X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8b930b70bef82759e43bfdccb92b917eb7590f70;hb=2a53b4d0e2c98a14aedf31e38f0ad1fb2e8fe26f;hp=3c3ea68778c5a20552b9270635ff5def8a8b7833;hpb=e41dab438cb9b0b9dcc815158da12dd391aa35ed;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fglib.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3c3ea68..8b930b7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,476 @@ +Overview of changes in GLib 2.43.1 +================================== + +* GQueue now accepts NULL as a sibling in g_queue_insert_before() and + g_queue_insert_after() + +* Bugs fixed: + 11059 Linux poll issue + 726037 Add G_PARAM_READWRITE value to the GParamFlags enumeration + 727988 GMemoryOutputStream hangs when writing more than 1GiB + 729739 tlscertificate: add support for loading certificate chains + 733791 GSettings: delay backend subscription + 736286 Clarify g_file_replace behavior with etags + 736620 GQueue: accept NULL sibling for insert_before() and insert_after() + 737150 GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Failed to parse translated string 'visible-name... + 737160 unhelpful error message + 738259 GDBusInterfaceVTable: clarify memory handling for the method() virt... + 738551 'interface' variable conflicts with Windows defines + 738633 Need to disable SSLv3 in glib-networking + 740157 --help doesn't work even when options were added + 740309 Fix docs in g_strfreev + 740413 Fix the GSettings Registry Backend + +* Translation updates: + Norwegian bokmål + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.43.0 +================================== + +* GObject gained a debug option to provide instance counts. To use it, + set GOBJECT_DEBUG=instance-count and call g_type_get_instance_count(). + +* GOption now has a strict POSIX mode in which it stops parsing arguments + as soon as a non-option argument is encountered. + +* Bugs fixed: + 354457 Feature Proposal: Per-Type Statistics for Instantiable GTypes + 695082 g_hash_table_remove_all is not save against a call to g_hash_table_remove + 723160 GOption: add strict posix mode + 728256 gcredentials: add NetBSD support + 729739 tlscertificate: add support for loading certificate chains + 733338 Don't segfault in GNetworkMonitor when IPv6 support is unavailable + 736273 gdesktopappinfo: Use symbolic names in the code + 736284 Keep only one list of signal emissions + 736806 gtask: Fix reference count loop causing leaks + 736914 Docs: various fixes and improvements + 737143 Include in glib/valgrind.h + 737259 gcancellable: Clarify that GSources hold references to GCancellables + 737338 gmain: Unref child sources when finalising a GSource + 737446 tests: Fix some minor leaks in the unit tests + 737451 Provide api to read_all_async + 737741 g_datalist_id_get_data assertion fails for non-existant keys + 737869 GApplication command line handling breaks --help + 738170 g_byte_array_new_take() doesn't initialize array->alloc + 738197 g_cond_timed_wait() doesn't time out on Mac OS X + 738374 gfile: g_file_equal (x, x) is TRUE + 738675 GSubprocessLauncher is missing some data on the docs + +* Translation updates: + Bengali (India) + Bulgarian + Gujarati + Italian + Telugu + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.42.0 +=================================== + +All changes in this release are trivial in nature. + + - introspection warning fixes + + - g_application_add_main_option now uses an enum instead of an 'int' + for the type of a parameter + + - added a G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE so that people don't need to use 0 + + - gresource: Use GError in more places + + - gresource commandline tool: improve extraction from multiple sections + + - GSource now takes the context lock (if any) in g_source_set_name() + + - new documentation to clarify the use of some APIs related to + GVariant, GSource, GApplication + + - other minor updates to docs + +* Bugs fixed + 736683 Thread safety issues with g_main_context_find_source_by_id + 736975 [patch] please document that GVariant serialization needs an + out-of-band length field + +* Translation updates + Danish + Hindi + Marathi + Punjabi + Serbian + Simplified Chinese + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.5 +================================== + +* Bug fixes: + 735819 single native credential struct used for two purposes + 735915 glib-building.html uses --enable-gcov instead of --enable-coverage + 736350 GDesktopAppInfo: avoid polling on missing desktop dirs + 736351 Don't use issetugid() on Android + Fix the default application logic in GDesktopAppInfo + 736458 Only use rand_s() when targetting Visual Studio >= 2005 + +* Translation updates + Galician + Hungarian + Indonesian + Kannada + Latvian + Polish + Russian + Slovenian + Tamil + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.4 +================================== + +* GApplication now