2006-01-05 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
+ * NEWS: Updates
+
* glib/gmain.c: Clarify the documentation of source ids
a bit. (#325874, Dan Williams)
* glib/gdatasetprivate.h: Add a cast to silence compiler
warnings. (#321978, Andrew Paprocki)
- Partial fix for bug #32937, Bogdan Nicula.
+ Partial fix for bug #323937, Bogdan Nicula.
* configure.in: Check for malloc.h
* glib/gslice.c: Don't include malloc.h unconditionally.
+Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
+=================================================
+
+* Memory management:
+ - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
+ - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
+ sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
+
+* Thread support:
+ - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
+ Sebastian Wilhelmi]
+ - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
+ tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
+ - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
+ to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
+
+* Type system:
+ - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
+ floating reference. [Tim]
+ - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
+
+* Main loop:
+ - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
+ thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
+
+* Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
+ wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
+
+* Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
+ Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
+
+* New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
+ tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
+ 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
+ [Tim-Philipp Müller]
+ 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
+ 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
+ 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
+ gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
+ 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
+ Stanislav Brabec]
+ 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
+ 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
+ stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
+ 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
+ 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
+ 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
+ 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
+ 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
+
+
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
=================================================
- The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
- Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
-* Bugs fixed: 321984,322133,322520,321972,323052,322568,136971,321318,321530,322956,145466,319535,321229,323178,323047,323291,323273
-
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
=================================================
* Unicode support: