-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
-
-* Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
-* fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
-
-What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
-
-* An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
-* Bugfix for pointer arrays.
-
-What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
-
-* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
- shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
- incompatibilities.
-* There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
-* Fixups all over the place.
-* gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
-* API extensions for GList and GSList.
-* New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
-* GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
-* Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
-* Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
- mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
-* More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
-* Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
- gconstpointer.
-* Generic functions for TAB completions.
-* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
+=================================
+
+* Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
+* Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
+ g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
+* Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
+ Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
+* Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
+* Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
+* Fixes for g_log() and threading.
+ [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
+* Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
+ UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastain Wilhelmi, Tim]
+* Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillquist]
+* Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
+* Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
+* Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
+* Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
+* Minor bug fixes.
+
+Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
+ Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
+=================================
+
+* Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
+* Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
+ call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
+ are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
+======================================
+
+* Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
+* Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
+* Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
+* Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
+
+Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
+===================================
+
+* Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
+ [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
+* Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
+* Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
+* Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
+* Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
+* Win32 fixes [Tor Lillquist]
+
+Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
+ Daniel Elstner
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
+===================================
+
+* Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
+* Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
+* Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
+* Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
+* Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
+* Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
+* Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
+* Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
+* Miscellaneous bug fixes
+
+Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
+ Morten Welinder.
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
+===================================
+
+* Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
+* Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
+* Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
+* Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
+* Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
+ Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
+===================================
+
+* Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
+* Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
+* Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
+* Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
+* Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
+* Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
+* Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
+* Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
+
+Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
+ Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
+ Sebastian Wilhelmi.
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
+===================================
+
+* Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
+* Portable directory handling API [Hans]
+* Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
+* Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
+* Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
+* Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
+* Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
+* Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
+ [Alex Larsson, Tim]
+* Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
+* GObject API cleanups [Tim]
+
+Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
+ Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
+===================================
+
+* Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
+* g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
+* Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
+ more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
+* Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
+* Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
+* GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
+* Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
+* Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
+
+Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
+ Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
+ Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
+ Jacob Berkman
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
+==================================
+
+* Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
+* Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
+* Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
+* Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
+
+Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
+==================================
+
+* Documentation updates [Owen]
+* Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
+* Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
+
+Other contributors:
+ Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
+==================================
+
+* Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
+* More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
+* Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
+* Minor hash table optimizations
+* Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
+ compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
+* Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
+ collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
+* Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
+* Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
+* Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
+* More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
+* Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
+* Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
+
+Other contributors:
+ Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
+ Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
+ Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
+ Peter Williams
+
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
+==================================
+
+* Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
+* Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
+* Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
+ be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
+* GMarkup speedups
+* GDate const, convenience fixups
+* Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
+* Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
+* g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
+* Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
+* Misc bug fixes
+
+
+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:
+==================================
+
+GLib:
+
+* 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.
+
+GObject:
+
+* Added many convenience functions.
+* GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
+* Reworked property change notification.
+* Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
+* Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
+* Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
+* Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
+* Added support for abstract types.
+* G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
+* Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
+ and parameter conversions.
+* Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
+* Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
+ relations.
+* Implemented GValueArray.
+* New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
+ GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
+ G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
+* Varrags value collection improvements.
+* Implemented debugging traps.
+* Made things thread-safe.
+* Many documentation improvements.
+* Many cleanups, optimizations and 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.
+
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