has binding-friendly API to handle + commandline options: g_application_add_main_option + +* G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS works with clang + +* Bugs fixed: + 583330 poll list of mounted file systems (no mtab support) + 727455 Command line option parsing from bindings + 734126 add G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS macro for clang + 735179 gsocketclient: Handle cancellation between CONNECTING... + 735297 Docs claim that GThread struct is deprecated + +* Translation updates: + Assamese + Catalan + Catalan (Valencian) + Czech + French + German + Greek + Hebrew + Korean + Oriya + Traditional Chinese + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.3 +================================== + +* g_clear_pointer and g_clear_object no longer use atomics + +* Bugs fixed: + 711547 win32: silence some build warnings + 725511 Compiled resource files should have the same /-separators everywhere + 725513 Some tests fail to build on W32 + 725514 W32: gfileutils does not preserve errno correctly + 725515 test-printf fails on W32 + 728730 gsocket: Set SO_NOSIGPIPE on sockets on Darwin + 729703 Leaks a GError in g_file_move + 730932 statically assert that reasonable assumptions about enums are true + 732085 gtype: Fast-path for g_type_is_a + 732754 GDBusMessage: optimise (de)serialisation of fixed arrays + 733345 ginetaddress: Add a precondition to g_inet_address_new_from_string() + 733576 Patches from static analysis run on 2.40 + 733715 glib's configure.ac makes accidentally use of nested function + 733934 win32: improve the package installation dir lookup + 733960 W32: spawning a console process creates a new window when stdout... + 733969 Remove atomic aspects of g_clear_pointer/object + 733982 Do not crash when checking whether an instance type is of a given... + 734035 gedit hangs up when there's no GSettings key in the registry + +* Translation updates: + Basque + Brazilian Portuguese + Lithuanian + Slovenian + Spanish + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.2 +================================== + +* The Unicode support has been updated to version 7.0 + of the Unicode standard + +* GNotification now supports priorities for notifications + +* GCredentials has gained NetBSD support + +* GMutex now uses a faster, native implementation on Linux + +* Bugs fixed: + 699132 Pluggable event loop backends + 720708 g_assert_warning(): number of arguments doesn't match for... + 722092 Add GtkApplication resources support + 724986 Change gio/data-to-c.pl to /usr/bin/env perl. + 727974 Fix up failure-to-see-expected-message logging + 728256 gcredentials: add NetBSD support + 728401 GDateTime: Add guards to g_date_time_new() + 729825 Formatting of g_alloca documentation + 729914 instead of DEBUG_CODE and IF_DEBUG, provide a common macro... + 730293 clang++-3.4: error: 'register' storage class specifier is ... + 731339 giochannel: avoid setting uninitialised length + 731424 #ifdef spaghetti for load_user_special_dirs() implementations + 731623 GNotification: add support for a priority setting + 731929 update tables to unicode 7.0.0 + 731950 gvalue: New g_value_from_instance + 731986 GLib: implement GMutex natively on Linux + 732184 GObject: warn on use of deprecated properties + 732357 Docs: various fixes and improvements + 732429 GActionEntry: improve documentation + 732465 Fix build on x64 Visual C++ builds + 732704 Docs: various fixes and improvements + 732739 ginetsocketaddress: Explicitly initialise flags for getaddr... + 732754 GDBusMessage: optimise (de)serialisation of fixed arrays + 732984 g_object_ref(NULL) in g_dbus_object_manager_client_finalize + 733084 Typos in g_bytes_hash() and g_time_zone_find_interval() docs + 733146 spawn helper does not use correctly the parameters + +* Translation updates: + Lithuanian + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.1 +================================== + +* Bug fixes: + 697229 Custom Interface implementations will be broken with glib 2.37/38 + 698614 GObject: prevent installing properties after init + 729269 gvariant: Fix confusion between type and format strings in the docs + 730198 broken valgrind.h leads to crashes in g_type_free_instance on mingw64 + 730807 GMutex performance regression + 730963 gconvert: mention that the g_convert len should be in bytes + 730984 Faster instance type check for fundamentals + 731050 tags appear in documentation + 731200 unconditional 'notify' during g_object_set() is problematic + 731335 gtype: guard uses of new fundamental type check + 731341 gparam: change value of G_PARAM_EXPLICIT_NOTIFY + 731366 run-assert-msg-test.sh gdb leaves assert-msg-test zombie + 731425 giomodule protects function-call with different token than function... + 731513 clang: build failure: implicit declaration of function '__atomic_load_4' + 731584 gbookmarkfile: Cleaner error handling code to pacify static