1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
2 ===================================================
5 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
6 g_content_type_guess_for_tree
7 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
8 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
9 g_volume_get_activation_root
12 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
13 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
15 * Internationalization:
16 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
19 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
20 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
23 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
24 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
25 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
26 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
27 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
28 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
29 541794 drive-eject-button signal
30 541793 activation root for volumes
31 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
32 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
33 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
34 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
36 334234 "printf" format error
37 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
38 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
39 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
40 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
41 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
42 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
43 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
46 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
47 ===================================================
50 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
53 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
54 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
55 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
56 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
57 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
58 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
59 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
60 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
61 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
62 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
63 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
64 535947 want g_set_error_literal
65 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
66 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
67 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
68 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
69 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
70 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
71 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
72 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
73 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
74 536733 gio build failure on Irix
75 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
76 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
77 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
78 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
79 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
86 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
87 ===================================================
89 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
91 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
92 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
94 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
97 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
100 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
101 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
102 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
103 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
104 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
105 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
106 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
107 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
108 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
109 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
110 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
111 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
112 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
113 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
114 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
115 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
116 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
117 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
118 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
119 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
120 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
122 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
123 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
124 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
125 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
126 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
127 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
128 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
129 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
130 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
132 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
133 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
134 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
135 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
136 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
138 * Translation updates:
142 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
146 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
147 ===================================================
149 * Update to Unicode 5.1
151 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
153 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
155 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
156 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
157 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
159 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
161 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
163 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
164 additional GIO modules
166 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
169 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
171 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
172 rate at which events are reported
174 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
177 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
178 size of the written data.
181 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
182 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
183 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
184 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
186 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
187 315437 extern inline -> static inline
188 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
189 alphanumerics into half width
190 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
191 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
192 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
193 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
194 526619 make test-report crash
195 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
196 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
197 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
198 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
199 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
200 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
201 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
202 501651 Update glib/libcharset
203 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
204 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
205 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
206 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
207 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
208 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
209 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
210 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
211 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
212 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
213 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
214 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
215 describe purpose of nick and blurb
216 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
217 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
218 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
219 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
221 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
222 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
223 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
224 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
225 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
226 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
227 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
228 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
229 524950 Minor documentation typos.
230 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
231 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
232 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
233 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
234 534759 Build failure in gio
235 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
236 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
237 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
238 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
239 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
240 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
241 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
243 * Updated translations:
249 Candian English (en_CA)
250 British English (en_GB)
259 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
271 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
272 ===================================================
274 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
276 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
279 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
280 ===================================================
282 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
285 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
286 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
288 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
291 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
292 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
293 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
294 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
295 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
296 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
297 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
298 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
299 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
300 518720 No MIME type for empty files
301 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
302 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
303 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
305 * Updated translations:
307 Bengali India (bn_IN)
319 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
326 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
327 ===================================================
330 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
331 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
332 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
333 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
334 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
335 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
336 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
339 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
340 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
341 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
342 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
343 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
346 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
348 * Updated translations:
350 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
352 British English (en_GB)
358 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
360 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
364 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
365 ===================================================
367 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
370 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
371 should be mounted automatically
372 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
373 the default handler for a file
374 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
375 launch the default handler for a URI
376 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
378 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
379 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
380 - There is the beginning of a test suite
381 - standard::description: new file attribute
382 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
385 - class initialization is now threadsafe
387 * Updated translations:
399 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
404 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
405 ===================================================
407 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
410 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
411 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
412 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
413 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
414 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
417 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
418 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
419 385132 solaris gettext support fix
420 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
421 510292 GOption main help not shown
422 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
423 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
424 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
425 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
427 * Updated translations:
440 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
441 ===================================================
444 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
445 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
446 that are longer than 64 bytes
449 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
450 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
451 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
454 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
455 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
456 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
457 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
458 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
459 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
460 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
461 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
463 * Updated translations:
