1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
3 * More user_data support in various functions.
4 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
5 * Unicode handling improvements.
6 * Implemented debugging traps.
7 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
8 * Various new small utility functions.
9 * Random number generator precision improvements.
10 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
11 * Many Win32 improvements.
12 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
13 * Many documentation improvements.
14 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
16 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
17 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
18 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
19 * Hashtable API additions.
20 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
21 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
23 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
27 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
28 * Improvements to error reporting
29 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
30 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
31 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
32 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
33 not to be freed. [Darin]
34 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
35 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
36 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
37 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
38 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
39 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
40 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
41 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
42 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
43 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
44 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
45 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
46 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
47 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
48 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
49 * Many documentation improvements.
54 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
55 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
56 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
57 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
58 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
61 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
63 * New GObject library added including object system based on
64 the GTK+ object system.
65 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
66 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
67 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
69 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
70 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
71 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
72 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
73 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
74 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
75 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
76 * Double ended queue implementation.
77 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
78 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
79 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
80 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
81 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
82 more tightly defined semantics.
83 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.