analysis + 731657 Prevent an invalid @CARBON_LIBS@ from appearing in the .pc files + 731979 docs: Correct param to interface's default_init() + 731996 Return folder as icon for directories + 732002 gwakeup: Clarify buffer sizing in g_wakeup_signal() + 732005 Remove unused assignments + 732019 gtestdbus: Don’t close stdout for dbus-daemon + 732068 gsignal: Add an example to the g_signal_connect_swapped() documentation + 732081 gsocket: Document that g_socket_create_source() holds a socket ref + 732107 gsocketlistener: Reconsider closing sockets on listener finalisation + + +Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.0 +=================================== + +* Many bugfixes found by static analysis, including potential fd leaks + and NULL pointer dereferences. + +* Increased use of (nullable) attribute on out values and return types + now that it is supported (mostly from porting Vala metadata). + +* use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn handling of desktop + files, deprecating g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env() + +* add support for g_desktop_app_info_get_implementations() to find + desktop files that have an Implements= line for a given interface + +* GHmac has gained SHA-512 support + +* support the new mimeapps specification (most notably, moving the + assoications/defaults configuration to ~/.config/mimeapps.list). + +* libgobject is now linked -Wl,-z,nodelete when possible to avoid errors + when gobject is used from a module for a program that does not itself + use gobject and that module is unloaded/reloaded + +* ... and many other bug fixes. + + 623552 glib warns if backtrace.py is not present + 667468 glib-2.30.2: ipv6 tests fail when no ipv6 support is available + 668152 -framework Carbon linker flag not passed to pkg-config .pc files + 707298 libgobject should be linked with -Wl,-z,nodelete + 712391 Add g_desktop_app_info_get_implementors() + 722723 Infinite recursion when calling g_io_stream_close_async() from libsoup + 724741 hmac: Fix support for SHA-512 in GHmac + 726040 networkaddress: fix parsing of uri with @ after authority + 726318 gio: Document that GSocket is not thread safe + 726611 socketclient: Leak on cancellation + 726872 gio: Add names to idles and timeouts + 727119 wrong IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_LINKLOCAL usage break android build + 727123 GNotification: Some small documentation fixes + 727320 docs: Remove escaping '\' from literals + 727551 Check use_count of GApplication in g_application_release() + 727559 g_file_copy: Don't set GError when we intend to ignore errors + 727692 gio/gtlscertificate.c -- broken PEM-file processing (affects local CA root stores, for starters) + 727890 soup_content_sniffer_real_sniff segfault + 727900 gio: Add newer dbus UnknownXxxx and PropertyReadOnly errors + 727928 gapplication-tool fixes + 727939 INTLLIBS are always appended in configure checks + 727964 g_io_extension_point_get_extension_by_name: Warn, but don't crash, for NULL inputs + 728040 Implement new mimeapps spec + 728066 Deal with startup notify id being NULL + 728280 platform_get_argv0: fix sysctl(3) use on OpenBSD + 728285 docs: Use markdown links in .h files, too + 728350 gaction: Minor clarifications in the GAction documentation + 728380 docs: Remove comment before plural s + 728565 gfile: More explicitly document the context for GFileProgressCallback + 728983 Docs: various fixes and improvements + 729167 gobject: Document that classes/objects/interfaces are zero-filled + 729563 GOption: A short option's value is included in G_OPTION_REMAINING + 729813 AppInfo: use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for OnlyShowIn + 729875 gio: cleanup gdbusmessage.c file + 730045 Avoid overeager warning about deprecated properties + 730189 gtestutils: Fix a very unlikely FD leak in test fork handling + 730190 gsocket: Add missing preconditions to g_socket_send_message() + 730277 gthread: Fix use of a local variable after it went out of scope + 730278 gsubprocess: Add a missing va_end() call + 730295 gdbus-tool: Remove dead variables + 730493 Port annotations from Vala metadata + +Translations updated: + Basque + Brazilian Portuguese + Catalan + Czech + Danish + Greek + Hebrew + Hungarian + Punjabi + Serbian + Slovenian + Spanish + Ukrainian + +Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.91 to GLib 2.39.92 +===================================================== + +This is a release candidate for 2.40.0. + +There are no major changes in this release, but a few serious bugs have +been fixed. + +* Bugs fixed: + 710367 Crash in g_settings_backend_dispatch_signal() + 723899 G_DEFINE_TYPE() causes compiler warnings with clang due to foo_get_instance_private + 724859 Let the test_wait_until() test also run on non-*nix + 724916 gio unmount code makes XFCE's Thunar crash + 725651 GSubprocessLauncher: Does not