470 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
471 ===================================================
474 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
475 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
476 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
477 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
480 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
481 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
482 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
483 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
484 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
485 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
486 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
488 * Updated translations:
497 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
498 ===================================================
501 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
502 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
503 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
504 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
507 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
508 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
509 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
510 files and directories now
513 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
514 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
515 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
516 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
517 315437 extern inline -> static inline
518 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
519 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
520 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
521 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
522 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
523 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
524 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
525 505058 xattr namespace docs
526 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
527 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
528 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
529 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
530 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
531 503051 Small bug in glib interface
532 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
533 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
534 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
535 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
536 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
537 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
539 * Updated translations:
541 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
550 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
551 ===================================================
555 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
556 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
557 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
560 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
563 * GTest: a test framework
568 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
571 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
572 get the stack of open elements
573 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
575 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
579 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
580 success, instead of void
581 - Various performance improvements
584 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
585 a free function for leftover elements
588 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
589 to ease error propagation
591 * Internationalization:
592 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
593 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
595 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
598 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
599 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
600 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
601 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
602 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
603 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
604 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
605 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
606 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
607 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
608 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
609 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
610 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
611 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
612 490637 gobject documentation patch
613 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
614 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
615 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
616 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
617 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
618 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
619 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
620 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
621 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
622 503222 Need context to translate
623 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
624 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
625 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
626 71704 file include order
627 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
628 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
629 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
630 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
631 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
632 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
633 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
634 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
635 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
636 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
637 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
638 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
639 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
640 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
641 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
642 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
643 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
644 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
645 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
647 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
648 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
649 443648 MD5 digest support
650 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
651 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
652 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
653 500507 GHashTableIter API
655 * Translation updates
656 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
664 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
665 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
670 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
671 ===================================================
676 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
677 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
678 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
680 * Updated translations:
682 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
688 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
689 ===================================================
692 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
693 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
694 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
695 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
696 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
697 478349 Broken link to gettext website
698 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
700 * Updated translations:
707 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
708 ===================================================
711 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
712 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
713 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
714 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
715 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
716 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
717 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
718 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
719 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
720 468694 Typoes in documentation
721 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
722 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
723 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
724 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
726 * Updated translations:
731 Canadian English (en_CA)
732 British English (en_GB)
748 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
752 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
760 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
761 ===================================================
763 * Last-minute API additions:
764 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
765 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
770 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
771 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
772 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
774 * Updated translations:
781 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
785 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
786 ===================================================
788 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
789 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
790 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
793 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
794 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
797 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
798 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
799 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
800 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
801 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
802 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
803 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
804 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
805 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
807 * Updated translations
816 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
817 ===================================================
819 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
820 caused trouble for C++ bindings
823 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
824 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
826 * Updated translations
827 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
831 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
832 ===================================================
834 * xdg-user-dirs support:
835 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
836 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
839 - new api to duplicate slices
841 * Regular expression support:
842 - GRegex is a boxed type now
845 44793 make check failing in trunk
846 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
847 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
848 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
849 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
850 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
852 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
853 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
854 57693 g_string_vprintf()
855 442029 add g_slice_dup()
856 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
857 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
859 * Updated translations:
867 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
868 ===================================================
871 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
872 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
873 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
876 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
877 ===================================================
880 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
883 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
885 * Regular expression support:
886 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
887 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
888 replacement have been added
889 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
891 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
895 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
896 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
897 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
898 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
899 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
900 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
902 * Updated translations:
904 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
907 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
908 ===================================================
911 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
914 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
916 * Updated translations:
917 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
918 British English (en_GB)
920 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
926 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
927 ===================================================
931 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
932 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
933 to obtain information about the compiled regex
936 - Fix roundtrip problems
937 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
940 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
943 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
946 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
947 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
950 * Updated transations:
951 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
955 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
956 =================================================
958 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
959 a balanced binary tree.
961 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
964 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
965 for GTimer when available.
967 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
968 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
970 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
973 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
976 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
977 about zero-width characters.
979 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
982 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
983 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
984 be positioned before the function declaration.
986 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
987 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
989 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
992 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
993 to define types in modules.
