1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
2 =================================================
3 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
4 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
5 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
6 in GValues should also be changed to access
7 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
10 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
11 =================================================
12 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
13 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
15 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
16 =================================================
17 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
19 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
20 work on s390 [Matthias]
21 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
23 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
25 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
26 =================================================
27 * Thread-related changes
28 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
29 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
30 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
31 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
32 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
33 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
34 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
35 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
36 "make check" to fail when using older versions
38 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
39 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
41 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
43 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
44 =================================================
45 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
46 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
47 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
48 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
49 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
50 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
52 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
54 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
55 =================================================
57 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
58 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
59 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
60 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
62 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
63 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
65 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
66 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
67 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
68 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
69 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
71 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
72 =================================================
73 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
74 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
75 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
76 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
78 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
79 =================================================
81 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
82 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
84 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
85 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
86 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
88 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
89 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
90 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
91 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
94 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
95 =================================================
97 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
98 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
99 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
100 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
102 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
103 - Accept -? [Matthias]
104 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
105 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
106 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
107 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
109 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
111 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
112 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
114 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
115 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
116 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
117 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
118 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
119 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
120 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
121 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
122 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
123 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
124 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
126 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
127 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
128 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
129 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
130 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
131 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
132 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
133 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
134 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
135 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
136 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
137 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
138 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
139 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
140 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
141 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
143 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
144 =================================================
146 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
147 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
148 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
149 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
150 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
152 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
153 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
154 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
155 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
156 when check for executables [Tor]
157 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
158 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
159 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
160 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
161 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
162 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
163 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
165 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
166 =================================================
169 - GOption, a commandline option parser
170 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
171 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
172 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
173 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
175 * Miscellaneous new functions
176 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
177 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
178 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
179 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
180 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
181 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
182 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
183 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
184 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
185 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
187 * Performance improvements
188 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
189 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
190 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
191 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
192 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
195 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
196 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
197 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
198 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
199 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
200 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
201 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
204 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
205 =================================================
206 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
207 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
208 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
209 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
210 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
211 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
212 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
214 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
215 =================================================
216 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
217 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
219 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
221 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
222 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
223 allocated memory [Matthias]
224 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
226 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
227 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
228 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
229 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
231 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
232 =================================================
234 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
235 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
237 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
239 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
240 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
241 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
242 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
243 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
245 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
246 =================================================
248 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
249 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
250 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
252 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
253 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
254 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
255 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
256 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
257 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
258 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
259 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
260 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
261 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
263 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
264 =================================================
265 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
266 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
267 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
268 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
269 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
272 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
273 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
274 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
275 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
276 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
277 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
279 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
280 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
281 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
282 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
283 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
284 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
285 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
286 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
288 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
289 =================================================
291 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
292 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
294 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
295 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
296 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
297 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
298 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
299 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
300 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
301 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
302 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
304 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
305 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
307 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
308 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
310 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
311 =================================================
312 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
313 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
314 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
315 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
316 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
317 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
318 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
319 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
320 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
321 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
323 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
324 =================================================
326 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
327 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
328 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
329 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
330 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
331 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
333 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
334 =================================================
336 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
337 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
339 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
340 [Federico Mena Quintero]
342 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
343 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
344 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
345 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
346 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
347 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
348 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
349 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
350 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
351 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
352 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
353 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
355 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
356 =================================================
358 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
359 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
360 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
361 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
363 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
364 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
365 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
367 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
368 =================================================
370 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
371 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
372 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
373 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
375 * Documentation updates [Owen]
376 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
378 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
379 =================================================
381 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
382 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
383 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
384 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
385 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
386 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
387 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
389 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
390 =================================================
392 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
393 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
394 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
395 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
396 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
397 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
398 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
399 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
400 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
401 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
402 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
404 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
405 =================================================
407 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
408 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
409 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
410 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
411 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
412 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
413 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
414 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
416 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
417 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
419 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
420 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
421 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
423 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
425 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
426 =================================================
428 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
429 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
430 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
431 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
433 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
434 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
435 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
436 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
437 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
438 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
439 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
440 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
441 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
442 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
443 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
444 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
445 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
447 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
449 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
450 =================================================
452 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
453 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
454 with context [Matthias Clasen]
455 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
456 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
457 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
458 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
459 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
460 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
461 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
462 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
463 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
464 * GObject [Tim Janik]
465 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
466 like 'swapped-signal'.
