X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=53ffb49005082a63ad4aca589221804c36ce8cdc;hb=405b4ff4f4efda5777a7d521255b9143cdae59d7;hp=ad9d10aa0febeb31c6afa7c72ad65ba998a84048;hpb=69801f8dc84c0c9403df6802eccc5d03328cd3ae;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fglib.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ad9d10a..53ffb49 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,1509 @@ +Overview of changes from GLib 2.29.4 to 2.29.6 +============================================== + +* Atomic operations have been rewritten from scratch to make use + of gcc builtins where possible. As a side-effect of this, calls + to g_atomic_ API with explicit casts may now be problematic; if + that happens to you, try first to remove the casts. Another + side-effect of the rewrite is that g_atomic_int_exchange_and_add + has been deprecated in favor of g_atomic_int_add. + +* A full set of atomic operations on pointers has been added, + including bit locks in pointer-size locations. + +* Access to quarks is now lockless + +* GObject data scalability has been greatly improved + +* g_data_time_format now supports alternative digits and padding + +* Introspection improvements: + - Add a boxed type for GVariantBuilder + - Annotation fixes in GDBus, GVariant, g_base64_ + +* Bugs fixed: + 502560 g_rand_double_range returns 'inf' + 612729 g_mkdir_with_parents can fail if the directory already exists + 617491 g_once() implementation is inefficient + 619418 Add a performance test for UTF-8 decoding functions + 619435 Make g_utf8_to_ucs4_fast() yet faster + 626549 G_STATIC_ASSERT_EXPR + 631231 bitlock: Fix detection and usage of futexes with Bionic + 632294 g_queue_remove() should return a boolean + 640518 GMainLoop has quadratic complexity when all pollfd's... + 642026 Race condition in g_static_private_free + 646635 Fix introspection of GLib + 648678 g_date_time_format(): support %O flags for localized numbers + 649480 Use MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC in recvmsg in gio/gsocket.c + 649506 GTestFunc et al lacking Since tag + 649657 Don't return gboolean for functions that throw + 649775 glib-gio-gdbuscodegen-Makefile.patch + 649915 gsettings accepts unquoted strings longer than two characters + 649973 gthread: build unix tests only on unix + 649988 gdbus-codegen: Drop dependency on argparse + 650078 forkbomb building glib/tests/protocol + 650211 Optimization in key file parsing + 650236 Application over DBus implements action state incorrectly + 650345 g_key_file_has_key_full: New function to fix g_key_file_has_key... + 650458 reduce overhead in g_object_set/get_data + 650459 hash table consistency while calling destroy notify funcs + 650688 enforce rules about hash table modification + 650823 expand the set of atomic ops + 650874 codegen chokes on docs + 650882 use stdout instead of stderr for informational messages + 650884 fix compilation with gcc2 + 650885 implement glib credentials on OpenBSD (hackish) + 650935 G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS and atomic ops + 651009 minor documentation fix + 651034 Regarding g_cond_wait after g_thread_pool_push in gthreadedresolver + 651133 race condition in GDBusConnection's emit_signal_instance_in_idle_cb + 651141 hashtable infinite loop + 651219 fix path to true(1) on OpenBSD + 651223 Fix some compile warnings on OpenBSD + 651327 Minor fixes for the gsocket API + 651467 Add pointer sized bitlocks + 651650 gdbus: Avoid busy wait loop + 651725 gmain: Cleanups and a new test case + 651745 Switch to _ prefixing rather than G_GNUC_INTERNAL + +* Updated translations: + Catalan (Valencian) + Esperanto + Hebrew + Hungarian + Russian + Spanish + + +Overview of changes from GLib 2.29.2 to 2.29.4 +============================================== + +* GDBus: + - Includes several new types to support modeling D-Bus + objects and interfaces more fully, and also introduces + an 'object manager' pattern: + GDBusInterface, GDBusObject, GDBusObjectManager + These interfaces have client-side implementations: + GDBusProxy, GDBusObjectProxy, GDBusObjectManagerClient + And server-side implementations: + GDBusInterfaceSkeleton, GDBusObjectSkeleton, GDBusObjectManagerServer + - The new gdbus-codegen utility uses these new classes + to generate C code and documentation from D-Bus interface + descriptions in XML + +* GTest: + - There is now a g_test_fail() function to mark + tests as failed + +* GDesktopAppInfo + - Now has a binding-friendly filename property + - Other new API to more fully expose desktop file contents: + g_desktop_app_info_get_categories(), + g_desktop_app_info_get_generic_name() + +* GHashTable: + - Several optimizations to reduce space consumption of + large hash tables, in particular tables that are used + to store sets. + +* Unix-specific APIs: + GLib now installs a separate header, glib-unix.h, that is + meant to collect Unix-specific APIs. For now, it contains + g_unix_open_pipe(), g_unix_set_fd_non_blocking() for dealing + with pipes and fds, as well as APIs to create mainloop + sources which can trigger callbacks on certain Unix + signals (SIGTERM, SIGHUP, SIGINT). + +* Bugs fixed: + 631379 GDBus nonce-tcp test failing + 632631 GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `g_utf8_validate (string, -1, NULL)' failed + 635694 gdbus aborting due to unauthorized socket in DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS + 637561 Crash when using G_DBUS_SERVER_FLAGS_RUN_IN_THREAD + 642935 g_date_time_format() prints wrong value for %z and timezone -0800 + 643134 g_dbus_message_copy + 644941 glib-unix: New Unix-specific API + 646013 g_hash_table_remove_all_nodes optimization + 646309 glib cannot be cross-compilled for mingw32 + 646435 GTimeZone doesn't seem to be thread-safe + 646957 GIO chained calls don't work with a thread default context + 647594 README link to mailing list is broken + 647602 Cannot connect to remote message bus via TCP + 647746 The GSocketService documentation is incomplete. + 647826 API: gtester: Add g_test_fail() + 647903 GDesktopAppInfo: Add g_desktop_app_info_get_categories() + 648416 g_app_info_create_from_commandline ignores SUPPORTS_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION + 648423 Support G_DEBUG=trap-warnings + 648425 GDesktopAppInfo: Add "filename" property for bindings + 648966 Update g_unichar_iswide and g_unichar_iswide_cjk + +* Updated translations + Norwegian bokmål + Spanish + Turkish + Uighur + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.28.0 to 2.29.2 +============================================== + +* GApplication + - The documentation has been enhanced and clarified + - An opt-out for uniqueness has been added: G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE + - GApplication now syncs settings before g_application_run() returns + +* GDBus + - Interface lookups are now happening in constant time + - Signature checking and handling of various unexpected + situations has been