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+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:
 ==================================
 
@@ -9,6 +66,7 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
 
 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
 
+
 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
 ==================================
 
@@ -20,6 +78,7 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
 Other contributors:
   Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
 
+
 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
 ==================================
 
@@ -45,6 +104,7 @@ Other contributors:
   Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter,  Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
   Peter Williams
 
+
 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
 ==================================
 
@@ -60,6 +120,7 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
 * Misc bug fixes
 
+
 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
 ==================================
 
@@ -68,6 +129,7 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
 * Bug and Portability fixes
 
+
 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
 ==================================
 
@@ -76,9 +138,12 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
 * 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.
@@ -99,6 +164,33 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
 * 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:
 ==================================
 
@@ -138,6 +230,7 @@ GObject:
 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation  [Owen]
 * Bug fixes.
 
+
 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
 =========================