1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
2 =================================================
4 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
5 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
6 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
7 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
8 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
9 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
10 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
11 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
13 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
14 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
15 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
16 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
17 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
18 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
19 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
20 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
21 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
22 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
23 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
25 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
26 =================================================
28 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
29 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
30 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
31 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
32 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
33 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
35 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
36 =================================================
38 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
39 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
40 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
41 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
42 if necessary [Manish Singh]
43 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
44 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
45 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
46 * Bug and portability fixes
47 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
49 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
51 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
52 =================================================
54 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
55 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
57 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
59 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
61 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
62 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
63 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
64 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
66 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
67 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
69 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
70 =================================================
72 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
73 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
74 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
75 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
76 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
77 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
78 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
79 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
80 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
81 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
82 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
83 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
84 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
85 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
86 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
88 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
89 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
90 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
91 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
92 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
93 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
94 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
96 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
97 =================================
99 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
100 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
101 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
102 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
103 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
104 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
105 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
106 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
107 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
108 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
109 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
111 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
112 =================================
114 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
115 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
116 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
117 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
118 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
119 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
120 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
121 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
122 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
123 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
124 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
126 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
127 =================================
129 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
130 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
131 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
132 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
133 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
134 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
135 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
136 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
137 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
138 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
139 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
141 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
142 =================================
144 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
145 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
146 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
147 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
149 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
150 =================================
152 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
153 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
154 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
155 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
156 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
157 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
158 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
159 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
160 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
161 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
162 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
163 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
164 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
167 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
168 =================================
170 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
171 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
172 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
173 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
174 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
175 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
176 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
177 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
178 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
179 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
180 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
181 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
182 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
183 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
184 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
185 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
188 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
189 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
192 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
193 =================================
195 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
196 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
197 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
198 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
199 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
201 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
202 ======================================
204 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
205 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
206 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
207 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
208 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
210 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
212 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
213 ===================================
215 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
216 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
217 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
218 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
219 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
220 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
221 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
223 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
226 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
227 ===================================
229 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
230 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
231 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
232 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
233 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
234 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
235 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
236 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
237 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
239 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
242 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
243 ===================================
245 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
246 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
247 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
248 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
249 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
250 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
251 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
253 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
254 ===================================
256 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
257 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
258 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
259 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
260 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
261 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
262 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
263 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
265 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
266 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
270 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
271 ===================================
273 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
274 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
275 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
276 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
277 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
278 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
279 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
280 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
281 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
283 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
284 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
286 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
287 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
290 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
291 ===================================
293 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
294 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
295 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
296 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
297 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
298 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
299 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
300 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
301 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
302 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
304 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
305 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
306 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
310 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
311 ==================================
313 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
314 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
315 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
316 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
317 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
319 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
322 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
323 ==================================
325 * Documentation updates [Owen]
326 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
327 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
328 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
331 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
334 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
335 ==================================
337 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
338 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
339 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
340 * Minor hash table optimizations
341 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
342 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
343 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
344 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
345 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
346 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
347 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
348 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
349 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
350 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
351 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
354 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
355 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
356 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
360 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
361 ==================================
363 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
364 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
365 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
366 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
368 * GDate const, convenience fixups
369 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
370 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
371 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
372 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
376 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
377 ==================================
379 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
380 declarations from header files.
381 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
382 * Bug and Portability fixes
385 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
386 ==================================
388 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
391 * Documentation improvements
394 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
395 ==================================
399 * More user_data support in various functions.
400 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
401 * Unicode handling improvements.
402 * Implemented debugging traps.
403 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
404 * Various new small utility functions.
405 * Random number generator precision improvements.
406 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
407 * Many Win32 improvements.
408 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
409 * Many documentation improvements.
410 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
412 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
413 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
414 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
415 * Hashtable API additions.
416 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
417 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
421 * Added many convenience functions.
422 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
423 * Reworked property change notification.
424 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
425 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
426 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
427 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
428 * Added support for abstract types.
429 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
430 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
431 and parameter conversions.
432 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
433 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
435 * Implemented GValueArray.
436 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
437 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
438 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
439 * Varrags value collection improvements.
440 * Implemented debugging traps.
441 * Made things thread-safe.
442 * Many documentation improvements.
443 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
446 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
447 ==================================
451 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
452 * Improvements to error reporting
453 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
454 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
455 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
456 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
457 not to be freed. [Darin]
458 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
459 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
460 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
461 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
462 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
463 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
464 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
465 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
466 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
467 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
468 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
469 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
470 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
471 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
472 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
473 * Many documentation improvements.
478 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
479 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
480 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
481 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
482 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
486 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
487 =========================
489 * New GObject library added including object system based on
490 the GTK+ object system.
491 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
492 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
493 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
495 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
496 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
497 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
498 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
499 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
500 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
501 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
502 * Double ended queue implementation.
503 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
504 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
505 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
506 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
507 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
508 more tightly defined semantics.
509 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.