1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
2 ===================================================
5 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
6 g_content_type_guess_for_tree
7 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
8 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
9 g_volume_get_activation_root
12 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
13 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
15 * Internationalization:
16 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
19 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
20 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
23 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
24 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
25 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
26 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
27 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
28 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
29 541794 drive-eject-button signal
30 541793 activation root for volumes
31 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
32 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
33 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
34 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
36 334234 "printf" format error
37 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
38 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
39 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
40 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
41 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
42 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
43 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
45 * Updated translation:
51 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
52 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
55 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
56 ===================================================
59 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
62 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
63 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
64 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
65 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
66 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
67 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
68 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
69 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
70 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
71 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
72 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
73 535947 want g_set_error_literal
74 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
75 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
76 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
77 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
78 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
79 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
80 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
81 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
82 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
83 536733 gio build failure on Irix
84 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
85 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
86 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
87 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
88 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
95 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
96 ===================================================
98 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
100 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
101 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
103 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
106 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
109 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
110 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
111 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
112 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
113 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
114 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
115 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
116 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
117 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
118 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
119 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
120 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
121 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
122 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
123 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
124 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
125 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
126 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
127 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
128 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
129 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
131 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
132 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
133 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
134 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
135 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
136 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
137 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
138 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
139 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
141 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
142 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
143 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
144 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
145 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
147 * Translation updates:
151 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
155 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
156 ===================================================
158 * Update to Unicode 5.1
160 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
162 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
164 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
165 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
166 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
168 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
170 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
172 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
173 additional GIO modules
175 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
178 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
180 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
181 rate at which events are reported
183 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
186 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
187 size of the written data.
190 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
191 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
192 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
193 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
195 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
196 315437 extern inline -> static inline
197 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
198 alphanumerics into half width
199 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
200 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
201 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
202 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
203 526619 make test-report crash
204 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
205 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
206 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
207 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
208 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
209 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
210 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
211 501651 Update glib/libcharset
212 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
213 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
214 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
215 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
216 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
217 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
218 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
219 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
220 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
221 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
222 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
223 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
224 describe purpose of nick and blurb
225 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
226 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
227 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
228 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
230 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
231 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
232 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
233 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
234 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
235 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
236 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
237 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
238 524950 Minor documentation typos.
239 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
240 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
241 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
242 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
243 534759 Build failure in gio
244 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
245 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
246 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
247 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
248 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
249 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
250 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
252 * Updated translations:
258 Candian English (en_CA)
259 British English (en_GB)
268 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
280 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
281 ===================================================
283 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
285 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
288 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
289 ===================================================
291 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
294 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
295 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
297 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
300 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
301 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
302 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
303 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
304 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
305 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
306 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
307 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
308 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
309 518720 No MIME type for empty files
310 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
311 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
312 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
314 * Updated translations:
316 Bengali India (bn_IN)
328 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
335 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
336 ===================================================
339 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
340 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
341 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
342 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
343 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
344 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
345 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
348 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
349 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
350 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
351 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
352 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
355 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
357 * Updated translations:
359 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
361 British English (en_GB)
367 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
369 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
373 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
374 ===================================================
376 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
379 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
380 should be mounted automatically
381 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
382 the default handler for a file
383 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
384 launch the default handler for a URI
385 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
387 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
388 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
389 - There is the beginning of a test suite
390 - standard::description: new file attribute
391 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
394 - class initialization is now threadsafe
396 * Updated translations:
408 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
413 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
414 ===================================================
416 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
419 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
420 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
421 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
422 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
423 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
426 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
427 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
428 385132 solaris gettext support fix
429 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
430 510292 GOption main help not shown
431 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
432 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
433 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
434 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
436 * Updated translations:
449 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
450 ===================================================
453 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
454 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
455 that are longer than 64 bytes
458 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
459 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
460 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
463 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
464 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
465 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
466 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
467 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
468 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
469 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
