+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]