-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 from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
+=================================================
+* Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
+* Fix build problems on OS X
+* Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
+* Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stefan Kasal]
+* Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
+ Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stefan Kasal, Matthias]
+* New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
+=================================================
+* Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
+ correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
+ (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
+ in GValues should also be changed to access
+ v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
+ 64bit machines.)
+* Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
+ of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
+=================================================
+* Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
+* Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
+=================================================
+* Add native implementations of atomic operations
+ on s390 [Matthias]
+* Make atomic reference counting of closures
+ work on s390 [Matthias]
+* Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
+ [Sebastian Bacher]
+* Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
+=================================================
+* Thread-related changes
+ - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
+ - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
+ - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
+ closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
+ - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
+* Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
+* Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
+* Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
+ "make check" to fail when using older versions
+ of gettext [Matthias]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
+ Matthias, Tim]
+* New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
+=================================================
+* Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
+ on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
+* Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
+* Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
+* Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
+ Callum McKenzie]
+* New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
+=================================================
+* GOption
+ - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
+ - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
+ disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
+ - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
+* Win32
+ - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+ - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
+* GObject
+ - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
+ of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
+* Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
+* Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
+* New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
+=================================================
+* Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
+* Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
+* New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
+=================================================
+* GOption
+ - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
+* GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
+* Misc new functions:
+ - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
+ - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
+ - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
+ Matthias Clasen]
+* Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
+ Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
+* Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
+* New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
+ sk,th,zh_TW)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
+=================================================
+* GKeyFile
+ - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
+ - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
+ - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
+ - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
+* GOption
+ - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
+ - Accept -? [Matthias]
+ - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
+ - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
+ - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
+ - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
+* GTree
+ - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
+* Stdio wrappers
+ - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
+ - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
+* GObject
+ - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
+ - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
+ - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
+* Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
+* Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
+ Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
+* Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
+* Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
+ extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
+* Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
+ NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
+* Win32 changes
+ - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
+ - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
+ - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
+ - Use more precise timers [Tor]
+ - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
+* Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
+ Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
+ Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
+ J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
+ Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
+ Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
+* Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
+ Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
+ Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
+* New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
+ hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
+=================================================
+* GOption
+ - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
+ - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
+ - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
+* g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
+* Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
+* Win32 changes
+ - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
+ - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
+ take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
+ - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
+ when check for executables [Tor]
+ - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
+* Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
+ Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
+* Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
+ Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
+ Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
+* New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
+=================================================
+
+* Major new APIs
+ - GOption, a commandline option parser
+ - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
+ - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
+ - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
+ encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
+
+* Miscellaneous new functions
+ - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
+ - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
+ - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
+ - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
+ - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
+ - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
+ - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
+ - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
+ - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
+ - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
+
+* Performance improvements
+ - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
+ - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
+ - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
+ - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
+ - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
+
+* Other changes
+ - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
+ those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
+ - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
+ - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
+ - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
+ - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
+ - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
+ - Require ngettext
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
+=================================================
+* GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
+ options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
+* Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
+Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
+=================================================
+* Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
+* Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
+ Morten Welinder]
+* Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
+ [Sven Neumann]
+* Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
+* Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
+ allocated memory [Matthias]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
+ Bruce Hochstetler]
+* Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
+ Frederic Crozat, Tor]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
+* New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
+=================================================
+* GOption
+ - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
+ which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
+* GChildWatch
+ - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
+ Archana Shah]
+ - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
+* Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
+ Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
+* Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
+=================================================
+* GKeyFile
+ - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
+ - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
+ locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
+* GOption
+ - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
+ - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
+ - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
+* Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
+ in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
+* Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
+ Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
+=================================================
+Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
+ freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
+Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
+ GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
+ functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
+ Owen Taylor]
+GOption
+ - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
+ friendly name [Murray Cumming]
+ - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
+ assertions [Matthias Clasen]
+* Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
+* Win32 bug fixes
+ - Don't open console windows [Tor]
+* Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
+ Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
+ Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
+ Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
+ Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
+* New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
+=================================================
+* GOption
+ - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
+* Performance
+ - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
+ and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
+ list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
+* Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
+* Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
+* Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
+* Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
+ the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
+* Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
+* Win32 changes
+ - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
+ Manish Singh]
+* Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
+* New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
+=================================================
+* Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
+* Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
+* Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
+* Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
+* Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
+* Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
+ Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
