1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.5 to 2.27.90
2 ===============================================
4 * Test reports created by gtester-report can now
5 include revision information
7 * The g_desktop_app_info_launch_* family of functions
8 now emit a DBus signal when an application is launched.
9 Additionally, there is a new variant
10 g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager(), which
11 gives more control over the launched process.
13 * The memory and null GSettings backends are now available
16 * g_get_locale_variants() is a new function that returns a
17 list of variants of a locale identifier
20 587898 I/O timeouts for GSocket
21 606960 gio: Add extension point for informing parties...
22 631980 Handle an optional <revision> node in the report...
23 634569 Document that g_variant_builder_add_value consumes...
24 635998 Make _g_compute_locale_variants public
25 636806 Add g_{memory,null}_settings_backend_get_default
26 637262 Need a binary DER version of ::accepted-cas
27 637544 Skip fsync() on btrfs
28 637720 void functions should not return a value.
29 637738 object_interface_check_properties never actually...
30 637759 GIOChannel: fix a crash in g_io_channel_read_chars()
31 637852 Updates to glib.vsprops file for MSVC 2008 builds...
32 637858 Updates to test/testglib.c...
34 * Translation updates:
44 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.4 to 2.27.5
45 ==============================================
48 - Add g_tls_certificate_verify() to verify a certificate
49 - Add GTlsConnection:use-system-certdb
50 - Other TLS api additions
53 - Add g_io_stream_splice_async()/_finish() to splice two iostreams
54 - Add g_emblemed_icon_clear_emblems() and make GEmblemedIcon derivable
55 - Remove GPeriodic; it did not receive the necessary review and
56 integration work to declare it stable
59 - New methods g_sequence_lookup() and g_sequence_lookup_iter()
62 617254 Missing g_sequence_lookup
63 632544 g_dbus_connection_send_message can not send a locked message...
64 633350 g_hostname_to_ascii() ignores non-ascii dots
65 634583 Better error reporting for g_variant_parse()
66 635007 gsetting enum rule don't work for out-of-srcdir builds
67 635626 GDBus message idle can execute while flushes are pending
68 636100 Can't read GSettings:backend property
69 636305 Typo on g_queue_remove_all() function description
70 636311 appinfo: tweak application positioning for content-types
71 636351 g_simple_async_result_is_valid lacks a version tag
72 636387 gdb autoload files shadow the "dir" builtin
73 636673 g_simple_async_report_error_in_idle should allow object...
74 637147 Add a "delay-apply" property to GSettings
75 637171 emblemedicon: add g_emblemed_icon_clear_emblems()
76 637237 gapplication: plug a memory leak
78 * Translation updates:
89 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.3 to 2.27.4
90 ==============================================
93 - Mounts are treated as hidden if they have a path element
94 that starts with a dot
95 - GAppInfo gained API to differentiate between recommended
96 and fallback mime handlers
97 - g_cancellable_create_source: creates a GSource that triggers
98 when the GCancellable is canceled
99 - GPollableInput/OutputStream: Interfaces for pollable streams
100 - TLS support has landed, with an extension point that is
101 implemented in glib-networking
104 - Mainloop sources can now have 'child sources'
105 - g_get_runtime_dir: New function to return the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
108 530786 GFileMonitor "changed" signal underdocumented
109 588189 TLS support for GSocket*
110 630357 g_object_new_valist uses uninitialized memory
111 630559 typo in public string in gsocks: 'The SOCKSv5 require...
112 632445 Documentation refers to removed GNOME 2.0 porting guide
113 634239 Child GSources
114 634241 Add pollable input/output streams
115 634504 allow passing a NULL emblem to g_emblemed_icon_new()
116 634613 unsufficient g_get_user_runtime_dir() documentation
117 635640 schema should inherit gettext-domain from schemalist
118 635768 Protect g_file_monitor_set_rate_limit() against negative...
119 635882 Fix the wrong-category schema test
120 635187 Wrong type of GVariant received in an action...
122 * Updated translations:
129 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.2 to 2.27.3
130 ==============================================
132 * The GTimeSpec type that was introduced in the 2.27.2 has been
133 dropped again in favour of APIs that return microseconds as
140 The similar GTimeVal struct is still around, but its use is
143 * GTimer is now using monotonic time unconditionally
145 * There are some new functions to facilitate error reporting
147 g_simple_async_result_take_error
148 g_simple_async_result_new_take_error
149 g_simple_async_report_take_gerror_in_idle
151 * There is new convenience API to us GVariant dictionaries:
154 * It is now possible to delay sending match rules to the
155 D-Bus daemon in GDBus:
156 G_DBUS_SIGNAL_FLAGS_NO_MATCH_RULE
158 * Support has been added for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:
159 g_get_user_runtime_dir
161 * Various fixes for Win64/MSVC builds have been committed
164 620263 Add g_clear_object, g_clear_pointer, g_clear_boxed
165 633075 update Project Files and sources for MSVC 2008/C89
166 633381 gsettings Makefile rules should handle empty list...
167 633685 Use g_simple_async_result_{new_,}take_error
168 633686 Add g_simple_async_report_take_gerror_in_idle
170 * Translation updates:
178 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.1 to 2.27.2
179 ==============================================
182 - Export actions over DBus and support activating them from remote instances
183 - Support environment passing
186 - The gsettings utility has a list-recursively command
187 - The gsettings utility has commandline completion for enum values
189 * GLib is now linked against librt and uses monotonic time for
190 timeouts and GPeriod sources. GSource has a new g_source_get_time()
191 which returns monotonic time, and g_source_get_current_time() has
195 158725 free linked list with data
196 626320 GVariant: Avoid locking in g_variant_get_child_value() if possible
197 629247 add gsimpleasyncresult methods to take over a GError
198 629274 GNetworkService does not do fallback when there is no SRV record
199 631264 gsettings-tool choice/range support
200 631482 g_date_time_from_instant: 1000000000000000000
201 632169 docs for manual use of gsettings-data-convert
202 632571 Add equivalent to gconftool-2's -R option
203 633115 GSettings m4 doesn't fail the build for broken schemas
204 633206 Default g_application_local_command_line() doesn't set exit_status...
205 633339 support more complex gapplication setups
206 633356 Make timeout G_MAXINT mean "no timeout"
208 * Translation updates:
214 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.0 to 2.27.1
215 ==============================================
217 * GDateTime now has full week number support.
218 New API: g_date_time_get_week_numbering_year
220 * The GSettings schema compiler will now skip over
221 broken .xml schema files instead of aborting altogether
223 * GSettings now works properly on bigendian systems
225 * GSettings has more complete support for ranges
228 g_settings_range_check
229 The gsettings commandline tool supports ranges too.
231 * GApplication has been rewritten; see the API docs for details
232 and examples. The action support is not complete yet.
234 * The GLib mainloop has gained 'dispatch to context' functionality,
235 which can replace manually created idles in many cases.
237 g_main_context_invoke
238 g_main_context_invoke_full
240 * The gio-desktop-app-info-lookup extension point has been
241 removed from GIO. GIO now uses x-scheme-handler mimetypes when
242 looking for default applications.
244 * On win32, make g_get_user_data_dir() return the CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA
245 folder on Windows, and not CSIDL_PERSONAL. This matches what Qt does,
246 and has been widely requested. Also make g_get_user_config_dir() return
247 this and not the (roaming) CSIDL_APPDATA folder.
249 * A periodic event clock has been added in GIO: GPeriodic. Note that this
250 API is still experimental and expected to undergo changes before it
251 will be incorporated into a stable GLib release. Use at your own risk.
254 613822 gobject signal connect/disconnect not thread safe
255 618737 "dispatch to context" functionality
256 620710 g_get_user_data_dir() uses CSIDL_PERSONAL and not CSIDL_APPDATA
257 623400 acquire context before dispatching
258 627126 gsettings schema files don't get installed on FreeBSD
259 627171 g_socket_new_from_fd() doesn't set the right protocol
260 628876 Wrong error description
261 628937 gracefully handle broken schemas
262 629274 GNetworkService doesn't fallback when there is no SRV record
263 629289 g_error() used wrong, produces core dump
264 629687 leaks class refcount in gsocketcontrolmessage
265 629849 GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_get_context: assertion `!SOURCE_...
266 629945 GDBus deadlock in g_bus_get_sync()
267 630000 g_date_time_difference
268 630077 GDateTime week number support
269 630185 Allow NULL strings in g_quark_try_string()
270 630797 docs mention non-existent g_object_dispose()
271 630968 gschema-compile problems on power g5
272 631263 GSettings needs range/choice APIs
273 631264 gsettings-tool choice/range support
274 631379 GDBus nonce-tcp test failing
275 631410 Port gapplookupgconf.c to using x-scheme-handler/
276 632884 Possible deadlock in g_object_remove_toggle_ref()
302 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.15 to GLib 2.27.0
303 ====================================================
306 - massive restructuring to reduce #include abuse
307 - tweaks to silence some harmless compiler warnings
308 - rename gschema-compile.c to glib-compile-schemas.c
310 - fix building with zlib < 1.2.4 on win32
313 - better msgctxt for translating month and weekday names
314 - API is changed quite a lot, implementation is improved
315 - GTimeZone is now exposed
318 - make ordering for overridden interface properties consistent
319 - ->priv structures are limited to 64k but this was not documented,
320 and exceeding this limit produced bad results. Add docs and enforce
322 - add g_object_class_install_properties() to install multiple
324 - improve debugging output for GValue containing G_TYPE_STRV
327 - fix priority sorting of GIO extensions
328 - add GCredentials support on FreeBSD
329 - fix support for IPv6 addresses in URI parsing functions
330 - GSocketClient fixes for when g_socket_connect succeeds immediately
331 - clarify string encoding for GFile constructors in docs
332 - new functions g_data_input_stream_read_upto{,async,finish}
333 - tweak confusing documentation for g_output_stream_write()
336 - GDBusMessage can now be locked and copied (like in libdbus)
337 - GDBusConnection filter function API has changed again
338 - GDBusServer: ::new-connection now declares if the connection was claimed
339 - add a partial workaround for GObject bug 627724.
340 - very many memory leaks fixed
343 - check for size == 0 in g_variant_get_bytestring to avoid a crash
344 when attempting to get_bytestring() from an empty array
345 - improve gobject-introspection annotations
348 - add GSettings Windows registry backend
349 - some internal tweaks to the backend API
350 - remove g_settings_list_items
351 - add g_settings_list_children and _list_keys to replace it
352 - add schema compiler restrictions for dealing with lists
353 - don't automatically emit value changed signals on writability
357 - constify the 'parser' vtable param to g_markup_parse_context_push()
358 - plug many memory leaks in test cases
361 50076 Time API to go with date API
362 584284 g_data_input_stream_read_until_async different from sync version
363 624546 Modification of GDBusMessage in filter function
364 626919 Let g_object_class_install_property() return the installed GParamSpec*
365 628029 GDateTime missing get_week_of_year method
366 628253 Interface properties not listed in a consistent order
367 628331 Plug lots of mem leaks in gio test suite
368 628345 Plug a mem leak
369 628436 Plug a mem leak
370 628505 Fix building with zlib < 1.2.4 on win32
371 628839 [PATCH] datetime: Rename shadowing variables
372 628904 [PATCH] Add credential support for FreeBSD and fix a socket issue
373 628952 incorrect glib_major_version and other variables on cygwin.
374 629192 g_strdup_value_contents(): dump GStrv more usefully
375 629251 g_socket_client_async_connect_complete: assertion failed
376 629259 Failed to connect to "::1"
377 629328 g_markup_parse_context_push doesn't respect const structs
378 629429 month "May" short and full form same with "GDateTime" msgctxt
379 629689 GDBusConnection leaks its GCredentials
380 629698 Segfault in g_variant_get_bytestring()
382 Updated translations:
406 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.14 to GLib 2.25.15
407 =====================================================
411 - The GZip(De}Compressor can now process header information
412 - Support for network proxies has been added, with the GProxy
413 interface and the gio-proxy-resolver extension point. GIO
414 includes SOCKSv4 and SOCKSv5 implementations, and libproxy
415 is also going to provide an implementation of this extension
417 - There are GAction and GActionGroup interfaces now, which will
418 be used in GApplication in the near future.
