1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
2 ===================================================
4 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
5 caused trouble for C++ bindings
8 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
9 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
11 * Updated translations
16 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
17 ===================================================
19 * xdg-user-dirs support:
20 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
21 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
24 - new api to duplicate slices
26 * Regular expression support:
27 - GRegex is a boxed type now
30 44793 make check failing in trunk
31 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
32 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
33 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
34 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
35 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
37 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
38 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
39 57693 g_string_vprintf()
40 442029 add g_slice_dup()
41 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
42 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
44 * Updated translations:
52 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
53 ===================================================
56 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
57 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
58 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
61 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
62 ===================================================
65 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
68 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
70 * Regular expression support:
71 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
72 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
73 replacement have been added
74 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
76 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
80 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
81 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
82 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
83 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
84 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
85 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
87 * Updated translations:
92 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
93 ===================================================
96 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
99 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
101 * Updated translations:
102 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
103 British English (en_GB)
105 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
111 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
112 ===================================================
116 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
117 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
118 to obtain information about the compiled regex
121 - Fix roundtrip problems
122 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
125 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
128 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
131 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
132 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
135 * Updated transations:
136 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
140 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
141 =================================================
143 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
144 a balanced binary tree.
146 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
149 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
150 for GTimer when available.
152 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
153 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
155 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
158 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
161 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
162 about zero-width characters.
164 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
167 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
168 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
169 be positioned before the function declaration.
171 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
172 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
174 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
177 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
178 to define types in modules.
180 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
182 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
183 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
184 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
188 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
189 ===================================================
192 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
193 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
194 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
195 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
196 unconvertable characters in place instead of
197 replacing them by NUL
200 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
201 string with NUL bytes
202 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
203 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
205 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
206 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
207 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
208 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
210 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
211 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
214 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
215 ===================================================
217 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
220 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
221 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
222 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
223 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
224 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
225 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
227 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
228 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
231 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
232 =================================================
235 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
237 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
240 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
241 ===================================================
244 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
246 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
250 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
252 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
255 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
256 ===================================================
259 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
263 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
265 * Updated translations (fi)
267 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
268 ===================================================
270 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
272 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
274 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
276 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
277 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
280 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
281 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
282 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
283 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
284 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
286 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
287 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
289 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
290 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
291 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
293 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
296 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
297 ===================================================
300 - Support 64-bit integers
301 - Allow optional text before and after the options
305 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
306 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
307 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
308 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
309 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
310 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
311 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
312 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
313 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
314 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
316 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
317 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
319 * Updated translation (es)
321 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
322 ===================================================
324 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
325 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
327 * Base64 encoding support
329 * Unicode 5.0 support
331 * GOption supports floating point numbers
333 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
336 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
337 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
338 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
339 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
340 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
341 329789 option-test.c type confusion
342 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
343 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
344 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
345 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
346 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
348 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
350 334646 goption + error out params
351 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
352 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
353 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
354 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
355 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
356 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
357 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
358 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
359 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
360 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
361 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
362 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
364 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
365 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
368 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
369 ===================================================
372 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
373 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
374 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
376 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
379 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
380 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
382 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
385 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
386 ==================================================
389 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
391 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
392 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
393 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
394 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
395 number of bytes to check is specified
397 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
398 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
400 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
401 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
403 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
405 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
406 =================================================
409 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
410 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
411 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
413 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
414 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
416 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
418 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
419 =================================================
422 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
423 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
424 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
425 now be turned on at runtime by setting
426 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
429 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
430 extension [Albert Chin]
431 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
432 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
433 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
434 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
436 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
438 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
439 =================================================
442 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
443 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
447 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
448 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
449 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
451 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
455 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
456 =================================================
459 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
460 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
462 * Change g_filename_display_name and
463 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
464 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
465 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
467 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
468 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
471 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
473 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
474 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
476 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
479 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
481 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
484 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
485 =================================================
488 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
489 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
490 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
493 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
495 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
496 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
497 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
498 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
501 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
502 floating reference. [Tim]
503 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
506 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
507 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
509 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
510 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
512 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
513 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
515 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
518 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
519 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
520 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
522 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
523 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
524 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
525 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
526 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
528 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
529 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
530 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
531 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
532 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
533 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
534 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
535 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
538 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
539 =================================================
542 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
543 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
544 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
545 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
548 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
551 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
552 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
553 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
554 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
555 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
556 variants [Martyn Russell]
559 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
560 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
563 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
566 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
567 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
568 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
569 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
570 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
571 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
572 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
573 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
575 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
577 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
578 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
579 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
580 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
583 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
584 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
585 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
587 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
588 =================================================
590 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
591 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
592 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
594 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
595 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
598 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
599 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
600 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
602 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
605 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
606 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
607 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
608 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
609 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
610 never worked as intended.
611 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
612 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
613 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
614 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
615 efficient and scalable implementation.