improved + +* GVariant + - The format accepted by the GVariant parser has beend documented + - GVariant accepts G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARDICT for a{sv} + +* GDateTime: + - The return value of g_datetime_compare() has been fixed to + match strcmp() semantics + - In order to handle problems with changing timezones, a GTimeZoneMonitor + has been added to GIO, and g_time_zone_refresh_local() can be + called to update the cached information about the local timezone + +* GOption now uses /proc/self/cmdline to set the program name instead + and only falls back to "" if that is unavailable + +* GSettings: + - The schema compiler now warns about references to non-existing schemas + +* Commandline utilities are now fully translated + +* Signals can now indicate that collecting their arguments must + always happen, even in the absence of connected signal handlers, + using the G_SIGNAL_MUST_COLLECT flag. + +* Bugs fixed: + 635099 Memory leak in gdbus introspection when parsing xml + 640489 $ and ^ do not match lines if G_REGEX_MULTILINE|G_R... + 642042 Overriding GDBus org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties im... + 642052 g_timeout_add(_seconds) cannot handle large intervals + 642490 notify_desktop_launch() "g_variant_new_bytestring:... + 613269 g_type_get_qdata() doesn't work as I expected on subtypes + 624943 G_VALUE_NOCOPY_CONTENTS is undocumented + 637738 object_interface_check_properties never actually executes + 638185 GIOCondition should be annotated as "flags" + 639478 GDBusServer's g_dbus_server_new_sync() function should just... + 641755 Add g_settings_get/set_uint() helpers + 641768 dconf gsettings backend silently drops writes if it can't... + 642797 g_app_info_get_default_for_type() broken for subtypes + 642825 Unnecessary assertion failure in g_option_context_parse() + 642944 NULL key lookup using g_hash_table_lookup_extended() + 643074 Incorrect documentation for g_socket_receive() and g_socket... + 643197 g_application_id_is_valid docs imply no valid ids + 643468 GApplication docs: Warn that handling "command-line" means... + 643478 GApplication::local_command_line vfunc documentation seems wrong + 643624 Can g_variant_unref() on an already free'd variant + 643649 g_application_run() should say that argc/argv can be NULL + 643780 shouldn't need to create an action group to use actions... + 643795 g_timeout_add_seconds fires with intervals 1 second longer... + 644309 Program name is not set when using GtkApplication + 644428 Crash in failure section of g_markup_collect_attributes() + 644465 undefined reference to `_usleep' + 644552 g_timeout_add_seconds(1, ...) may have a latency of up to 2... + 644607 Correct internal definition of C_() + 645789 annotations for g_file_*_contents + 646039 g_settings_list_children() returns child that cannot be opened + 646310 Accept range with only min or max + 646420 g_dbus_method_invocation_get_parameters() docs should say... + 646843 occasional abort on autologin + 646985 add G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE flag + 647579 gsettings: Implement reset-recursively + 647600 gsettings description has typo + +* Translation updates + Afrikaans + Bulgarian + Bengali India + British English + Bulgarian + Catalan + Czech + Danish + French + Galician + German + Greek + Gujarati + Hebrew + Hungarian + Italian + Japanese + Korean + Lithuanian + Polish + Portuguese + Romanian + Serbian + Simplified Chinese + Spanish + Swedish + Traditional Chinese + Uighur + Vietnamese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.93 to 2.28.0 +=============================================== + +* Bugs fixed: +641363 GInitable documentation isn't clear about that finalize... +641395 Add more data about the origin application to the "Lau... +641411 gdesktopappinfo signals lost if it's the session bus... +641477 glib-mkenums uses unportable #! line +641572 Add @EXEEXT@ to pkgconfig binary name +641688 glib installs GSettings.html and gsettings.html + +* Translation updates: + Galician + Italian + Korean + Punjabi + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.92 to 2.27.93 +================================================ + +* Bugs fixed: + 637013 gio/gdbusmessage.c fails to compile on Solaris + 640192 Error creating a Gio.Settings object through py... + 640261 Minimum version for external pcre needs to be.. + 640262 GActionGroup contains redundant TYPE macros + 640436 Make load_user_special_dirs() resistant to non... + 640695 g_key_file_load_from_file() mishandles a CR-LF... + 640724 can't compile gio due to format string issues + 640725 can't compile tests due to format string issue + 640807 improve GVariant behaviour with invalid pointers + 640823 wrong documentation for g_source_add_child_source + +* Translation updates: + Bulgarian + Galician + Hebrew + Norwegian bokmål + Spanish + Traditional Chinese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.91 to 2.27.92 +================================================ + +* Update to Unicode 6.0 + +* Update PCRE to 8.12 + +* Bugs fixed: + 637696 g_unix_connection_send_fd() doesn't work + 638872 null settings backend bug + 640042 GtkApplication's warning about not connecting... + +* Translation updates: + Arabic + Basque + Estonian + Greek + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.90 to 2.27.91 +================================================ + +* Bugs fixed: + 638838 gdesktopappinfo: Don't crash if we don't have a desktop filename + 638894 Splitting on \s* gives no result + 639064 Update gschema.dtd + 639084 Copy/paste error in GSettings::writable-changed signal + 639177 SIGSEGV for GApplications with G_APPLICATION_IS_SERVICE + +* Translation updates: + Estonian + Galician + Indonesian + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.5 to 2.27.90 +=============================================== + +* Test reports created by gtester-report can now + include revision information + +* The g_desktop_app_info_launch_* family of functions + now emit a DBus signal when an application is launched. + Additionally, there is a new variant + g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager(), which + gives more control over the launched process. + +* The memory and null GSettings backends are now available + as public API + +* g_get_locale_variants() is a new function that returns a + list of variants of a locale identifier + +* Bugs fixed: + 587898 I/O timeouts for GSocket + 606960 gio: Add extension point for informing parties... + 631980 Handle an optional node in the report... + 634569 Document that g_variant_builder_add_value consumes... + 635998 Make _g_compute_locale_variants public + 636806 Add g_{memory,null}_settings_backend_get_default + 637262 Need a binary DER version of ::accepted-cas + 637544 Skip fsync() on btrfs + 637720 void functions should not return a value. + 637738 object_interface_check_properties never actually... + 637759 GIOChannel: fix a crash in g_io_channel_read_chars() + 