421 - There are now convenience macros for defining boxed and
426 - GDBusProxy for well-known names can now auto-restart
427 the service if the name owner disapperas
428 - Filter functions are now allowed to modify messages
431 - GDateTime is a replacement for GDate that supports time
432 and timezone information.
435 50076 Time API to go with date API
436 449565 Add G_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE()
437 617691 Add GZIP header processing to GZlibCompressor/GZlibDecompressor
438 622184 add g_memory_output_stream_steal_data
439 624546 Modification of GDBusMessage in filter function
440 627088 Build failure in gdbus-peer.c on FreeBSD
442 627182 Plug a mem leak in the gdbus-connection test
443 627187 Plug some gdbus mem leaks
444 627188 gdbus-non-socket test occasionally fails
445 627252 G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG is only for callback options
446 627392 gdbus commit 8a3a4596 breaks win32 compile
447 627407 FTBFS on !linux UNIX platforms
448 627604 String error: 'that' twice in a row
449 627969 ABR in g_file_open_tmp
450 628084 gdbus-peer fails with assertion
451 628193 Miscellaneous string fixes
452 628296 abort() in gsocketconnection.c
453 628309 Plug a mem leak in GConverterOutputStream
454 628317 GEmblemedIcon:equal implementation is buggy
455 628323 Fix invalid reads
456 628327 Plug a mem leak
457 628328 Plug a mem leak
458 628329 Don't leak the FD list
459 628324 Invalid reads in gdbus-export test
461 * Updated translations:
472 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.13 to GLib 2.25.14
473 =====================================================
476 - Make the closure variants of GDBus apis work
477 - Make error unregistration work
478 - Use async IO in the IO thread (626748)
481 - Make g_simple_async_result_is_valid work without source (626208)
482 - GSocketClient: add a timeout property
483 - Fix memory leaks in GSocketClient
484 - Handle async vs. sync correctly in GSocketConnection stream (616458)
485 - Declare stream base classes as abstract
486 - Clarify semantics of g_output_stream_write() (627071)
489 - Improve test coverage for GDBus, GRegex, GAsyncResult
490 - Drop dead code in pcre, xdgmime
491 - Fix a race condition in gtester (578295)
492 - Avoid an extra allocation in GAsyncQueue (626704)
493 - Add test case for non-socket GIOStream (626841)
494 - More explicit GVariant docs (622770)
495 - Imroved docs for GAsyncInitable and GSimpleAsyncResult (602417)
497 * Translation updates:
505 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.12 to GLib 2.25.13
506 =====================================================
508 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
509 | WARNING: There have been no breaks in API or ABI. Weird, eh? |
510 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
512 The primary purpose of this release is to fix a serious problem with
513 glib 2.25.12: glibconfig.h (as generated on a Fedora amd64 system) was
514 being distributed in the tarball. It was being used to build some parts
515 of glib on other systems (eg: 32bit ones). This was causing some very
518 There have been many other improvements, however:
521 - vastly improved test coverage
522 - old tests moved to the gtester framework
523 - gtester Makefile modified so that the tests only run once
524 - cleanup of how we handle includes while building glib
527 - add a g_return_if_fail (utf8) to g_variant_new_string()
530 - perform extra sanity checks when serialising messages
531 - add API to query and set the byteorder of a GDBusMessage
532 - improve debug output, add some extra options
533 - if exiting due to the bus disconnecting us, print an error message
535 - sort property names correctly
536 - don't bother sending RemoveMatch when we will close the connection
538 - use effective uid/gid for credential passing
541 - add G_SETTINGS_BIND_INVERT_BOOLEAN for inverting boolean bindings
542 without mapping functions
543 - mark all strings in the schema compiler for translation
546 - improve closure support for bindings
547 - copy GSettings INVERT_BOOLEAN flag
550 - fix another complicated GCancellable deadlock possibility
553 599590 glib build doesn't look for correct pkg-config
554 619026 avoid warning in gutils.h when using gcc with -Wconversion
555 624739 Please fix POTFILES.in
556 625472 Valgrind claims uninitialized bytes used
557 625500 g_date_set_time_val documentation doesn't mention local time
558 625628 GDBusProxy: wrong property name sorting
559 625753 Incorrect flags used in g_dbus_connection_call_sync()
560 625827 Expand documentation about error quark naming
561 625988 builddir != srcdir issues
562 626107 glibconfig.h is being disted
564 Updated translations:
572 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.11 to GLib 2.25.12
573 =====================================================
575 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
576 | WARNING: There have been many API changes in GDBus -- sending |
577 | messages, subscribing to signals, closing connections and |
578 | registering subtrees are affected. The ABI for GSettingsBackend |
579 | has also been changed. For both reasons, a new dconf release is |
580 | required (and will be along soon). |
581 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
584 - cleanup automake setup
585 - rename configure.in to configure.ac
586 - various docs fixups
587 - move glibconfig.h to glib/
588 - disable dtrace support on Mac OS (which has incompatible 'dtrace')
591 - add support for vendor override files (to change the default values
593 - change GSettingsBackend vtable
594 - add g_settings_reset()
595 - support binding to G_TYPE_STRV properties
598 - many bug fixes, including a serialisation fix
599 - stop handling incoming connections as soon as stop() is called
600 - proper support for file descriptor passing
601 - new flags parameter for sending messages
602 - new flags parameter for subscribing to signals
603 - always reset the message serial when sending a message unless
604 G_DBUS_SEND_MESSAGE_FLAGS_PRESERVE_SERIAL is given
605 - constness fixes for introspection structures
606 - clean ups to subtree registration API
609 - fix divide by zero bug in g_malloc_n functions
610 - GIO: don't blindly assume that SOCK_CLOEXEC is supported
611 - make GObject property notify freezes threadsafe
612 - GIO: clean up credentials passing
613 - GApplication: make default-quit not apply if register=FALSE
614 - GIO: add annotations for gobject-introspection
617 166020 use GAtomic for refcounting
618 617483 Credentials passing
619 622005 [GApplication] no way to modify the "default-quit" property
620 623293 vendor override files
621 623810 Message serialization bug
622 623815 Don't check sender for GDBusProxy objects where name is not set
623 624473 GDBusSubtreeIntrospectFunc return type
624 624483 GDBusSubtreeEnumerateFunc clarification
625 624484 GDBusSubtreeDispatchFunc clarification
626 624754 gdbusaddress.c missing sys/wait.h
627 624968 div by zero in g_malloc_n family
628 624991 GSettings mapping for G_TYPE_STRV
629 625383 Add missing GI annotations
631 Updated Translations:
641 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.10 to GLib 2.25.11
642 =====================================================
644 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
645 | WARNING: There have been minor API changes in GDBus and GVariant. |
646 | These API changes will not affect many users, but they do require |
647 | a new version of GTK+ to be installed. |
648 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
651 - add a --disable-Bsymbolic configure flag to disable linking with
653 - this release sees the complete removal of the old 'g*alias' hacks
654 - honour the NOCONFIGURE environment variable from autogen.sh
655 - use proper feature test macros for isnan
656 - use pkg-config to check for zlib
657 - add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am
660 - hide Class and instance structures for all GDBus types except
661 GDBusProxy. This breaks API by preventing subclassing, but probably
662 nobody was doing that.
663 - add new GDBusConnection call to support flushing all pending
665 - change the register_object API to add a reference to the
666 GDBusInterfaceInfo object so the caller need not keep it alive
668 - don't rewrite the serial number when sending messages that already
670 - better error checking for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment
672 - switch to g_parse_debug_string for G_DBUS_DEBUG and add a lot of new
674 - add support for temporarily freezing a freshly created
675 GDBusConnection. Do this until after the ::new-connection signal
676 has finished running on GDBus services.
677 - never require non-closed connections (the user is incapable of doing
678 this due to the obvious race)
679 - remove weird/misleading redundant check on NameOwnerChanged signal
680 - emit GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed on NameOwnerChanged
683 - the 'g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array' APIs have been removed
684 - g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring has been added, with different
685 arguments and different behaviour
686 - g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring_array has been added, doing
687 essentially the same thing as the 'strv' functions, but with byte
688 strings instead of utf8 strings
689 - G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING ('ay'), BYTESTRING_ARRAY ('aay') and
690 STRING_ARRAY ('as') constants have been added
691 - the undocumented behaviour that g_variant_get_strv() deserialised
692 arrays of object paths or signature strings has been dropped
693 - additional varargs support for converting bytestrings or bytestring
694 arrays with ^ay ^aay ^&ay and ^a&ay
695 - improved gobject-introspection annotation
696 - fix a problem with GBuffer calling g_slice_free for the wrong type
697 - fix leaks in the type inferencing code of the parser
700 - improved documentation
701 - updated schema XML DTD, now xincluded into the docs
702 - added support for schemas that extend other schemas (using the
703 'extends=' attribute). Values of keys in the base schema can be
704 overridden using <override>.
705 - added theoretical support for lists (using the 'list-of=' attribute)
707 - add support for flags (implemented similarly to enums)
708 - add support for generating .enums.xml files to gsettings.m4:
709 gsettings_ENUM_NAMESPACE = org.example.myapp
710 gsettings_ENUM_FILES = ../path/to/*.h
711 will generate org.example.myapp.enums.xml with mappings for all
712 enums and flags in the specified .h files.
713 - warn with g_message() if the 'memory' backend is used by default
714 (ie: because no other GSettings backends are installed)