470 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
472 * Updated translations:
479 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
480 ===================================================
483 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
484 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
485 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
486 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
489 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
490 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
491 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
492 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
493 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
494 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
495 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
497 * Updated translations:
506 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
507 ===================================================
510 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
511 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
512 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
513 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
516 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
517 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
518 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
519 files and directories now
522 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
523 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
524 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
525 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
526 315437 extern inline -> static inline
527 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
528 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
529 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
530 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
531 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
532 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
533 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
534 505058 xattr namespace docs
535 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
536 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
537 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
538 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
539 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
540 503051 Small bug in glib interface
541 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
542 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
543 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
544 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
545 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
546 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
548 * Updated translations:
550 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
559 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
560 ===================================================
564 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
565 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
566 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
569 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
572 * GTest: a test framework
577 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
580 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
581 get the stack of open elements
582 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
584 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
588 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
589 success, instead of void
590 - Various performance improvements
593 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
594 a free function for leftover elements
597 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
598 to ease error propagation
600 * Internationalization:
601 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
602 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
604 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
607 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
608 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
609 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
610 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
611 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
612 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
613 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
614 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
615 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
616 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
617 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
618 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
619 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
620 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
621 490637 gobject documentation patch
622 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
623 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
624 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
625 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
626 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
627 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
628 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
629 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
630 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
631 503222 Need context to translate
632 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
633 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
634 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
635 71704 file include order
636 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
637 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
638 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
639 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
640 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
641 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
642 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
643 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
644 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
645 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
646 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
647 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
648 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
649 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
650 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
651 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
652 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
653 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
654 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
656 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
657 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
658 443648 MD5 digest support
659 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
660 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
661 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
662 500507 GHashTableIter API
664 * Translation updates
665 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
673 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
674 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
679 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
680 ===================================================
685 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
686 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
687 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
689 * Updated translations:
691 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
697 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
698 ===================================================
701 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
702 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
703 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
704 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
705 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
706 478349 Broken link to gettext website
707 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
709 * Updated translations:
716 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
717 ===================================================
720 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
721 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
722 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
723 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
724 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
725 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
726 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
727 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
728 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
729 468694 Typoes in documentation
730 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
731 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
732 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
733 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
735 * Updated translations:
740 Canadian English (en_CA)
741 British English (en_GB)
757 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
761 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
769 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
770 ===================================================
772 * Last-minute API additions:
773 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
774 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
779 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
780 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
781 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
783 * Updated translations:
790 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
794 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
795 ===================================================
797 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
798 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
799 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
802 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
803 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
806 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
807 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
808 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
809 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
810 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
811 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
812 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
813 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
814 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
816 * Updated translations
825 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
826 ===================================================
828 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
829 caused trouble for C++ bindings
832 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
833 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
835 * Updated translations
836 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
840 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
841 ===================================================
843 * xdg-user-dirs support:
844 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
845 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
848 - new api to duplicate slices
850 * Regular expression support:
851 - GRegex is a boxed type now
854 44793 make check failing in trunk
855 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
856 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
857 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
858 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
859 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
861 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
862 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
863 57693 g_string_vprintf()
864 442029 add g_slice_dup()
865 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
866 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
868 * Updated translations:
876 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
877 ===================================================
880 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
881 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
882 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
885 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
886 ===================================================
889 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
892 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
894 * Regular expression support:
895 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
896 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
897 replacement have been added
898 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
900 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
904 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
905 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
906 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
907 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
908 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
909 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
911 * Updated translations:
913 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
916 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
917 ===================================================
920 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
923 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
925 * Updated translations:
926 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
927 British English (en_GB)
929 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
935 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
936 ===================================================
940 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
941 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
942 to obtain information about the compiled regex
945 - Fix roundtrip problems
946 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
949 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
952 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
955 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
956 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
959 * Updated transations:
960 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
964 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
965 =================================================
967 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
968 a balanced binary tree.
970 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
973 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
974 for GTimer when available.
976 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
977 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
979 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
982 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
985 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
986 about zero-width characters.
988 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
991 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
992 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
993 be positioned before the function declaration.
995 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
996 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
998 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
1001 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
1002 to define types in modules.