637852 Updates to glib.vsprops file for MSVC 2008 builds... + 637858 Updates to test/testglib.c... + 638349 parameter name of g_variant_new_* may conflict... + +* Translation updates: + Hebrew + Norwegian bokmål + Simplified Chinese + Spanish + Swedish + Uyghur + Vietnamese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.4 to 2.27.5 +============================================== + +* Network support: + - Add g_tls_certificate_verify() to verify a certificate + - Add GTlsConnection:use-system-certdb + - Other TLS api additions + +* GIO: + - Add g_io_stream_splice_async()/_finish() to splice two iostreams + - Add g_emblemed_icon_clear_emblems() and make GEmblemedIcon derivable + - Remove GPeriodic; it did not receive the necessary review and + integration work to declare it stable + +* GSequence: + - New methods g_sequence_lookup() and g_sequence_lookup_iter() + +* Bugs fixed: + 617254 Missing g_sequence_lookup + 632544 g_dbus_connection_send_message can not send a locked message... + 633350 g_hostname_to_ascii() ignores non-ascii dots + 634583 Better error reporting for g_variant_parse() + 635007 gsetting enum rule don't work for out-of-srcdir builds + 635626 GDBus message idle can execute while flushes are pending + 636100 Can't read GSettings:backend property + 636305 Typo on g_queue_remove_all() function description + 636311 appinfo: tweak application positioning for content-types + 636351 g_simple_async_result_is_valid lacks a version tag + 636387 gdb autoload files shadow the "dir" builtin + 636673 g_simple_async_report_error_in_idle should allow object... + 637147 Add a "delay-apply" property to GSettings + 637171 emblemedicon: add g_emblemed_icon_clear_emblems() + 637237 gapplication: plug a memory leak + +* Translation updates: + Estonian + Galician + Hebrew + Norwegian bokmål + Simplified Chinese + Spanish + Traditional Chinese + Vietnamese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.3 to 2.27.4 +============================================== + +* GIO + - Mounts are treated as hidden if they have a path element + that starts with a dot + - GAppInfo gained API to differentiate between recommended + and fallback mime handlers + - g_cancellable_create_source: creates a GSource that triggers + when the GCancellable is canceled + - GPollableInput/OutputStream: Interfaces for pollable streams + - TLS support has landed, with an extension point that is + implemented in glib-networking + +* GLib + - Mainloop sources can now have 'child sources' + - g_get_runtime_dir: New function to return the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR + +* Bugs fixed: + 530786 GFileMonitor "changed" signal underdocumented + 588189 TLS support for GSocket* + 630357 g_object_new_valist uses uninitialized memory + 630559 typo in public string in gsocks: 'The SOCKSv5 require... + 632445 Documentation refers to removed GNOME 2.0 porting guide + 634239 Child GSources + 634241 Add pollable input/output streams + 634504 allow passing a NULL emblem to g_emblemed_icon_new() + 634613 unsufficient g_get_user_runtime_dir() documentation + 635640 schema should inherit gettext-domain from schemalist + 635768 Protect g_file_monitor_set_rate_limit() against negative... + 635882 Fix the wrong-category schema test + 635187 Wrong type of GVariant received in an action... + +* Updated translations: + Galician + Italian + Norwegian bokmål + Uyghur + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.2 to 2.27.3 +============================================== + +* The GTimeSpec type that was introduced in the 2.27.2 has been + dropped again in favour of APIs that return microseconds as + 64-bit integer. + Affected functions: + g_source_get_time + g_periodic_unblock + g_get_monotonic_time + g_get_real_time + The similar GTimeVal struct is still around, but its use is + discouraged. + +* GTimer is now using monotonic time unconditionally + +* There are some new functions to facilitate error reporting + in async GIO APIs: + g_simple_async_result_take_error + g_simple_async_result_new_take_error + g_simple_async_report_take_gerror_in_idle + +* There is new convenience API to us GVariant dictionaries: + g_variant_lookup + +* It is now possible to delay sending match rules to the + D-Bus daemon in GDBus: + G_DBUS_SIGNAL_FLAGS_NO_MATCH_RULE + +* Support has been added for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: + g_get_user_runtime_dir + +* Various fixes for Win64/MSVC builds have been committed + +* Bugs fixed: + 620263 Add g_clear_object, g_clear_pointer, g_clear_boxed + 633075 update Project Files and sources for MSVC 2008/C89 + 633381 gsettings Makefile rules should handle empty list... + 633685 Use g_simple_async_result_{new_,}take_error + 633686 Add g_simple_async_report_take_gerror_in_idle + +* Translation updates: + Belarusian + Galician + Hebrew + Punjabi + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.1 to 2.27.2 +============================================== + +* GApplication + - Export actions over DBus and support activating them from remote instances + - Support environment passing + +* GSettings + - The gsettings utility has a list-recursively command + - The gsettings utility has commandline completion for enum values + +* GLib is now linked against librt and uses monotonic time for + timeouts and GPeriod sources. GSource has a new g_source_get_time() + which returns monotonic time, and g_source_get_current_time() has + been deprecated + +* Bugs fixed: + 158725 free linked list with data + 626320 GVariant: Avoid locking in g_variant_get_child_value() if possible + 629247 add gsimpleasyncresult methods to take over a GError + 629274 GNetworkService does not do fallback when there is no SRV record + 631264 gsettings-tool choice/range support + 631482 g_date_time_from_instant: 1000000000000000000 + 632169 docs for manual use of gsettings-data-convert + 632571 Add equivalent to gconftool-2's -R option + 633115 GSettings m4 doesn't fail the build for broken schemas + 633206 Default g_application_local_command_line() doesn't set exit_status... + 633339 support more complex gapplication setups + 633356 Make timeout G_MAXINT mean "no timeout" + +* Translation updates: + Catalan (Valencian) + Indonesian + Japanese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.0 to 2.27.1 +============================================== + +* GDateTime now has full week number support. + New API: g_date_time_get_week_numbering_year + +* The GSettings schema compiler will now skip over + broken .xml schema files instead of aborting altogether + +* GSettings now works properly on bigendian systems + +* GSettings has more complete support for ranges + New API: + g_settings_get_range + g_settings_range_check + The gsettings commandline tool supports ranges too. + +* GApplication has been rewritten; see the API docs for details + and examples. The action support is not complete yet. + +* The GLib mainloop has gained 'dispatch to context' functionality, + which