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