1004 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
1006 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
1007 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
1008 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
1012 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
1013 ===================================================
1016 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
1017 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
1018 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
1019 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
1020 unconvertable characters in place instead of
1021 replacing them by NUL
1024 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
1025 string with NUL bytes
1026 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
1027 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
1028 it considers a digit
1029 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
1030 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
1031 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
1032 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
1034 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
1035 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1038 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
1039 ===================================================
1041 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
1044 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
1045 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
1046 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
1047 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
1048 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
1049 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
1051 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
1052 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
1055 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
1056 =================================================
1059 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
1061 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
1064 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
1065 ===================================================
1068 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
1070 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
1074 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
1076 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
1079 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
1080 ===================================================
1083 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
1087 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
1089 * Updated translations (fi)
1091 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
1092 ===================================================
1094 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1096 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1098 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1100 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1101 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1104 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1105 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1106 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1107 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1108 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1110 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1111 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1113 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1114 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1115 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1117 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1120 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1121 ===================================================
1124 - Support 64-bit integers
1125 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1129 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1130 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1131 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1132 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1133 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1134 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1135 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1136 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1137 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1138 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1140 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1141 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1143 * Updated translation (es)
1145 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1146 ===================================================
1148 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1149 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1151 * Base64 encoding support
1153 * Unicode 5.0 support
1155 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1157 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1160 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1161 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1162 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1163 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1164 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1165 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1166 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1167 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1168 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1169 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1170 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1172 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1174 334646 goption + error out params
1175 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1176 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1177 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1178 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1179 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1180 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1181 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1182 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1183 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1184 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1185 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1186 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1188 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1189 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1192 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1193 ===================================================
1196 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1197 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1198 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1200 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1203 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1204 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1206 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1209 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1210 ==================================================
1213 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1215 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1216 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1217 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1218 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1219 number of bytes to check is specified
1221 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1222 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1224 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1225 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1227 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1229 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1230 =================================================
1233 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1234 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1235 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1237 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1238 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1240 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1242 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1243 =================================================
1245 * Memory management:
1246 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1247 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1248 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1249 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1250 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1253 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1254 extension [Albert Chin]
1255 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1256 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1257 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1258 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1260 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1262 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1263 =================================================
1266 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1267 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1271 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1272 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1273 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1275 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1279 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1280 =================================================
1283 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1284 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1286 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1287 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1288 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1289 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1291 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1292 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1295 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1297 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1298 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1300 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1303 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1305 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1308 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1309 =================================================
1311 * Memory management:
1312 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1313 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1314 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1317 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1319 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1320 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1321 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1322 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1325 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1326 floating reference. [Tim]
1327 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1330 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1331 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1333 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1334 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1336 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1337 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1339 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1342 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1343 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1344 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1345 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1346 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1347 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1348 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1349 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1350 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1352 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1353 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1354 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1355 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1356 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1357 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1358 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1359 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1362 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1363 =================================================
1366 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1367 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1368 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1369 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1372 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1375 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1376 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1377 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1378 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1379 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1380 variants [Martyn Russell]
1383 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1384 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1387 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1390 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1391 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1392 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1393 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1394 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1395 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1396 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1397 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1399 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1401 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1402 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1403 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1404 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1407 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1408 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1409 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1411 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1412 =================================================
1414 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1415 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1416 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1418 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1419 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1422 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1423 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1424 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1426 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1428 * Memory management:
1429 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1430 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1431 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1432 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1433 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1434 never worked as intended.
1435 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1436 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1437 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1438 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1439 efficient and scalable implementation.
1440 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1443 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1444 unnecessary recursion.
