1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
2 ===================================================
5 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
6 should be mounted automatically
7 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
8 the default handler for a file
9 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
10 launch the default handler for a URI
11 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
13 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
14 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
15 - There is the beginning of a test suite
16 - standard::description: new file attribute
17 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
20 - class initialization is now threadsafe
22 * Updated translations:
34 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
39 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
40 ===================================================
42 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
45 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
46 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
47 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
48 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
49 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
52 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
53 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
54 385132 solaris gettext support fix
55 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
56 510292 GOption main help not shown
57 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
58 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
59 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
60 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
62 * Updated translations:
75 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
76 ===================================================
79 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
80 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
81 that are longer than 64 bytes
84 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
85 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
86 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
89 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
90 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
91 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
92 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
93 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
94 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
95 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
96 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
98 * Updated translations:
105 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
106 ===================================================
109 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
110 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
111 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
112 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
115 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
116 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
117 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
118 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
119 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
120 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
121 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
123 * Updated translations:
132 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
133 ===================================================
136 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
137 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
138 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
139 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
142 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
143 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
144 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
145 files and directories now
148 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
149 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
150 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
151 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
152 315437 extern inline -> static inline
153 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
154 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
155 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
156 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
157 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
158 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
159 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
160 505058 xattr namespace docs
161 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
162 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
163 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
164 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
165 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
166 503051 Small bug in glib interface
167 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
168 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
169 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
170 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
171 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
172 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
174 * Updated translations:
176 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
185 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
186 ===================================================
190 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
191 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
192 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
195 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
198 * GTest: a test framework
203 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
206 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
207 get the stack of open elements
208 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
210 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
214 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
215 success, instead of void
216 - Various performance improvements
219 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
220 a free function for leftover elements
223 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
224 to ease error propagation
226 * Internationalization:
227 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
228 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
230 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
233 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
234 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
235 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
236 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
237 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
238 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
239 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
240 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
241 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
242 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
243 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
244 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
245 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
246 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
247 490637 gobject documentation patch
248 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
249 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
250 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
251 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
252 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
253 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
254 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
255 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
256 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
257 503222 Need context to translate
258 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
259 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
260 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
261 71704 file include order
262 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
263 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
264 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
265 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
266 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
267 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
268 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
269 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
270 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
271 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
272 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
273 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
274 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
275 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
276 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
277 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
278 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
279 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
280 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
282 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
283 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
284 443648 MD5 digest support
285 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
286 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
287 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
288 500507 GHashTableIter API
290 * Translation updates
291 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
299 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
300 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
305 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
306 ===================================================
311 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
312 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
313 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
315 * Updated translations:
317 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
323 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
324 ===================================================
327 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
328 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
329 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
330 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
331 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
332 478349 Broken link to gettext website
333 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
335 * Updated translations:
342 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
343 ===================================================
346 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
347 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
348 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
349 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
350 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
351 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
352 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
353 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
354 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
355 468694 Typoes in documentation
356 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
357 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
358 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
359 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
361 * Updated translations:
366 Canadian English (en_CA)
367 British English (en_GB)
383 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
387 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
395 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
396 ===================================================
398 * Last-minute API additions:
399 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
400 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
405 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
406 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
407 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
409 * Updated translations:
416 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
420 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
421 ===================================================
423 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
424 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
425 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
428 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
429 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
432 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
433 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
434 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
435 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
436 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
437 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
438 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
439 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
440 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
442 * Updated translations
451 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
452 ===================================================
454 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
455 caused trouble for C++ bindings
458 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
459 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
461 * Updated translations
462 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
466 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
467 ===================================================
469 * xdg-user-dirs support:
470 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
471 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
474 - new api to duplicate slices
476 * Regular expression support:
477 - GRegex is a boxed type now
480 44793 make check failing in trunk
481 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
482 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
483 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
484 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
485 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
487 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
488 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
489 57693 g_string_vprintf()
490 442029 add g_slice_dup()
491 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
492 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
494 * Updated translations:
502 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
503 ===================================================
506 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
507 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
508 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
511 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
512 ===================================================
515 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
518 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
520 * Regular expression support:
521 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
522 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
523 replacement have been added
524 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
526 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
530 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
531 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
532 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
533 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
534 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
535 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
537 * Updated translations:
539 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
542 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
543 ===================================================
546 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
549 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
551 * Updated translations:
552 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
553 British English (en_GB)
555 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
561 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
562 ===================================================
566 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
567 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
568 to obtain information about the compiled regex
571 - Fix roundtrip problems
572 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
575 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
578 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
581 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
582 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
585 * Updated transations:
586 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
590 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
591 =================================================
593 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
594 a balanced binary tree.
