1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
3 * Added threading support
4 - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
6 - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
7 Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
8 - All static variables should now properly locked.
9 - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
10 (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
13 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
15 * Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
17 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
19 * New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
20 * New GAllocator type and assocated functions
21 * New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
23 * New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
24 insert elements at an arbitrary index
25 * GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
26 * Incremental freezing in ghash
27 * New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
29 * Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
30 * Added generic main-loop abstraction
31 * Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
34 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
37 * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
38 * Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
40 - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
41 - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
42 - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references
43 to other environment variables
44 - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
45 buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
46 - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
47 - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
48 - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order
49 - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
50 - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
51 - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
52 - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
53 - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
55 - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
57 - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
58 search path syntax conventions
59 - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
60 structure fields through their offsets
61 * Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
64 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
66 * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
67 * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
68 * New string join/split/free routines
71 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
73 * New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
74 object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
75 * glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
76 (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
77 be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
78 * Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
79 sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
80 * New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
81 associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
82 * New inline functions for bit masks tests.
83 * GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
84 * New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
85 platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
86 a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
87 People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
88 associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
89 * New utility functions:
90 g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
91 g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
92 g_strnfill(), g_memdup().
93 * Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
94 changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
95 * The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
96 new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
97 keyed data of GtkObjects).
98 * New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
99 * Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
100 * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
101 * Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
103 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
105 * Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
106 * fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
108 What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
110 * An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
111 * Bugfix for pointer arrays.
113 What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
115 * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
116 shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
118 * There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
119 * Fixups all over the place.
120 * gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
121 * API extensions for GList and GSList.
122 * New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
123 * GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
124 * Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
125 * Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
126 mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
127 * More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
128 * Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
130 * Generic functions for TAB completions.
131 * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.