1447 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1448 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1449 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1453 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1456 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1457 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1458 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1462 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1463 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1464 since they are in glib.h
1467 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1468 =================================================
1469 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1470 * Fix build problems on OS X
1471 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1472 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1473 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1474 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1475 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1477 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1478 =================================================
1479 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1480 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1481 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1482 in GValues should also be changed to access
1483 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1485 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1486 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1488 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1489 =================================================
1490 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1491 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1493 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1494 =================================================
1495 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1497 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1498 work on s390 [Matthias]
1499 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1501 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1503 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1504 =================================================
1505 * Thread-related changes
1506 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1507 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1508 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1509 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1510 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1511 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1512 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1513 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1514 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1515 of gettext [Matthias]
1516 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1517 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1519 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1521 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1522 =================================================
1523 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1524 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1525 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1526 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1527 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1528 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1530 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1532 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1533 =================================================
1535 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1536 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1537 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1538 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1540 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1541 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1543 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1544 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1545 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1546 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1547 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1549 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1550 =================================================
1551 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1552 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1553 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1554 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1556 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1557 =================================================
1559 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1560 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1561 * Misc new functions:
1562 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1563 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1564 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1566 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1567 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1568 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1569 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1572 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1573 =================================================
1575 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1576 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1577 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1578 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1580 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1581 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1582 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1583 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1584 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1585 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1587 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1589 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1590 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1592 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1593 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1594 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1595 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1596 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1597 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1598 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1599 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1600 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1601 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1602 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1604 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1605 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1606 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1607 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1608 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1609 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1610 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1611 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1612 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1613 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1614 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1615 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1616 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1617 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1618 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1619 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1621 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1622 =================================================
1624 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1625 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1626 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1627 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1628 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1630 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1631 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1632 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1633 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1634 when check for executables [Tor]
1635 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1636 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1637 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1638 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1639 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1640 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1641 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1643 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1644 =================================================
1647 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1648 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1649 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1650 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1651 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1653 * Miscellaneous new functions
1654 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1655 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1656 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1657 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1658 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1659 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1660 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1661 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1662 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1663 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1665 * Performance improvements
1666 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1667 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1668 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1669 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1670 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1673 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1674 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1675 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1676 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1677 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1678 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1679 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1682 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1683 =================================================
1684 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1685 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1686 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1687 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1688 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1689 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1690 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1692 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1693 =================================================
1694 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1695 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1697 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1699 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1700 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1701 allocated memory [Matthias]
1702 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1704 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1705 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1706 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1707 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1709 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1710 =================================================
1712 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1713 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1715 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1717 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1718 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1719 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1720 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1721 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1723 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1724 =================================================
1726 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1727 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1728 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1730 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1731 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1732 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1733 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1734 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1735 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1736 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1737 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1738 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1739 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1741 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1742 =================================================
1743 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1744 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1745 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1746 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1747 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1750 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1751 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1752 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1753 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1754 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1755 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1757 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1758 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1759 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1760 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1761 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1762 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1763 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1764 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1766 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1767 =================================================
1769 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1770 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1772 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1773 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1774 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1775 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1776 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1777 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1778 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1779 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1780 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1782 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1783 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1785 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1786 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1788 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1789 =================================================
1790 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1791 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1792 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1793 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1794 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1795 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1796 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1797 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1798 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1799 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1801 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1802 =================================================
1804 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1805 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1806 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1807 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1808 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1809 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1811 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1812 =================================================
1814 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1815 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1817 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1818 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1820 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1821 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1822 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1823 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1824 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1825 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1826 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1827 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1828 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1829 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1830 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1831 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1833 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1834 =================================================
1836 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1837 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1838 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1839 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1841 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1842 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1843 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1845 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1846 =================================================
1848 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1849 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1850 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1851 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1853 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1854 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1856 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1857 =================================================
1859 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1860 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1861 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1862 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1863 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1864 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1865 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1867 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1868 =================================================
1870 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1871 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1872 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1873 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1874 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1875 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1876 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1877 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1878 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1879 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1880 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1882 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1883 =================================================
1885 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1886 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1887 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1888 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1889 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1890 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1891 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1892 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1894 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1895 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1897 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1898 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1899 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1901 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1903 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1904 =================================================
1906 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1907 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1908 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1909 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1911 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1912 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1913 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1914 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1915 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1916 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1917 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1918 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1919 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1920 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1921 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1922 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1923 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1925 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1927 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1928 =================================================
1930 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1931 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1932 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1933 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1934 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1935 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1936 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1937 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1938 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1939 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1940 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1941 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1942 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1943 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1944 like 'swapped-signal'.
