Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5: * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration declarations from header files. * Mark some additional deprecated functions. * Bug and Portability fixes Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4: * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool * A few bug fixes * Build fixes * Documentation improvements Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3: * More user_data support in various functions. * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops. * Unicode handling improvements. * Implemented debugging traps. * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place. * Various new small utility functions. * Random number generator precision improvements. * New configure option --disable-mem-pools. * Many Win32 improvements. * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats. * Many documentation improvements. * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation of static mutexes. * GHookLIst API cleanups. * Improved format support of GDate parser. * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy(). * Hashtable API additions. * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec). * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes. Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2: GLib: * Win32 build improvements [Tor] * Improvements to error reporting (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin] * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler] * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor] * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested not to be freed. [Darin] * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian] * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen] * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen] * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(), g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen] * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian] * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*), and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc] * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian] * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc] * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian] * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor] * autoconf improvements. [Raja] * Many documentation improvements. * Bug fixes. GObject: * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan] * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim] * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim] * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim] * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen] * Bug fixes. What's new in GLib 1.3.1: * New GObject library added including object system based on the GTK+ object system. * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters, computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based on libunicode. * GString now properly handles embedded nuls. * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch. * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction). * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules. * Many improvements to the Windows ports. * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support. * Double ended queue implementation. * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu" * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings et ceteri with the program name and the process id. * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister. * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and more tightly defined semantics. * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.