1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.5
2 ===================================================
4 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
6 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
7 the user_data outside of callbacks
10 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
11 g_mount_guess_content_type
12 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
14 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
18 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
19 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
20 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
21 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
22 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
23 529694 SELinux context setting support
24 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
25 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
26 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
27 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
28 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
29 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
30 546079 leak in xdgmime
31 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
32 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
34 * Updated translations:
47 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
48 ===================================================
51 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
52 g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
53 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
54 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
55 g_volume_get_activation_root
58 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
59 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
61 * Internationalization:
62 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
65 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
66 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
69 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
70 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
71 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
72 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
73 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
74 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
75 541794 drive-eject-button signal
76 541793 activation root for volumes
77 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
78 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
79 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
80 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
82 334234 "printf" format error
83 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
84 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
85 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
86 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
87 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
88 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
89 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
90 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
91 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
93 * Updated translation:
99 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
100 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
103 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
104 ===================================================
107 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
110 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
111 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
112 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
113 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
114 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
115 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
116 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
117 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
118 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
119 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
120 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
121 535947 want g_set_error_literal
122 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
123 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
124 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
125 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
126 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
127 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
128 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
129 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
130 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
131 536733 gio build failure on Irix
132 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
133 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
134 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
135 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
136 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
138 Updated translations:
143 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
144 ===================================================
146 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
148 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
149 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
151 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
154 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
157 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
158 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
159 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
160 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
161 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
162 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
163 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
164 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
165 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
166 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
167 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
168 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
169 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
170 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
171 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
172 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
173 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
174 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
175 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
176 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
177 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
179 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
180 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
181 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
182 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
183 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
184 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
185 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
186 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
187 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
189 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
190 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
191 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
192 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
193 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
195 * Translation updates:
199 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
203 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
204 ===================================================
206 * Update to Unicode 5.1
208 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
210 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
212 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
213 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
214 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
216 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
218 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
220 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
221 additional GIO modules
223 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
226 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
228 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
229 rate at which events are reported
231 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
234 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
235 size of the written data.
238 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
239 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
240 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
241 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
243 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
244 315437 extern inline -> static inline
245 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
246 alphanumerics into half width
247 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
248 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
249 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
250 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
251 526619 make test-report crash
252 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
253 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
254 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
255 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
256 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
257 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
258 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
259 501651 Update glib/libcharset
260 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
261 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
262 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
263 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
264 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
265 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
266 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
267 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
268 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
269 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
270 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
271 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
272 describe purpose of nick and blurb
273 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
274 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
275 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
276 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
278 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
279 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
280 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
281 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
282 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
283 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
284 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
285 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
286 524950 Minor documentation typos.
287 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
288 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
289 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
290 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
291 534759 Build failure in gio
292 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
293 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
294 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
295 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
296 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
297 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
298 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
300 * Updated translations:
306 Candian English (en_CA)
307 British English (en_GB)
316 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
328 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
329 ===================================================
331 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
333 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
336 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
337 ===================================================
339 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
342 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
343 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
345 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
348 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
349 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
350 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
351 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
352 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
353 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
354 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
355 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
356 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
357 518720 No MIME type for empty files
358 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
359 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
360 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
362 * Updated translations:
364 Bengali India (bn_IN)
376 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
383 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
384 ===================================================
387 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
388 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
389 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
390 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
391 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
392 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
393 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
396 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
397 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
398 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
399 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
400 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
403 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
405 * Updated translations:
407 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
409 British English (en_GB)
415 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
417 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
421 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
422 ===================================================
424 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
427 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
428 should be mounted automatically
429 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
430 the default handler for a file
431 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
432 launch the default handler for a URI
433 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
435 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
436 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
437 - There is the beginning of a test suite
438 - standard::description: new file attribute
439 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
442 - class initialization is now threadsafe
444 * Updated translations:
456 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
461 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
462 ===================================================
464 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
467 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
468 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
469 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
470 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
471 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
474 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
475 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
476 385132 solaris gettext support fix
477 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
478 510292 GOption main help not shown
479 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
480 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
481 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
482 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
484 * Updated translations:
497 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
498 ===================================================
