1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
2 ===================================================
6 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
7 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
8 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
11 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
14 * GTest: a test framework
19 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
22 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
23 get the stack of open elements
24 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
26 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
30 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
31 success, instead of void
32 - Various performance improvements
35 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
36 a free function for leftover elements
39 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
40 to ease error propagation
42 * Internationalization:
43 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
44 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
46 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
49 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
50 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
51 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
52 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
53 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
54 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
55 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
56 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
57 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
58 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
59 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
60 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
61 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
62 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
63 490637 gobject documentation patch
64 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
65 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
66 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
67 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
68 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
69 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
70 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
71 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
72 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
73 503222 Need context to translate
74 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
75 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
76 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
77 71704 file include order
78 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
79 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
80 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
81 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
82 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
83 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
84 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
85 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
86 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
87 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
88 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
89 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
90 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
91 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
92 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
93 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
94 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
95 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
96 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
98 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
99 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
100 443648 MD5 digest support
101 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
102 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
103 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
104 500507 GHashTableIter API
106 * Translation updates
107 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
115 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
116 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
121 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
122 ===================================================
127 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
128 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
129 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
131 * Updated translations:
133 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
139 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
140 ===================================================
143 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
144 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
145 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
146 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
147 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
148 478349 Broken link to gettext website
149 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
151 * Updated translations:
158 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
159 ===================================================
162 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
163 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
164 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
165 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
166 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
167 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
168 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
169 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
170 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
171 468694 Typoes in documentation
172 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
173 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
174 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
175 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
177 * Updated translations:
182 Canadian English (en_CA)
183 British English (en_GB)
199 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
203 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
211 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
212 ===================================================
214 * Last-minute API additions:
215 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
216 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
221 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
222 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
223 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
225 * Updated translations:
232 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
236 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
237 ===================================================
239 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
240 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
241 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
244 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
245 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
248 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
249 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
250 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
251 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
252 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
253 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
254 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
255 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
256 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
258 * Updated translations
267 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
268 ===================================================
270 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
271 caused trouble for C++ bindings
274 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
275 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
277 * Updated translations
278 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
282 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
283 ===================================================
285 * xdg-user-dirs support:
286 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
287 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
290 - new api to duplicate slices
292 * Regular expression support:
293 - GRegex is a boxed type now
296 44793 make check failing in trunk
297 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
298 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
299 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
300 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
301 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
303 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
304 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
305 57693 g_string_vprintf()
306 442029 add g_slice_dup()
307 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
308 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
310 * Updated translations:
318 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
319 ===================================================
322 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
323 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
324 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
327 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
328 ===================================================
331 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
334 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
336 * Regular expression support:
337 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
338 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
339 replacement have been added
340 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
342 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
346 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
347 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
348 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
349 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
350 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
351 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
353 * Updated translations:
355 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
358 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
359 ===================================================
362 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
365 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
367 * Updated translations:
368 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
369 British English (en_GB)
371 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
377 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
378 ===================================================
382 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
383 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
384 to obtain information about the compiled regex
387 - Fix roundtrip problems
388 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
391 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
394 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
397 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
398 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
401 * Updated transations:
402 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
406 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
407 =================================================
409 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
410 a balanced binary tree.
412 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
415 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
416 for GTimer when available.
418 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
419 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
421 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
424 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
427 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
428 about zero-width characters.
430 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
433 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
434 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
435 be positioned before the function declaration.
437 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
438 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
440 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
443 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
444 to define types in modules.
