1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:
3 * Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl
4 * FreeBSD portability fixes
5 * Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes
7 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:
9 * Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.
10 * Improved thread related configure tests.
11 * GSource destruction fixups.
12 * Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.
13 * Advanced Win32 portability.
14 * Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,
15 loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well
16 as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.
17 * GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
19 * Lots of random portability and bug fixes.
21 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:
23 * Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,
25 * New tests structure. Type 'make check' on your system to run them.
26 * Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal
28 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:
30 * provide defaults for POLL sysdefs
31 * g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted
32 * a few other enhancement/fixes
34 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:
36 * Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this
37 * For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better
38 * Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll
40 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
42 * Added threading support
43 - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
45 - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
46 Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
47 - All static variables should now properly locked.
48 - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
49 (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
52 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
54 * Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
56 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
58 * New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
59 * New GAllocator type and assocated functions
60 * New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
62 * New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
63 insert elements at an arbitrary index
64 * GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
65 * Incremental freezing in ghash
66 * New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
68 * Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
69 * Added generic main-loop abstraction
70 * Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
73 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
76 * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
77 * Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
79 - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
80 - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
81 - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references
82 to other environment variables
83 - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
84 buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
85 - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
86 - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
87 - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order
88 - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
89 - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
90 - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
91 - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
92 - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
94 - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
96 - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
97 search path syntax conventions
98 - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
99 structure fields through their offsets
100 * Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
103 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
105 * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
106 * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
107 * New string join/split/free routines
110 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
112 * New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
113 object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
114 * glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
115 (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
116 be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
117 * Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
118 sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
119 * New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
120 associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
121 * New inline functions for bit masks tests.
122 * GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
123 * New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
124 platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
125 a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
126 People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
127 associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
128 * New utility functions:
129 g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
130 g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
131 g_strnfill(), g_memdup().
132 * Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
133 changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
134 * The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
135 new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
136 keyed data of GtkObjects).
137 * New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
138 * Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
139 * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
140 * Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
142 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
144 * Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
145 * fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
147 What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
149 * An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
150 * Bugfix for pointer arrays.
152 What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
154 * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
155 shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
157 * There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
158 * Fixups all over the place.
159 * gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
160 * API extensions for GList and GSList.
161 * New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
162 * GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
163 * Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
164 * Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
165 mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
166 * More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
167 * Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
169 * Generic functions for TAB completions.
170 * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.