501 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
502 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
503 that are longer than 64 bytes
506 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
507 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
508 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
511 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
512 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
513 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
514 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
515 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
516 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
517 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
518 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
520 * Updated translations:
527 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
528 ===================================================
531 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
532 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
533 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
534 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
537 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
538 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
539 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
540 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
541 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
542 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
543 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
545 * Updated translations:
554 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
555 ===================================================
558 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
559 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
560 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
561 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
564 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
565 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
566 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
567 files and directories now
570 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
571 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
572 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
573 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
574 315437 extern inline -> static inline
575 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
576 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
577 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
578 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
579 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
580 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
581 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
582 505058 xattr namespace docs
583 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
584 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
585 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
586 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
587 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
588 503051 Small bug in glib interface
589 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
590 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
591 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
592 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
593 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
594 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
596 * Updated translations:
598 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
607 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
608 ===================================================
612 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
613 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
614 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
617 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
620 * GTest: a test framework
625 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
628 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
629 get the stack of open elements
630 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
632 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
636 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
637 success, instead of void
638 - Various performance improvements
641 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
642 a free function for leftover elements
645 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
646 to ease error propagation
648 * Internationalization:
649 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
650 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
652 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
655 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
656 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
657 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
658 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
659 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
660 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
661 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
662 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
663 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
664 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
665 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
666 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
667 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
668 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
669 490637 gobject documentation patch
670 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
671 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
672 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
673 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
674 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
675 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
676 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
677 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
678 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
679 503222 Need context to translate
680 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
681 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
682 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
683 71704 file include order
684 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
685 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
686 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
687 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
688 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
689 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
690 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
691 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
692 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
693 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
694 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
695 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
696 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
697 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
698 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
699 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
700 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
701 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
702 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
704 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
705 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
706 443648 MD5 digest support
707 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
708 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
709 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
710 500507 GHashTableIter API
712 * Translation updates
713 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
721 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
722 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
727 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
728 ===================================================
733 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
734 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
735 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
737 * Updated translations:
739 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
745 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
746 ===================================================
749 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
750 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
751 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
752 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
753 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
754 478349 Broken link to gettext website
755 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
757 * Updated translations:
764 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
765 ===================================================
768 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
769 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
770 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
771 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
772 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
773 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
774 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
775 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
776 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
777 468694 Typoes in documentation
778 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
779 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
780 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
781 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
783 * Updated translations:
788 Canadian English (en_CA)
789 British English (en_GB)
805 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
809 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
817 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
818 ===================================================
820 * Last-minute API additions:
821 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
822 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
827 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
828 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
829 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
831 * Updated translations:
838 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
842 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
843 ===================================================
845 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
846 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
847 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
850 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
851 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
854 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
855 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
856 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
857 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
858 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
859 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
860 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
861 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
862 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
864 * Updated translations
873 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
874 ===================================================
876 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
877 caused trouble for C++ bindings
880 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
881 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
883 * Updated translations
884 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
888 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
889 ===================================================
891 * xdg-user-dirs support:
892 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
893 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
896 - new api to duplicate slices
898 * Regular expression support:
899 - GRegex is a boxed type now
902 44793 make check failing in trunk
903 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
904 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
905 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
906 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
907 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
909 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
910 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
911 57693 g_string_vprintf()
912 442029 add g_slice_dup()
913 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
914 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
916 * Updated translations:
924 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
925 ===================================================
928 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
929 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
930 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
933 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
934 ===================================================
937 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
940 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
942 * Regular expression support:
943 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
944 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
945 replacement have been added
946 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
948 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
952 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
953 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
954 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
955 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
956 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
957 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
959 * Updated translations:
961 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
964 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
965 ===================================================
968 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
971 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
973 * Updated translations:
974 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
975 British English (en_GB)
977 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
983 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
984 ===================================================
988 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
989 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
990 to obtain information about the compiled regex
993 - Fix roundtrip problems
994 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
997 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
1000 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
1003 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
1004 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
1007 * Updated transations:
1008 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
1012 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
1013 =================================================
1015 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
1016 a balanced binary tree.
1018 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
1021 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
1022 for GTimer when available.
1024 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
1025 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
1027 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
1030 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
1033 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
1034 about zero-width characters.
1036 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
1039 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
1040 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
1041 be positioned before the function declaration.
1043 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
1044 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
1046 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
1049 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
1050 to define types in modules.