copy the calling process environment. + 725656 Unskip GVariantDict + 725891 gio tests: add codegen to BUILT_SOURCES + 726046 Recent commit created symbolic icons issues + +* Translations: + Chinese + French + Korean + Latvian + Norwegian bokmål + Portuguese + Russian + Traditional Chinese + +Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.90 to GLib 2.39.91 +===================================================== + +This release introduces a hard dependency on present and functioning +clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. It also introduces a dependency on +pthread_condattr_setclock() unless your system happens to have +pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np() (as do Mac OS and Android). This +release is known to be broken with at least GNU/Hurd, pending addition +of working pthread_condattr_setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) there. + +New API: g_str_to_ascii() + +* Fixed bugs: + 670144 unconditional use of CLOCK_MONOTONIC is broken + 673607 invalid assumption in g_cond_wait_until() / g_get_monotonic_time() API + 710142 Add more impressive transliteration to GLib + 722360 make check fails + 722604 (partial) Various tests are failing with 2.39.3 + 723316 g_hash_table_iter_remove() should be explicit whether or not it is safe while iterating the table + 724609 Fix build of GIO on Windows + 724687 gmain: make monotonic time really monotonic, everywhere + 724706 gsource: document priority of child sources + 724707 some GSocket source improvements + 724839 GMainContext: some source ID cleanups + 724858 Dist gtranslit-data.h + 724994 Missing icons for bookmarks in file chooser + 725023 Can no longer find apps by executable/desktop file name + +* Translations: + Lithuanian + Polish + Thai + +Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.4 to GLib 2.39.90 +==================================================== + +* Fixed bugs: + 625408 make GVariant dictionaries more useful + 660809 document that if you fail a precondition check, documented guarantees do not apply + 661576 fix handling of constructors that destroy half-constructed objects + 679957 g_inet_address_new_from_string is not able to handle dots and numbers IPv4 addresses + 712837 gvariant: Document the need to cast varargs when constructing GVariants + 721458 g_simple_async_result_is_valid has a NULL check for the wrong source_tag + 721977 improve split handling of command line arguments + 722033 win32: fixup lib.exe invocation + 723422 Fix g_socket_get_available() with TCP on Windows + 723616 gio/tests: fix race when generating code + 724001 gsubprocess: Fix a broken link in the documentation + 724124 glib/tests/collate.c fails if no en_US locale + 724126 intermittent GApplication test failure: /gapplication/local-actions: lines of output permuted + 724233 gsocketservice: Note g_socket_listener_close() for closing open sockets + 724239 soup_session_queue_message - Connection terminated unexpectedly + 724278 gsocketconnection: Document closing connections with g_io_stream_close() + 724330 configure.ac: tweak inotify check + 724385 gtestutils: make the new assert messages more detailed + 724401 gsubprocess: Mutex leak + 724417 glib master build broken on OpenBSD + 724434 Build failure in gio/gresolver.c + +* Updated translations: + Brazilian Portuguese + Galician + Indonesian + Italian + Kannada + Norwegian bokmål + Spanish + Thai + +Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.3 to GLib 2.39.4 +=================================================== + +* Fixed Bugs: + 139699 Correction for g_main_context_unref() + 583036 g_strchomp and g_strchug are not declared const + 683388 improve documentation for application developers + 685204 ./configure fails to add the '-g' flag to CFLAGS + 688406 GStaticMutex broke ABI on at least ARM EABI during 2.31.x + 693299 cannot compile on Solaris: error in gbitlock.c + 707111 Clarify type transformability and compatibility + 711547 win32: silence some build warnings + 719344 Fix the various test programs (or GLib itself) on Windows + 722025 cleanup/clarify command line argument encoding on Windows + 722323 remove unused include 'gslist.h' in 'gbookmarkfile.c' + 722326 gstringchunk: Use g_slist_free_full() where possible + 722357 gio: fix small memory leak on local xattr + 722436 Adjust doc to Makefile.decl renaming + 722503 GSimpleAction: add default activate handler + 722526 glib/deprecated/gthread.h error on FreeBSD + 722591 [documentation] broken link to GtkAction from GAction.html + 722973 Broken example in GApplication reference + 723048 'network-access' test can fail to guess interface index + 723360 gmain: Note that g_source_destroy() can be called multiple times + +* Updated Translations: + Assamese + Tamil + Traditional Chinese + + Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.2 to GLib 2.39.3 ===================================================