1 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:
3 * Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this
4 * For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better
5 * Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll
7 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
9 * Added threading support
10 - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
12 - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
13 Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
14 - All static variables should now properly locked.
15 - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
16 (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
19 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
21 * Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
23 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
25 * New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
26 * New GAllocator type and assocated functions
27 * New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
29 * New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
30 insert elements at an arbitrary index
31 * GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
32 * Incremental freezing in ghash
33 * New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
35 * Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
36 * Added generic main-loop abstraction
37 * Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
40 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
43 * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
44 * Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
46 - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
47 - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
48 - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references
49 to other environment variables
50 - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
51 buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
52 - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
53 - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
54 - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order
55 - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
56 - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
57 - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
58 - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
59 - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
61 - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
63 - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
64 search path syntax conventions
65 - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
66 structure fields through their offsets
67 * Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
70 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
72 * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
73 * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
74 * New string join/split/free routines
77 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
79 * New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
80 object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
81 * glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
82 (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
83 be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
84 * Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
85 sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
86 * New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
87 associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
88 * New inline functions for bit masks tests.
89 * GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
90 * New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
91 platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
92 a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
93 People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
94 associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
95 * New utility functions:
96 g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
97 g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
98 g_strnfill(), g_memdup().
99 * Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
100 changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
101 * The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
102 new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
103 keyed data of GtkObjects).
104 * New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
105 * Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
106 * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
107 * Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
109 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
111 * Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
112 * fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
114 What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
116 * An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
117 * Bugfix for pointer arrays.
119 What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
121 * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
122 shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
124 * There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
125 * Fixups all over the place.
126 * gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
127 * API extensions for GList and GSList.
128 * New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
129 * GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
130 * Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
131 * Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
132 mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
133 * More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
134 * Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
136 * Generic functions for TAB completions.
137 * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.