446 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
448 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
449 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
450 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
454 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
455 ===================================================
458 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
459 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
460 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
461 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
462 unconvertable characters in place instead of
463 replacing them by NUL
466 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
467 string with NUL bytes
468 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
469 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
471 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
472 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
473 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
474 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
476 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
477 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
480 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
481 ===================================================
483 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
486 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
487 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
488 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
489 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
490 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
491 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
493 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
494 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
497 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
498 =================================================
501 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
503 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
506 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
507 ===================================================
510 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
512 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
516 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
518 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
521 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
522 ===================================================
525 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
529 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
531 * Updated translations (fi)
533 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
534 ===================================================
536 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
538 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
540 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
542 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
543 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
546 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
547 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
548 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
549 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
550 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
552 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
553 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
555 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
556 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
557 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
559 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
562 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
563 ===================================================
566 - Support 64-bit integers
567 - Allow optional text before and after the options
571 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
572 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
573 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
574 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
575 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
576 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
577 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
578 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
579 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
580 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
582 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
583 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
585 * Updated translation (es)
587 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
588 ===================================================
590 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
591 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
593 * Base64 encoding support
595 * Unicode 5.0 support
597 * GOption supports floating point numbers
599 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
602 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
603 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
604 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
605 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
606 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
607 329789 option-test.c type confusion
608 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
609 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
610 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
611 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
612 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
614 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
616 334646 goption + error out params
617 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
618 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
619 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
620 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
621 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
622 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
623 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
624 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
625 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
626 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
627 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
628 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
630 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
631 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
634 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
635 ===================================================
638 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
639 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
640 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
642 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
645 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
646 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
648 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
651 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
652 ==================================================
655 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
657 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
658 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
659 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
660 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
661 number of bytes to check is specified
663 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
664 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
666 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
667 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
669 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
671 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
672 =================================================
675 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
676 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
677 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
679 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
680 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
682 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
684 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
685 =================================================
688 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
689 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
690 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
691 now be turned on at runtime by setting
692 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
695 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
696 extension [Albert Chin]
697 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
698 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
699 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
700 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
702 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
704 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
705 =================================================
708 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
709 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
713 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
714 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
715 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
717 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
721 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
722 =================================================
725 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
726 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
728 * Change g_filename_display_name and
729 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
730 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
731 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
733 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
734 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
737 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
739 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
740 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
742 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
745 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
747 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
750 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
751 =================================================
754 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
755 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
756 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
759 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
761 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
762 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
763 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
764 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
767 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
768 floating reference. [Tim]
769 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
772 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
773 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
775 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
776 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
778 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
779 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
781 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
784 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
785 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
786 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
788 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
789 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
790 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
791 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
792 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
794 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
795 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
796 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
797 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
798 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
799 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
800 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
801 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
804 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
805 =================================================
808 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
809 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
810 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
811 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
814 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
817 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
818 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
819 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
820 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
821 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
822 variants [Martyn Russell]
825 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
826 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
829 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
832 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
833 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
834 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
835 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
836 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
837 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
838 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
839 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
841 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
843 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
844 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
845 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
846 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
849 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
850 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
851 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
853 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
854 =================================================
856 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
857 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
858 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
860 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
861 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
864 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
865 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
866 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
868 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
871 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
872 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
873 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
874 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
875 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
876 never worked as intended.
877 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
878 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
879 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
880 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
881 efficient and scalable implementation.
882 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
885 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
886 unnecessary recursion.
889 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
890 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
891 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
895 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
898 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
899 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
900 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
904 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
905 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
906 since they are in glib.h
909 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
910 =================================================
911 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
912 * Fix build problems on OS X
913 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
914 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
915 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
916 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
917 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
919 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
920 =================================================
921 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
922 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
923 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
924 in GValues should also be changed to access
925 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
927 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
928 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
930 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
931 =================================================
932 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
933 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
935 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
936 =================================================
937 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
939 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
940 work on s390 [Matthias]
941 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
943 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
945 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
946 =================================================
947 * Thread-related changes
948 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
949 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
950 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
951 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
952 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
953 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
954 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
955 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
956 "make check" to fail when using older versions
957 of gettext [Matthias]
958 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
959 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
961 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
963 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
964 =================================================
965 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
966 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
967 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
968 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
969 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
970 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
972 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
974 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
975 =================================================