1052 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
1054 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
1055 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
1056 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
1060 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
1061 ===================================================
1064 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
1065 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
1066 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
1067 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
1068 unconvertable characters in place instead of
1069 replacing them by NUL
1072 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
1073 string with NUL bytes
1074 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
1075 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
1076 it considers a digit
1077 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
1078 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
1079 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
1080 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
1082 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
1083 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1086 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
1087 ===================================================
1089 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
1092 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
1093 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
1094 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
1095 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
1096 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
1097 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
1099 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
1100 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
1103 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
1104 =================================================
1107 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
1109 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
1112 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
1113 ===================================================
1116 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
1118 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
1122 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
1124 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
1127 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
1128 ===================================================
1131 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
1135 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
1137 * Updated translations (fi)
1139 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
1140 ===================================================
1142 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1144 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1146 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1148 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1149 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1152 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1153 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1154 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1155 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1156 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1158 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1159 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1161 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1162 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1163 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1165 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1168 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1169 ===================================================
1172 - Support 64-bit integers
1173 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1177 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1178 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1179 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1180 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1181 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1182 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1183 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1184 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1185 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1186 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1188 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1189 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1191 * Updated translation (es)
1193 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1194 ===================================================
1196 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1197 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1199 * Base64 encoding support
1201 * Unicode 5.0 support
1203 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1205 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1208 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1209 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1210 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1211 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1212 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1213 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1214 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1215 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1216 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1217 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1218 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1220 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1222 334646 goption + error out params
1223 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1224 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1225 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1226 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1227 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1228 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1229 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1230 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1231 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1232 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1233 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1234 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1236 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1237 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1240 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1241 ===================================================
1244 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1245 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1246 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1248 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1251 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1252 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1254 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1257 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1258 ==================================================
1261 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1263 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1264 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1265 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1266 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1267 number of bytes to check is specified
1269 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1270 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1272 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1273 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1275 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1277 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1278 =================================================
1281 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1282 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1283 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1285 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1286 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1288 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1290 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1291 =================================================
1293 * Memory management:
1294 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1295 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1296 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1297 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1298 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1301 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1302 extension [Albert Chin]
1303 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1304 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1305 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1306 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1308 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1310 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1311 =================================================
1314 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1315 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1319 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1320 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1321 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1323 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1327 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1328 =================================================
1331 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1332 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1334 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1335 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1336 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1337 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1339 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1340 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1343 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1345 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1346 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1348 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1351 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1353 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1356 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1357 =================================================
1359 * Memory management:
1360 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1361 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1362 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1365 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1367 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1368 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1369 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1370 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1373 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1374 floating reference. [Tim]
1375 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1378 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1379 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1381 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1382 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1384 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1385 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1387 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1390 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1391 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1392 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1393 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1394 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1395 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1396 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1397 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1398 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1400 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1401 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1402 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1403 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1404 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1405 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1406 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1407 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1410 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1411 =================================================
1414 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1415 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1416 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1417 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1420 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1423 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1424 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1425 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1426 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1427 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1428 variants [Martyn Russell]
1431 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1432 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1435 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1438 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1439 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1440 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1441 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1442 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1443 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1444 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1445 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1447 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1449 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1450 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1451 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1452 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1455 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1456 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1457 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1460 =================================================
1462 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1463 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1464 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1466 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1467 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1470 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1471 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1472 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1474 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1476 * Memory management:
1477 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1478 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1479 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1480 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1481 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1482 never worked as intended.
1483 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1484 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1485 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1486 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1487 efficient and scalable implementation.
1488 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1491 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1492 unnecessary recursion.
