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-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.10:
+What's new in GLib 1.3.0:
+
+* Look at ChangeLog.
+
+What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x):
+
+* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+
+* Win32 Portability
+* Threading support
+* GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
+  object code loading facilities in a portable manner
+* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
+* GQuarks and datasets
+* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data
+* An n-way tree implementation
+* GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations
+* GAllocator type and assocated functions
+* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
+* Generic functions for TAB completions
+* Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
+* g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels
+* Generic main-loop mechanism
+* New glib-config helper script
+* Many more API extensions
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16:
+
+* Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes
+* Bug Fixes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15:
+
+* HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work
+* Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and
+  check() so it is not held over user code
+* A few Win32 fixups
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:
+
+* Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl
+* FreeBSD portability fixes
+* Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:
+
+* Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.
+* Improved thread related configure tests.
+* GSource destruction fixups.
+* Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.
+* Advanced Win32 portability.
+* Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,
+  loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well
+  as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.
+* GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
+  and GNU libtool 1.2d.
+* Lots of random portability and bug fixes.
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:
+
+* Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,
+  g_new_a, g_new0_a
+* New tests structure.  Type 'make check' on your system to run them.
+* Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:
 
+* provide defaults for POLL sysdefs
 * g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted
 * a few other enhancement/fixes