995 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
997 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
998 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
999 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
1003 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
1004 ===================================================
1007 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
1008 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
1009 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
1010 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
1011 unconvertable characters in place instead of
1012 replacing them by NUL
1015 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
1016 string with NUL bytes
1017 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
1018 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
1019 it considers a digit
1020 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
1021 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
1022 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
1023 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
1025 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
1026 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1029 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
1030 ===================================================
1032 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
1035 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
1036 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
1037 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
1038 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
1039 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
1040 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
1042 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
1043 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
1046 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
1047 =================================================
1050 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
1052 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
1055 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
1056 ===================================================
1059 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
1061 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
1065 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
1067 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
1070 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
1071 ===================================================
1074 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
1078 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
1080 * Updated translations (fi)
1082 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
1083 ===================================================
1085 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1087 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1089 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1091 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1092 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1095 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1096 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1097 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1098 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1099 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1101 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1102 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1104 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1105 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1106 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1108 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1111 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1112 ===================================================
1115 - Support 64-bit integers
1116 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1120 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1121 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1122 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1123 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1124 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1125 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1126 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1127 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1128 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1129 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1131 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1132 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1134 * Updated translation (es)
1136 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1137 ===================================================
1139 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1140 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1142 * Base64 encoding support
1144 * Unicode 5.0 support
1146 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1148 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1151 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1152 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1153 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1154 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1155 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1156 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1157 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1158 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1159 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1160 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1161 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1163 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1165 334646 goption + error out params
1166 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1167 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1168 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1169 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1170 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1171 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1172 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1173 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1174 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1175 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1176 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1177 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1179 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1180 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1183 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1184 ===================================================
1187 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1188 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1189 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1191 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1194 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1195 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1197 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1200 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1201 ==================================================
1204 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1206 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1207 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1208 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1209 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1210 number of bytes to check is specified
1212 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1213 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1215 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1216 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1218 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1220 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1221 =================================================
1224 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1225 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1226 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1228 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1229 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1231 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1233 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1234 =================================================
1236 * Memory management:
1237 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1238 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1239 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1240 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1241 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1244 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1245 extension [Albert Chin]
1246 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1247 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1248 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1249 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1251 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1253 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1254 =================================================
1257 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1258 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1262 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1263 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1264 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1266 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1270 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1271 =================================================
1274 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1275 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1277 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1278 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1279 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1280 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1282 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1283 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1286 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1288 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1289 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1291 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1294 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1296 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1299 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1300 =================================================
1302 * Memory management:
1303 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1304 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1305 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1308 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1310 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1311 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1312 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1313 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1316 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1317 floating reference. [Tim]
1318 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1321 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1322 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1324 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1325 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1327 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1328 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1330 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1333 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1334 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1335 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1336 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1337 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1338 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1339 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1340 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1341 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1343 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1344 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1345 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1346 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1347 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1348 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1349 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1350 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1353 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1354 =================================================
1357 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1358 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1359 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1360 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1363 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1366 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1367 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1368 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1369 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1370 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1371 variants [Martyn Russell]
1374 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1375 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1378 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1381 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1382 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1383 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1384 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1385 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1386 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1387 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1388 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1390 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1392 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1393 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1394 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1395 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1398 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1399 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1400 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1402 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1403 =================================================
1405 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1406 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1407 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1409 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1410 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1413 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1414 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1415 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1417 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1419 * Memory management:
1420 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1421 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1422 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1423 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1424 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1425 never worked as intended.
1426 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1427 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1428 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1429 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1430 efficient and scalable implementation.
1431 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1434 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1435 unnecessary recursion.
