+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).
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