
1127 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
1130 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
1131 for GTimer when available.
1133 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
1134 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
1136 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
1139 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
1142 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
1143 about zero-width characters.
1145 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
1148 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
1149 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
1150 be positioned before the function declaration.
1152 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
1153 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
1155 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
1158 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
1159 to define types in modules.
1161 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
1163 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
1164 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
1165 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
1169 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
1170 ===================================================
1173 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
1174 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
1175 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
1176 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
1177 unconvertable characters in place instead of
1178 replacing them by NUL
1181 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
1182 string with NUL bytes
1183 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
1184 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
1185 it considers a digit
1186 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
1187 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
1188 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
1189 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
1191 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
1192 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1195 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
1196 ===================================================
1198 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
1201 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
1202 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
1203 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
1204 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
1205 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
1206 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
1208 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
1209 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
1212 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
1213 =================================================
1216 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
1218 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
1221 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
1222 ===================================================
1225 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
1227 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
1231 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
1233 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
1236 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
1237 ===================================================
1240 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
1244 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
1246 * Updated translations (fi)
1248 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
1249 ===================================================
1251 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1253 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1255 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1257 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1258 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1261 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1262 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1263 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1264 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1265 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1267 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1268 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1270 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1271 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1272 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1274 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1277 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1278 ===================================================
1281 - Support 64-bit integers
1282 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1286 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1287 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1288 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1289 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1290 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1291 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1292 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1293 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1294 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1295 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1297 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1298 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1300 * Updated translation (es)
1302 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1303 ===================================================
1305 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1306 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1308 * Base64 encoding support
1310 * Unicode 5.0 support
1312 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1314 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1317 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1318 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1319 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1320 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1321 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1322 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1323 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1324 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1325 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1326 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1327 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1329 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1331 334646 goption + error out params
1332 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1333 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1334 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1335 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1336 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1337 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1338 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1339 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1340 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1341 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1342 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1343 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1345 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1346 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1349 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1350 ===================================================
1353 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1354 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1355 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1357 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1360 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1361 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1363 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1366 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1367 ==================================================
1370 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1372 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1373 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1374 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1375 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1376 number of bytes to check is specified
1378 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1379 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1381 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1382 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1384 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1386 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1387 =================================================
1390 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1391 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1392 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1394 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1395 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1397 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1399 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1400 =================================================
1402 * Memory management:
1403 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1404 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1405 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1406 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1407 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1410 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1411 extension [Albert Chin]
1412 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1413 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1414 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1415 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1417 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1419 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1420 =================================================
1423 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1424 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1428 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1429 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1430 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1432 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1436 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1437 =================================================
1440 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1441 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1443 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1444 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1445 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1446 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1448 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1449 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1452 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1454 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1455 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1457 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1460 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1462 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1465 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1466 =================================================
1468 * Memory management:
1469 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1470 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1471 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1474 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1476 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1477 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1478 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1479 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1482 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1483 floating reference. [Tim]
1484 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1487 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1488 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1490 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1491 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1493 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1494 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1496 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1499 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1500 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1501 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1502 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1503 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1504 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1505 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1506 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1507 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1509 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1510 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1511 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1512 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1513 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1514 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1515 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1516 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1519 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1520 =================================================
1523 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1524 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1525 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1526 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1529 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1532 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1533 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1534 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1535 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1536 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1537 variants [Martyn Russell]
1540 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1541 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1544 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1547 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1548 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1549 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1550 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1551 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1552 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1553 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1554 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1556 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1558 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1559 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1560 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1561 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1564 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1565 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1566 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1568 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1569 =================================================
1571 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1572 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1573 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1575 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1576 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1579 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1580 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1581 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1583 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1585 * Memory management:
1586 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1587 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1588 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1589 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1590 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1591 never worked as intended.
1592 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1593 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1594 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1595 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1596 efficient and scalable implementation.
1597 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1600 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1601 unnecessary recursion.