715 - fix get_property() for GSettings::schema
716 - command line tool: fix a bug that prevented non-basic values from
717 being set due to a premature free
718 - command line tool: bash completion support
719 - chain up in _finalize
720 - add a new g_settings_get_mapped API to read settings that require
722 - retry with the translated or schema default value if the
723 GSettingsBindGetMapping function fails
724 - schema compiler: never fail due to empty schema directories (but
726 - peek rather than ref/unref the GEnumClass in the mapping function
727 - schema compiler: compile *.enums.xml before *.gschemas.xml to ensure
728 that we have all the enums that the schemas may reference
729 - schema compiler: improve accuracy of line numbers in error reports
730 - fix crashes in the keyfile backend caused by invalid group names in
734 - always intern GBinding prop names
735 - base64: remove asserts preventing conversion of empty strings
736 - document NULL special-cases for GValueArray
737 - GNode docs improvements
738 - improve detection of 'system internal' mounts
739 - fix leaks in the inotify GFileMonitor implementation
740 - annotate all custom GIO GSources to improve debugging (e.g. using
744 - Turn on glibc malloc checking features for make check
745 - improvements for GSettings tests, plus new tests
746 - improved tests for GKeyfile
747 - new tests for GDir, GSList, GSList, GAppLaunchContext,
748 CharsetConverter, GIcon, ...
749 - move some tests to GTester (tree tests, uri tests)
750 - generally, really an awful lot of new tests
751 - don't try to allocate 2gigs of memory anymore for the array test
753 552363 g_value_array_{insert,prepend,append}'s special cases for NULL
754 561248 Improve return value description from g_node_prev/next_sibling()
755 570036 Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am
756 576833 g_sprintf add a reference to g_strdup_printf
757 576854 g_strconcat() documentation should provide a hint about bad l10n
758 582227 reference: add other URI functions to 'URI Functions' section
759 599223 should provide g_spawn_* variants that take a GAppLaunchContext
760 610784 array test failing
761 613057 Leak in inotify GFileMonitor implementation
762 620536 Annotate all custom GIO GSource using g_source_set_name
763 620913 More control with G_DBUS_DEBUG
764 622124 implement flags
765 622127 GSettings extended key validation
766 622128 retry with default value for failed mapping
767 622294 More annotations for GVariant
768 622565 glib-compile-schemas fails when no schemas
769 622600 Fix missing prototype warning
770 622813 gsettings mapping & enum buglet
771 623142 Ensure ::new-connection runs before processing D-Bus messages
772 623143 Never require non-closed connections
773 623319 use g_parse_debug_string for dbus debug flags
774 623401 process enums first
775 623402 schema compiler reports wrong line numbers
776 623407 g_keyfile_settings_backend_new crashes with the key "/"
777 623473 zlib should be checked with pkg-config
778 623537 GDBusProxy has weird checking on NameOwnerChanged
779 623538 GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed emission for corner cases
780 623692 directory with file at multiple MLS levels may display empty
781 623720 gschema.dtd does not contain enum definitions
782 623770 quoting of expand_macro in gdesktopappinfo.c
783 623772 gdesktopappinfo.c, function child_setup
784 623780 g_unix_is_mount_path_system_internal
785 623954 g_settings_finalize
786 623955 Dubious return values
788 Updated translations:
794 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.9 to GLib 2.25.10
795 ====================================================
797 +----------------------------------------------------------------+
798 | WARNING: There have been API changes in GDBus. Users of these |
799 | APIs will need to be adapted. In particular, a new release of |
800 | dconf is required to go along with this one. There has also |
801 | been a change in the GSettings backend API used for keyfiles. |
802 +----------------------------------------------------------------+
805 - add direction parameter to filter functions (API change)
806 - allow calling other interfaces with a GDBusProxy
807 - padding added to class struct fields (ABI change)
808 - fixes for closures-based functions
811 - new is_floating() call
812 - add g_value_take_variant() call (required for marshallers)
815 - support for binding GParamSpecEnum properties
816 - ifelse-style condition support for GLIB_GSETTINGS m4 macro
817 - remove gsettings-schema-convert tool (now in GConf)
818 - allow introspection of all installed schemas
819 - allow introspection of the keys in a schema
820 - rewrite keyfile backend (API change)
823 - don't implicitly close GSocket until it is destroyed
827 - allow GChecksum to take (NULL, 0) for data/length
828 - GRelation and GCompletion are now deprecated
829 - introduce G_PARAM_DEPRECATED and G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC
830 - add working directory to GApplication platform data
831 - lots of documentation cleanups
832 - PCRE updated to 8.02
835 - the IA__g_* style symbol aliasing has been disabled and replaced with
836 the -Bsymbolic-functions linker flag on platforms that support it.
837 Please be on the watch for portability issues and report them to us.
838 - many test cases have been moved to the GTester framework
839 - lcov support has been added for tests
843 501057 lcov coverage suite and GLib integration
844 551271 deprecate GRelation
845 601686 Implement diagnostic mode
846 603309 GSocketOutputStream broken on Windows (?)
847 616718 GLIB_GSETTINGS macro can't be used conditionally
848 616855 GSocketConnection: don't close the socket if it's still reffed
849 618866 g_ptr_array_remove_index_fast memory leak
850 619878 keyfile backend calls keys_changed with invalid argument
851 619879 keyfile backend doesn't make use of expected_type
852 621092 Add with_closures() variants for bindings
853 621172 Cross compiling fails
854 621838 Actually add cwd to platform data
855 621945 Filter outgoing messages in GDBusConnection
856 621947 add g_value_take_variant
857 622038 GSettings: "It is a programmer error" documentation is unclear
858 622154 [patch] update documentation for g_application_new
859 622281 binding: Add SYNC_CREATE to the flags
860 622480 Improve documentation for g_strcmp0()
861 622554 g_error called if schema not installed
862 622601 Return interned strings from g_settings_list_keys
864 * Translation updates:
867 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.8 to GLib 2.25.9
868 ===================================================
870 +----------------------------------------------------------------+
871 | WARNING: There have been API changes in GDBus, GSettings and |
872 | GApplication. Users of these APIs will need to be adapted. In |
873 | particular, a new release of GTK+ is required to go along with |
875 +----------------------------------------------------------------+
878 - Use Gio's default async implementation
879 - Fix proxy construction for objects with no properties
880 - Fix error handling in synchronous initialization
881 - Do not dispatch calls to unregistered objects
882 - Add _with_closures alternative functions
883 - Allow constructing GDBusProxy with well-known names
884 - Remove GType parameters from GDBusProxy constructors
885 - Nuke g_bus_watch_proxy API
886 - Add --xml to gdbus-tool to print raw introspected XML
889 - schema file format change: store (default, options) in gvdb
890 - Add g_settings_sync()
891 - Add support for enums and ranges
892 - 'context' support has been replaced by direct use of
896 - Switch to using variants for timestamps
900 - Introduce g_object_notify_by_pspec
902 - The GVariant gtype G_TYPE_VARIANT was changed from boxed
903 to fundamental. We believe there were no existing users
904 of the boxed type, so this should not cause any applications
908 - Add package and version to the test report XML
909 - Use optparse to parse gtester-report commandline
910 - Add subunit support to gtester-report
911 - Prevent division by zero if no tests
914 621782 Crash using gbinding
915 619945 GConverterOutputStream triggers assertion and corrupts data
916 621319 more leaked GVariants in GSettings
917 621168 GKeyFile memory leak on Windows platform
918 621002 Switch to using variants for timestamps, split out signals
919 620953 tiny docs addition
920 618904 Lies in gunixmounts documentation
921 621702 Correctly initialize GError
922 611778 minor cleanup of gtester-report
923 621213 GDBusProxy and well-known names
924 621034 Rewrite apps test to ensure children are killed
925 620954 gapplication gvariant simplifications
926 611869 add subunit out feature to gtester-report
927 621119 GDBusProxy and objects with no properties
928 620990 Use Gio's default async implementation again
929 620952 g_application_register_with_data is an ugly API
930 621252 GSettings leaks context
931 618715 fork() in GSettings test cases is problematic 618715
932 621905 Assume a ref when doing async work
933 621266 GSettings "context" clarification
935 * Translation updates:
939 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.7 to GLib 2.25.8
940 ===================================================
942 * Initial support for dtrace and systemtap profiling:
943 - mainloop sources can be named
944 - probes for memory allocation with g_malloc and gslice
945 - gquark name tracking
947 - object life-cyle (creation, finalization, ref, unref)
948 - signal creation and emission
951 - has been fixed to work with the FreeBSD malloc
952 - added introspection annotations
953 - new function: g_variant_builder_add_parsed
956 - g_settings_set/get_strv functions have lost their length parameter
957 - g_settings_set_strv accepts NULL
958 - added introspection annotiations
960 * GPermission: an abstract interface for representing permissions,
961 with a minimal implementation named GSimplePermission
963 * GApplication: a basic application support class, with a D-Bus based
967 619585 glib-compile-schemas asserts on FreeBSD
968 620384 Annotate GVariant and GSettings _strv() functions
969 606044 Add support for dtrace/systemtap static markers
970 620350 add g_variant_builder_add_parsed() API
971 620349 utf8ify GVariant printer
972 620767 Typo in GSettings documentation: "INTLTOOL_NOMERGE_RULE"
973 620312 Fix g_settings_[gs]et_strv() API
975 620582 GPermission needs a simple implementation
976 620496 GSettings schema compiler should reject invalid paths
977 620173 missing single header inclusion guards
978 620265 g_assertion_message_error should take const GError *
980 * Translation updates:
990 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.6 to GLib 2.25.7
991 ===================================================
993 * NOTE: API/ABI breaks since 2.25.6 release:
994 - g_dbus_connection_sync{,_sync} takes a new 'reply_type' argument
995 - GSettingsBackendClass 'list' virtual function changed
997 GSettings backends and things using GDBus may need to be rebuilt.
999 * GDBus: many build-related fixes
1001 * GDBus (service): return a DBus error when receiving a method call for
1002 an unknown interface.
1004 * GSettings: fix 'make install' bug in gsettings.m4 for generated schema
1007 * GSettings: avoid non-portable use of LC_MESSAGES
1009 * better approach to handling man pages
1013 619527 please improve docs on g_file_make_symlink
1014 619391 send-with-reply should have expected result signature
1015 618616 Use stack-allocated GVariantBuilders
1016 617004 Build with "--disable-nls" fails under MinGW/Win32
1017 619142 Build fixes (GDBus)
1019 * Updated translations:
1024 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.5 to GLib 2.25.6
1025 ===================================================
1027 * GDBus: introspection improvements
1028 * GDBus: build fixes
1030 * GSettings: GSettingsBackend ABI changed **** NOTE ****
1031 * GSettings: --uninstall option for schema compiler
1032 * GSettings: new m4 macro with more power
1033 * GSettings: thread support
1035 * rework of file notification on Solaris
1036 * fixes for gold linker
1039 619038 increase gsettings.m4 power
1040 619031 method-calls-in-thread test failing
1041 618839 Typo at translation message
1042 616864 GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE doesn't work with multiple files
1043 618730 gunixcredentialsmessage.c doesn't compile on GNU/kfreebsd
1044 616314 Make GSettings (partially) threadsafe
1046 * Updated Translations:
1051 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.4 to GLib 2.25.5
1052 ===================================================
1054 * GDBus: Fix serialization of empty arrays
1056 * GDBus: Plug various memory leaks
1058 * GSettings: Fix problems with GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE
1061 616731 GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE doesn't work in non-srcdir builds
1062 616864 GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE doesn't work with multiple files
1063 618615 mem leaks in parse_value_from_blob
1064 618622 Plug some mem leaks in gdbus
1065 618650 Plug a mem leak in gdbusauth
1066 618663 Plug mem leaks in gdbus tests & examples
1068 * Updated translations:
1072 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.3 to GLib 2.25.4
1073 ===================================================
1075 * GDBus D-Bus support has been merged. This provides an API
1076 to replace dbus-glib
1078 * GVariant no requires strings to be UTF-8. You can use byte
1079 arrays for non-UTF-8 strings.
1081 * GSettings allows to bind string properties to byte arrays
1083 * The schema compiler supports range restrictions
1086 618051 socket-server|client.c fail to compile under AIX...
1087 616102 GSettings ignores <choice> and <range>
1088 616720 Chunked quark allocation
1089 616877 Several issues with g_socket_receive_message
1090 616892 gio: Add a boxed type for GFileAttributeMatcher
1091 616967 Add g_regex_get_compile_flags() and g_regex_get_match_flags()
1092 617767 g_settings_[gs]et_strv() 'length' argument has missing docs...
1093 617914 gtester-report: cope with binaries with no test cases
1094 617937 output_stream_close vs output_stream_close_async semantics
1095 615494 Connction timeouts produce partially invalid error messages
1096 617823 glib-compile-schemas problems with an out of source build
1097 617947 glib-mkenums: add @valuenum@ support
1099 * Translation updates:
1106 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.2 to GLib 2.25.3
1107 ===================================================
1109 * New macro: G_GNUC_DEPRECATED_FOR, a variant of G_GNUC_DEPRECATED
1110 that lets you add replacement information (requires gcc 4.5)
1112 * Rename AM_GSETTINGS autoconf macro to GLIB_GSETTINGS
1114 * Rename gschema-compile utility to glib-compile-schemas
1116 * Add support for timeouts in GSocket
1119 589989 Compilation error on Solaris 9
1120 616648 Change AM_GSETTINGS macro to GLIB_GSETTINGS
1121 587898 I/O timeouts for GSocket
1122 614541 Add G_TYPE_ERROR boxed type for GError
1125 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.0 to GLib 2.25.2
1126 ===================================================
1128 * Include a 'gsettings' utility, for commandline access to GSettings
1130 * Install a AM_GSETTINGS autoconf macro similar to AM_GCONF
1132 * GSettings can bind the writability of a key explicitly
1134 * There is now a predefined boxed type for GError
1137 615379 g_new macros crash if sizeof(struct_type) == 0
1138 616312 Add m4 rule equivalent to GCONF_SCHEMAS_INSTALL
1139 616295 mapping bug for uint64
1140 616216 glib compile from remote directory fails
1141 615960 Fix size passed to connect() for abstract sockets
1142 616432 Crash in gschema-compile
1143 616331 gsettings-schema-convert uses imaginary types
1144 616309 gsettings-schema-convert should output gettext-domain
1145 616384 Add mention of GConfBridge in conversion docs
1146 616311 gschema-compile outputs in current directory
1147 616276 simplify gschema-compile test setup
1148 616156 keys with unnecessary empty options arrays
1149 616405 gsettings missing g_return_if_fail's
1150 616245 Use G_DEFINE_INTERFACE macro
1151 614541 Add G_TYPE_ERROR boxed type for GError
1153 * Updated translations:
1160 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.24.0 to GLib 2.25.0
1161 ===================================================
1163 * The GSettings framework has been merged. This provides the API to
1164 replace GConf. DConf will provide a backend implementation for it.