596 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
599 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
600 for GTimer when available.
602 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
603 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
605 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
608 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
611 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
612 about zero-width characters.
614 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
617 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
618 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
619 be positioned before the function declaration.
621 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
622 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
624 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
627 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
628 to define types in modules.
630 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
632 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
633 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
634 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
638 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
639 ===================================================
642 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
643 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
644 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
645 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
646 unconvertable characters in place instead of
647 replacing them by NUL
650 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
651 string with NUL bytes
652 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
653 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
655 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
656 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
657 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
658 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
660 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
661 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
664 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
665 ===================================================
667 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
670 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
671 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
672 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
673 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
674 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
675 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
677 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
678 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
681 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
682 =================================================
685 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
687 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
690 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
691 ===================================================
694 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
696 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
700 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
702 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
705 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
706 ===================================================
709 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
713 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
715 * Updated translations (fi)
717 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
718 ===================================================
720 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
722 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
724 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
726 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
727 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
730 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
731 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
732 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
733 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
734 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
736 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
737 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
739 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
740 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
741 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
743 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
746 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
747 ===================================================
750 - Support 64-bit integers
751 - Allow optional text before and after the options
755 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
756 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
757 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
758 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
759 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
760 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
761 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
762 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
763 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
764 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
766 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
767 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
769 * Updated translation (es)
771 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
772 ===================================================
774 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
775 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
777 * Base64 encoding support
779 * Unicode 5.0 support
781 * GOption supports floating point numbers
783 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
786 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
787 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
788 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
789 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
790 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
791 329789 option-test.c type confusion
792 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
793 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
794 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
795 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
796 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
798 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
800 334646 goption + error out params
801 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
802 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
803 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
804 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
805 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
806 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
807 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
808 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
809 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
810 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
811 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
812 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
814 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
815 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
818 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
819 ===================================================
822 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
823 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
824 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
826 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
829 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
830 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
832 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
835 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
836 ==================================================
839 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
841 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
842 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
843 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
844 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
845 number of bytes to check is specified
847 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
848 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
850 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
851 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
853 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
855 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
856 =================================================
859 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
860 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
861 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
863 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
864 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
866 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
868 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
869 =================================================
872 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
873 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
874 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
875 now be turned on at runtime by setting
876 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
879 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
880 extension [Albert Chin]
881 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
882 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
883 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
884 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
886 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
888 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
889 =================================================
892 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
893 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
897 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
898 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
899 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
901 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
905 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
906 =================================================
909 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
910 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
912 * Change g_filename_display_name and
913 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
914 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
915 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
917 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
918 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
921 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
923 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
924 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
926 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
929 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
931 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
934 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
935 =================================================
938 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
939 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
940 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
943 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
945 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
946 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
947 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
948 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
951 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
952 floating reference. [Tim]
953 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
956 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
957 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
959 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
960 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
962 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
963 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
965 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
968 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
969 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
970 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
971 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
972 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
973 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
974 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
975 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
976 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
978 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
979 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
980 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
981 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
982 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
983 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
984 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
985 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
988 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
989 =================================================
992 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
993 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
994 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
995 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
998 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1001 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1002 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1003 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1004 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1005 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1006 variants [Martyn Russell]
1009 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1010 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1013 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1016 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1017 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1018 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1019 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1020 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1021 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1022 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1023 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1025 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1027 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1028 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1029 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1030 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1033 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1034 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1035 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1037 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1038 =================================================
1040 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1041 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1042 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1044 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1045 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1048 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1049 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1050 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1052 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1054 * Memory management:
1055 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1056 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1057 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1058 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1059 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1060 never worked as intended.
1061 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1062 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1063 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1064 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1065 efficient and scalable implementation.
1066 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1069 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1070 unnecessary recursion.