1438 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1439 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1440 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1444 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1447 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1448 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1449 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1453 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1454 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1455 since they are in glib.h
1458 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1459 =================================================
1460 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1461 * Fix build problems on OS X
1462 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1463 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1464 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1465 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1466 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1468 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1469 =================================================
1470 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1471 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1472 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1473 in GValues should also be changed to access
1474 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1476 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1477 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1479 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1480 =================================================
1481 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1482 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1484 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1485 =================================================
1486 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1488 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1489 work on s390 [Matthias]
1490 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1492 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1494 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1495 =================================================
1496 * Thread-related changes
1497 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1498 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1499 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1500 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1501 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1502 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1503 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1504 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1505 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1506 of gettext [Matthias]
1507 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1508 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1510 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1512 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1513 =================================================
1514 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1515 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1516 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1517 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1518 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1519 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1521 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1523 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1524 =================================================
1526 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1527 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1528 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1529 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1531 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1532 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1534 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1535 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1536 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1537 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1538 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1540 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1541 =================================================
1542 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1543 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1544 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1545 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1547 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1548 =================================================
1550 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1551 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1552 * Misc new functions:
1553 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1554 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1555 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1557 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1558 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1559 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1560 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1563 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1564 =================================================
1566 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1567 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1568 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1569 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1571 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1572 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1573 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1574 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1575 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1576 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1578 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1580 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1581 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1583 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1584 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1585 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1586 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1587 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1588 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1589 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1590 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1591 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1592 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1593 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1595 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1596 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1597 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1598 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1599 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1600 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1601 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1602 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1603 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1604 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1605 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1606 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1607 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1608 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1609 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1610 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1612 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1613 =================================================
1615 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1616 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1617 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1618 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1619 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1621 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1622 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1623 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1624 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1625 when check for executables [Tor]
1626 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1627 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1628 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1629 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1630 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1631 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1632 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1634 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1635 =================================================
1638 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1639 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1640 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1641 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1642 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1644 * Miscellaneous new functions
1645 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1646 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1647 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1648 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1649 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1650 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1651 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1652 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1653 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1654 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1656 * Performance improvements
1657 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1658 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1659 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1660 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1661 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1664 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1665 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1666 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1667 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1668 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1669 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1670 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1673 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1674 =================================================
1675 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1676 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1677 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1678 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1679 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1680 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1681 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1683 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1684 =================================================
1685 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1686 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1688 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1690 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1691 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1692 allocated memory [Matthias]
1693 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1695 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1696 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1697 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1698 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1700 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1701 =================================================
1703 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1704 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1706 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1708 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1709 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1710 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1711 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1712 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1714 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1715 =================================================
1717 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1718 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1719 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1721 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1722 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1723 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1724 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1725 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1726 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1727 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1728 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1729 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1730 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1732 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1733 =================================================
1734 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1735 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1736 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1737 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1738 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1741 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1742 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1743 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1744 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1745 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1746 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1748 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1749 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1750 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1751 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1752 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1753 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1754 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1755 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1757 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1758 =================================================
1760 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1761 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1763 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1764 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1765 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1766 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1767 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1768 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1769 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1770 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1771 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1773 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1774 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1776 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1777 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1779 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1780 =================================================
1781 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1782 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1783 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1784 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1785 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1786 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1787 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1788 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1789 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1790 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1792 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1793 =================================================
1795 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1796 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1797 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1798 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1799 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1800 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1802 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1803 =================================================
1805 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1806 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1808 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1809 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1811 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1812 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1813 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1814 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1815 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1816 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1817 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1818 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1819 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1820 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1821 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1822 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1824 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1825 =================================================
1827 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1828 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1829 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1830 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1832 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1833 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1834 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1836 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1837 =================================================
1839 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1840 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1841 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1842 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1844 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1845 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1847 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1848 =================================================
1850 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1851 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1852 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1853 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1854 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1855 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1856 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1858 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1859 =================================================
1861 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1862 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1863 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1864 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1865 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1866 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1867 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1868 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1869 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1870 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1871 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1873 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1874 =================================================
1876 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1877 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1878 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1879 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1880 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1881 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1882 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1883 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1885 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1886 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1888 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1889 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1890 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1892 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1894 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1895 =================================================
1897 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1898 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1899 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1900 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1902 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1903 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1904 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1905 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1906 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1907 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1908 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1909 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1910 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1911 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1912 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1913 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1914 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1916 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1918 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1919 =================================================
1921 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1922 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1923 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1924 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1925 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1926 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1927 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1928 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1929 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1930 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1931 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1932 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1933 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1934 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1935 like 'swapped-signal'.
