1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15:
3 * HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work
4 * Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and
5 check() so it is not held over user code
8 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:
10 * Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl
11 * FreeBSD portability fixes
12 * Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes
14 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:
16 * Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.
17 * Improved thread related configure tests.
18 * GSource destruction fixups.
19 * Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.
20 * Advanced Win32 portability.
21 * Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,
22 loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well
23 as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.
24 * GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
26 * Lots of random portability and bug fixes.
28 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:
30 * Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,
32 * New tests structure. Type 'make check' on your system to run them.
33 * Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal
35 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:
37 * provide defaults for POLL sysdefs
38 * g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted
39 * a few other enhancement/fixes
41 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:
43 * Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this
44 * For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better
45 * Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll
47 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
49 * Added threading support
50 - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
52 - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
53 Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
54 - All static variables should now properly locked.
55 - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
56 (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
59 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
61 * Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
63 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
65 * New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
66 * New GAllocator type and assocated functions
67 * New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
69 * New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
70 insert elements at an arbitrary index
71 * GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
72 * Incremental freezing in ghash
73 * New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
75 * Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
76 * Added generic main-loop abstraction
77 * Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
80 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
83 * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
84 * Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
86 - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
87 - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
88 - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references
89 to other environment variables
90 - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
91 buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
92 - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
93 - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
94 - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order
95 - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
96 - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
97 - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
98 - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
99 - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
101 - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
103 - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
104 search path syntax conventions
105 - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
106 structure fields through their offsets
107 * Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
110 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
112 * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
113 * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
114 * New string join/split/free routines
117 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
119 * New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
120 object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
121 * glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
122 (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
123 be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
124 * Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
125 sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
126 * New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
127 associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
128 * New inline functions for bit masks tests.
129 * GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
130 * New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
131 platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
132 a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
133 People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
134 associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
135 * New utility functions:
136 g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
137 g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
138 g_strnfill(), g_memdup().
139 * Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
140 changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
141 * The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
142 new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
143 keyed data of GtkObjects).
144 * New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
145 * Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
146 * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
147 * Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
149 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
151 * Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
152 * fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
154 What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
156 * An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
157 * Bugfix for pointer arrays.
159 What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
161 * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
162 shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
164 * There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
165 * Fixups all over the place.
166 * gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
167 * API extensions for GList and GSList.
168 * New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
169 * GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
170 * Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
171 * Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
172 mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
173 * More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
174 * Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
176 * Generic functions for TAB completions.
177 * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.