1165 GConf will also provide a backend implementation to ease the
1166 transition. We provide utilities to assist with schema conversion
1167 and data migration, as well as a porting guide.
1169 * Translation updates:
1179 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.6 to GLib 2.24.0
1180 ===================================================
1183 613601 buglet in dup_close_on_exec_fd
1184 584284 g_data_input_stream_read_until_async behaves confusingly
1185 613748 Write errors in middle of copy cause hang
1186 613923 splice_stream_with_progress: wrong error handling
1187 613667 Typo in GObject documentation
1188 613618 gvariant format string docs unclear
1190 * Translation updates:
1196 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.5 to GLib 2.23.6
1197 ===================================================
1199 * Class private data:
1200 - support for private data associated with a GTypeClass
1202 * GVariant merge is now complete:
1203 - loading functions and parser merged
1205 * Windows improvements:
1207 - various build improvements
1208 - removal of GCC/C99isms in favour of portable code
1209 - drop unmaintained Visual Studio 8 support
1211 * Minor API addition:
1212 - g_desktop_app_info_get_filename()
1215 521707 Class private data
1216 612502 build fails on glib/tests/gvariant.c
1217 612832 [GDesktopAppInfo] New function g_desktop_app_info_get_filename
1218 612702 [PATCH] Fix GSocket-related crash on Windows
1219 612736 Improve the documentation about single include
1220 610858 gvariant test fails sometimes
1221 612327 uninitialized variable
1227 * Updated translations:
1237 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.4 to GLib 2.23.5
1238 ===================================================
1240 * New API addition: g_malloc_n() and friends used to implement an
1241 overflow-safe family of g_new() macros.
1244 - GVariantBuilder and GVariantIter are now merged.
1245 - The variable arguments API is now merged.
1246 - The parser will be in a future release.
1249 - Remove GUtf8InputStream (which never appeared in a stable release)
1250 for now since it doesn't satisfy the needs of its main intended use
1251 case. We hope to reimplement this feature in a better form in a
1255 609531 missing licence headers
1256 612107 Missing G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TRASH_ORIG_PATH
1257 611897 g_io_modules_scan_all_in_directory leaks
1258 608196 Overflow-safe g_new family
1259 611696 gio uses GetAddrInfo which requires special handing on windows 2k
1260 605667 Don't use G_PARAM_SPEC_VALUE_TYPE when we know the pspec is valid
1261 610860 test_g_file_open_readwrite fails if $HOME is unwritable
1262 552912 glib-2.18 /live-g-file/test_copy_move failed when run as root
1263 609813 Renaming a file discards file notes
1265 * Updated translations:
1267 Brazilian Portuguese
1287 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.3 to GLib 2.23.4
1288 ===================================================
1290 * GVariant: The core of GVariant has been merged now, with some
1291 API still to follow.
1294 - There is a new interface GFileDescriptorBased for file descriptor
1295 based IO. GLocalFile{Input,Output}Stream implement it
1296 - Use splice(2) to transfer data between file descriptors without
1298 - Add a way to request move events from file monitors
1301 609143 *result_uncertain is never assigned in g_content_type_guess
1302 604086 Use splice(2) when doing local file copies
1303 547890 No move events for GFileMonitorEvent?
1304 568760 nautilus freezes due to a bug in garray.c:322
1305 609962 Add info about the use of G_DEFINE_INTERFACE
1306 609564 g_base64_encode_close docs should mention outbuf size...
1307 610484 g_variant_equal bug
1308 610131 libasyncns does not compile on Solaris 8
1309 609530 missing single header include guards
1311 * Updated translations:
1323 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.2 to GLib 2.23.3
1324 ===================================================
1326 * GLib now has a facility for locks that consume only one bit of
1327 storage inside an integer: g_bit_lock()
1329 * GVariant: The serializer has been merged, with more API to follow
1332 548967 1 bit mutex lock
1333 604967 2.22.3 libasyncns build fails on HP-UX 11.11
1334 608602 G_VALUE_COLLECT_INIT variables shadow those in G_VALUE_COLLECT
1335 608743 Crash in g_hostname_to_ascii visiting certain website in epiphany
1336 599197 array ref and unref functions crash on NULL array.
1337 608159 mem leak in g_io_modules_scan_all_in_directory
1339 * Translation updates
1340 Brazilian Portuguese
1349 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.1 to GLib 2.23.2
1350 ===================================================
1352 * We are now using gcc builtins for atomic operations when available
1354 * g_assert() grew the ability to store assertions in core dumps
1356 * GIO supports lazy loading of GIO modules, and there is a new
1357 gio-querymodule utility that goes along with this.
1358 Packagers will need to adapt to this.
1360 * Threading changes:
1361 - The requirements for g_thread_init() have been relaxed slightly,
1362 it can be called multiple times, and does not have to be the first
1364 - GObject now links to GThread and threads are enabled automatically
1365 when g_type_init() is called.
1366 - Thread-safety issues with boxed types in GObject have been fixed.
1369 - Another bunch of performance work has landed
1372 - GVariantType has been merged, with the rest of the GVariant
1376 568760 nautilus freezes due to a bug in garray.c:322
1377 602417 Document lifecycles of GSimpleAsyncResult and friends
1378 604824 crash in Epiphany: Selecting my Slashdot bo...
1379 448888 don't init g_slice for always-malloc
1380 531902 Use GCC atomic buildins for g_atomic*
1381 554887 boxed type registration is not thread safe
1382 586150 unresolved symbols when building glib 2.21.2 on OS X Tiger
1383 589176 row gvalue transform array exponentially
1384 594872 Support storing assertion messages into core dump
1385 602240 Upgrade libasyncns to 0.8
1386 603590 Speed up G_VALUE_COLLECT
1387 604457 gutf8inputstream.c: increasing unknown size pointer
1388 605686 GCharsetConverter doesn't flush
1389 605733 g_memory_output_stream_new violates GObject standards
1390 605883 g_object_new() processes varargs even when there are none
1391 605977 invalid utf-8 conversion in g_local_file_get_parse_name(...
1392 606775 Enable threads by default in gobject
1394 * Translation updates:
1406 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.0 to GLib 2.23.1
1407 ===================================================
1409 * GObject performance work has landed:
1410 - Construction of simple objects is much faster
1411 - Interface lookup is lock-free and constant-time now
1412 - Reduced locking overhead when dealing with types
1414 * GType now has a G_DEFINE_INTERFACE convenience macro
1416 * GIO gained GUtf8InputStream, an input stream that
1417 performs utf-8 validation
1419 * GLib now has byte-swap macros for gsize and gssize
1422 557151 Determining the newly_constructed boolean in gobject.c...
1423 557100 Performance improvements for GObjectClasses that don't...
1424 501166 Warning message says IA__g_type_init instead of g_type_init
1425 585375 Performance and Contention problems with g_type_class_ref...
1426 587892 Race in GType when instantiating the same class for the...
1427 603270 Input Stream validating utf8
1428 603476 gioenums.h:62: error: comma at end of enumerator list
1429 603540 g_time_val_from_iso8601 uses uninitialised variable
1430 603982 Stack overflow when reading file async with filter
1431 604645 G_DEFINE_INTERFACE_* documentation is not generated
1432 604875 Use of sa_len conflicts with system header
1433 320482 provide G_DEFINE_TYPE like macros for interfaces
1435 * Updated translations:
1443 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.22.x to GLib 2.23.0
1444 ===================================================
1447 - GConverter: a generic interface for stateful conversions of data,
1448 suitable for charset conversion, compression, decompression, regexp
1449 replacement. Concrete implementations are GCharsetConverter,
1450 GZlibCompressor and GZlibDecompressor. GConverterInputStream,
1451 GConverterOutputStream are stream implementations that convert data
1452 while loading or saving it.
1453 - GMounts can now have a 'default location': a path that reflects
1454 the main entry point for the user (e.g. the home directory).
1455 - As a consequence of the compression support, GIO depends on zlib now.
1458 - G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE_DYNAMIC: a convenience macro for adding
1459 interfaces to dynamic types.
1462 - The -pthread flag has been added to all gmodule .pc files, because
1463 it is not generally permissible to load modules that are linked
1464 against libpthread if the program has not been compiled with threading
1468 601637 GUnixFDMessage should contain a GUnixFDList
1469 585566 GSocketListener API issues
1470 572252 Bug in g_file_test() function.
1471 600550 g_app_info_create_from_commandline doesn't treat arguments properly
1472 541236 not detecting exact content type
1473 350200 [PATCH] GTypeModule derived class unref does not unload plugin
1474 589631 Please enclose literal values with double quotes
1475 577711 cross compile check for g++ broken
1476 600620 Support X-GNOME-FullName in GAppInfo
1477 598899 GWin32DirectoryMonitor is broken
1478 593809 Nautilus does not restore the position of the icons on the desktop...
1479 563627 g_get_prgname() threadsafety
1480 600141 Add -pthread to gmodule pkg-config
1481 593856 file and directory monitors don't work when glib is compiled...
1482 324930 Nautilus should disallow copying of symlink to FAT drive early
1483 587300 Deadlock when calling g_cancellable_disconnect in a...
1484 595138 GFile not robust with invalid input
1485 591216 Warning building resolver.o
1486 590016 Does not compile under MinGW32 + Wine
1487 591214 Warnings building gcancellable.o
1488 561998 Have specific entry points (paths) for mounts...
1489 508157 Add G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE_DYNAMIC
1490 535159 g_file_has_parent
1492 * Updated translations:
1493 Brazilian Portuguese
1504 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.22.1 to GLib 2.22.2
1505 ===================================================
1508 - Support case-sensitive globs in the shared mime database,
1509 including support for the newer cache format that allows these.
1510 Case-sensitive globs have been introduced in shared-mime-info
1514 - Speed up creation of simple objects
1517 597194 Typo in _G_TYPE_CVH macro
1519 * Updated translations:
1523 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.22.0 to GLib 2.22.1
1524 ===================================================
1527 596064 Test file marked for translation
1528 595972 possibly invalid search in mime_info_cache_dir_add_...
1529 596561 C99 style of declaration of variable in gmessages.c
1530 596314 g_utf16_to_utf8 returns an invalid UTF8 string
1531 596748 g_async_result_get_source_object returns a new ref
1532 593809 Nautilus does not restore the position of the icons...
