1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
2 ===================================================
4 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
5 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
7 * Base64 encoding support
11 * GOption supports floating point numbers
13 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
16 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
17 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
18 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
19 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
20 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
21 329789 option-test.c type confusion
22 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
23 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
24 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
25 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
26 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
28 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
30 334646 goption + error out params
31 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
32 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
33 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
34 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
35 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
36 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
37 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
38 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
39 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
40 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
41 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
42 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
44 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
45 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
48 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
49 ===================================================
52 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
53 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
54 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
56 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
59 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
60 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
62 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
65 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
66 ==================================================
69 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
71 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
72 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
73 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
74 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
75 number of bytes to check is specified
77 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
78 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
80 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
81 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
83 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
85 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
86 =================================================
89 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
90 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
91 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
93 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
94 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
96 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
98 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
99 =================================================
102 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
103 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
104 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
105 now be turned on at runtime by setting
106 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
109 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
110 extension [Albert Chin]
111 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
112 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
113 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
114 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
116 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
118 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
119 =================================================
122 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
123 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
127 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
128 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
129 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
131 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
135 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
136 =================================================
139 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
140 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
142 * Change g_filename_display_name and
143 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
144 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
145 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
147 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
148 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
151 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
153 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
154 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
156 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
159 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
161 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
164 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
165 =================================================
168 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
169 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
170 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
173 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
175 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
176 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
177 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
178 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
181 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
182 floating reference. [Tim]
183 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
186 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
187 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
189 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
190 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
192 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
193 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
195 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
198 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
199 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
200 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
201 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
202 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
203 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
204 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
205 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
206 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
208 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
209 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
210 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
211 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
212 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
213 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
214 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
215 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
218 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
219 =================================================
222 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
223 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
224 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
225 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
228 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
231 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
232 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
233 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
234 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
235 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
236 variants [Martyn Russell]
239 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
240 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
243 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
246 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
247 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
248 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
249 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
250 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
251 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
252 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
253 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
255 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
257 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
258 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
259 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
260 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
263 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
264 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
265 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
267 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
268 =================================================
270 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
271 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
272 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
274 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
275 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
278 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
279 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
280 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
282 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
285 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
286 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
287 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
288 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
289 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
290 never worked as intended.
291 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
292 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
293 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
294 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
295 efficient and scalable implementation.
296 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
299 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
300 unnecessary recursion.
303 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
304 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
305 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
309 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
312 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
313 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
314 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
318 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
319 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
320 since they are in glib.h
323 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
324 =================================================
325 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
326 * Fix build problems on OS X
327 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
328 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
329 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
330 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
331 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
333 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
334 =================================================
335 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
336 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
337 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
338 in GValues should also be changed to access
339 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
341 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
342 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
344 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
345 =================================================
346 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
347 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
349 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
350 =================================================
351 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
353 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
354 work on s390 [Matthias]
355 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
357 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
359 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
360 =================================================
361 * Thread-related changes
362 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
363 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
364 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
365 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
366 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
367 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
368 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
369 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
370 "make check" to fail when using older versions
371 of gettext [Matthias]
372 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
373 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
375 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
377 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
378 =================================================
379 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
380 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
381 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
382 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
383 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
384 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
386 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
388 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
389 =================================================
391 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
392 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
393 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
394 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
396 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
397 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
399 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
400 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
401 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
402 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
403 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
405 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
406 =================================================
407 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
408 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
409 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
410 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
412 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
413 =================================================
415 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
416 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
417 * Misc new functions:
418 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
419 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
420 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
422 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
423 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
424 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
425 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
428 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
429 =================================================
431 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
432 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
433 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
434 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
436 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
437 - Accept -? [Matthias]
438 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
439 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
440 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
