1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2 ==================================
4 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
5 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
6 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
7 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
8 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
10 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
12 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
13 ==================================
15 * Documentation updates [Owen]
16 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
17 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
18 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
21 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
23 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
24 ==================================
26 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
27 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
28 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
29 * Minor hash table optimizations
30 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
31 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
32 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
33 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
34 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
35 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
36 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
37 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
38 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
39 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
40 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
43 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
44 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
45 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
48 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
49 ==================================
51 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
52 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
53 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
54 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
56 * GDate const, convenience fixups
57 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
58 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
59 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
60 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
63 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
64 ==================================
66 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
67 declarations from header files.
68 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
69 * Bug and Portability fixes
71 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
72 ==================================
74 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
77 * Documentation improvements
79 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
80 ==================================
82 * More user_data support in various functions.
83 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
84 * Unicode handling improvements.
85 * Implemented debugging traps.
86 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
87 * Various new small utility functions.
88 * Random number generator precision improvements.
89 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
90 * Many Win32 improvements.
91 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
92 * Many documentation improvements.
93 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
95 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
96 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
97 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
98 * Hashtable API additions.
99 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
100 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
102 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
103 ==================================
107 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
108 * Improvements to error reporting
109 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
110 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
111 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
112 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
113 not to be freed. [Darin]
114 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
115 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
116 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
117 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
118 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
119 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
120 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
121 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
122 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
123 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
124 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
125 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
126 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
127 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
128 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
129 * Many documentation improvements.
134 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
135 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
136 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
137 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
138 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
141 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
142 =========================
144 * New GObject library added including object system based on
145 the GTK+ object system.
146 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
147 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
148 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
150 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
151 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
152 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
153 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
154 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
155 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
156 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
157 * Double ended queue implementation.
158 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
159 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
160 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
161 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
162 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
163 more tightly defined semantics.
164 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.