1533 593775 uses inotify_init1 unconditionally
1535 * Updated translations:
1540 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.6 to GLib 2.22.0
1541 ===================================================
1543 * Add gdb python macros to make gobject debugging more pleasant
1546 579050 Allow making selected critical and warning messages non-fatal
1547 594759 g_socket_send_message fails due to invalid sendmsg params
1548 593941 GNetworkAddress skipping addresses when enumerating
1549 594597 Fix build with srcdir != builddir
1550 595619 Include gdb pretty printers
1552 * Changes that might affect bindings:
1553 - The error parameter of g_simple_async_result_set_from_error has been
1556 * Updated translations:
1590 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.5 to GLib 2.21.6
1591 ===================================================
1593 * Minor API additions:
1594 g_mkstemp_full is a variant of g_mkstemp that allows to specify flags
1598 593232 g_rand_new: read no more than requested from /dev/urandom
1599 591995 use saved errno
1600 589491 g_time_val_from_iso8601 doesn't handle some cases
1601 593406 Permissions set to 777 after copying via Nautilus
1602 594034 Add g_mkstemp_full()
1604 * Updated translations:
1607 Brazilian Portuguese
1625 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.4 to GLib 2.21.5
1626 ===================================================
1628 * A performance problem with trashing of many files has been fixed
1630 * GResolver now invalidates the libc resolv.conf cache as needed
1632 * Minor api additions:
1633 - g_cancellable_make_pollfd returns a boolean now. And there is a
1634 new function g_cancellable_release_fd that can be used to released
1635 the resources used by a GCancellable.
1638 589988 Compilation error on Solaris 9 (missing stdint.h)
1639 588901 gtcpconnection.c won't compile
1640 584246 GResolver needs to call res_init() when network state changes
1641 591714 Figure out failure handling for g_cancellable_make_pollfd()
1642 591532 redundent '/' returned from g_file_resolve_relative_path
1643 591378 Use MSG_NOSIGNAL in GSocket if it's available
1644 589649 API documentation migration for Base64 Encoding
1645 591840 configure fails with autoconf 2.64
1647 * Updated translations:
1649 Brazilian Portuguese
1671 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.3 to GLib 2.21.4
1672 ===================================================
1674 * GTree is now refcounted
1677 587938 Undocumented limitation for g_str_equal
1678 587773 refcounts for GTree
1680 * Updated translations:
1690 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.2 to GLib 2.21.3
1691 ===================================================
1693 * GMappedFile is refcounted now
1695 * Mainloop: It is now possible to set per-thread default contexts,
1696 with g_main_context_push_thread_default.
1698 * glib-mkenums supports a @basename@ substitution, in addition
1702 - Vfs implementations can support storing of per-file metadata.
1703 - GCancellable can now be subclassed.
1704 - Unmount and eject methods now optionally allow interaction, via
1705 variants that take a GMountOperation object.
1708 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -?
1709 579449 FileChoosers no longer work if an idle handler is active
1710 579933 mainloop FD_CLOEXEC has a race condition
1711 579984 alternate GMainContext support
1712 585937 gio/gsocket.c (glib 2.21.2) does not compile (Windows/mingw)
1713 586675 Runtime library location
1714 586797 Add GCancellables to GSocket ops
1715 586868 g_filename_complete_get_completions doesn't always return...
1716 587415 g_resolver_lookup_by_name_finish returns a freed list
1717 587434 regression tests fail, at least on x86_64
1718 586928 Avoid g++ warning in g_error()
1720 * Updated translations:
1725 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.1 to GLib 2.21.2
1726 ===================================================
1729 - g_socket_speaks_ipv4 is a new function to check if a socket can
1731 - g_socket_listener_add_address gained a new effective_address out
1733 - GIO now returns special icons for XDG user directories, by the
1734 name folder-music, folder-documents, etc.
1735 - GIO gained support for starting/stopping of drives, which can be used
1736 in connection with external hard disk enclosures, disk arrays, iSCSI
1737 devices, etc. See g_file_start/stop_mountable.
1740 - g_reload_user_special_dirs_cache is a new function to force GLib to
1741 reload the XDG user directory mapping from disk.
1744 584574 glib compile failure on Mac OS X with gunixresolver.c and...
1745 585566 GSocketListener API issues
1746 584255 Incorrect freeing of thread pool in GThreadedSocketService
1747 585088 g_string_chunk_insert_len stops at nul bytes
1748 585360 Monitor fontconfig configuration files using gio causes m...
1749 580103 Terminal starts on Display :0.0 when started on :0.1 in D...
1750 580301 network: a few issues on old darwin
1751 583398 SRV weight sorting is incorrect
1752 584176 build fixes on FreeBSD
1753 585189 g_cancellable_reset() must be called in same thread as g_...
1754 585280 compilation dies on gio/gsocket.c, needs sys/uio.h to con...
1755 585281 gio/gunixfdmessage.c needs sys/types.h for platforms that...
1756 585478 don't leak the inotify fd
1757 585575 g_socket_listener_add_inet_port() doesn't do the right thing
1758 585599 g_socket_listener_add_socket() consumes the socket
1759 585676 GEmblem doesn't reference its 'icon' if that is set as a ...
1760 585717 "bytes" nautilus translation to french is not shown in th...
1761 541276 XDG directories should have their own icons
1762 585726 Grammatical error in GList documentation
1763 585520 Wrong warning option in documentation
1764 585673 GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated glib symbols
1765 585591 Starting/stopping drives
1767 * Updated translations:
1772 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.0 to GLib 2.21.1
1773 ===================================================
1776 - Support for network IO has been added, including a low-level
1777 socket API and a high-level API for network connections and
1779 - Support for read-write access with GIOStream and its subclasses.
1780 - GMount gained a pre-unmount signal.
1783 576104Implement GMount::pre-unmount
1784 578769 implement GWinHttpFileInputStream::close_fn
1785 582856 gsocket.c doesn't compile on Solaris
1786 569375 g[u]intptr undocumented
1787 573246 [FIX] g_desktop_app_info_dup() can access NULL pointer
1788 575013 g_cancellable_push_current() does not allow NULL
1789 577884 live-g-file.c:461: error: format ‘%d’ expects type ...
1790 578499 g_output_stream_splice and stream closing with gnio strea...
1791 579558 Application employing gvfs crashes with only libgvfscommo...
1792 583001 SIGPIPE (grr!)
1793 583061 Please add convenience function to connect to machines by...
1794 583198 typo in error message
1795 583206 use g_set_error_literal where appropriate
1796 583229 void function g_async_initable_init_async returns value
1797 583324 locking problem in g_main_context_iterate()
1798 583408 void function g_socket_control_message_serialize returns ...
1799 578786 wrong and confusing error message
1800 583205 g_inet_address_to_bytes has no length outparam
1801 583196 mem leak in keyfile test
1802 583663 GSocketType enum ends with a comma
1803 569024 Make g_error_new_valist public
1804 569376 missing G_G[U]INTPTR_FORMAT
1805 580347 off-by-1 bug in GWinHttpFile
1807 * Updated translations:
1813 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.x to GLib 2.21.0
1814 ===================================================
1817 - New helper functions g_cancellable_connect/disconnect to avoid
1818 race conditions when connecting to the "cancelled" signal on
1820 - New types and methods for dealing with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (and
1821 UNIX domain socket addresses under UNIX). This does not include code
1822 for actual socket I/O.
1823 - GResolver provides asynchronous and cancellable APIs for resolving
1824 hostnames, reverse lookup of IP addresses and resolving SRV records.
1826 * Glib now provides hash and comparison functions for int64 and double
1827 types, suitable for use with GHashTable.
1829 * GArray, GPtrArray and GByteArray can be ref counted now, and have
1833 572844 Helper for GCancellable::cancelled connect/disconnect
1834 578363 goption docs should be improved
1835 548466 async/cancellable DNS resolver
1836 579830 param spec strings should use P_()
1837 579862 requesting xattr::foo ends up calling getxattr(..., user...
1838 580453 Hash and equal functions for gint64 and gdouble
1839 580450 Reference counting and boxed types for arrays
1840 580194 gresolver doesn't build on Solaris
1841 580301 network: a few issues on old darwin
1842 580299 network: include sys/types.h before sys/socket.h to insur...
1843 572508 gmarkup speedup
1844 580546 g_strtoull() referenced in documentation...
1845 580656 g_key_file_set_string_list erroneously asserts list != NULL
1846 579272 leaks in g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gpointer
1849 * Updated translations:
1855 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.0 to GLib 2.20.1
1856 ===================================================
1859 575555 Use fsync() when replacing files to avoid data loss on
1860 575708 runaway inotify madness
1861 575270 GVolumeMonitor::mount-pre-unmount not being emitted
1862 577128 glib make check Failed to execute child process...
1863 573673 Always show "backup" directories
1864 578369 g_time_val_from_iso8601() parses timezones incorrectly
1865 578002 Fix a small typo in GFile docs
1866 578017 G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED docs
1868 * Updated translations:
1873 Brazilian Portuguese
1899 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.9 to GLib 2.20.0
1900 ===================================================
1902 * Base64 support: Avoid integer overflows. CVE-2008-4316
1905 574019 GChecksum: document and guarantee hex characters in lower case
1906 573454 Unable copy/move files to directories symlinked to gvfs share
1907 561172 gnome-open fails on local URIs with anchors
1908 573970 crash in gunixvolumemonitor:update_mounts when unmounting
1909 573843 g_get_current_dir returns non-absolute path
1911 * Updated translations:
1927 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.8 to GLib 2.19.9
1928 ===================================================
1931 - Considerable speedup
1934 - Add G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION flag to allow replacing
1935 the destination of a copying operation as if it did not exit before.
1936 - Be more careful when classifying files as desktop files
1937 - Support desktop file key X-GIO-NoFuse which disables the use
1938 of fuse pathnames for %u and %U arguments
1941 572672 glib/gthread.c: argument is different type
1942 572464 Doc for g_file_get_contents
1943 572151 “it's” and “its” confused in docs and comments
1944 570501 g_win32_get_system_data_dirs uses invalid conversion...
1945 167569 g_string_append_printf crashes on win32 when used...
1946 572508 gmarkup speedup
1947 560564 Replacing a symlink with its linked file truncates...
1948 549298 impossible to copy files with p (pipe) flag
1949 543183 Clarify docs for g_file_has_prefix
1950 540461 g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size() doesn't behave...
1951 573462 GEmblemedIcon leak
1952 573421 Clarify message format in GMountOperation
1953 573658 Deadlock in giomodule.c
1954 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -?
1955 573527 Wrong shell to run config.status in Makefile.in.in
1956 573128 A couple of typos in GObject documentation
1958 * Updated translations:
1960 British English (en_GB)
1970 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
1975 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
1976 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
1979 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.7 to GLib 2.19.8
1980 ===================================================
1982 * GIO: Fix missing exports of new API
1984 * Fix strict aliasing warnings and violations to make Glib work
1988 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.6 to GLib 2.19.7
1989 ===================================================
1992 - GFile gained an attribute for the actual file size in bytes
1993 - GMountOperation gained an "aborted' signal that allows to abort
1994 a mount operation from the backend side
1997 523742 Use noinst for non-installable libraries
1998 566747 URIs opened with firefox %u load as local files
1999 541225 Can't compile gio on AIX duplicate case value in gioerror.c
2000 571598 GAsyncResult with NULL gobject
2001 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
2003 * Updates translations:
2008 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2015 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.5 to GLib 2.19.6
2016 ===================================================
2018 * New format macro to print goffset data: G_OFFSET_FORMAT
2021 - Add a GFilter{Input,Output}Stream::close-base-stream properties which
2022 determine whether the base stream will be closed when the filter stream
2024 - g_data_input_stream_read_line and ..._read_until have asynchronous
2028 568294 A wrong reference in the description of g_bookmark_file_...
2029 563141 RFE: define G_OFFSET_FORMAT
2030 569105 g_time_val_to_iso8601() assumes time_t==long
2031 568394 dropping the last reference to a stream filter closes...
