1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2 ===================================
4 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumamnn, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey Stedfast, Laszlo Peter,
5 Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
6 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
7 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
8 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
9 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
11 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
12 ===================================
14 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
15 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
16 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
17 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
18 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
19 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
20 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
21 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
23 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
24 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
28 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
29 ===================================
31 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
32 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
33 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
34 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
35 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
36 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
37 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
38 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
39 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
41 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
42 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
44 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
45 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
48 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
49 ===================================
51 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
52 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
53 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
54 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
55 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
56 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
57 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
58 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
59 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
60 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
62 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
63 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
64 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
68 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
69 ==================================
71 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
72 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
73 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
74 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
75 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
77 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
80 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
81 ==================================
83 * Documentation updates [Owen]
84 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
85 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
86 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
89 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
92 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
93 ==================================
95 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
96 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
97 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
98 * Minor hash table optimizations
99 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
100 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
101 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
102 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
103 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
104 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
105 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
106 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
107 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
108 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
109 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
112 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
113 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
114 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
118 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
119 ==================================
121 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
122 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
123 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
124 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
126 * GDate const, convenience fixups
127 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
128 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
129 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
130 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
134 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
135 ==================================
137 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
138 declarations from header files.
139 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
140 * Bug and Portability fixes
143 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
144 ==================================
146 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
149 * Documentation improvements
152 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
153 ==================================
157 * More user_data support in various functions.
158 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
159 * Unicode handling improvements.
160 * Implemented debugging traps.
161 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
162 * Various new small utility functions.
163 * Random number generator precision improvements.
164 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
165 * Many Win32 improvements.
166 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
167 * Many documentation improvements.
168 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
170 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
171 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
172 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
173 * Hashtable API additions.
174 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
175 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
179 * Added many convenience functions.
180 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
181 * Reworked property change notification.
182 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
183 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
184 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
185 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
186 * Added support for abstract types.
187 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
188 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
189 and parameter conversions.
190 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
191 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
193 * Implemented GValueArray.
194 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
195 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
196 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
197 * Varrags value collection improvements.
198 * Implemented debugging traps.
199 * Made things thread-safe.
200 * Many documentation improvements.
201 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
204 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
205 ==================================
209 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
210 * Improvements to error reporting
211 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
212 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
213 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
214 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
215 not to be freed. [Darin]
216 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
217 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
218 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
219 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
220 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
221 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
222 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
223 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
224 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
225 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
226 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
227 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
228 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
229 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
230 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
231 * Many documentation improvements.
236 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
237 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
238 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
239 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
240 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
244 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
245 =========================
247 * New GObject library added including object system based on
248 the GTK+ object system.
249 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
250 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
251 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
253 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
254 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
255 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
256 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
257 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
258 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
259 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
260 * Double ended queue implementation.
261 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
262 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
263 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
264 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
265 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
266 more tightly defined semantics.
267 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.