can replace manually created idles in many cases. + New API: + g_main_context_invoke + g_main_context_invoke_full + +* The gio-desktop-app-info-lookup extension point has been + removed from GIO. GIO now uses x-scheme-handler mimetypes when + looking for default applications. + +* On win32, make g_get_user_data_dir() return the CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA + folder on Windows, and not CSIDL_PERSONAL. This matches what Qt does, + and has been widely requested. Also make g_get_user_config_dir() return + this and not the (roaming) CSIDL_APPDATA folder. + +* A periodic event clock has been added in GIO: GPeriodic. Note that this + API is still experimental and expected to undergo changes before it + will be incorporated into a stable GLib release. Use at your own risk. + +Bug fixes: + 613822 gobject signal connect/disconnect not thread safe + 618737 "dispatch to context" functionality + 620710 g_get_user_data_dir() uses CSIDL_PERSONAL and not CSIDL_APPDATA + 623400 acquire context before dispatching + 627126 gsettings schema files don't get installed on FreeBSD + 627171 g_socket_new_from_fd() doesn't set the right protocol + 628876 Wrong error description + 628937 gracefully handle broken schemas + 629274 GNetworkService doesn't fallback when there is no SRV record + 629289 g_error() used wrong, produces core dump + 629687 leaks class refcount in gsocketcontrolmessage + 629849 GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_get_context: assertion `!SOURCE_... + 629945 GDBus deadlock in g_bus_get_sync() + 630000 g_date_time_difference + 630077 GDateTime week number support + 630185 Allow NULL strings in g_quark_try_string() + 630797 docs mention non-existent g_object_dispose() + 630968 gschema-compile problems on power g5 + 631263 GSettings needs range/choice APIs + 631264 gsettings-tool choice/range support + 631379 GDBus nonce-tcp test failing + 631410 Port gapplookupgconf.c to using x-scheme-handler/ + 632884 Possible deadlock in g_object_remove_toggle_ref() + +Transation updates: + Basque + Brazilian Portuguese + British English + Bulgarian + Czech + Dutch + Estonian + French + Galician + German + Greek + Hebrew + Hungarian + Japanese + Lithuanian + Polish + Portuguese + Romanian + Simplified Chinese + Slovenian + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.15 to GLib 2.27.0 +==================================================== + +Build: + - massive restructuring to reduce #include abuse + - tweaks to silence some harmless compiler warnings + - rename gschema-compile.c to glib-compile-schemas.c + - Windows fixes + - fix building with zlib < 1.2.4 on win32 + +GDateTime: + - better msgctxt for translating month and weekday names + - API is changed quite a lot, implementation is improved + - GTimeZone is now exposed + +GObject: + - make ordering for overridden interface properties consistent + - ->priv structures are limited to 64k but this was not documented, + and exceeding this limit produced bad results. Add docs and enforce + the limit properly. + - add g_object_class_install_properties() to install multiple + properties in one go + - improve debugging output for GValue containing G_TYPE_STRV + +GIO: + - fix priority sorting of GIO extensions + - add GCredentials support on FreeBSD + - fix support for IPv6 addresses in URI parsing functions + - GSocketClient fixes for when g_socket_connect succeeds immediately + - clarify string encoding for GFile constructors in docs + - new functions g_data_input_stream_read_upto{,async,finish} + - tweak confusing documentation for g_output_stream_write() + +GDBus: + - GDBusMessage can now be locked and copied (like in libdbus) + - GDBusConnection filter function API has changed again + - GDBusServer: ::new-connection now declares if the connection was claimed + - add a partial workaround for GObject bug 627724. + - very many memory leaks fixed + +GVariant: + - check for size == 0 in g_variant_get_bytestring to avoid a crash + when attempting to get_bytestring() from an empty array + - improve gobject-introspection annotations + +GSettings: + - add GSettings Windows registry backend + - some internal tweaks to the backend API + - remove g_settings_list_items + - add g_settings_list_children and _list_keys to replace it + - add schema compiler restrictions for dealing with lists + - don't automatically emit value changed signals on writability + changes + +Other: + - constify the 'parser' vtable param to g_markup_parse_context_push() + - plug many memory leaks in test cases + +Bugs closed: + 50076 Time API to go with date API + 584284 g_data_input_stream_read_until_async different from sync version + 624546 Modification of GDBusMessage in filter function + 626919 Let g_object_class_install_property() return the installed GParamSpec* + 628029 GDateTime missing get_week_of_year method + 628253 Interface properties not listed in a consistent order + 628331 Plug lots of mem leaks in gio test suite + 628345 Plug a mem leak + 628436 Plug a mem leak + 628505 Fix building with zlib < 1.2.4 on win32 + 628839 [PATCH] datetime: Rename shadowing variables + 628904 [PATCH] Add credential support for FreeBSD and fix a socket issue + 628952 incorrect glib_major_version and other variables on cygwin. + 629192 g_strdup_value_contents(): dump GStrv more usefully + 629251 g_socket_client_async_connect_complete: assertion failed + 629259 Failed to connect to "::1" + 629328 g_markup_parse_context_push doesn't respect const structs + 629429 month "May" short and full form same with "GDateTime" msgctxt + 629689 GDBusConnection leaks its GCredentials + 629698 Segfault in g_variant_get_bytestring() + +Updated translations: + Arabic + Armenian + Basque + British English + Czech + Finnish + Galician + German + Hungarian + Indonesian + Japanese + Lithuanian + Norwegian bokmål + Polish + Portuguese + Punjabi + Simplified Chinese + Slovenian + Spanish + Swedish + Swedish + Traditional Chinese + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.14 to GLib 2.25.15 +===================================================== + + * GIO + - Memory leak fixes + - The GZip(De}Compressor can now process header information + - Support for network proxies has been added, with the GProxy + interface and the gio-proxy-resolver extension point. GIO + includes SOCKSv4 and SOCKSv5 implementations, and libproxy + is also going to provide an implementation of this extension + point. + - There are GAction and GActionGroup interfaces now, which will + be used in GApplication in the near future. + + * GObject + - There are now convenience macros for defining boxed and + pointer types + + * GDBus + - Memory leak fixes + - GDBusProxy for well-known names can now auto-restart + the service if the name owner disapperas + - Filter functions are now allowed to modify messages + + * GLib + - GDateTime is a replacement for GDate that supports time + and timezone information. + + * Bugs fixed: + 50076 Time API to go with date