2032 568741 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't work
2033 568723 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't take count == -1
2034 568575 _async functions for GDataInputStream
2036 * Updated translations:
2042 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
2043 Traditional Chinese (zy_TW)
2046 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.4 to GLib 2.19.5
2047 ===================================================
2049 * Update included PCRE to 7.8
2051 * g_base64_decode_inplace: New function to do base64 decoding in place
2054 567138 get_package_directory_from_module() does not free ...
2055 566569 gregex docs clarification
2056 566573 g_match_info_fetch_pos docs
2057 564728 Add function to decode base64 encoded data in place
2058 567838 G_STRUCT_OFFSETOF fails to compile under icc 9.1
2059 567977 textdomain() macro should not return NULL ...
2060 512779 --disable-regex breaks compilation
2061 566770 error code 0 for Too many open files is useless
2062 565484 g_content_type_guess passes non-UTF8 text to XDG ...
2064 * Updated translations:
2071 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.3 to GLib 2.19.4
2072 ===================================================
2075 - Use O_NOATIME when sniffing mimetypes
2076 - Add a convenience method to check if a GSimpleAsyncResult
2080 560676 function access for g_threads_supported
2081 565905 There is no g_context_group_set_translation_domain
2082 564210 SUN Studio 12 has supported visibility attribute
2083 565136 GObject's "notify" signal parameters are wrong in gtk-doc
2084 565831 error in interface creation sample
2085 566348 g_file_open_tmp uses the wrong g_mkstemp on win32
2086 566064 Add NOATIME flag to query_info_flags
2087 566170 g_async_result_verify_source_object
2089 * Updated translations:
2091 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2092 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
2093 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
2096 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.1 to GLib 2.19.3
2097 ===================================================
2100 508021 Add support for the CRIS and CRISv32 architectures
2101 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permission to use
2102 558458 Cannot build gio tests on Solaris using SUN cc
2103 555465 GUnix{Input,Output}Stream lacks fd/close_fd_at_close property
2104 558298 Hide ecryptfs mounts
2105 515777 incorrect date&time on copy
2106 562452 Ensure we return G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED if cancelling
2107 g_simple_async_result_run_in_thread
2108 473150 g_type_module_use inconsistently increases the use
2109 counter in case of error
2110 563150 G_GU?INT*_MODIFIER/FORMAT docs
2111 563156 Document printing and scanning gunichar values
2113 * Updated translations:
2118 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.0 to GLib 2.19.1
2119 ===================================================
2122 - g_icon_to_string, g_icon_new_for_string: GIcon serialization support
2123 - G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON: new file attribute for preview images
2124 - g_app_info_get_commandline: new function to get the full commandline
2125 - g_mount_shadow, g_mount_unshadow, g_mount_is_shadowed: New functions
2126 to 'shadow' mounts (i.e. hide them from the UI when they already
2127 have a different representation, like a bookmark)
2130 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion
2131 557087 mem leak in g_content_types_get_registered
2132 556921 gpoll.h breaks hal compilation
2133 557210 g_compute_checksum_for_* asserts with less than 2 bytes
2134 558381 Add support for compile time assertions
2135 558185 'parent' variable in g_local_file_get_child_for_display_name()
2136 hits g_object_unref(NULL) assertion
2137 558513 g_warn_if_fail FIXME in gtestutils
2138 558672 NULL key lookup using g_hash_table_lookup_extended()
2139 555740 gicon serialization
2140 557182 preview functionality
2141 528320 Incorrect icons displayed for files with custom mimetype icons
2142 556910 Memory leak: sub
2143 557592 Missing include in gwinhttpfile.c
2144 556415 Crash on Windows 2000 in g_winhttp_vfs_init()
2145 555935 Clarify the mechanism of overwriting properties
2146 552776 ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r not mentioned
2147 559448 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
2148 561212 GFileReadMoreCallback API doc refers to non-existant function
2149 560569 gkeyfile doesn't use the set list_separator in some cases
2150 560568 gkeyfile docs buglet
2151 559413 g_option_group_set_error_hook docs buglet
2152 562378 callback return value not respected for callback option
2154 559110 Do not include libintl.h after glibintl.h
2155 557603 carbon check output misplaced
2156 562544 g_key_file_get_string and g_key_file_get_value
2157 documentation does not explain the difference
2158 547264 Missing "no flags" flag
2159 562638 GDebugKey key member should be const
2160 562639 g_parse_debug_flags() parsing "help"
2161 562549 g_byte_array_free should tell how free data
2162 559452 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
2163 559462 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
2164 559517 GObject Reference Manual (typo)
2165 562538 GObject interface tutorial shouldn't finalise with
2166 "Please forget everything"
2167 561352 Leak of icon description
2168 561375 Leaks mountpoint description
2169 561807 inotify_sub.c: dup_dirname() fails to remove trailing '/'
2170 562393 g_buffered_input_stream_read_byte broken if data available
2171 541715 win32 : patch for warnings and signature problems in recent code
2172 547481 g_data_input_stream_read_line behaves not as stated in the docs
2173 548163 Nautilus displays wrong error message for too long file names
2174 559633 gtk_image_new_from_gicon does not always work for .desktop files
2175 555486 – No way to recover command line from GAppInfo
2177 * Translation updates:
2182 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.1 to GLib 2.19.0
2183 ===================================================
2185 * Rewrite GHashTable to use open addressing with quadratic probing instead
2186 of chaining. This has the potential to reduce memory fragmentation
2187 significantly, while being slightly faster due to better locality and
2188 no need to call alloc/free functions for nodes. Benchmarks suggest it
2189 also uses less memory overall.
2191 * Make g_poll available as public api
2193 * New macros g_assert_error and g_assert_no_error to assert
2194 that a GError is set or unset
2196 * g_cancellable_make_pollfd: New method to make a GPollFD for a cancellable
2198 * g_app_info_can_delete, g_app_info_delete, g_app_info_reset_type_associations:
2199 New functions to clean up app infos and content types
2201 * When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris when possible,
2202 and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris.
2205 505361 gunixinputstream.c assumes poll() available
2206 509446 portable blocking gio cancellation
2207 553820 gpoll.c: undeclared identifier
2208 553724 python interpretter path not patched in correctly
2209 553857 gbacktrace.h requires signal.h
2210 553447 g_assert_no_error()
2211 554092 glib doesn't return G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT et al on OS X
2212 528670 Always pass file:/// uri's in GAppLaunchContext
2213 555224 Improve g_format_size_for_display doc
2214 555309 giochannel breaks on error
2215 554790 g_convert() misbehaves with winiconv versions
2216 555314 mem leak in gmarkup
2217 555313 GFileAttribute boxed type get_type function should...
2218 552861 glib-2.0.m4 calls system(3) without storing its result
2219 554557 Patch to fix gcc warnings about missing format specifiers
2220 552107 Small libtool fixes
2221 551355 Make glib build with libtool 2.2
2222 555311 format not a string literal and no format arguments
2223 556101 static mutex yields warnings with g++
2224 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion
2225 526456 Open addressing in GHashTable
2226 553426 cancellable clarifications
2227 545350 GAppInfo deletion
2228 545351 Reset associations for content type
2229 552168 volume's mount not mounted after g_volume_mount_finish
2230 554970 segfault when update-desktop-database is not available...
2231 554745 GFileAttributeInfoList should be boxed
2232 555121 Improved build-time handling of gio module-dir
2233 555711 Wrong fallback order of mimetype icons
2234 555331 Deprecate adoption of mounts
2235 556335 make check fails in abicheck.sh
2236 556334 Warning when building without selinux support
2237 556422 g_file_enumerator_next_file: unclear...
2239 * Updated translations:
2243 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
2248 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.0 to GLib 2.18.1
2249 ===================================================
2252 550433 g_test_init doesn't recognize --help
2253 523463 Core dump in gmain.c:2482:IA__g_main_context_check
2254 551228 G_STRFUNC on recent Sun compiler should be expanded...
2255 551410 gtestutils.c: using printf without prototype
2256 551731 g_date_set_time[_t] docs should mention what timezone
2257 548321 <string.h> is not included in gi18n-lib.h
2258 551149 xdgmime mem leak
2259 550647 synchronous pipe I/O when reading mount reply
2260 551887 Docs for g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename aren't...
2261 551681 g_content_type_guess() too naive with filenames
2262 552352 g_app_info_launch doesn't work if "Path" key...
2263 551408 gmodule.def generated to builddir...
2264 552359 g_file_info_get_icon should return GThemedIcon, and...
2266 * Updated translations:
2268 Bengali India (bn_IN)
2269 British English (en_GB)
2278 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.7 to GLib 2.18.0
2279 ===================================================
2282 - rework the g_poll() implementation to match poll() semantics more closely
2285 324234 Using g_io_add_watch_full() to wait for connect() to return...
2286 548278 Async GETs connections are always terminated unexpectedly...
2287 500246 Bug fixes for giowin32
2288 523939 Example program for GValue
2289 550096 GBookmarkFile parser is not forward compatible
2290 550040 Move GString, rand and printf tests to the unit test framework
2291 550104 trivial documentation fix for g_get_home_dir
2292 548988 g_file_replace fails on Windows when the target file exists
2293 550059 Wrong docs for g_emblemed_icon_add_emblem
2294 548800 Missing a g_object_get_type function
2295 550056 Missing documentation for g_emblemed_icon_get_emblems
2297 * Updated translations:
2317 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
2318 ===================================================
2320 * More fixes for 64-bit Windows
2323 - Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows
2326 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
2327 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
2328 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
2329 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
2330 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
2331 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
2332 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
2333 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
2334 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
2335 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
2336 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop
2337 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
2338 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
2339 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
2340 547262 Missing link in the docs
2342 * Updated translations:
2351 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2353 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
2358 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
2359 ===================================================
2361 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
2363 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
2364 the user_data outside of callbacks
2367 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
2368 g_mount_guess_content_type
2369 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
2371 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
2375 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
2376 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
2377 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
2378 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
2379 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
2380 529694 SELinux context setting support
2381 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
2382 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
2383 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
2384 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
2385 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
2386 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
2387 546079 leak in xdgmime
2388 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
2389 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
2391 * Updated translations:
2398 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2403 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
2404 ===================================================
2407 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
2408 g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
2409 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
2410 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
2411 g_volume_get_activation_root
2414 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
2415 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
2417 * Internationalization:
2418 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
2421 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
2422 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
2425 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
2426 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
2427 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
2428 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
2429 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
2430 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
2431 541794 drive-eject-button signal
2432 541793 activation root for volumes
2433 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
2434 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
2435 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
2436 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
2437 406120 g_ascii_strtod
2438 334234 "printf" format error
2439 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
2440 540616 mem leak in filechooser button
2441 539229 gobject-query calls itself query
2442 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
2443 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
2444 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
2445 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
2446 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
2447 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
2449 * Updated translation:
2455 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
2456 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
2459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
2460 ===================================================
2463 - fix for CVE-2008-2371
2466 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
2467 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
2468 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
2469 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
2470 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
2471 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
2472 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
2473 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
2474 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
2475 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
2476 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
2477 535947 want g_set_error_literal
2478 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
2479 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
2480 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
2481 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
2482 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
2483 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
2484 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
2485 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
2486 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
2487 536733 gio build failure on Irix
2488 536160 Add g_file_monitor()
2489 538127 FileChooser broken on win32
2490 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
2491 538564 gio should have gio-types.h
2492 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
2494 Updated translations:
2499 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
2500 ===================================================
2502 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
2504 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
2505 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
2507 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
2508 icons for mime types
2510 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
2513 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
2514 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
2515 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
2516 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
2517 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
2518 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
2519 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
2520 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
2521 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
2522 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
2523 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
2524 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
2525 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
2526 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
2527 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
2528 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
2529 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
2530 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
2531 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
2532 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
2533 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
2535 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
2536 338162 Use po/LINGUAS
2537 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
2538 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
2539 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
2540 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
2541 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
2542 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
2543 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
2545 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
2546 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
2547 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
2548 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
2549 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
2551 * Translation updates:
2555 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2559 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
2560 ===================================================
2562 * Update to Unicode 5.1
2564 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
2566 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
2568 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
2569 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
2570 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
2572 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
2574 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
2576 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
2577 additional GIO modules
2579 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
2582 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
2584 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
2585 rate at which events are reported
2587 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
2590 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
2591 size of the written data.