1945 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1946 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1947 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1948 init() implementations
1949 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1950 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1951 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1952 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1953 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1955 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1957 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1958 =================================================
1960 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1961 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1962 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1963 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1964 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1965 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1966 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1967 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1968 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1969 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1970 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1971 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1972 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1973 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1974 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1975 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1976 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1977 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1978 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1979 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1980 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1982 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1983 =================================================
1985 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1986 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1987 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1988 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1989 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1990 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1992 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1993 =================================================
1995 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1996 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1997 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1998 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1999 if necessary [Manish Singh]
2000 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2001 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
2002 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
2003 * Bug and portability fixes
2004 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
2006 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
2008 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
2009 =================================================
2011 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
2012 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
2013 Johannes Stezenbach]
2014 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
2015 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
2016 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
2018 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
2019 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
2020 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
2021 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
2023 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
2024 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
2026 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
2027 =================================================
2029 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
2030 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
2031 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
2032 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
2033 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
2034 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
2035 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
2036 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
2037 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
2038 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
2039 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
2040 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
2041 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
2042 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2043 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
2045 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
2046 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
2047 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
2048 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
2049 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
2050 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
2051 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
2053 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
2054 =================================
2056 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
2057 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
2058 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
2059 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2060 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
2061 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
2062 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
2063 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
2064 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
2065 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
2066 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
2068 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
2069 =================================
2071 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2072 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2073 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2074 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2075 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2076 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2077 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2078 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2079 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2080 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2081 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2083 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
2084 =================================
2086 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
2087 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
2088 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
2089 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
2090 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2091 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
2092 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
2093 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2094 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2095 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2096 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2098 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2099 =================================
2101 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2102 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2103 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2104 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2106 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2107 =================================
2109 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2110 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2111 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2112 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2113 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2114 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2115 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2116 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2117 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2118 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2119 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2120 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2121 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2124 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2125 =================================
2127 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2128 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2129 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2130 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2131 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2132 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2133 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2134 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2135 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2136 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2137 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2138 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2139 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2140 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2141 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2142 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2145 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2146 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2149 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2150 =================================
2152 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2153 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2154 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2155 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2156 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2158 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2159 ======================================
2161 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2162 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2163 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2164 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2165 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2167 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2169 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2170 ===================================
2172 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2173 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2174 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2175 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2176 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2177 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2178 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2180 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2183 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2184 ===================================
2186 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2187 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2188 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2189 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2190 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2191 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2192 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2193 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2194 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2196 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2199 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2200 ===================================
2202 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2203 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2204 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2205 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2206 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2207 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2208 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2210 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2211 ===================================
2213 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2214 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2215 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2216 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2217 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2218 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2219 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2220 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2222 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2223 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2227 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2228 ===================================
2230 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2231 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2232 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2233 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2234 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2235 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2236 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2237 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2238 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2240 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2241 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2243 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2244 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2247 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2248 ===================================
2250 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2251 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2252 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2253 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2254 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2255 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2256 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2257 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2258 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2259 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2261 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2262 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2263 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2267 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2268 ==================================
2270 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2271 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2272 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2273 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2274 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2276 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2279 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2280 ==================================
2282 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2283 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2284 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2285 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2288 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2291 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2292 ==================================
2294 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2295 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2296 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2297 * Minor hash table optimizations
2298 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2299 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2300 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2301 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2302 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2303 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2304 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2305 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2306 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2307 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2308 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2311 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2312 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2313 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2317 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2318 ==================================
2320 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2321 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2322 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2323 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2325 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2326 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2327 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2328 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2329 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2333 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2334 ==================================
2336 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2337 declarations from header files.
2338 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2339 * Bug and Portability fixes
2342 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2343 ==================================
2345 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2348 * Documentation improvements
2351 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2352 ==================================
2356 * More user_data support in various functions.
2357 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2358 * Unicode handling improvements.
2359 * Implemented debugging traps.
2360 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2361 * Various new small utility functions.
2362 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2363 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2364 * Many Win32 improvements.
2365 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2366 * Many documentation improvements.
2367 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2369 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2370 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2371 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2372 * Hashtable API additions.
2373 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2374 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2378 * Added many convenience functions.
2379 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2380 * Reworked property change notification.
2381 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2382 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2383 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2384 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2385 * Added support for abstract types.
2386 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2387 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2388 and parameter conversions.
2389 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2390 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2392 * Implemented GValueArray.
2393 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2394 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2395 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2396 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2397 * Implemented debugging traps.
2398 * Made things thread-safe.
2399 * Many documentation improvements.
2400 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2403 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2404 ==================================
2408 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2409 * Improvements to error reporting
2410 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2411 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2412 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2413 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2414 not to be freed. [Darin]
2415 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2416 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2417 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2418 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2419 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2420 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2421 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2422 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2423 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2424 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2425 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2426 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2427 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2428 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2429 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2430 * Many documentation improvements.
2435 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2436 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2437 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2438 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2439 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2443 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2444 =========================
2446 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2447 the GTK+ object system.
2448 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2449 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2450 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2452 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2453 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2454 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2455 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2456 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2457 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2458 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2459 * Double ended queue implementation.
2460 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2461 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2462 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2463 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2464 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2465 more tightly defined semantics.
2466 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.