API + 449565 Add G_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE() + 617691 Add GZIP header processing to GZlibCompressor/GZlibDecompressor + 622184 add g_memory_output_stream_steal_data + 624546 Modification of GDBusMessage in filter function + 627088 Build failure in gdbus-peer.c on FreeBSD + 627181 save a memdup + 627182 Plug a mem leak in the gdbus-connection test + 627187 Plug some gdbus mem leaks + 627188 gdbus-non-socket test occasionally fails + 627252 G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG is only for callback options + 627392 gdbus commit 8a3a4596 breaks win32 compile + 627407 FTBFS on !linux UNIX platforms + 627604 String error: 'that' twice in a row + 627969 ABR in g_file_open_tmp + 628084 gdbus-peer fails with assertion + 628193 Miscellaneous string fixes + 628296 abort() in gsocketconnection.c + 628309 Plug a mem leak in GConverterOutputStream + 628317 GEmblemedIcon:equal implementation is buggy + 628323 Fix invalid reads + 628327 Plug a mem leak + 628328 Plug a mem leak + 628329 Don't leak the FD list + 628324 Invalid reads in gdbus-export test + + * Updated translations: + British English + Danish + Galician + Hebrew + Punjabi + Serbian + Spanish + Traditional Chinese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.13 to GLib 2.25.14 +===================================================== + +* GDBus + - Make the closure variants of GDBus apis work + - Make error unregistration work + - Use async IO in the IO thread (626748) + +* GIO + - Make g_simple_async_result_is_valid work without source (626208) + - GSocketClient: add a timeout property + - Fix memory leaks in GSocketClient + - Handle async vs. sync correctly in GSocketConnection stream (616458) + - Declare stream base classes as abstract + - Clarify semantics of g_output_stream_write() (627071) + +* Other + - Improve test coverage for GDBus, GRegex, GAsyncResult + - Drop dead code in pcre, xdgmime + - Fix a race condition in gtester (578295) + - Avoid an extra allocation in GAsyncQueue (626704) + - Add test case for non-socket GIOStream (626841) + - More explicit GVariant docs (622770) + - Imroved docs for GAsyncInitable and GSimpleAsyncResult (602417) + +* Translation updates: + - Galician + - Norwegian bokmål + - Punjabi + - Simplified Chinese + - Swedish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.12 to GLib 2.25.13 +===================================================== + ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| WARNING: There have been no breaks in API or ABI. Weird, eh? | ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +The primary purpose of this release is to fix a serious problem with +glib 2.25.12: glibconfig.h (as generated on a Fedora amd64 system) was +being distributed in the tarball. It was being used to build some parts +of glib on other systems (eg: 32bit ones). This was causing some very +serious problems. + +There have been many other improvements, however: + + Build and testing: + - vastly improved test coverage + - old tests moved to the gtester framework + - gtester Makefile modified so that the tests only run once + - cleanup of how we handle includes while building glib + + GVariant: + - add a g_return_if_fail (utf8) to g_variant_new_string() + + GDBus: + - perform extra sanity checks when serialising messages + - add API to query and set the byteorder of a GDBusMessage + - improve debug output, add some extra options + - if exiting due to the bus disconnecting us, print an error message + explaining why + - sort property names correctly + - don't bother sending RemoveMatch when we will close the connection + anyway + - use effective uid/gid for credential passing + + GSettings: + - add G_SETTINGS_BIND_INVERT_BOOLEAN for inverting boolean bindings + without mapping functions + - mark all strings in the schema compiler for translation + + Binding: + - improve closure support for bindings + - copy GSettings INVERT_BOOLEAN flag + + Other: + - fix another complicated GCancellable deadlock possibility + +Bugs closed: + 599590 glib build doesn't look for correct pkg-config + 619026 avoid warning in gutils.h when using gcc with -Wconversion + 624739 Please fix POTFILES.in + 625472 Valgrind claims uninitialized bytes used + 625500 g_date_set_time_val documentation doesn't mention local time + 625628 GDBusProxy: wrong property name sorting + 625753 Incorrect flags used in g_dbus_connection_call_sync() + 625827 Expand documentation about error quark naming + 625988 builddir != srcdir issues + 626107 glibconfig.h is being disted + +Updated translations: + French + Galician + Hebrew + Norwegian bokmål + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.11 to GLib 2.25.12 +===================================================== + ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| WARNING: There have been many API changes in GDBus -- sending | +| messages, subscribing to signals, closing connections and | +| registering subtrees are affected. The ABI for GSettingsBackend | +| has also been changed. For both reasons, a new dconf release is | +| required (and will be along soon). | ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +Build: + - cleanup automake setup + - rename configure.in to configure.ac + - various docs fixups + - move glibconfig.h to glib/ + - disable dtrace support on Mac OS (which has incompatible 'dtrace') + +GSettings: + - add support for vendor override files (to change the default values + in a schema) + - change GSettingsBackend vtable + - add g_settings_reset() + - support binding to G_TYPE_STRV properties + +GDBus: + - many bug fixes, including a serialisation fix + - stop handling incoming connections as soon as stop() is called + - proper support for file descriptor passing + - new flags parameter for sending messages + - new flags parameter for subscribing to signals + - always reset the message serial when sending a message unless + G_DBUS_SEND_MESSAGE_FLAGS_PRESERVE_SERIAL is given + - constness fixes for introspection structures + - clean ups to subtree registration API + +Other: + - fix divide by zero bug in g_malloc_n functions + - GIO: don't blindly assume that SOCK_CLOEXEC is supported + - make GObject property notify freezes threadsafe + - GIO: clean up credentials passing + - GApplication: make default-quit not apply if register=FALSE + - GIO: add annotations for gobject-introspection + +Bugs closed: + 166020 use GAtomic for refcounting + 617483 Credentials passing + 622005 [GApplication] no way to modify the "default-quit" property + 623293 vendor override files + 623810 Message serialization bug + 623815 Don't check sender for GDBusProxy objects where name is not set + 624473 GDBusSubtreeIntrospectFunc return type + 624483 GDBusSubtreeEnumerateFunc clarification + 624484 GDBusSubtreeDispatchFunc clarification + 624754 gdbusaddress.c missing sys/wait.h + 624968 div by zero in g_malloc_n family + 624991 GSettings mapping for G_TYPE_STRV + 625383 Add missing GI annotations + +Updated Translations: + Armenian + Galician + German + Hebrew + Kazakh + Romanian + Simplified Chinese + Spanish + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.10 to GLib 2.25.11 +===================================================== + ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| WARNING: There have been minor API changes in GDBus and GVariant. | +| These API changes will not affect many users, but they do require | +| a new version of GTK+ to be installed. | ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +Build: + - add a --disable-Bsymbolic configure flag to disable linking with + -Bsymbolic-functions + - this release sees the complete removal of the old 'g*alias' hacks + - honour the NOCONFIGURE environment variable from autogen.sh + - use proper feature test macros for isnan + - use pkg-config to check for zlib + - add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am + +GDBus: + - hide Class and instance structures for all GDBus types except + GDBusProxy. This breaks API by preventing subclassing, but probably + nobody was doing that. + - add new GDBusConnection call to support flushing all pending + outgoing messages + - change the register_object API to add a reference to the + GDBusInterfaceInfo object so the caller need not keep it alive + themselves + - don't rewrite the serial number when sending messages that already + have a serial number + - better error checking for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment + variable + - switch to g_parse_debug_string for G_DBUS_DEBUG and add a lot of new + flags + - add support for temporarily freezing a freshly created + GDBusConnection. Do this until after the ::new-connection signal + has finished running on GDBus services. + - never require non-closed connections (the user is incapable of doing + this due to the obvious race) + - remove weird/misleading redundant check on NameOwnerChanged signal + - emit GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed on NameOwnerChanged + +GVariant: + - the 'g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array' APIs have been removed + - g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring has been added, with different + arguments and different behaviour + - g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring_array has been added, doing + essentially the same thing as the 'strv' functions, but with byte + strings instead of utf8 strings + - G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING ('ay'), BYTESTRING_ARRAY ('aay') and + STRING_ARRAY ('as') constants have been added + - the undocumented behaviour that g_variant_get_strv() deserialised + arrays of object paths or signature strings has been dropped + - additional varargs support for converting bytestrings or bytestring + arrays with ^ay ^aay ^&ay and ^a&ay + - improved gobject-introspection annotation + - fix a problem with GBuffer calling g_slice_free for the wrong type + - fix leaks in the type inferencing code of the parser + +GSettings: + - improved documentation + - updated schema XML DTD, now xincluded into the docs + - added support for schemas that extend other schemas (using the + 'extends=' attribute). Values of keys in the base schema can be + overridden using . + - added theoretical support for lists (using the 'list-of=' attribute) + - lots of new tests + - add support for flags (implemented similarly to enums) + - add support for generating .enums.xml files to gsettings.m4: + gsettings_ENUM_NAMESPACE = org.example.myapp + gsettings_ENUM_FILES = ../path/to/*.h + will generate org.example.myapp.enums.xml with mappings for all + enums and flags in the specified .h files. + - warn with g_message() if the 'memory' backend is used by default + (ie: because no other GSettings backends are installed) + - fix get_property() for GSettings::schema + - command line tool: fix a bug that prevented non-basic values from + being set due to a premature free + - command line tool: bash completion support + - chain up in _finalize + - add a new g_settings_get_mapped API to read settings that require + post-processing + - retry with the translated or schema default value if the + GSettingsBindGetMapping function fails + - schema compiler: never fail due to empty schema directories (but + warn) + - peek rather than ref/unref the GEnumClass in the mapping function + - schema compiler: compile *.enums.xml before *.gschemas.xml to ensure + that we have all the enums that the schemas may reference + - schema compiler: improve accuracy of line numbers in error reports + - fix crashes in the keyfile backend caused by invalid group names in + the keyfile + +Other: + - always intern GBinding prop names + - base64: remove asserts preventing conversion of empty strings + - document NULL special-cases for GValueArray + - GNode docs improvements + - improve detection of 'system internal' mounts + - fix leaks in the inotify GFileMonitor implementation + - annotate all custom GIO GSources to improve debugging (e.g. using + SystemTap) + +Tests: + - Turn on glibc malloc checking features for make check + - improvements for GSettings tests, plus new tests + - improved tests for GKeyfile + - new tests for GDir, GSList, GSList, GAppLaunchContext, + CharsetConverter, GIcon, ... + - move some tests to GTester (tree tests, uri tests) + - generally, really an awful lot of new tests + - don't try to allocate 2gigs of memory anymore for the array test + + 552363 g_value_array_{insert,prepend,append}'s special cases for NULL + 561248 Improve return value description from g_node_prev/next_sibling() + 570036 Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am + 576833 g_sprintf add a reference to g_strdup_printf + 576854 g_strconcat() documentation should provide a hint about bad l10n + 582227 reference: add other URI functions to 'URI Functions' section + 599223 should provide g_spawn_* variants that take a GAppLaunchContext + 610784 array test failing + 613057 Leak in inotify GFileMonitor implementation + 620536 Annotate all custom GIO GSource using g_source_set_name + 620913 More control with G_DBUS_DEBUG + 622124 implement flags + 622127 GSettings extended key validation + 622128 retry with default value for failed mapping + 622294 More annotations for GVariant + 622565 glib-compile-schemas fails when no schemas + 622600 Fix missing prototype warning + 622813 gsettings mapping & enum buglet + 623142 Ensure ::new-connection runs before processing D-Bus messages + 623143 Never require non-closed connections + 623319 use g_parse_debug_string for dbus debug flags + 623401 process enums first + 623402 schema compiler reports wrong line numbers + 623407 g_keyfile_settings_backend_new crashes with the key "/" + 623473 zlib should be checked with pkg-config + 623537 GDBusProxy has weird checking on NameOwnerChanged + 623538 GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed emission for corner cases + 623692 directory with file at multiple MLS levels