- *** IMPORTANT ***
-
-This is a development version of GLib. You should be using a stable
-version, which is available at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/. This
-version is meant for developers of GLib only:
-
- * You should not base stable software on this version of GLib.
- * GNOME developers should use a stable version of GLib.
-
-*** You should be using GLib 1.2 instead. ***
-
-
General Information
===================
-This is GLib version @GLIB_VERSION@. GLib is a library which includes support
-routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and
-many other things.
+This is GLib version @GLIB_VERSION@. GLib is the low-level core
+library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It
+provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and
+interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads,
+dynamic loading, and an object system.
The official ftp site is:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
See the file 'INSTALL'
+Notes about GLib-2.2.0
+======================
+
+* GLib changed the seeding algorithm for the pseudo-random number
+ generator Mersenne Twister, as used by GRand and GRandom. This was
+ necessary, because some seeds would yield very bad pseudo-random
+ streams. Further information can be found at:
+
+ http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html
+
+ Also the pseudo-random integers generated by g_rand_int_range and
+ g_random_int_range will have a slightly better equal distribution
+ with the new version of GLib.
+
+ The original algorithms, as found in GLib-2.0.x, can be used instead
+ of the new ones by setting the environment variable G_RANDOM_VERSION
+ to the value of "2.0".
+
+ Use the GLib-2.0 algorithms only if you have sequences of numbers
+ generated with Glib-2.0 that you need to reproduce exactly.
+
How to report bugs
==================
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