1495 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1496 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1497 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1501 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1504 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1505 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1506 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1510 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1511 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1512 since they are in glib.h
1515 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1516 =================================================
1517 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1518 * Fix build problems on OS X
1519 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1520 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1521 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1522 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1523 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1525 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1526 =================================================
1527 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1528 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1529 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1530 in GValues should also be changed to access
1531 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1533 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1534 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1536 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1537 =================================================
1538 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1539 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1541 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1542 =================================================
1543 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1545 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1546 work on s390 [Matthias]
1547 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1549 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1551 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1552 =================================================
1553 * Thread-related changes
1554 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1555 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1556 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1557 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1558 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1559 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1560 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1561 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1562 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1563 of gettext [Matthias]
1564 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1565 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1567 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1569 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1570 =================================================
1571 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1572 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1573 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1574 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1575 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1576 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1578 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1580 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1581 =================================================
1583 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1584 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1585 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1586 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1588 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1589 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1591 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1592 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1593 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1594 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1595 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1597 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1598 =================================================
1599 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1600 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1601 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1602 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1604 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1605 =================================================
1607 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1608 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1609 * Misc new functions:
1610 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1611 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1612 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1614 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1615 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1616 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1617 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1620 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1621 =================================================
1623 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1624 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1625 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1626 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1628 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1629 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1630 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1631 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1632 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1633 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1635 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1637 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1638 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1640 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1641 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1642 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1643 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1644 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1645 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1646 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1647 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1648 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1649 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1650 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1652 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1653 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1654 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1655 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1656 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1657 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1658 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1659 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1660 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1661 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1662 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1663 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1664 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1665 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1666 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1667 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1669 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1670 =================================================
1672 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1673 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1674 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1675 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1676 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1678 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1679 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1680 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1681 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1682 when check for executables [Tor]
1683 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1684 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1685 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1686 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1687 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1688 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1689 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1691 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1692 =================================================
1695 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1696 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1697 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1698 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1699 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1701 * Miscellaneous new functions
1702 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1703 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1704 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1705 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1706 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1707 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1708 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1709 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1710 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1711 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1713 * Performance improvements
1714 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1715 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1716 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1717 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1718 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1721 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1722 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1723 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1724 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1725 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1726 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1727 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1730 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1731 =================================================
1732 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1733 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1734 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1735 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1736 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1737 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1738 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1740 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1741 =================================================
1742 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1743 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1745 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1747 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1748 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1749 allocated memory [Matthias]
1750 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1752 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1753 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1754 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1755 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1757 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1758 =================================================
1760 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1761 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1763 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1765 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1766 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1767 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1768 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1769 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1771 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1772 =================================================
1774 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1775 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1776 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1778 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1779 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1780 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1781 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1782 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1783 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1784 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1785 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1786 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1787 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1789 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1790 =================================================
1791 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1792 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1793 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1794 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1795 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1798 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1799 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1800 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1801 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1802 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1803 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1805 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1806 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1807 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1808 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1809 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1810 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1811 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1812 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1814 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1815 =================================================
1817 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1818 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1820 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1821 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1822 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1823 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1824 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1825 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1826 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1827 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1828 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1830 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1831 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1833 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1834 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1836 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1837 =================================================
1838 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1839 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1840 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1841 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1842 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1843 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1844 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1845 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1846 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1847 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1849 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1850 =================================================
1852 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1853 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1854 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1855 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1856 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1857 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1859 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1860 =================================================
1862 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1863 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1865 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1866 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1868 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1869 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1870 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1871 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1872 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1873 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1874 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1875 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1876 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1877 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1878 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1879 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1881 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1882 =================================================
1884 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1885 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1886 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1887 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1889 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1890 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1891 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1893 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1894 =================================================
1896 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1897 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1898 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1899 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1901 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1902 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1904 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1905 =================================================
1907 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1908 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1909 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1910 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1911 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1912 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1913 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1915 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1916 =================================================
1918 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1919 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1920 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1921 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1922 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1923 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1924 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1925 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1926 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1927 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1928 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1930 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1931 =================================================
1933 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1934 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1935 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1936 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1937 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1938 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1939 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1940 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1942 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1943 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1945 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1946 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1947 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1949 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1951 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1952 =================================================
1954 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1955 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1956 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1957 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1959 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1960 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1961 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1962 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1963 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1964 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1965 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1966 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1967 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1968 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1969 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1970 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1971 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1973 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1975 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1976 =================================================
1978 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1979 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1980 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1981 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1982 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1983 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1984 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1985 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1986 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1987 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1988 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1989 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1990 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1991 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1992 like 'swapped-signal'.