441 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
443 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
445 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
446 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
448 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
449 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
450 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
451 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
452 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
453 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
454 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
455 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
456 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
457 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
458 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
460 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
461 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
462 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
463 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
464 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
465 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
466 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
467 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
468 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
469 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
470 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
471 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
472 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
473 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
474 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
475 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
477 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
478 =================================================
480 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
481 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
482 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
483 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
484 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
486 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
487 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
488 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
489 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
490 when check for executables [Tor]
491 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
492 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
493 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
494 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
495 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
496 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
497 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
499 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
500 =================================================
503 - GOption, a commandline option parser
504 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
505 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
506 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
507 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
509 * Miscellaneous new functions
510 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
511 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
512 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
513 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
514 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
515 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
516 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
517 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
518 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
519 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
521 * Performance improvements
522 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
523 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
524 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
525 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
526 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
529 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
530 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
531 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
532 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
533 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
534 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
535 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
538 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
539 =================================================
540 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
541 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
542 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
543 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
544 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
545 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
546 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
548 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
549 =================================================
550 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
551 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
553 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
555 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
556 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
557 allocated memory [Matthias]
558 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
560 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
561 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
562 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
563 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
565 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
566 =================================================
568 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
569 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
571 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
573 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
574 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
575 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
576 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
577 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
579 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
580 =================================================
582 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
583 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
584 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
586 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
587 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
588 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
589 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
590 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
591 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
592 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
593 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
594 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
595 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
597 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
598 =================================================
599 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
600 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
601 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
602 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
603 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
606 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
607 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
608 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
609 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
610 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
611 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
613 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
614 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
615 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
616 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
617 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
618 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
619 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
620 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
622 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
623 =================================================
625 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
626 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
628 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
629 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
630 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
631 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
632 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
633 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
634 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
635 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
636 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
638 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
639 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
641 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
642 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
644 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
645 =================================================
646 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
647 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
648 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
649 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
650 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
651 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
652 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
653 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
654 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
655 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
657 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
658 =================================================
660 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
661 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
662 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
663 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
664 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
665 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
667 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
668 =================================================
670 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
671 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
673 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
674 [Federico Mena Quintero]
676 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
677 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
678 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
679 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
680 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
681 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
682 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
683 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
684 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
685 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
686 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
687 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
689 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
690 =================================================
692 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
693 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
694 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
695 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
697 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
698 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
699 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
701 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
702 =================================================
704 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
705 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
706 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
707 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
709 * Documentation updates [Owen]
710 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
712 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
713 =================================================
715 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
716 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
717 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
718 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
719 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
720 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
721 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
723 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
724 =================================================
726 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
727 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
728 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
729 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
730 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
731 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
732 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
733 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
734 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
735 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
736 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
738 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
739 =================================================
741 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
742 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
743 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
744 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
745 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
746 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
747 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
748 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
750 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
751 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
753 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
754 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
755 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
757 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
759 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
760 =================================================
762 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
763 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
764 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
765 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
767 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
768 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
769 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
770 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
771 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
772 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
773 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
774 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
775 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
776 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
777 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
778 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
779 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
781 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
783 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
784 =================================================
786 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
787 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
788 with context [Matthias Clasen]
789 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
790 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
791 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
792 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
793 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
794 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
795 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
796 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
797 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
798 * GObject [Tim Janik]
799 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
800 like 'swapped-signal'.