+* New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
+=================================================
+
+* Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
+ Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
+ Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
+* Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
+ Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
+* New and updated translations (eu,hi)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
+=================================================
+
+* New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
+* Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
+ Welinder]
+* Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
+ [Federico Mena Quintero]
+* Win32
+ - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
+ correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
+ - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
+ - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
+ - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
+* Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
+ Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
+ Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
+ Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
+* Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
+ Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
+* New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
+=================================================
+
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
+* Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
+ Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
+ Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
+ Piotr Klaban]
+* Documentation updates [Matthias]
+* New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
+ fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
+=================================================
+
+* Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
+* Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
+ Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
+ Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Documentation updates [Owen]
+* Updated translations (hr,ro)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
+=================================================
+
+* GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
+* GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
+* Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
+ - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
+ - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
+* Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
+* New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
+=================================================
+
+* Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
+* Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
+* Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
+ gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
+* Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
+ loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
+* Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
+* Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
+* Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
+* Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
+=================================================
+
+* Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
+* Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
+* Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
+* Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
+* Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
+* Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
+* Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
+* Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
+ Matthias]
+* Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
+* Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
+ Soeren, Matthias]
+* Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
+ Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
+ Matthias]
+* Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
+=================================================
+
+* Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
+* Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
+ implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
+ original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
+ [George Lebl]
+* Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
+* Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
+* Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
+* Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
+* Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
+ g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
+* Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
+* Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
+ of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
+* Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
+* Win32 build fixes [Hans]
+* Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
+ Zack Rusin]
+* Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
+=================================================
+
+* Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
+ gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
+ with context [Matthias Clasen]
+* Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
+ as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
+* Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
+ newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
+* Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
+* Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
+* Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
+* Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
+* Documentation improvements [Matthias]
+* GObject [Tim Janik]
+ - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
+ like 'swapped-signal'.
+ - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
+ g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
+ - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
+ init() implementations
+ - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
+* Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
+ [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
+* Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
+ Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
+ Morten Welinder]
+* Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
+=================================================
+
+* Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
+* Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
+* Support XML-safe formatted output with
+ g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
+* Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
+* Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
+ mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
+* Support for one-time initialization functions.
+ [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
+ g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
+* Docs improvements [Matthias]
+* Add support instance-private data on classed types
+ [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
+* Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
+* Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
+* Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
+* Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
+ g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
+ g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
+* Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
+=================================================
+
+* Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
+ [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
+ for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
+* IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
+* Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
+=================================================
+
+* Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
+* Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
+ Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
+* Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
+ if necessary [Manish Singh]
+* Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
+* Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
+* Docs improvements [Matthias]
+* Bug and portability fixes
+* Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
+
+Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
+=================================================
+
+* autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
+ GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
+ Johannes Stezenbach]
+* Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
+ GLib doesn't. [Owen]
+* Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
+ Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
+* Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
+* autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
+* Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
+
+Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
+ Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
+
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
+=================================================
+
+* Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
+ system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
+* Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
+* Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
+* Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
+* Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
+* Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
+* Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
+* Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
+ Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
+* Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
+* Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
+ with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
+ environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
+ [Sebastian]
+* Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
+* Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
+ system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
+* Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
+* Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
+ [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
+ Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
+=================================
+
+* Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
+* Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
+* Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
+* Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
+* Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
+* Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
+* Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
+ Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
+ Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
+* Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
+=================================
+
+* Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
+* Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
+* Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
+* Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
+* Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
+ Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
+* Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
+ Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
+* Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
+* Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
+=================================
+
+* Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
+* Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
+* Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
+* Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
+* Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+* Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
+ Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
+* Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
+ Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
+* Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
+* Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
+=================================
+
+* Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
+* Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
+* Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
+* Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
+=================================
+
+* Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
+* Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
+* Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
+ Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
+* Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
+* Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
+* Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
+* Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
+* Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
+ Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
+* Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
+* g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
+* Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
+ Wayne Schuller)
+
+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 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
+* Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
+* 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 Lillqvist]
+
+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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