616 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
619 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
620 unnecessary recursion.
623 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
624 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
625 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
629 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
632 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
633 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
634 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
638 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
639 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
640 since they are in glib.h
643 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
644 =================================================
645 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
646 * Fix build problems on OS X
647 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
648 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
649 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
650 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
651 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
653 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
654 =================================================
655 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
656 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
657 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
658 in GValues should also be changed to access
659 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
661 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
662 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
664 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
665 =================================================
666 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
667 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
669 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
670 =================================================
671 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
673 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
674 work on s390 [Matthias]
675 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
677 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
679 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
680 =================================================
681 * Thread-related changes
682 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
683 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
684 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
685 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
686 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
687 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
688 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
689 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
690 "make check" to fail when using older versions
691 of gettext [Matthias]
692 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
693 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
695 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
697 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
698 =================================================
699 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
700 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
701 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
702 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
703 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
704 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
706 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
708 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
709 =================================================
711 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
712 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
713 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
714 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
716 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
717 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
719 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
720 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
721 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
722 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
723 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
725 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
726 =================================================
727 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
728 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
729 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
730 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
732 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
733 =================================================
735 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
736 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
737 * Misc new functions:
738 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
739 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
740 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
742 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
743 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
744 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
745 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
748 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
749 =================================================
751 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
752 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
753 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
754 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
756 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
757 - Accept -? [Matthias]
758 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
759 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
760 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
761 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
763 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
765 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
766 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
768 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
769 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
770 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
771 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
772 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
773 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
774 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
775 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
776 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
777 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
778 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
780 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
781 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
782 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
783 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
784 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
785 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
786 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
787 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
788 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
789 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
790 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
791 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
792 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
793 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
794 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
795 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
797 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
798 =================================================
800 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
801 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
802 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
803 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
804 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
806 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
807 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
808 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
809 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
810 when check for executables [Tor]
811 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
812 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
813 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
814 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
815 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
816 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
817 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
819 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
820 =================================================
823 - GOption, a commandline option parser
824 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
825 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
826 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
827 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
829 * Miscellaneous new functions
830 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
831 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
832 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
833 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
834 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
835 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
836 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
837 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
838 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
839 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
841 * Performance improvements
842 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
843 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
844 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
845 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
846 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
849 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
850 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
851 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
852 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
853 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
854 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
855 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
858 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
859 =================================================
860 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
861 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
862 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
863 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
864 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
865 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
866 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
868 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
869 =================================================
870 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
871 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
873 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
875 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
876 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
877 allocated memory [Matthias]
878 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
880 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
881 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
882 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
883 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
885 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
886 =================================================
888 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
889 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
891 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
893 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
894 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
895 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
896 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
897 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
899 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
900 =================================================
902 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
903 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
904 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
906 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
907 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
908 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
909 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
910 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
911 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
912 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
913 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
914 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
915 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
917 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
918 =================================================
919 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
920 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
921 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
922 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
923 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
926 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
927 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
928 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
929 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
930 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
931 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
933 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
934 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
935 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
936 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
937 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
938 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
939 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
940 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
942 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
943 =================================================
945 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
946 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
948 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
949 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
950 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
951 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
952 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
953 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
954 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
955 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
956 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
958 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
959 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
961 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
962 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
964 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
965 =================================================
966 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
967 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
968 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
969 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
970 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
971 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
972 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
973 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
974 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
975 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
977 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
978 =================================================
980 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
981 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
982 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
983 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
984 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
985 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
987 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
988 =================================================
990 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
991 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
993 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
994 [Federico Mena Quintero]
996 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
997 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
998 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
999 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1000 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1001 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1002 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1003 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1004 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1005 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1006 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1007 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1009 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1010 =================================================
1012 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1013 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1014 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1015 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1017 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1018 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1019 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1021 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1022 =================================================
1024 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1025 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1026 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1027 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1029 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1030 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1032 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1033 =================================================
1035 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1036 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1037 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1038 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1039 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1040 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1041 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1043 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1044 =================================================
1046 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1047 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1048 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1049 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1050 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1051 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1052 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1053 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1054 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1055 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1056 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1058 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1059 =================================================
1061 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1062 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1063 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1064 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1065 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1066 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1067 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1068 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1070 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1071 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1073 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1074 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1075 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1077 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1079 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1080 =================================================
1082 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1083 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1084 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1085 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1087 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1088 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1089 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1090 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1091 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1092 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1093 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1094 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1095 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1096 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1097 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1098 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1099 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1101 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1103 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1104 =================================================
1106 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1107 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1108 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1109 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1110 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1111 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1112 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1113 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1114 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1115 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1116 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1117 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1118 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1119 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1120 like 'swapped-signal'.