467 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
468 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
469 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
470 init() implementations
471 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
472 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
473 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
474 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
475 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
477 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
479 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
480 =================================================
482 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
483 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
484 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
485 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
486 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
487 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
488 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
489 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
491 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
492 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
493 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
494 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
495 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
496 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
497 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
498 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
499 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
500 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
501 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
502 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
504 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
505 =================================================
507 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
508 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
509 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
510 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
511 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
512 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
514 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
515 =================================================
517 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
518 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
519 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
520 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
521 if necessary [Manish Singh]
522 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
523 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
524 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
525 * Bug and portability fixes
526 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
528 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
530 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
531 =================================================
533 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
534 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
536 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
538 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
540 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
541 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
542 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
543 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
545 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
546 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
548 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
549 =================================================
551 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
552 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
553 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
554 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
555 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
556 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
557 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
558 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
559 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
560 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
561 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
562 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
563 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
564 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
565 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
567 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
568 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
569 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
570 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
571 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
572 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
573 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
575 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
576 =================================
578 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
579 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
580 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
581 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
582 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
583 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
584 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
585 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
586 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
587 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
588 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
590 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
591 =================================
593 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
594 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
595 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
596 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
597 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
598 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
599 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
600 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
601 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
602 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
603 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
605 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
606 =================================
608 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
609 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
610 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
611 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
612 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
613 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
614 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
615 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
616 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
617 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
618 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
620 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
621 =================================
623 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
624 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
625 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
626 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
628 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
629 =================================
631 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
632 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
633 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
634 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
635 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
636 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
637 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
638 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
639 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
640 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
641 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
642 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
643 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
646 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
647 =================================
649 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
650 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
651 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
652 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
653 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
654 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
655 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
656 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
657 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
658 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
659 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
660 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
661 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
662 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
663 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
664 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
667 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
668 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
671 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
672 =================================
674 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
675 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
676 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
677 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
678 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
680 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
681 ======================================
683 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
684 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
685 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
686 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
687 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
689 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
691 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
692 ===================================
694 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
695 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
696 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
697 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
698 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
699 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
700 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
702 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
705 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
706 ===================================
708 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
709 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
710 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
711 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
712 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
713 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
714 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
715 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
716 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
718 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
721 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
722 ===================================
724 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
725 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
726 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
727 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
728 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
729 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
730 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
732 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
733 ===================================
735 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
736 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
737 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
738 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
739 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
740 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
741 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
742 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
744 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
745 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
749 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
750 ===================================
752 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
753 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
754 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
755 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
756 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
757 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
758 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
759 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
760 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
762 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
763 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
765 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
766 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
769 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
770 ===================================
772 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
773 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
774 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
775 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
776 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
777 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
778 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
779 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
780 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
781 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
783 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
784 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
785 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
789 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
790 ==================================
792 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
793 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
794 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
795 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
796 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
798 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
801 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
802 ==================================
804 * Documentation updates [Owen]
805 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
806 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
807 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
810 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
813 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
814 ==================================
816 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
817 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
818 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
819 * Minor hash table optimizations
820 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
821 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
822 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
823 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
824 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
825 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
826 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
827 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
828 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
829 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
830 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
833 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
834 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
835 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
839 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
840 ==================================
842 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
843 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
844 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
845 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
847 * GDate const, convenience fixups
848 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
849 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
850 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
851 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
855 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
856 ==================================
858 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
859 declarations from header files.
860 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
861 * Bug and Portability fixes
864 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
865 ==================================
867 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
870 * Documentation improvements
873 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
874 ==================================
878 * More user_data support in various functions.
879 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
880 * Unicode handling improvements.
881 * Implemented debugging traps.
882 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
883 * Various new small utility functions.
884 * Random number generator precision improvements.
885 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
886 * Many Win32 improvements.
887 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
888 * Many documentation improvements.
889 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
891 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
892 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
893 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
894 * Hashtable API additions.
895 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
896 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
900 * Added many convenience functions.
901 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
902 * Reworked property change notification.
903 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
904 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
905 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
906 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
907 * Added support for abstract types.
908 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
909 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
910 and parameter conversions.
911 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
912 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
914 * Implemented GValueArray.
915 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
916 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
917 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
918 * Varrags value collection improvements.
919 * Implemented debugging traps.
920 * Made things thread-safe.
921 * Many documentation improvements.
922 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
925 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
926 ==================================
930 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
931 * Improvements to error reporting
932 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
933 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
934 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
935 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
936 not to be freed. [Darin]
937 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
938 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
939 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
940 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
941 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
942 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
943 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
944 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
945 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
946 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
947 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
948 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
949 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
950 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
951 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
952 * Many documentation improvements.
957 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
958 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
959 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
960 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
961 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
965 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
966 =========================
968 * New GObject library added including object system based on
969 the GTK+ object system.
970 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
971 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
972 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
974 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
975 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
976 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
977 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
978 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
979 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
980 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
981 * Double ended queue implementation.
982 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
983 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
984 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
985 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
986 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
987 more tightly defined semantics.
988 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.