977 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
978 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
979 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
980 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
982 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
983 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
985 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
986 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
987 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
988 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
989 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
991 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
992 =================================================
993 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
994 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
995 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
996 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
998 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
999 =================================================
1001 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1002 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1003 * Misc new functions:
1004 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1005 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1006 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1008 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1009 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1010 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1011 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1014 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1015 =================================================
1017 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1018 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1019 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1020 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1022 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1023 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1024 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1025 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1026 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1027 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1029 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1031 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1032 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1034 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1035 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1036 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1037 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1038 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1039 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1040 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1041 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1042 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1043 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1044 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1046 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1047 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1048 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1049 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1050 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1051 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1052 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1053 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1054 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1055 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1056 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1057 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1058 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1059 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1060 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1061 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1063 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1064 =================================================
1066 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1067 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1068 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1069 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1070 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1072 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1073 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1074 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1075 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1076 when check for executables [Tor]
1077 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1078 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1079 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1080 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1081 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1082 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1083 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1085 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1086 =================================================
1089 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1090 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1091 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1092 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1093 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1095 * Miscellaneous new functions
1096 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1097 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1098 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1099 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1100 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1101 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1102 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1103 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1104 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1105 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1107 * Performance improvements
1108 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1109 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1110 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1111 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1112 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1115 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1116 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1117 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1118 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1119 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1120 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1121 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1124 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1125 =================================================
1126 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1127 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1128 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1129 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1130 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1131 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1132 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1134 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1135 =================================================
1136 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1137 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1139 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1141 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1142 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1143 allocated memory [Matthias]
1144 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1146 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1147 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1148 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1149 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1151 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1152 =================================================
1154 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1155 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1157 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1159 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1160 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1161 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1162 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1163 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1165 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1166 =================================================
1168 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1169 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1170 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1172 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1173 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1174 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1175 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1176 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1177 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1178 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1179 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1180 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1181 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1183 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1184 =================================================
1185 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1186 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1187 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1188 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1189 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1192 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1193 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1194 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1195 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1196 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1197 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1199 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1200 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1201 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1202 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1203 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1204 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1205 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1206 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1208 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1209 =================================================
1211 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1212 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1214 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1215 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1216 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1217 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1218 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1219 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1220 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1221 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1222 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1224 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1225 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1227 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1228 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1230 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1231 =================================================
1232 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1233 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1234 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1235 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1236 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1237 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1238 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1239 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1240 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1241 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1243 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1244 =================================================
1246 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1247 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1248 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1249 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1250 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1251 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1253 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1254 =================================================
1256 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1257 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1259 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1260 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1262 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1263 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1264 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1265 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1266 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1267 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1268 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1269 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1270 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1271 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1272 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1273 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1275 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1276 =================================================
1278 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1279 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1280 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1281 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1283 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1284 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1285 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1287 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1288 =================================================
1290 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1291 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1292 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1293 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1295 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1296 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1298 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1299 =================================================
1301 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1302 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1303 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1304 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1305 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1306 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1307 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1309 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1310 =================================================
1312 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1313 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1314 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1315 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1316 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1317 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1318 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1319 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1320 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1321 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1322 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1324 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1325 =================================================
1327 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1328 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1329 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1330 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1331 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1332 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1333 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1334 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1336 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1337 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1339 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1340 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1341 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1343 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1345 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1346 =================================================
1348 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1349 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1350 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1351 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1353 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1354 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1355 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1356 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1357 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1358 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1359 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1360 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1361 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1362 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1363 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1364 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1365 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1367 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1369 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1370 =================================================
1372 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1373 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1374 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1375 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1376 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1377 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1378 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1379 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1380 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1381 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1382 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1383 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1384 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1385 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1386 like 'swapped-signal'.