may display empty + 623720 gschema.dtd does not contain enum definitions + 623770 quoting of expand_macro in gdesktopappinfo.c + 623772 gdesktopappinfo.c, function child_setup + 623780 g_unix_is_mount_path_system_internal + 623954 g_settings_finalize + 623955 Dubious return values + +Updated translations: + Galician + Hebrew + Norwegian bokmål + Spanish + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.9 to GLib 2.25.10 +==================================================== + ++----------------------------------------------------------------+ +| WARNING: There have been API changes in GDBus. Users of these | +| APIs will need to be adapted. In particular, a new release of | +| dconf is required to go along with this one. There has also | +| been a change in the GSettings backend API used for keyfiles. | ++----------------------------------------------------------------+ + +* GDBus: + - add direction parameter to filter functions (API change) + - allow calling other interfaces with a GDBusProxy + - padding added to class struct fields (ABI change) + - fixes for closures-based functions + +* GVariant: + - new is_floating() call + - add g_value_take_variant() call (required for marshallers) + +* GSettings: + - support for binding GParamSpecEnum properties + - ifelse-style condition support for GLIB_GSETTINGS m4 macro + - remove gsettings-schema-convert tool (now in GConf) + - allow introspection of all installed schemas + - allow introspection of the keys in a schema + - rewrite keyfile backend (API change) + +* GNIO: + - don't implicitly close GSocket until it is destroyed + - windows fixups + +* Other: + - allow GChecksum to take (NULL, 0) for data/length + - GRelation and GCompletion are now deprecated + - introduce G_PARAM_DEPRECATED and G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC + - add working directory to GApplication platform data + - lots of documentation cleanups + - PCRE updated to 8.02 + +* Build: + - the IA__g_* style symbol aliasing has been disabled and replaced with + the -Bsymbolic-functions linker flag on platforms that support it. + Please be on the watch for portability issues and report them to us. + - many test cases have been moved to the GTester framework + - lcov support has been added for tests + - many windows fixes + +* Bugs fixed: + 501057 lcov coverage suite and GLib integration + 551271 deprecate GRelation + 601686 Implement diagnostic mode + 603309 GSocketOutputStream broken on Windows (?) + 616718 GLIB_GSETTINGS macro can't be used conditionally + 616855 GSocketConnection: don't close the socket if it's still reffed + 618866 g_ptr_array_remove_index_fast memory leak + 619878 keyfile backend calls keys_changed with invalid argument + 619879 keyfile backend doesn't make use of expected_type + 621092 Add with_closures() variants for bindings + 621172 Cross compiling fails + 621838 Actually add cwd to platform data + 621945 Filter outgoing messages in GDBusConnection + 621947 add g_value_take_variant + 622038 GSettings: "It is a programmer error" documentation is unclear + 622154 [patch] update documentation for g_application_new + 622281 binding: Add SYNC_CREATE to the flags + 622480 Improve documentation for g_strcmp0() + 622554 g_error called if schema not installed + 622601 Return interned strings from g_settings_list_keys + +* Translation updates: + - Galician + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.8 to GLib 2.25.9 +=================================================== + ++----------------------------------------------------------------+ +| WARNING: There have been API changes in GDBus, GSettings and | +| GApplication. Users of these APIs will need to be adapted. In | +| particular, a new release of GTK+ is required to go along with | +| this one. | ++----------------------------------------------------------------+ + +* GDBus + - Use Gio's default async implementation + - Fix proxy construction for objects with no properties + - Fix error handling in synchronous initialization + - Do not dispatch calls to unregistered objects + - Add _with_closures alternative functions + - Allow constructing GDBusProxy with well-known names + - Remove GType parameters from GDBusProxy constructors + - Nuke g_bus_watch_proxy API + - Add --xml to gdbus-tool to print raw introspected XML + +* GSettings + - schema file format change: store (default, options) in gvdb + - Add g_settings_sync() + - Add support for enums and ranges + - 'context' support has been replaced by direct use of + GSettingsBackend + +* GApplication + - Switch to using variants for timestamps + - Use GInitable + +* GObject + - Introduce g_object_notify_by_pspec + - Add GBinding + - The GVariant gtype G_TYPE_VARIANT was changed from boxed + to fundamental. We believe there were no existing users + of the boxed type, so this should not cause any applications + to break. + +* Test framework + - Add package and version to the test report XML + - Use optparse to parse gtester-report commandline + - Add subunit support to gtester-report + - Prevent division by zero if no tests + +* Bugs fixed: + 621782 Crash using gbinding + 619945 GConverterOutputStream triggers assertion and corrupts data + 621319 more leaked GVariants in GSettings + 621168 GKeyFile memory leak on Windows platform + 621002 Switch to using variants for timestamps, split out signals + 620953 tiny docs addition + 618904 Lies in gunixmounts documentation + 621702 Correctly initialize GError + 611778 minor cleanup of gtester-report + 621213 GDBusProxy and well-known names + 621034 Rewrite apps test to ensure children are killed + 620954 gapplication gvariant simplifications + 611869 add subunit out feature to gtester-report + 621119 GDBusProxy and objects with no properties + 620990 Use Gio's default async implementation again + 620952 g_application_register_with_data is an ugly API + 621252 GSettings leaks context + 618715 fork() in GSettings test cases is problematic 618715 + 621905 Assume a ref when doing async work + 621266 GSettings "context" clarification + +* Translation updates: + Chinese + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.7 to GLib 2.25.8 +=================================================== + +* Initial support for dtrace and systemtap profiling: + - mainloop sources can be named + - probes for memory allocation with g_malloc and gslice + - gquark name tracking + - type creation + - object life-cyle (creation, finalization, ref, unref) + - signal creation and emission + +* GVariant + - has been fixed to work with the FreeBSD malloc + - added introspection annotations + - new function: g_variant_builder_add_parsed + +* GSettings: + - g_settings_set/get_strv functions have lost their length parameter + - g_settings_set_strv accepts NULL + - added introspection annotiations + +* GPermission: an abstract interface for representing permissions, + with a minimal implementation named GSimplePermission + +* GApplication: a basic application support class, with a