801 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
802 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
803 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
804 init() implementations
805 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
806 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
807 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
808 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
809 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
811 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
813 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
814 =================================================
816 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
817 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
818 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
819 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
820 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
821 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
822 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
823 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
825 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
826 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
827 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
828 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
829 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
830 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
831 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
832 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
833 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
834 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
835 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
836 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
838 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
839 =================================================
841 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
842 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
843 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
844 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
845 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
846 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
848 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
849 =================================================
851 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
852 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
853 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
854 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
855 if necessary [Manish Singh]
856 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
857 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
858 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
859 * Bug and portability fixes
860 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
862 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
864 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
865 =================================================
867 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
868 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
870 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
872 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
874 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
875 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
876 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
877 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
879 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
880 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
882 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
883 =================================================
885 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
886 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
887 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
888 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
889 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
890 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
891 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
892 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
893 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
894 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
895 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
896 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
897 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
898 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
899 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
901 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
902 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
903 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
904 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
905 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
906 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
907 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
909 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
910 =================================
912 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
913 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
914 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
915 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
916 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
917 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
918 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
919 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
920 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
921 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
922 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
924 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
925 =================================
927 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
928 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
929 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
930 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
931 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
932 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
933 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
934 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
935 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
936 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
937 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
939 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
940 =================================
942 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
943 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
944 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
945 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
946 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
947 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
948 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
949 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
950 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
951 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
952 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
954 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
955 =================================
957 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
958 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
959 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
960 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
962 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
963 =================================
965 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
966 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
967 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
968 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
969 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
970 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
971 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
972 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
973 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
974 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
975 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
976 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
977 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
980 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
981 =================================
983 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
984 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
985 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
986 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
987 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
988 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
989 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
990 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
991 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
992 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
993 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
994 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
995 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
996 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
997 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
998 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1001 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1002 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1005 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1006 =================================
1008 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1009 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1010 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1011 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1012 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1014 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1015 ======================================
1017 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1018 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1019 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1020 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1021 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1023 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1025 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1026 ===================================
1028 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1029 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1030 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1031 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1032 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1033 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1034 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1036 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1039 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1040 ===================================
1042 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1043 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1044 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1045 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1046 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1047 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1048 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1049 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1050 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1052 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1055 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1056 ===================================
1058 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1059 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1060 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1061 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1062 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1063 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1064 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1066 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1067 ===================================
1069 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1070 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1071 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1072 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1073 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1074 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1075 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1076 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1078 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1079 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1083 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1084 ===================================
1086 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1087 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1088 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1089 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1090 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1091 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1092 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1093 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1094 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1096 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1097 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1099 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1100 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1103 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1104 ===================================
1106 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1107 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1108 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1109 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1110 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1111 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1112 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1113 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1114 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1115 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1117 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1118 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1119 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1123 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1124 ==================================
1126 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1127 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1128 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1129 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1130 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1132 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1135 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1136 ==================================
1138 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1139 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1140 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1141 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1144 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1147 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1148 ==================================
1150 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1151 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1152 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1153 * Minor hash table optimizations
1154 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1155 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1156 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1157 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1158 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1159 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1160 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1161 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1162 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1163 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1164 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1167 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1168 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1169 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1173 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1174 ==================================
1176 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1177 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1178 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1179 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1181 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1182 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1183 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1184 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1185 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1189 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1190 ==================================
1192 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1193 declarations from header files.
1194 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1195 * Bug and Portability fixes
1198 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1199 ==================================
1201 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1204 * Documentation improvements
1207 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1208 ==================================
1212 * More user_data support in various functions.
1213 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1214 * Unicode handling improvements.
1215 * Implemented debugging traps.
1216 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1217 * Various new small utility functions.
1218 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1219 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1220 * Many Win32 improvements.
1221 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1222 * Many documentation improvements.
1223 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1225 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1226 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1227 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1228 * Hashtable API additions.
1229 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1230 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1234 * Added many convenience functions.
1235 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1236 * Reworked property change notification.
1237 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1238 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1239 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1240 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1241 * Added support for abstract types.
1242 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1243 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1244 and parameter conversions.
1245 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1246 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1248 * Implemented GValueArray.
1249 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1250 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1251 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1252 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1253 * Implemented debugging traps.
1254 * Made things thread-safe.
1255 * Many documentation improvements.
1256 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1259 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1260 ==================================
1264 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1265 * Improvements to error reporting
1266 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1267 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1268 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1269 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1270 not to be freed. [Darin]
1271 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1272 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1273 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1274 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1275 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1276 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1277 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1278 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1279 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1280 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1281 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1282 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1283 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1284 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1285 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1286 * Many documentation improvements.
1291 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1292 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1293 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1294 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1295 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1299 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1300 =========================
1302 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1303 the GTK+ object system.
1304 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1305 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1306 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1308 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1309 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1310 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1311 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1312 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1313 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1314 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1315 * Double ended queue implementation.
1316 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1317 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1318 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1319 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1320 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1321 more tightly defined semantics.
1322 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.