1936 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1937 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1938 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1939 init() implementations
1940 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1941 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1942 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1943 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1944 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1946 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1948 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1949 =================================================
1951 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1952 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1953 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1954 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1955 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1956 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1957 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1958 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1959 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1960 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1961 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1962 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1963 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1964 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1965 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1966 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1967 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1968 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1969 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1970 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1971 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1973 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1974 =================================================
1976 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1977 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1978 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1979 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1980 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1981 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1983 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1984 =================================================
1986 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1987 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1988 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1989 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1990 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1991 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1992 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1993 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1994 * Bug and portability fixes
1995 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1997 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1999 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
2000 =================================================
2002 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
2003 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
2004 Johannes Stezenbach]
2005 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
2006 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
2007 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
2009 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
2010 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
2011 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2012 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
2014 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
2015 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
2017 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
2018 =================================================
2020 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
2021 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
2022 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
2023 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
2024 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
2025 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
2026 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
2027 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
2028 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
2029 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
2030 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
2031 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
2032 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
2033 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2034 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
2036 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
2037 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
2038 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
2039 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
2040 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
2041 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
2042 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
2044 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
2045 =================================
2047 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
2048 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
2049 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
2050 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2051 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
2052 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
2053 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
2054 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
2055 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
2056 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
2057 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
2059 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
2060 =================================
2062 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2063 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2064 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2065 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2066 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2067 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2068 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2069 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2070 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2071 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2072 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2074 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
2075 =================================
2077 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2078 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2079 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2080 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2081 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2082 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2083 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2084 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2085 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2086 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2087 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2089 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2090 =================================
2092 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2093 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2094 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2095 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2097 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2098 =================================
2100 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2101 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2102 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2103 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2104 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2105 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2106 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2107 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2108 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2109 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2110 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2111 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2112 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2115 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2116 =================================
2118 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2119 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2120 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2121 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2122 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2123 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2124 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2125 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2126 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2127 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2128 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2129 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2130 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2131 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2132 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2133 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2136 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2137 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2140 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2141 =================================
2143 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2144 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2145 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2146 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2147 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2149 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2150 ======================================
2152 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2153 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2154 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2155 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2156 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2158 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2160 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2161 ===================================
2163 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2164 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2165 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2166 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2167 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2168 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2169 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2171 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2174 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2175 ===================================
2177 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2178 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2179 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2180 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2181 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2182 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2183 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2184 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2185 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2187 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2190 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2191 ===================================
2193 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2194 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2195 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2196 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2197 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2198 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2199 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2201 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2202 ===================================
2204 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2205 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2206 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2207 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2208 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2209 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2210 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2211 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2213 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2214 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2218 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2219 ===================================
2221 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2222 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2223 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2224 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2225 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2226 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2227 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2228 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2229 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2231 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2232 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2234 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2235 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2238 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2239 ===================================
2241 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2242 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2243 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2244 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2245 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2246 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2247 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2248 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2249 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2250 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2252 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2253 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2254 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2258 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2259 ==================================
2261 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2262 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2263 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2264 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2265 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2267 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2270 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2271 ==================================
2273 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2274 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2275 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2276 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2279 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2282 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2283 ==================================
2285 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2286 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2287 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2288 * Minor hash table optimizations
2289 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2290 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2291 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2292 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2293 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2294 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2295 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2296 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2297 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2298 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2299 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2302 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2303 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2304 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2308 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2309 ==================================
2311 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2312 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2313 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2314 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2316 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2317 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2318 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2319 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2320 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2324 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2325 ==================================
2327 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2328 declarations from header files.
2329 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2330 * Bug and Portability fixes
2333 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2334 ==================================
2336 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2339 * Documentation improvements
2342 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2343 ==================================
2347 * More user_data support in various functions.
2348 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2349 * Unicode handling improvements.
2350 * Implemented debugging traps.
2351 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2352 * Various new small utility functions.
2353 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2354 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2355 * Many Win32 improvements.
2356 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2357 * Many documentation improvements.
2358 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2360 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2361 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2362 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2363 * Hashtable API additions.
2364 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2365 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2369 * Added many convenience functions.
2370 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2371 * Reworked property change notification.
2372 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2373 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2374 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2375 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2376 * Added support for abstract types.
2377 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2378 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2379 and parameter conversions.
2380 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2381 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2383 * Implemented GValueArray.
2384 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2385 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2386 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2387 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2388 * Implemented debugging traps.
2389 * Made things thread-safe.
2390 * Many documentation improvements.
2391 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2394 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2395 ==================================
2399 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2400 * Improvements to error reporting
2401 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2402 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2403 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2404 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2405 not to be freed. [Darin]
2406 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2407 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2408 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2409 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2410 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2411 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2412 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2413 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2414 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2415 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2416 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2417 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2418 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2419 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2420 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2421 * Many documentation improvements.
2426 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2427 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2428 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2429 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2430 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2434 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2435 =========================
2437 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2438 the GTK+ object system.
2439 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2440 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2441 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2443 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2444 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2445 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2446 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2447 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2448 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2449 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2450 * Double ended queue implementation.
2451 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2452 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2453 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2454 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2455 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2456 more tightly defined semantics.
2457 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.