2594 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
2595 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
2596 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
2597 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
2599 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
2600 315437 extern inline -> static inline
2601 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
2602 alphanumerics into half width
2603 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
2604 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
2605 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
2606 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
2607 526619 make test-report crash
2608 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
2609 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
2610 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
2611 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
2612 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
2613 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
2614 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
2615 501651 Update glib/libcharset
2616 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
2617 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
2618 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
2619 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
2620 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
2621 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
2622 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
2623 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
2624 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
2625 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
2626 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
2627 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
2628 describe purpose of nick and blurb
2629 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
2630 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
2631 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
2632 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
2633 521672 compile error
2634 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
2635 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
2636 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
2637 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
2638 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
2639 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
2640 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
2641 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
2642 524950 Minor documentation typos.
2643 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
2644 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
2645 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
2646 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
2647 534759 Build failure in gio
2648 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
2649 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
2650 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
2651 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
2652 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
2653 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
2654 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
2656 * Updated translations:
2662 Candian English (en_CA)
2663 British English (en_GB)
2672 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2684 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
2685 ===================================================
2687 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
2689 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
2692 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
2693 ===================================================
2695 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
2698 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
2699 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
2701 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
2704 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
2705 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
2706 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
2707 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
2708 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
2709 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
2710 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
2711 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
2712 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
2713 518720 No MIME type for empty files
2714 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
2715 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
2716 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
2718 * Updated translations:
2720 Bengali India (bn_IN)
2732 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2739 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
2740 ===================================================
2743 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
2744 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
2745 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
2746 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
2747 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
2748 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
2749 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
2752 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
2753 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
2754 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
2755 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
2756 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
2759 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
2761 * Updated translations:
2763 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
2765 British English (en_GB)
2771 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
2773 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
2777 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
2778 ===================================================
2780 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
2783 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
2784 should be mounted automatically
2785 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
2786 the default handler for a file
2787 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
2788 launch the default handler for a URI
2789 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
2791 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
2792 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
2793 - There is the beginning of a test suite
2794 - standard::description: new file attribute
2795 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
2798 - class initialization is now threadsafe
2800 * Updated translations:
2812 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
2817 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
2818 ===================================================
2820 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
2823 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
2824 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
2825 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
2826 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
2827 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
2830 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
2831 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
2832 385132 solaris gettext support fix
2833 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
2834 510292 GOption main help not shown
2835 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
2836 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
2837 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
2838 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
2840 * Updated translations:
2853 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
2854 ===================================================
2857 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
2858 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
2859 that are longer than 64 bytes
2862 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
2863 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
2864 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
2867 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
2868 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
2869 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
2870 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
2871 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
2872 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
2873 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
2874 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
2876 * Updated translations:
2883 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
2884 ===================================================
2887 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
2888 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
2889 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
2890 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
2893 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
2894 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
2895 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
2896 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
2897 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
2898 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
2899 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
2901 * Updated translations:
2910 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
2911 ===================================================
2913 * Portability fixes:
2914 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
2915 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
2916 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
2917 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
2920 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
2921 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
2922 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
2923 files and directories now
2926 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
2927 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
2928 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
2929 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
2930 315437 extern inline -> static inline
2931 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
2932 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
2933 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
2934 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
2935 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
2936 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
2937 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
2938 505058 xattr namespace docs
2939 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
2940 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
2941 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
2942 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
2943 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
2944 503051 Small bug in glib interface
2945 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
2946 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
2947 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
2948 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
2949 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
2950 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
2952 * Updated translations:
2954 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
2963 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
2964 ===================================================
2968 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
2969 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
2970 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
2973 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
2976 * GTest: a test framework
2981 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
2984 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
2985 get the stack of open elements
2986 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
2988 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
2992 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
2993 success, instead of void
2994 - Various performance improvements
2997 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
2998 a free function for leftover elements
3001 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
3002 to ease error propagation
3004 * Internationalization:
3005 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
3006 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
3008 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
3011 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
3012 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
3013 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
3014 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
3015 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
3016 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
3017 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
3018 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
3019 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
3020 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
3021 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
3022 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
3023 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
3024 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
3025 490637 gobject documentation patch
3026 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
3027 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
3028 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
3029 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
3030 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
3031 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
3032 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
3033 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
3034 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
3035 503222 Need context to translate
3036 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
3037 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
3038 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
3039 71704 file include order
3040 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
3041 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
3042 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
3043 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
3044 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
3045 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
3046 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
3047 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
3048 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
3049 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
3050 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
3051 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
3052 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
3053 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
3054 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
3055 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
3056 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
3057 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
3058 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
3060 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
3061 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
3062 443648 MD5 digest support
3063 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
3064 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
3065 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
3066 500507 GHashTableIter API
3068 * Translation updates
3069 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
3077 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
3078 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
3083 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
3084 ===================================================
3086 * Update PCRE to 7.4
3089 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
3090 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
3091 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
3093 * Updated translations:
3095 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
3101 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
3102 ===================================================
3105 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
3106 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
3107 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
3108 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
3109 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
3110 478349 Broken link to gettext website
3111 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
3113 * Updated translations:
3120 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
3121 ===================================================
3124 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
3125 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
3126 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
3127 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
3128 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
3129 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
3130 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
3131 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
3132 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
3133 468694 Typoes in documentation
3134 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
3135 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
3136 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
3137 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
3139 * Updated translations:
3144 Canadian English (en_CA)
3145 British English (en_GB)
3161 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
3165 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
3173 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
3174 ===================================================
3176 * Last-minute API additions:
3177 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
3178 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
3180 * Update PCRE to 7.2
3183 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
3184 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
3185 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
3187 * Updated translations:
3194 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
3198 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
3199 ===================================================
3201 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
3202 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
3203 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
3206 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
3207 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
3210 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
3211 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
3212 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
3213 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
3214 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
3215 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
3216 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
3217 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
3218 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
3220 * Updated translations
3229 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
3230 ===================================================
3232 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
3233 caused trouble for C++ bindings
3236 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
3237 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
3239 * Updated translations
3240 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
3244 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
3245 ===================================================
3247 * xdg-user-dirs support:
3248 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
3249 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
3252 - new api to duplicate slices
3254 * Regular expression support:
3255 - GRegex is a boxed type now
3258 44793 make check failing in trunk
3259 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
3260 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
3261 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
3262 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
3263 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
3264 447583 GStaticRWLock
3265 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
3266 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
3267 57693 g_string_vprintf()
3268 442029 add g_slice_dup()
3269 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
3270 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
3272 * Updated translations:
3280 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
3281 ===================================================
3284 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
3285 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
3286 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
3289 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
3290 ===================================================
3293 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
3296 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
3298 * Regular expression support:
3299 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
3300 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
3301 replacement have been added
3302 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
3304 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
3308 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
3309 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
3310 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
3311 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
3312 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
3313 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
3315 * Updated translations:
3317 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
3320 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
3321 ===================================================
3324 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
3327 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
3329 * Updated translations:
3330 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
3331 British English (en_GB)
3333 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
3339 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
3340 ===================================================
3344 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
3345 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
3346 to obtain information about the compiled regex
3349 - Fix roundtrip problems
3350 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
3353 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
3356 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
3359 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
3360 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
3363 * Updated transations:
3364 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
3368 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
3369 =================================================
3371 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
3372 a balanced binary tree.
3374 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
3377 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
3378 for GTimer when available.
3380 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
3381 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
3383 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
3386 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
3389 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
3390 about zero-width characters.
3392 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
3395 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
3396 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
3397 be positioned before the function declaration.
3399 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
3400 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
3402 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
3405 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
3406 to define types in modules.
3408 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
3410 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
3411 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
3412 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
3416 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
3417 ===================================================
3420 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
3421 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
3422 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
3423 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
3424 unconvertable characters in place instead of
3425 replacing them by NUL
3428 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
3429 string with NUL bytes
3430 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
3431 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
3432 it considers a digit
3433 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
3434 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
3435 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
3436 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
3438 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
3439 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
3442 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
3443 ===================================================
3445 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
3448 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
3449 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
3450 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
3451 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
3452 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
3453 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
3455 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
3456 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
3459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
3460 =================================================
3463 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
3465 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
3468 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
3469 ===================================================
3472 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
3474 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
3478 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
3480 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
3483 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
3484 ===================================================
3487 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
3491 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
3493 * Updated translations (fi)
3495 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
3496 ===================================================
3498 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
3500 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
3502 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
3504 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
3505 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
3508 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
3509 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
3510 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
3511 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
3512 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
3514 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
3515 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
3517 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
3518 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
3519 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
3521 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
3524 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
3525 ===================================================
3528 - Support 64-bit integers
3529 - Allow optional text before and after the options
3533 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
3534 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
3535 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
3536 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
3537 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
3538 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
3539 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
3540 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
3541 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
3542 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
3544 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
3545 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
3547 * Updated translation (es)
3549 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
3550 ===================================================
3552 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
3553 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
3555 * Base64 encoding support
3557 * Unicode 5.0 support
3559 * GOption supports floating point numbers
3561 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
3564 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
3565 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
3566 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
3567 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
3568 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
3569 329789 option-test.c type confusion
3570 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
3571 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
3572 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
3573 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
3574 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
3576 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
3578 334646 goption + error out params
3579 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
3580 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
3581 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
3582 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
3583 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
3584 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
3585 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
3586 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
3587 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
3588 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
3589 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
3590 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
3592 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
3593 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
3596 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
3597 ===================================================
3600 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
3601 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
3602 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
3604 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
3607 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
3608 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
3610 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
3613 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
3614 ==================================================
3617 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
3619 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
3620 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3621 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
3622 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
3623 number of bytes to check is specified
3625 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
3626 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
3628 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
3629 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
3631 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
3633 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
3634 =================================================
3637 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
3638 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
3639 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
3641 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
3642 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
3644 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
3646 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
3647 =================================================
3649 * Memory management:
3650 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
3651 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
3652 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
3653 now be turned on at runtime by setting
3654 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
3657 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
3658 extension [Albert Chin]
3659 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
3660 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
3661 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
3662 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
3664 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
3666 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
3667 =================================================
3670 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
3671 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
3675 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
3676 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
3677 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
3679 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
3683 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
3684 =================================================
3687 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
3688 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
3690 * Change g_filename_display_name and
3691 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
3692 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
3693 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
3695 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
3696 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
3699 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
3701 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
3702 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
3704 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
3707 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
3709 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
3712 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
3713 =================================================
3715 * Memory management:
3716 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
3717 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
3718 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
3721 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
3723 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
3724 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
3725 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
3726 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
3729 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
3730 floating reference. [Tim]
3731 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
3734 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
3735 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
3737 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
3738 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
3740 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
3741 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
3743 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
3746 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
3747 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
3748 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
3749 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
3750 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
3751 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
3752 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
3753 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
3754 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
3756 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
3757 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
3758 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
3759 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
3760 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
3761 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
3762 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
3763 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
3766 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
3767 =================================================
3770 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
3771 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
3772 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
3773 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
3776 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
3779 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
3780 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
3781 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
3782 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
3783 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
3784 variants [Martyn Russell]
3787 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
3788 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
3791 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
3794 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
3795 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
3796 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
3797 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
3798 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
3799 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
3800 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
3801 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
3803 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
3805 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
3806 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
3807 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
3808 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
3811 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
3812 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
3813 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
3815 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
3816 =================================================
3818 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
3819 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
3820 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
3822 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
3823 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
3826 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
3827 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
3828 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
3830 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
3832 * Memory management:
3833 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
3834 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
3835 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
3836 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
3837 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
3838 never worked as intended.