1993 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1994 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1995 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1996 init() implementations
1997 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1998 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1999 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
2000 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
2001 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
2003 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
2005 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
2006 =================================================
2008 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
2009 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
2010 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
2011 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
2012 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
2013 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
2014 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
2015 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
2016 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2017 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
2018 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
2019 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2020 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
2021 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
2022 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
2023 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
2024 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
2025 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
2026 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
2027 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
2028 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2030 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
2031 =================================================
2033 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
2034 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2035 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
2036 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
2037 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
2038 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
2040 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
2041 =================================================
2043 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2044 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
2045 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
2046 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
2047 if necessary [Manish Singh]
2048 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2049 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
2050 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2051 * Bug and portability fixes
2052 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
2054 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
2056 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
2057 =================================================
2059 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
2060 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
2061 Johannes Stezenbach]
2062 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
2063 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
2064 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
2066 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
2067 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
2068 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2069 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
2071 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
2072 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
2074 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
2075 =================================================
2077 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
2078 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
2079 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
2080 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
2081 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
2082 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
2083 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
2084 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
2085 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
2086 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
2087 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
2088 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
2089 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
2090 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2091 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
2093 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
2094 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
2095 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
2096 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
2097 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
2098 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
2099 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
2101 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
2102 =================================
2104 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
2105 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
2106 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
2107 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2108 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
2109 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
2110 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
2111 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
2112 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
2113 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
2114 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
2116 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
2117 =================================
2119 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2120 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2121 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2122 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2123 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2124 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2125 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2126 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2127 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2128 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2129 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2131 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
2132 =================================
2134 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2135 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2136 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2137 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2138 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2139 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2140 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2141 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2142 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2143 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2144 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2146 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2147 =================================
2149 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2150 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2151 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2152 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2154 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2155 =================================
2157 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2158 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2159 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2160 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2161 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2162 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2163 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2164 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2165 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2166 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2167 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2168 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2169 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2172 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2173 =================================
2175 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2176 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2177 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2178 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2179 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2180 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2181 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2182 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2183 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2184 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2185 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2186 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2187 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2188 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2189 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2190 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2193 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2194 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2197 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2198 =================================
2200 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2201 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2202 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2203 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2204 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2206 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2207 ======================================
2209 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2210 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2211 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2212 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2213 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2215 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2217 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2218 ===================================
2220 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2221 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2222 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2223 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2224 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2225 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2226 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2228 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2231 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2232 ===================================
2234 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2235 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2236 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2237 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2238 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2239 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2240 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2241 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2242 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2244 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2247 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2248 ===================================
2250 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2251 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2252 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2253 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2254 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2255 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2256 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2258 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2259 ===================================
2261 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2262 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2263 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2264 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2265 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2266 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2267 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2268 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2270 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2271 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2275 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2276 ===================================
2278 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2279 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2280 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2281 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2282 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2283 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2284 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2285 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2286 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2288 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2289 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2291 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2292 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2295 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2296 ===================================
2298 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2299 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2300 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2301 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2302 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2303 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2304 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2305 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2306 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2307 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2309 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2310 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2311 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2315 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2316 ==================================
2318 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2319 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2320 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2321 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2322 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2324 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2327 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2328 ==================================
2330 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2331 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2332 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2333 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2336 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2339 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2340 ==================================
2342 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2343 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2344 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2345 * Minor hash table optimizations
2346 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2347 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2348 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2349 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2350 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2351 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2352 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2353 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2354 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2355 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2356 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2359 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2360 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2361 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2365 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2366 ==================================
2368 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2369 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2370 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2371 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2373 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2374 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2375 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2376 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2377 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2381 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2382 ==================================
2384 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2385 declarations from header files.
2386 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2387 * Bug and Portability fixes
2390 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2391 ==================================
2393 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2396 * Documentation improvements
2399 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2400 ==================================
2404 * More user_data support in various functions.
2405 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2406 * Unicode handling improvements.
2407 * Implemented debugging traps.
2408 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2409 * Various new small utility functions.
2410 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2411 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2412 * Many Win32 improvements.
2413 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2414 * Many documentation improvements.
2415 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2417 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2418 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2419 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2420 * Hashtable API additions.
2421 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2422 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2426 * Added many convenience functions.
2427 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2428 * Reworked property change notification.
2429 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2430 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2431 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2432 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2433 * Added support for abstract types.
2434 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2435 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2436 and parameter conversions.
2437 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2438 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2440 * Implemented GValueArray.
2441 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2442 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2443 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2444 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2445 * Implemented debugging traps.
2446 * Made things thread-safe.
2447 * Many documentation improvements.
2448 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2451 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2452 ==================================
2456 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2457 * Improvements to error reporting
2458 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2459 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2460 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2461 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2462 not to be freed. [Darin]
2463 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2464 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2465 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2466 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2467 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2468 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2469 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2470 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2471 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2472 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2473 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2474 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2475 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2476 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2477 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2478 * Many documentation improvements.
2483 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2484 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2485 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2486 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2487 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2491 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2492 =========================
2494 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2495 the GTK+ object system.
2496 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2497 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2498 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2500 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2501 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2502 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2503 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2504 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2505 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2506 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2507 * Double ended queue implementation.
2508 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2509 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2510 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2511 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2512 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2513 more tightly defined semantics.
2514 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.