1073 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1074 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1075 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1079 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1082 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1083 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1084 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1088 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1089 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1090 since they are in glib.h
1093 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1094 =================================================
1095 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1096 * Fix build problems on OS X
1097 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1098 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1099 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1100 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1101 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1103 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1104 =================================================
1105 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1106 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1107 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1108 in GValues should also be changed to access
1109 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1111 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1112 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1114 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1115 =================================================
1116 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1117 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1119 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1120 =================================================
1121 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1123 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1124 work on s390 [Matthias]
1125 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1127 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1129 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1130 =================================================
1131 * Thread-related changes
1132 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1133 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1134 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1135 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1136 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1137 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1138 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1139 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1140 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1141 of gettext [Matthias]
1142 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1143 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1145 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1147 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1148 =================================================
1149 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1150 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1151 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1152 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1153 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1154 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1156 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1158 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1159 =================================================
1161 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1162 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1163 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1164 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1166 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1167 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1169 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1170 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1171 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1172 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1173 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1175 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1176 =================================================
1177 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1178 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1179 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1180 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1182 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1183 =================================================
1185 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1186 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1187 * Misc new functions:
1188 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1189 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1190 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1192 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1193 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1194 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1195 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1198 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1199 =================================================
1201 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1202 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1203 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1204 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1206 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1207 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1208 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1209 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1210 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1211 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1213 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1215 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1216 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1218 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1219 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1220 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1221 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1222 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1223 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1224 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1225 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1226 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1227 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1228 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1230 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1231 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1232 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1233 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1234 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1235 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1236 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1237 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1238 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1239 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1240 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1241 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1242 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1243 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1244 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1245 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1247 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1248 =================================================
1250 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1251 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1252 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1253 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1254 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1256 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1257 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1258 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1259 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1260 when check for executables [Tor]
1261 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1262 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1263 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1264 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1265 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1266 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1267 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1269 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1270 =================================================
1273 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1274 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1275 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1276 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1277 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1279 * Miscellaneous new functions
1280 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1281 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1282 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1283 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1284 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1285 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1286 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1287 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1288 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1289 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1291 * Performance improvements
1292 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1293 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1294 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1295 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1296 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1299 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1300 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1301 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1302 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1303 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1304 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1305 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1308 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1309 =================================================
1310 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1311 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1312 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1313 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1314 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1315 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1316 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1318 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1319 =================================================
1320 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1321 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1323 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1325 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1326 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1327 allocated memory [Matthias]
1328 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1330 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1331 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1332 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1333 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1335 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1336 =================================================
1338 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1339 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1341 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1343 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1344 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1345 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1346 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1347 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1349 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1350 =================================================
1352 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1353 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1354 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1356 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1357 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1358 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1359 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1360 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1361 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1362 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1363 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1364 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1365 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1367 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1368 =================================================
1369 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1370 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1371 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1372 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1373 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1376 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1377 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1378 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1379 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1380 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1381 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1383 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1384 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1385 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1386 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1387 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1388 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1389 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1390 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1392 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1393 =================================================
1395 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1396 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1398 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1399 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1400 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1401 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1402 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1403 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1404 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1405 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1406 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1408 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1409 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1411 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1412 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1414 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1415 =================================================
1416 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1417 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1418 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1419 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1420 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1421 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1422 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1423 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1424 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1425 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1427 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1428 =================================================
1430 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1431 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1432 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1433 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1434 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1435 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1437 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1438 =================================================
1440 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1441 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1443 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1444 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1446 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1447 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1448 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1449 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1450 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1451 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1452 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1453 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1454 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1455 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1456 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1457 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1460 =================================================
1462 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1463 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1464 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1465 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1467 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1468 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1469 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1471 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1472 =================================================
1474 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1475 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1476 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1477 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1479 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1480 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1482 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1483 =================================================
1485 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1486 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1487 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1488 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1489 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1490 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1491 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1493 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1494 =================================================
1496 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1497 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1498 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1499 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1500 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1501 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1502 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1503 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1504 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1505 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1506 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1508 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1509 =================================================
1511 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1512 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1513 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1514 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1515 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1516 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1517 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1518 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1520 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1521 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1523 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1524 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1525 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1527 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1529 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1530 =================================================
1532 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1533 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1534 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1535 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1537 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1538 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1539 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1540 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1541 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1542 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1543 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1544 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1545 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1546 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1547 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1548 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1549 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1551 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1553 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1554 =================================================
1556 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1557 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1558 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1559 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1560 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1561 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1562 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1563 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1564 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1565 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1566 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1567 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1568 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1569 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1570 like 'swapped-signal'.
