X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=97329c1ba7955d329e984152b87d34d445168d23;hb=5c00c3497209ae2d5c59f32032ce02f2f0943d10;hp=e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391;hpb=2e0320d57e417f7d1c838d729a99545db2228e93;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fglib.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e69de29..97329c1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,273 @@ +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 + - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for + locking at runtime. + - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads, + Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR. + - All static variables should now properly locked. + - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe. + (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8) +* Portability fixes. + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7: + +* Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6: + +* New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*) +* 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 + insert elements at an arbitrary index +* GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations +* Incremental freezing in ghash +* New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after + they got marshalled +* Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface +* Added generic main-loop abstraction +* Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants +* Bug fixes + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5: + +* Win32 portability +* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism +* Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86 +* New functions: + - g_strescape: escapes backslashes + - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root + - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references + to other environment variables + - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current + buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer + - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order + - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted + - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order + - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted + - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index + - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast + - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp + - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists +* New macros: + - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name + syntax elements + - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant + search path syntax conventions + - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling + structure fields through their offsets +* Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros +* Bug fixes + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4: + +* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook) +* New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN) +* New string join/split/free routines +* Fixes + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3: + +* New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic + object code loading facilities in a portable manner. +* glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule" + (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also + be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro. +* Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be + sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now. +* New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels, + associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library). +* New inline functions for bit masks tests. +* GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node. +* New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some + platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of + a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf(). + People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the + associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf). +* New utility functions: + g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(), + g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(), + g_strnfill(), g_memdup(). +* Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible + changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c). +* The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the + new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the + keyed data of GtkObjects). +* New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged. +* Better configure checks for ansi compliance. +* Libtool update to version 1.2b. +* Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;) + +Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2: + +* Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1 +* fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest + +What is new in GLib 1.1.1: + +* An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure. +* Bugfix for pointer arrays. + +What is new in GLib 1.1.0: + +* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated + shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary + incompatibilities. +* There is a glib-config helper script installed now. +* Fixups all over the place. +* gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore. +* API extensions for GList and GSList. +* New g_str*() functions for simple string handling. +* GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling. +* Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks. +* Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data + mechansim, but works for generic memory locations). +* More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments. +* Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type + gconstpointer. +* Generic functions for TAB completions. +* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.