3839 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
3840 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
3841 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
3842 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
3843 efficient and scalable implementation.
3844 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
3847 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
3848 unnecessary recursion.
3851 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
3852 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
3853 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
3857 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
3860 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
3861 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
3862 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
3866 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
3867 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
3868 since they are in glib.h
3871 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
3872 =================================================
3873 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
3874 * Fix build problems on OS X
3875 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
3876 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
3877 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
3878 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
3879 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
3881 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
3882 =================================================
3883 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
3884 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
3885 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
3886 in GValues should also be changed to access
3887 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
3889 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
3890 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
3892 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
3893 =================================================
3894 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
3895 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
3897 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
3898 =================================================
3899 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
3901 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
3902 work on s390 [Matthias]
3903 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
3905 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
3907 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
3908 =================================================
3909 * Thread-related changes
3910 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
3911 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
3912 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
3913 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
3914 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
3915 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
3916 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
3917 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
3918 "make check" to fail when using older versions
3919 of gettext [Matthias]
3920 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
3921 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
3923 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
3925 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
3926 =================================================
3927 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
3928 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
3929 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
3930 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
3931 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
3932 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
3934 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
3936 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
3937 =================================================
3939 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
3940 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
3941 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
3942 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
3944 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
3945 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
3947 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
3948 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
3949 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
3950 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
3951 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
3953 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
3954 =================================================
3955 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
3956 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
3957 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
3958 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
3960 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
3961 =================================================
3963 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
3964 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
3965 * Misc new functions:
3966 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
3967 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
3968 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
3970 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
3971 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
3972 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
3973 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
3976 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
3977 =================================================
3979 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
3980 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
3981 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
3982 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
3984 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
3985 - Accept -? [Matthias]
3986 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
3987 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
3988 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
3989 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
3991 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
3993 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
3994 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
3996 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
3997 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
3998 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
3999 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
4000 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
4001 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
4002 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
4003 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
4004 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
4005 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
4006 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
4008 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
4009 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
4010 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
4011 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
4012 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
4013 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
4014 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
4015 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
4016 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
4017 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
4018 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
4019 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
4020 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
4021 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
4022 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
4023 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
4025 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
4026 =================================================
4028 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
4029 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
4030 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
4031 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
4032 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
4034 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
4035 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
4036 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
4037 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
4038 when check for executables [Tor]
4039 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
4040 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
4041 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
4042 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
4043 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
4044 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
4045 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
4047 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
4048 =================================================
4051 - GOption, a commandline option parser
4052 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
4053 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
4054 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
4055 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
4057 * Miscellaneous new functions
4058 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
4059 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
4060 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
4061 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
4062 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
4063 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
4064 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
4065 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
4066 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
4067 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
4069 * Performance improvements
4070 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
4071 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
4072 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
4073 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
4074 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
4077 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
4078 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
4079 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
4080 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
4081 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
4082 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
4083 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
4086 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
4087 =================================================
4088 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
4089 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
4090 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
4091 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
4092 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4093 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
4094 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
4096 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
4097 =================================================
4098 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
4099 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
4101 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
4103 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
4104 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
4105 allocated memory [Matthias]
4106 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
4108 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
4109 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
4110 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
4111 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
4113 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
4114 =================================================
4116 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
4117 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
4119 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
4121 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
4122 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
4123 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
4124 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
4125 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
4127 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
4128 =================================================
4130 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
4131 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
4132 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
4134 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
4135 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
4136 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
4137 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
4138 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
4139 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
4140 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
4141 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
4142 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
4143 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
4145 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
4146 =================================================
4147 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
4148 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
4149 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
4150 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
4151 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
4154 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
4155 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
4156 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
4157 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
4158 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
4159 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
4161 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
4162 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
4163 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
4164 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
4165 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
4166 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
4167 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
4168 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
4170 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
4171 =================================================
4173 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
4174 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
4176 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
4177 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
4178 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
4179 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
4180 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
4181 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
4182 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
4183 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
4184 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
4186 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
4187 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
4189 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
4190 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
4192 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
4193 =================================================
4194 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
4195 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
4196 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
4197 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
4198 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
4199 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
4200 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
4201 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
4202 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
4203 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
4205 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
4206 =================================================
4208 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
4209 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
4210 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
4211 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
4212 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
4213 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
4215 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
4216 =================================================
4218 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
4219 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
4221 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
4222 [Federico Mena Quintero]
4224 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
4225 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
4226 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
4227 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
4228 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
4229 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
4230 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
4231 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
4232 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
4233 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
4234 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
4235 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
4237 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
4238 =================================================
4240 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
4241 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
4242 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
4243 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
4245 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
4246 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
4247 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
4249 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
4250 =================================================
4252 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
4253 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
4254 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
4255 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
4257 * Documentation updates [Owen]
4258 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
4260 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
4261 =================================================
4263 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
4264 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
4265 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
4266 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
4267 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
4268 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
4269 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
4271 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
4272 =================================================
4274 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
4275 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
4276 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
4277 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4278 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
4279 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
4280 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
4281 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
4282 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
4283 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
4284 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
4286 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
4287 =================================================
4289 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
4290 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
4291 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
4292 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
4293 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
4294 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
4295 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
4296 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
4298 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
4299 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
4301 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
4302 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
4303 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
4305 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
4307 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
4308 =================================================
4310 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
4311 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
4312 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
4313 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
4315 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
4316 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
4317 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
4318 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
4319 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
4320 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
4321 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
4322 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
4323 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
4324 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
4325 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
4326 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
4327 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
4329 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
4331 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
4332 =================================================
4334 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
4335 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
4336 with context [Matthias Clasen]
4337 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
4338 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
4339 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
4340 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
4341 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
4342 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
4343 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
4344 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
4345 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
4346 * GObject [Tim Janik]
4347 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
4348 like 'swapped-signal'.
4349 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
4350 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
4351 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
4352 init() implementations
4353 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
4354 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
4355 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
4356 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
4357 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
4359 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
4361 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
4362 =================================================
4364 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
4365 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
4366 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
4367 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
4368 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
4369 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
4370 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
4371 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
4372 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4373 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
4374 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
4375 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
4376 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
4377 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
4378 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
4379 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
4380 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
4381 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
4382 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
4383 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
4384 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
4386 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
4387 =================================================
4389 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
4390 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4391 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
4392 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
4393 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
4394 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
4396 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
4397 =================================================
4399 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
4400 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
4401 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
4402 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
4403 if necessary [Manish Singh]
4404 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
4405 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
4406 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
4407 * Bug and portability fixes
4408 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
4410 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
4412 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
4413 =================================================
4415 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
4416 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
4417 Johannes Stezenbach]
4418 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
4419 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
4420 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
4422 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
4423 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
4424 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
4425 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
4427 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
4428 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
4430 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
4431 =================================================
4433 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
4434 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
4435 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
4436 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
4437 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
4438 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
4439 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
4440 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
4441 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
4442 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
4443 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
4444 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
4445 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
4446 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4447 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
4449 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
4450 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
4451 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
4452 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
4453 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
4454 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
4455 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
4457 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
4458 =================================
4460 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
4461 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
4462 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
4463 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4464 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
4465 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
4466 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
4467 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
4468 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
4469 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
4470 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
4472 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
4473 =================================
4475 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
4476 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
4477 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
4478 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
4479 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4480 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
4481 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
4482 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
4483 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
4484 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
4485 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
4487 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
4488 =================================
4490 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
4491 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
4492 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
4493 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
4494 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4495 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
4496 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
4497 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
4498 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
4499 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
4500 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
4502 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
4503 =================================
4505 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
4506 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
4507 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
4508 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
4510 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
4511 =================================
4513 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
4514 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
4515 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
4516 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
4517 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
4518 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
4519 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
4520 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
4521 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
4522 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
4523 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
4524 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
4525 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
4528 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
4529 =================================
4531 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
4532 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
4533 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
4534 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
4535 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
4536 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
4537 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
4538 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
4539 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
4540 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
4541 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
4542 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
4543 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
4544 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
4545 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
4546 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
4549 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
4550 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
4553 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
4554 =================================
4556 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4557 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
4558 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
4559 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
4560 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
4562 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
4563 ======================================
4565 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
4566 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
4567 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
4568 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
4569 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
4571 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
4573 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
4574 ===================================
4576 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
4577 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
4578 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
4579 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
4580 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
4581 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
4582 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
4584 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
4587 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
4588 ===================================
4590 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
4591 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
4592 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
4593 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
4594 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
4595 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
4596 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
4597 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
4598 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
4600 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
4603 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
4604 ===================================
4606 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
4607 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
4608 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4609 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
4610 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
4611 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
4612 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
4614 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
4615 ===================================
4617 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
4618 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
4619 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
4620 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
4621 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
4622 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
4623 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
4624 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
4626 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
4627 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
4631 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
4632 ===================================
4634 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
4635 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
4636 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
4637 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
4638 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
4639 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
4640 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
4641 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
4642 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
4644 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
4645 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
4647 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
4648 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
4651 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
4652 ===================================
4654 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
4655 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
4656 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
4657 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
4658 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
4659 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
4660 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
4661 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
4662 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
4663 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
4665 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
4666 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
4667 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
4671 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
4672 ==================================
4674 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4675 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
4676 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
4677 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
4678 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
4680 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
4683 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
4684 ==================================
4686 * Documentation updates [Owen]
4687 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
4688 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
4689 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
4692 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
4695 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
4696 ==================================
4698 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
4699 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
4700 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
4701 * Minor hash table optimizations
4702 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
4703 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
4704 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
4705 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
4706 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
4707 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
4708 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
4709 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
4710 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
4711 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
4712 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
4715 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
4716 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
4717 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
4721 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
4722 ==================================
4724 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
4725 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
4726 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
4727 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
4729 * GDate const, convenience fixups
4730 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
4731 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
4732 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
4733 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
4737 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
4738 ==================================
4740 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
4741 declarations from header files.
4742 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
4743 * Bug and Portability fixes
4746 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
4747 ==================================
4749 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
4752 * Documentation improvements
4755 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
4756 ==================================
4760 * More user_data support in various functions.
4761 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
4762 * Unicode handling improvements.
4763 * Implemented debugging traps.
4764 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
4765 * Various new small utility functions.
4766 * Random number generator precision improvements.
4767 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
4768 * Many Win32 improvements.
4769 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
4770 * Many documentation improvements.
4771 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
4773 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
4774 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
4775 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
4776 * Hashtable API additions.
4777 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
4778 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
4782 * Added many convenience functions.
4783 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
4784 * Reworked property change notification.
4785 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
4786 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
4787 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
4788 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
4789 * Added support for abstract types.
4790 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
4791 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
4792 and parameter conversions.
4793 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
4794 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
4796 * Implemented GValueArray.
4797 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
4798 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
4799 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
4800 * Varrags value collection improvements.
4801 * Implemented debugging traps.
4802 * Made things thread-safe.
4803 * Many documentation improvements.
4804 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
4807 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
4808 ==================================
4812 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
4813 * Improvements to error reporting
4814 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
4815 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
4816 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
4817 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
4818 not to be freed. [Darin]
4819 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
4820 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
4821 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
4822 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
4823 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
4824 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
4825 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
4826 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
4827 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
4828 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
4829 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
4830 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
4831 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
4832 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
4833 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
4834 * Many documentation improvements.
4839 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
4840 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
4841 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
4842 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
4843 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
4847 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
4848 =========================
4850 * New GObject library added including object system based on
4851 the GTK+ object system.
4852 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
4853 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
4854 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
4856 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
4857 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
4858 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
4859 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
4860 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
4861 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
4862 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
4863 * Double ended queue implementation.
4864 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
4865 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
4866 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
4867 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
4868 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
4869 more tightly defined semantics.
4870 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.