D-Bus based + implementation + +* Bugs fixed: + 619585 glib-compile-schemas asserts on FreeBSD + 620384 Annotate GVariant and GSettings _strv() functions + 606044 Add support for dtrace/systemtap static markers + 620350 add g_variant_builder_add_parsed() API + 620349 utf8ify GVariant printer + 620767 Typo in GSettings documentation: "INTLTOOL_NOMERGE_RULE" + 620312 Fix g_settings_[gs]et_strv() API + 620519 GPermission + 620582 GPermission needs a simple implementation + 620496 GSettings schema compiler should reject invalid paths + 620173 missing single header inclusion guards + 620265 g_assertion_message_error should take const GError * + +* Translation updates: + Esperanto + Galician + Hebrew + Indonesian + Norwegian bokmål + Slovenian + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.6 to GLib 2.25.7 +=================================================== + +* NOTE: API/ABI breaks since 2.25.6 release: + - g_dbus_connection_sync{,_sync} takes a new 'reply_type' argument + - GSettingsBackendClass 'list' virtual function changed + + GSettings backends and things using GDBus may need to be rebuilt. + +* GDBus: many build-related fixes + +* GDBus (service): return a DBus error when receiving a method call for + an unknown interface. + +* GSettings: fix 'make install' bug in gsettings.m4 for generated schema + files + +* GSettings: avoid non-portable use of LC_MESSAGES + +* better approach to handling man pages + + +* Bugs fixed: + 619527 please improve docs on g_file_make_symlink + 619391 send-with-reply should have expected result signature + 618616 Use stack-allocated GVariantBuilders + 617004 Build with "--disable-nls" fails under MinGW/Win32 + 619142 Build fixes (GDBus) + +* Updated translations: + Estonian + Galician + Norwegian bokmål + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.5 to GLib 2.25.6 +=================================================== + +* GDBus: introspection improvements +* GDBus: build fixes + +* GSettings: GSettingsBackend ABI changed **** NOTE **** +* GSettings: --uninstall option for schema compiler +* GSettings: new m4 macro with more power +* GSettings: thread support + +* rework of file notification on Solaris +* fixes for gold linker + +* Bugs fixed: + 619038 increase gsettings.m4 power + 619031 method-calls-in-thread test failing + 618839 Typo at translation message + 616864 GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE doesn't work with multiple files + 618730 gunixcredentialsmessage.c doesn't compile on GNU/kfreebsd + 616314 Make GSettings (partially) threadsafe + +* Updated Translations: + Indonesian + Galician + Spanish + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.4 to GLib 2.25.5 +=================================================== + +* GDBus: Fix serialization of empty arrays + +* GDBus: Plug various memory leaks + +* GSettings: Fix problems with GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE + +* Bugs fixed: + 616731 GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE doesn't work in non-srcdir builds + 616864 GSETTINGS_CHECK_RULE doesn't work with multiple files + 618615 mem leaks in parse_value_from_blob + 618622 Plug some mem leaks in gdbus + 618650 Plug a mem leak in gdbusauth + 618663 Plug mem leaks in gdbus tests & examples + +* Updated translations: + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.3 to GLib 2.25.4 +=================================================== + +* GDBus D-Bus support has been merged. This provides an API + to replace dbus-glib + +* GVariant no requires strings to be UTF-8. You can use byte + arrays for non-UTF-8 strings. + +* GSettings allows to bind string properties to byte arrays + +* The schema compiler supports range restrictions + +* Bugs fixed: + 618051 socket-server|client.c fail to compile under AIX... + 616102 GSettings ignores and + 616720 Chunked quark allocation + 616877 Several issues with g_socket_receive_message + 616892 gio: Add a boxed type for GFileAttributeMatcher + 616967 Add g_regex_get_compile_flags() and g_regex_get_match_flags() + 617767 g_settings_[gs]et_strv() 'length' argument has missing docs... + 617914 gtester-report: cope with binaries with no test cases + 617937 output_stream_close vs output_stream_close_async semantics + 615494 Connction timeouts produce partially invalid error messages + 617823 glib-compile-schemas problems with an out of source build + 617947 glib-mkenums: add @valuenum@ support + +* Translation updates: + Galicaian + Norwegian bokmål + Shavian + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.2 to GLib 2.25.3 +=================================================== + +* New macro: G_GNUC_DEPRECATED_FOR, a variant of G_GNUC_DEPRECATED + that lets you add replacement information (requires gcc 4.5) + +* Rename AM_GSETTINGS autoconf macro to GLIB_GSETTINGS + +* Rename gschema-compile utility to glib-compile-schemas + +* Add support for timeouts in GSocket + +* Bugs fixed: + 589989 Compilation error on Solaris 9 + 616648 Change AM_GSETTINGS macro to GLIB_GSETTINGS + 587898 I/O timeouts for GSocket + 614541 Add G_TYPE_ERROR boxed type for GError + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.0 to GLib 2.25.2 +=================================================== + +* Include a 'gsettings' utility, for commandline access to GSettings + +* Install a AM_GSETTINGS autoconf macro similar to AM_GCONF + +* GSettings can bind the writability of a key explicitly + +* There is now a predefined boxed type for GError + +* Bugs fixed: + 615379 g_new macros crash if sizeof(struct_type) == 0 + 616312 Add m4 rule equivalent to GCONF_SCHEMAS_INSTALL + 616295 mapping bug for uint64 + 616216 glib compile from remote directory fails + 615960 Fix size passed to connect() for abstract sockets + 616432 Crash in gschema-compile + 616331 gsettings-schema-convert uses imaginary types + 616309 gsettings-schema-convert should output gettext-domain + 616384 Add mention of GConfBridge in conversion docs + 616311 gschema-compile outputs in current directory + 616276 simplify gschema-compile test setup + 616156 keys with unnecessary empty options arrays + 616405 gsettings missing g_return_if_fail's + 616245 Use G_DEFINE_INTERFACE macro + 614541 Add G_TYPE_ERROR boxed type for GError + +* Updated translations: + Catalan (Valencian) + Galician + Kannada + Spanish + + +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.24.0 to GLib 2.25.0 +=================================================== + +* The GSettings framework has been merged. This provides the API to + replace GConf. DConf will provide a backend implementation for it. + GConf will also provide a backend implementation to ease the + transition. We provide utilities to assist with schema conversion + and data migration, as well as a porting guide. + +* Translation updates: + Bengali + Catalan + Danish + Gujarati + Marathi + Thai + Traditional Chinese + + Overview of Changes from GLib 2.23.6 to GLib 2.24.0 ===================================================