1604 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1605 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1606 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1610 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1613 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1614 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1615 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1619 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1620 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1621 since they are in glib.h
1624 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1625 =================================================
1626 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1627 * Fix build problems on OS X
1628 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1629 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1630 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1631 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1632 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1634 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1635 =================================================
1636 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1637 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1638 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1639 in GValues should also be changed to access
1640 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1642 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1643 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1645 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1646 =================================================
1647 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1648 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1650 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1651 =================================================
1652 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1654 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1655 work on s390 [Matthias]
1656 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1658 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1660 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1661 =================================================
1662 * Thread-related changes
1663 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1664 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1665 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1666 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1667 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1668 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1669 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1670 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1671 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1672 of gettext [Matthias]
1673 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1674 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1676 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1678 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1679 =================================================
1680 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1681 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1682 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1683 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1684 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1685 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1687 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1689 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1690 =================================================
1692 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1693 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1694 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1695 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1697 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1698 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1700 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1701 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1702 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1703 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1704 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1706 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1707 =================================================
1708 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1709 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1710 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1711 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1713 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1714 =================================================
1716 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1717 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1718 * Misc new functions:
1719 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1720 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1721 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1723 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1724 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1725 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1726 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1729 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1730 =================================================
1732 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1733 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1734 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1735 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1737 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1738 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1739 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1740 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1741 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1742 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1744 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1746 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1747 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1749 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1750 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1751 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1752 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1753 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1754 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1755 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1756 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1757 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1758 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1759 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1761 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1762 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1763 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1764 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1765 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1766 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1767 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1768 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1769 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1770 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1771 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1772 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1773 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1774 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1775 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1776 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1778 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1779 =================================================
1781 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1782 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1783 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1784 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1785 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1787 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1788 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1789 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1790 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1791 when check for executables [Tor]
1792 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1793 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1794 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1795 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1796 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1797 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1798 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1800 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1801 =================================================
1804 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1805 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1806 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1807 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1808 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1810 * Miscellaneous new functions
1811 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1812 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1813 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1814 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1815 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1816 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1817 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1818 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1819 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1820 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1822 * Performance improvements
1823 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1824 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1825 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1826 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1827 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1830 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1831 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1832 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1833 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1834 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1835 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1836 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1839 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1840 =================================================
1841 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1842 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1843 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1844 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1845 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1846 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1847 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1849 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1850 =================================================
1851 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1852 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1854 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1856 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1857 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1858 allocated memory [Matthias]
1859 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1861 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1862 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1863 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1864 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1866 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1867 =================================================
1869 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1870 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1872 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1874 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1875 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1876 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1877 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1878 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1880 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1881 =================================================
1883 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1884 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1885 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1887 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1888 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1889 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1890 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1891 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1892 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1893 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1894 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1895 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1896 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1898 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1899 =================================================
1900 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1901 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1902 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1903 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1904 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1907 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1908 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1909 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1910 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1911 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1912 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1914 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1915 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1916 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1917 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1918 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1919 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1920 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1921 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1923 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1924 =================================================
1926 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1927 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1929 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1930 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1931 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1932 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1933 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1934 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1935 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1936 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1937 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1939 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1940 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1942 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1943 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1945 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1946 =================================================
1947 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1948 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1949 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1950 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1951 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1952 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1953 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1954 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1955 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1956 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1958 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1959 =================================================
1961 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1962 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1963 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1964 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1965 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1966 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1968 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1969 =================================================
1971 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1972 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1974 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1975 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1977 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1978 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1979 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1980 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1981 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1982 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1983 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1984 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1985 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1986 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1987 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1988 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1990 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1991 =================================================
1993 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1994 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1995 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1996 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1998 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1999 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
2000 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
2002 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
2003 =================================================
2005 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
2006 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
2007 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
2008 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
2010 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2011 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
2013 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
2014 =================================================
2016 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
2017 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
2018 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
2019 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
2020 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
2021 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
2022 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
2024 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
2025 =================================================
2027 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
2028 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
2029 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
2030 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2031 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
2032 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
2033 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
2034 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
2035 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
2036 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
2037 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
2039 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
2040 =================================================
2042 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
2043 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
2044 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
2045 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
2046 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
2047 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2048 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
2049 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
2051 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
2052 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2054 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
2055 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
2056 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
2058 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
2060 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
2061 =================================================
2063 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
2064 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
2065 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
2066 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
2068 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
2069 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
2070 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
2071 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
2072 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
2073 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
2074 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
2075 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
2076 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
2077 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
2078 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
2079 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
2080 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
2082 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
2084 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
2085 =================================================
2087 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
2088 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
2089 with context [Matthias Clasen]
2090 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
2091 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
2092 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
2093 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
2094 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
2095 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
2096 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
2097 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
2098 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
2099 * GObject [Tim Janik]
2100 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
2101 like 'swapped-signal'.