1571 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1572 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1573 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1574 init() implementations
1575 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1576 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1577 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1578 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1579 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1581 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1583 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1584 =================================================
1586 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1587 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1588 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1589 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1590 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1591 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1592 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1593 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1594 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1595 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1596 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1597 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1598 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1599 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1600 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1601 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1602 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1603 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1604 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1605 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1606 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1608 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1609 =================================================
1611 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1612 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1613 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1614 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1615 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1616 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1618 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1619 =================================================
1621 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1622 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1623 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1624 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1625 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1626 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1627 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1628 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1629 * Bug and portability fixes
1630 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1632 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1634 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1635 =================================================
1637 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1638 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1639 Johannes Stezenbach]
1640 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1641 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1642 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1644 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1645 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1646 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1647 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1649 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1650 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1652 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1653 =================================================
1655 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1656 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1657 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1658 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1659 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1660 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1661 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1662 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1663 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1664 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1665 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1666 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1667 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1668 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1669 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1671 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1672 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1673 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1674 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1675 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1676 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1677 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1679 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1680 =================================
1682 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1683 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1684 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1685 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1686 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1687 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1688 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1689 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1690 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1691 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1692 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1694 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1695 =================================
1697 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1698 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1699 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1700 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1701 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1702 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1703 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1704 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1705 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1706 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1707 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1709 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1710 =================================
1712 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1713 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1714 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1715 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1716 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1717 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1718 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1719 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1720 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1721 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1722 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1724 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1725 =================================
1727 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1728 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1729 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1730 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1732 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1733 =================================
1735 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1736 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1737 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1738 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1739 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1740 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1741 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1742 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1743 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1744 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1745 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1746 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1747 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1750 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1751 =================================
1753 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1754 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1755 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1756 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1757 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1758 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1759 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1760 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1761 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1762 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1763 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1764 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1765 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1766 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1767 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1768 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1771 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1772 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1775 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1776 =================================
1778 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1779 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1780 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1781 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1782 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1784 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1785 ======================================
1787 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1788 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1789 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1790 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1791 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1793 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1795 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1796 ===================================
1798 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1799 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1800 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1801 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1802 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1803 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1804 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1806 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1809 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1810 ===================================
1812 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1813 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1814 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1815 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1816 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1817 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1818 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1819 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1820 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1822 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1825 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1826 ===================================
1828 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1829 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1830 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1831 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1832 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1833 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1834 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1836 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1837 ===================================
1839 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1840 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1841 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1842 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1843 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1844 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1845 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1846 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1848 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1849 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1853 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1854 ===================================
1856 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1857 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1858 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1859 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1860 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1861 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1862 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1863 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1864 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1866 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1867 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1869 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1870 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1873 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1874 ===================================
1876 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1877 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1878 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1879 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1880 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1881 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1882 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1883 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1884 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1885 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1887 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1888 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1889 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1893 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1894 ==================================
1896 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1897 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1898 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1899 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1900 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1902 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1905 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1906 ==================================
1908 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1909 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1910 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1911 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1914 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1917 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1918 ==================================
1920 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1921 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1922 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1923 * Minor hash table optimizations
1924 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1925 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1926 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1927 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1928 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1929 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1930 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1931 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1932 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1933 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1934 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1937 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1938 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1939 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1943 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1944 ==================================
1946 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1947 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1948 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1949 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1951 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1952 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1953 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1954 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1955 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1959 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1960 ==================================
1962 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1963 declarations from header files.
1964 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1965 * Bug and Portability fixes
1968 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1969 ==================================
1971 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1974 * Documentation improvements
1977 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1978 ==================================
1982 * More user_data support in various functions.
1983 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1984 * Unicode handling improvements.
1985 * Implemented debugging traps.
1986 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1987 * Various new small utility functions.
1988 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1989 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1990 * Many Win32 improvements.
1991 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1992 * Many documentation improvements.
1993 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1995 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1996 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1997 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1998 * Hashtable API additions.
1999 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2000 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2004 * Added many convenience functions.
2005 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2006 * Reworked property change notification.
2007 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2008 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2009 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2010 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2011 * Added support for abstract types.
2012 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2013 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2014 and parameter conversions.
2015 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2016 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2018 * Implemented GValueArray.
2019 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2020 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2021 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2022 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2023 * Implemented debugging traps.
2024 * Made things thread-safe.
2025 * Many documentation improvements.
2026 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2029 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2030 ==================================
2034 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2035 * Improvements to error reporting
2036 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2037 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2038 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2039 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2040 not to be freed. [Darin]
2041 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2042 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2043 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2044 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2045 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2046 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2047 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2048 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2049 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2050 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2051 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2052 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2053 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2054 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2055 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2056 * Many documentation improvements.
2061 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2062 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2063 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2064 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2065 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2069 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2070 =========================
2072 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2073 the GTK+ object system.
2074 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2075 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2076 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2078 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2079 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2080 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2081 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2082 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2083 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2084 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2085 * Double ended queue implementation.
2086 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2087 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2088 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2089 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2090 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2091 more tightly defined semantics.
2092 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.