1387 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1388 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1389 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1390 init() implementations
1391 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1392 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1393 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1394 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1395 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1397 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1399 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1400 =================================================
1402 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1403 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1404 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1405 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1406 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1407 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1408 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1409 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1410 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1411 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1412 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1413 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1414 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1415 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1416 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1417 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1418 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1419 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1420 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1421 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1422 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1424 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1425 =================================================
1427 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1428 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1429 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1430 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1431 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1432 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1434 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1435 =================================================
1437 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1438 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1439 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1440 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1441 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1442 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1443 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1444 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1445 * Bug and portability fixes
1446 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1448 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1450 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1451 =================================================
1453 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1454 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1455 Johannes Stezenbach]
1456 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1457 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1458 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1460 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1461 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1462 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1463 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1465 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1466 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1468 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1469 =================================================
1471 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1472 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1473 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1474 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1475 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1476 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1477 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1478 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1479 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1480 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1481 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1482 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1483 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1484 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1485 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1487 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1488 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1489 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1490 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1491 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1492 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1493 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1495 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1496 =================================
1498 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1499 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1500 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1501 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1502 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1503 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1504 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1505 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1506 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1507 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1508 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1510 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1511 =================================
1513 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1514 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1515 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1516 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1517 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1518 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1519 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1520 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1521 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1522 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1523 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1525 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1526 =================================
1528 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1529 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1530 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1531 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1532 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1533 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1534 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1535 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1536 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1537 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1538 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1540 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1541 =================================
1543 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1544 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1545 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1546 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1548 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1549 =================================
1551 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1552 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1553 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1554 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1555 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1556 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1557 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1558 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1559 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1560 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1561 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1562 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1563 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1566 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1567 =================================
1569 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1570 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1571 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1572 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1573 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1574 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1575 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1576 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1577 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1578 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1579 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1580 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1581 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1582 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1583 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1584 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1587 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1588 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1591 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1592 =================================
1594 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1595 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1596 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1597 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1598 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1600 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1601 ======================================
1603 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1604 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1605 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1606 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1607 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1609 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1611 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1612 ===================================
1614 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1615 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1616 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1617 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1618 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1619 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1620 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1622 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1625 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1626 ===================================
1628 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1629 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1630 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1631 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1632 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1633 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1634 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1635 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1636 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1638 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1641 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1642 ===================================
1644 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1645 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1646 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1647 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1648 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1649 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1650 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1652 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1653 ===================================
1655 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1656 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1657 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1658 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1659 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1660 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1661 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1662 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1664 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1665 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1669 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1670 ===================================
1672 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1673 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1674 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1675 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1676 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1677 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1678 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1679 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1680 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1682 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1683 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1685 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1686 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1689 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1690 ===================================
1692 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1693 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1694 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1695 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1696 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1697 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1698 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1699 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1700 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1701 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1703 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1704 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1705 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1709 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1710 ==================================
1712 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1713 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1714 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1715 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1716 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1718 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1721 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1722 ==================================
1724 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1725 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1726 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1727 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1730 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1733 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1734 ==================================
1736 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1737 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1738 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1739 * Minor hash table optimizations
1740 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1741 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1742 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1743 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1744 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1745 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1746 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1747 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1748 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1749 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1750 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1753 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1754 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1755 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1759 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1760 ==================================
1762 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1763 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1764 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1765 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1767 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1768 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1769 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1770 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1771 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1775 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1776 ==================================
1778 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1779 declarations from header files.
1780 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1781 * Bug and Portability fixes
1784 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1785 ==================================
1787 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1790 * Documentation improvements
1793 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1794 ==================================
1798 * More user_data support in various functions.
1799 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1800 * Unicode handling improvements.
1801 * Implemented debugging traps.
1802 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1803 * Various new small utility functions.
1804 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1805 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1806 * Many Win32 improvements.
1807 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1808 * Many documentation improvements.
1809 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1811 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1812 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1813 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1814 * Hashtable API additions.
1815 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1816 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1820 * Added many convenience functions.
1821 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1822 * Reworked property change notification.
1823 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1824 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1825 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1826 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1827 * Added support for abstract types.
1828 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1829 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1830 and parameter conversions.
1831 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1832 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1834 * Implemented GValueArray.
1835 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1836 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1837 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1838 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1839 * Implemented debugging traps.
1840 * Made things thread-safe.
1841 * Many documentation improvements.
1842 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1845 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1846 ==================================
1850 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1851 * Improvements to error reporting
1852 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1853 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1854 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1855 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1856 not to be freed. [Darin]
1857 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1858 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1859 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1860 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1861 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1862 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1863 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1864 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1865 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1866 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1867 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1868 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1869 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1870 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1871 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1872 * Many documentation improvements.
1877 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1878 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1879 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1880 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1881 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1885 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1886 =========================
1888 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1889 the GTK+ object system.
1890 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1891 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1892 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1894 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1895 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1896 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1897 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1898 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1899 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1900 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1901 * Double ended queue implementation.
1902 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1903 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1904 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1905 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1906 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1907 more tightly defined semantics.
1908 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.