2102 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
2103 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
2104 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
2105 init() implementations
2106 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
2107 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
2108 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
2109 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
2110 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
2112 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
2114 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
2115 =================================================
2117 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
2118 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
2119 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
2120 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
2121 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
2122 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
2123 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
2124 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
2125 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2126 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
2127 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
2128 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2129 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
2130 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
2131 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
2132 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
2133 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
2134 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
2135 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
2136 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
2137 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2139 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
2140 =================================================
2142 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
2143 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2144 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
2145 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
2146 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
2147 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
2149 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
2150 =================================================
2152 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2153 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
2154 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
2155 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
2156 if necessary [Manish Singh]
2157 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2158 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
2159 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2160 * Bug and portability fixes
2161 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
2163 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
2165 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
2166 =================================================
2168 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
2169 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
2170 Johannes Stezenbach]
2171 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
2172 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
2173 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
2175 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
2176 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
2177 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2178 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
2180 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
2181 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
2183 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
2184 =================================================
2186 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
2187 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
2188 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
2189 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
2190 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
2191 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
2192 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
2193 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
2194 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
2195 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
2196 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
2197 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
2198 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
2199 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2200 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
2202 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
2203 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
2204 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
2205 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
2206 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
2207 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
2208 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
2210 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
2211 =================================
2213 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
2214 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
2215 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
2216 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2217 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
2218 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
2219 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
2220 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
2221 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
2222 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
2223 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
2225 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
2226 =================================
2228 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2229 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2230 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2231 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2232 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2233 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2234 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2235 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2236 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2237 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2238 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2240 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
2241 =================================
2243 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2244 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2245 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2246 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2247 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2248 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2249 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2250 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2251 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2252 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2253 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2255 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2256 =================================
2258 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2259 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2260 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2261 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2263 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2264 =================================
2266 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2267 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2268 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2269 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2270 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2271 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2272 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2273 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2274 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2275 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2276 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2277 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2278 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2281 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2282 =================================
2284 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2285 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2286 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2287 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2288 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2289 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2290 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2291 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2292 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2293 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2294 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2295 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2296 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2297 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2298 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2299 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2302 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2303 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2306 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2307 =================================
2309 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2310 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2311 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2312 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2313 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2315 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2316 ======================================
2318 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2319 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2320 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2321 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2322 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2324 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2326 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2327 ===================================
2329 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2330 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2331 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2332 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2333 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2334 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2335 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2337 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2340 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2341 ===================================
2343 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2344 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2345 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2346 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2347 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2348 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2349 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2350 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2351 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2353 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2356 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2357 ===================================
2359 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2360 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2361 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2362 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2363 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2364 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2365 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2367 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2368 ===================================
2370 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2371 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2372 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2373 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2374 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2375 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2376 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2377 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2379 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2380 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2384 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2385 ===================================
2387 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2388 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2389 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2390 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2391 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2392 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2393 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2394 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2395 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2397 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2398 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2400 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2401 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2404 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2405 ===================================
2407 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2408 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2409 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2410 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2411 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2412 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2413 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2414 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2415 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2416 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2418 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2419 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2420 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2424 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2425 ==================================
2427 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2428 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2429 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2430 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2431 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2433 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2436 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2437 ==================================
2439 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2440 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2441 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2442 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2445 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2448 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2449 ==================================
2451 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2452 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2453 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2454 * Minor hash table optimizations
2455 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2456 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2457 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2458 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2459 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2460 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2461 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2462 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2463 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2464 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2465 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2468 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2469 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2470 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2474 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2475 ==================================
2477 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2478 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2479 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2480 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2482 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2483 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2484 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2485 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2486 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2490 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2491 ==================================
2493 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2494 declarations from header files.
2495 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2496 * Bug and Portability fixes
2499 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2500 ==================================
2502 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2505 * Documentation improvements
2508 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2509 ==================================
2513 * More user_data support in various functions.
2514 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2515 * Unicode handling improvements.
2516 * Implemented debugging traps.
2517 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2518 * Various new small utility functions.
2519 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2520 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2521 * Many Win32 improvements.
2522 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2523 * Many documentation improvements.
2524 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2526 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2527 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2528 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2529 * Hashtable API additions.
2530 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2531 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2535 * Added many convenience functions.
2536 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2537 * Reworked property change notification.
2538 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2539 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2540 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2541 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2542 * Added support for abstract types.
2543 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2544 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2545 and parameter conversions.
2546 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2547 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2549 * Implemented GValueArray.
2550 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2551 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2552 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2553 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2554 * Implemented debugging traps.
2555 * Made things thread-safe.
2556 * Many documentation improvements.
2557 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2560 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2561 ==================================
2565 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2566 * Improvements to error reporting
2567 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2568 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2569 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2570 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2571 not to be freed. [Darin]
2572 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2573 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2574 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2575 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2576 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2577 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2578 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2579 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2580 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2581 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2582 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2583 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2584 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2585 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2586 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2587 * Many documentation improvements.
2592 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2593 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2594 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2595 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2596 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2600 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2601 =========================
2603 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2604 the GTK+ object system.
2605 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2606 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2607 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2609 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2610 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2611 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2612 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2613 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2614 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2615 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2616 * Double ended queue implementation.
2617 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2618 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2619 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2620 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2621 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2622 more tightly defined semantics.
2623 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.