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+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