1121 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1122 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1123 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1124 init() implementations
1125 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1126 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1127 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1128 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1129 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1131 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1133 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1134 =================================================
1136 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1137 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1138 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1139 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1140 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1141 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1142 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1143 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1144 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1145 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1146 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1147 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1148 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1149 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1150 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1151 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1152 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1153 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1154 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1155 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1156 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1158 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1159 =================================================
1161 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1162 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1163 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1164 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1165 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1166 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1168 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1169 =================================================
1171 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1172 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1173 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1174 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1175 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1176 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1177 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1178 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1179 * Bug and portability fixes
1180 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1182 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1184 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1185 =================================================
1187 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1188 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1189 Johannes Stezenbach]
1190 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1191 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1192 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1194 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1195 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1196 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1197 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1199 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1200 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1202 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1203 =================================================
1205 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1206 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1207 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1208 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1209 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1210 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1211 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1212 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1213 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1214 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1215 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1216 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1217 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1218 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1219 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1221 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1222 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1223 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1224 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1225 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1226 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1227 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1229 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1230 =================================
1232 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1233 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1234 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1235 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1236 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1237 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1238 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1239 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1240 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1241 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1242 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1244 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1245 =================================
1247 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1248 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1249 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1250 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1251 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1252 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1253 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1254 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1255 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1256 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1257 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1259 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1260 =================================
1262 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1263 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1264 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1265 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1266 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1267 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1268 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1269 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1270 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1271 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1272 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1274 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1275 =================================
1277 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1278 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1279 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1280 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1282 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1283 =================================
1285 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1286 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1287 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1288 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1289 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1290 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1291 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1292 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1293 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1294 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1295 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1296 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1297 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1300 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1301 =================================
1303 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1304 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1305 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1306 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1307 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1308 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1309 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1310 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1311 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1312 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1313 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1314 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1315 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1316 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1317 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1318 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1321 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1322 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1325 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1326 =================================
1328 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1329 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1330 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1331 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1332 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1334 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1335 ======================================
1337 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1338 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1339 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1340 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1341 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1343 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1345 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1346 ===================================
1348 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1349 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1350 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1351 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1352 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1353 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1354 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1356 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1359 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1360 ===================================
1362 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1363 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1364 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1365 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1366 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1367 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1368 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1369 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1370 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1372 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1375 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1376 ===================================
1378 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1379 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1380 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1381 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1382 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1383 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1384 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1386 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1387 ===================================
1389 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1390 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1391 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1392 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1393 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1394 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1395 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1396 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1398 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1399 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1403 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1404 ===================================
1406 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1407 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1408 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1409 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1410 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1411 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1412 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1413 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1414 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1416 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1417 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1419 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1420 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1423 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1424 ===================================
1426 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1427 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1428 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1429 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1430 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1431 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1432 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1433 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1434 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1435 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1437 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1438 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1439 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1443 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1444 ==================================
1446 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1447 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1448 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1449 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1450 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1452 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1455 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1456 ==================================
1458 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1459 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1460 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1461 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1464 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1467 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1468 ==================================
1470 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1471 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1472 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1473 * Minor hash table optimizations
1474 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1475 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1476 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1477 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1478 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1479 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1480 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1481 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1482 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1483 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1484 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1487 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1488 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1489 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1493 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1494 ==================================
1496 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1497 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1498 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1499 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1501 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1502 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1503 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1504 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1505 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1509 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1510 ==================================
1512 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1513 declarations from header files.
1514 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1515 * Bug and Portability fixes
1518 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1519 ==================================
1521 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1524 * Documentation improvements
1527 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1528 ==================================
1532 * More user_data support in various functions.
1533 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1534 * Unicode handling improvements.
1535 * Implemented debugging traps.
1536 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1537 * Various new small utility functions.
1538 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1539 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1540 * Many Win32 improvements.
1541 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1542 * Many documentation improvements.
1543 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1545 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1546 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1547 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1548 * Hashtable API additions.
1549 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1550 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1554 * Added many convenience functions.
1555 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1556 * Reworked property change notification.
1557 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1558 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1559 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1560 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1561 * Added support for abstract types.
1562 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1563 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1564 and parameter conversions.
1565 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1566 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1568 * Implemented GValueArray.
1569 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1570 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1571 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1572 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1573 * Implemented debugging traps.
1574 * Made things thread-safe.
1575 * Many documentation improvements.
1576 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1579 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1580 ==================================
1584 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1585 * Improvements to error reporting
1586 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1587 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1588 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1589 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1590 not to be freed. [Darin]
1591 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1592 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1593 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1594 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1595 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1596 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1597 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1598 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1599 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1600 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1601 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1602 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1603 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1604 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1605 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1606 * Many documentation improvements.
1611 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1612 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1613 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1614 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1615 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1619 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1620 =========================
1622 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1623 the GTK+ object system.
1624 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1625 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1626 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1628 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1629 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1630 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1631 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1632 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1633 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1634 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1635 * Double ended queue implementation.
1636 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1637 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1638 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1639 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1640 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1641 more tightly defined semantics.
1642 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.