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* It is no longer necessary to use g_thread_init() or to link against
- libgthread. libglib is now always thread-enabled.
+ libgthread. libglib is now always thread-enabled. Custom thread
+ system implementations are no longer supported (including errorcheck
+ mutexes).
+
+* The thread and synchronisation APIs have been updated.
+ GMutex and GCond can be statically allocated without explicit
+ initialisation, as can new types GRWLock and GRecMutex. The
+ GStatic_______ variants of these types have been deprecated. GPrivate
+ can also be statically allocated and has a nicer API (deprecating
+ GStaticPrivate). Finally, g_thread_create() has been replaced with a
+ substantially simplified g_thread_new().
* The g_once_init_enter()/_leave() functions have been replaced with
macros that allow for a pointer to any gsize-sized object, not just a
object is being used will not work with generic pointers (ie: (void*)
and (gpointer) casts) which would have worked with the old version.
+* It is now mandatory to include glib.h instead of individual headers.
+
+* The -uninstalled variants of the pkg-config files have been dropped.
+
+* For a long time, gobject-2.0.pc mistakenly declared a public
+ dependency on gthread-2.0.pc (when the dependency should have been
+ private). This means that programs got away with calling
+ g_thread_init() without explicitly listing gthread-2.0.pc among their
+ dependencies.
+
+ gthread has now been removed as a gobject dependency, which will cause
+ such programs to break.
+
+ The fix for this problem is either to declare an explicit dependency
+ on gthread-2.0.pc (if you care about compatibility with older GLib
+ versions) or to stop calling g_thread_init().
+
Notes about GLib 2.30
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