X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=97329c1ba7955d329e984152b87d34d445168d23;hb=5c00c3497209ae2d5c59f32032ce02f2f0943d10;hp=ddffaf87f2f62f2a3cda28f08c7c6bcf70173e3e;hpb=06600bd0e6b82639410394ed6b5ebb1189cfdeb3;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fglib.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ddffaf8..97329c1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,145 @@ +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2: + +GLib: + +* Win32 build improvements [Tor] +* Improvements to error reporting + (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin] +* Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler] +* New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor] +* Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested + not to be freed. [Darin] +* Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian] +* Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen] +* Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based + on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen] +* Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(), + g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen] +* Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian] +* Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*), + and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc] +* Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian] +* Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc] +* Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0 + and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian] +* Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor] +* autoconf improvements. [Raja] +* Many documentation improvements. +* Bug fixes. + +GObject: + +* Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan] +* Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim] +* Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim] +* Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim] +* Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen] +* Bug fixes. + +What's new in GLib 1.3.1: + +* New GObject library added including object system based on + the GTK+ object system. +* Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters, + computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining + characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based + on libunicode. +* GString now properly handles embedded nuls. +* Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch. +* Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3 +* Full thread support (thread creation and destruction). +* BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules. +* Many improvements to the Windows ports. +* Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support. +* Double ended queue implementation. +* GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu" +* New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings + et ceteri with the program name and the process id. +* New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister. +* g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and + more tightly defined semantics. +* the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead. + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.1: + +* g_realloc() fix for SunOS (please report further problems). +* Continued the never ending fix vendetta regarding getpwuid(), + this time AIX has been the culprit. +* Upgrade to libtool 1.2f +* Miscellaneous other buglets fixed. + +What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x): + +* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ +* Win32 Portability +* Threading support +* GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic + object code loading facilities in a portable manner +* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism +* GQuarks and datasets +* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data +* An n-way tree implementation +* GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations +* GAllocator type and associated functions +* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook) +* Generic functions for TAB completions +* Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN) +* g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels +* Generic main-loop mechanism +* New glib-config helper script +* Many more API extensions + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16: + +* Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes +* Bug Fixes + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15: + +* HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work +* Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and + check() so it is not held over user code +* A few Win32 fixups + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14: + +* Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl +* FreeBSD portability fixes +* Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13: + +* Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again. +* Improved thread related configure tests. +* GSource destruction fixups. +* Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer. +* Advanced Win32 portability. +* Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains, + loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well + as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held. +* GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4 + and GNU libtool 1.2d. +* Lots of random portability and bug fixes. + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12: + +* Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca, + g_new_a, g_new0_a +* New tests structure. Type 'make check' on your system to run them. +* Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11: + +* provide defaults for POLL sysdefs +* g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted +* a few other enhancement/fixes + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9: + +* Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this +* For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better +* Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll + Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8: * Added threading support @@ -17,7 +159,7 @@ Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7: Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6: * New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*) -* New GAllocator type and assocated functions +* New GAllocator type and associated functions * New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all its data pointers. * New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to