1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
2 ===================================================
5 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
6 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
7 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
8 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
9 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
11 * Updated translations:
13 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
15 British English (en_GB)
21 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
23 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
27 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
28 ===================================================
30 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
33 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
34 should be mounted automatically
35 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
36 the default handler for a file
37 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
38 launch the default handler for a URI
39 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
41 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
42 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
43 - There is the beginning of a test suite
44 - standard::description: new file attribute
45 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
48 - class initialization is now threadsafe
50 * Updated translations:
62 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
67 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
68 ===================================================
70 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
73 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
74 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
75 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
76 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
77 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
80 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
81 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
82 385132 solaris gettext support fix
83 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
84 510292 GOption main help not shown
85 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
86 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
87 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
88 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
90 * Updated translations:
103 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
104 ===================================================
107 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
108 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
109 that are longer than 64 bytes
112 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
113 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
114 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
117 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
118 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
119 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
120 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
121 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
122 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
123 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
124 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
126 * Updated translations:
133 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
134 ===================================================
137 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
138 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
139 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
140 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
143 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
144 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
145 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
146 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
147 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
148 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
149 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
151 * Updated translations:
160 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
161 ===================================================
164 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
165 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
166 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
167 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
170 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
171 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
172 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
173 files and directories now
176 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
177 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
178 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
179 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
180 315437 extern inline -> static inline
181 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
182 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
183 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
184 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
185 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
186 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
187 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
188 505058 xattr namespace docs
189 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
190 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
191 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
192 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
193 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
194 503051 Small bug in glib interface
195 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
196 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
197 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
198 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
199 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
200 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
202 * Updated translations:
204 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
213 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
214 ===================================================
218 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
219 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
220 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
223 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
226 * GTest: a test framework
231 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
234 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
235 get the stack of open elements
236 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
238 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
242 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
243 success, instead of void
244 - Various performance improvements
247 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
248 a free function for leftover elements
251 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
252 to ease error propagation
254 * Internationalization:
255 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
256 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
258 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
261 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
262 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
263 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
264 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
265 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
266 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
267 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
268 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
269 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
270 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
271 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
272 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
273 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
274 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
275 490637 gobject documentation patch
276 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
277 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
278 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
279 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
280 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
281 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
282 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
283 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
284 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
285 503222 Need context to translate
286 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
287 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
288 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
289 71704 file include order
290 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
291 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
292 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
293 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
294 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
295 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
296 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
297 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
298 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
299 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
300 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
301 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
302 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
303 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
304 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
305 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
306 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
307 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
308 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
310 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
311 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
312 443648 MD5 digest support
313 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
314 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
315 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
316 500507 GHashTableIter API
318 * Translation updates
319 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
327 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
328 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
333 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
334 ===================================================
339 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
340 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
341 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
343 * Updated translations:
345 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
351 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
352 ===================================================
355 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
356 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
357 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
358 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
359 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
360 478349 Broken link to gettext website
361 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
363 * Updated translations:
370 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
371 ===================================================
374 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
375 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
376 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
377 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
378 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
379 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
380 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
381 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
382 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
383 468694 Typoes in documentation
384 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
385 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
386 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
387 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
389 * Updated translations:
394 Canadian English (en_CA)
395 British English (en_GB)
411 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
415 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
423 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
424 ===================================================
426 * Last-minute API additions:
427 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
428 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
433 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
434 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
435 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
437 * Updated translations:
444 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
448 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
449 ===================================================
451 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
452 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
453 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
456 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
457 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
460 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
461 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
462 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
463 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
464 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
465 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
466 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
467 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
468 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
470 * Updated translations
479 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
480 ===================================================
482 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
483 caused trouble for C++ bindings
486 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
487 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
489 * Updated translations
490 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
494 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
495 ===================================================
497 * xdg-user-dirs support:
498 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
499 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
502 - new api to duplicate slices
504 * Regular expression support:
505 - GRegex is a boxed type now
508 44793 make check failing in trunk
509 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
510 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
511 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
512 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
513 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
515 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
516 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
517 57693 g_string_vprintf()
518 442029 add g_slice_dup()
519 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
520 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
522 * Updated translations:
530 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
531 ===================================================
534 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
535 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
536 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
539 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
540 ===================================================
543 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
546 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
548 * Regular expression support:
549 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
550 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
551 replacement have been added
552 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
554 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
558 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
559 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
560 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
561 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
562 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
563 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
565 * Updated translations:
567 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
570 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
571 ===================================================
574 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
577 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
579 * Updated translations:
580 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
581 British English (en_GB)
583 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
589 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
590 ===================================================
594 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
595 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
596 to obtain information about the compiled regex
599 - Fix roundtrip problems
600 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
603 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
606 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
609 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
610 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
613 * Updated transations:
614 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
618 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
619 =================================================
621 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
622 a balanced binary tree.
624 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
627 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
628 for GTimer when available.
630 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
631 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
633 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
636 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
639 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
640 about zero-width characters.
642 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
645 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
646 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
647 be positioned before the function declaration.
649 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
650 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
652 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
655 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
656 to define types in modules.
658 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
660 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
661 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
662 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
666 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
667 ===================================================
670 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
671 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
672 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
673 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
674 unconvertable characters in place instead of
675 replacing them by NUL
678 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
679 string with NUL bytes
680 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
681 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
683 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
684 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
685 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
686 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
688 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
689 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
692 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
693 ===================================================
695 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
698 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
699 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
700 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
701 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
702 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
703 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
705 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
706 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
709 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
710 =================================================
713 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
715 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
718 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
719 ===================================================
722 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
724 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
728 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
730 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
733 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
734 ===================================================
737 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
741 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
743 * Updated translations (fi)
745 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
746 ===================================================
748 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
750 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
752 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
754 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
755 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
758 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
759 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
760 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
761 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
762 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
764 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
765 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
767 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
768 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
769 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
771 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
774 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
775 ===================================================
778 - Support 64-bit integers
779 - Allow optional text before and after the options
783 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
784 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
785 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
786 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
787 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
788 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
789 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
790 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
791 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
792 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
794 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
795 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
797 * Updated translation (es)
799 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
800 ===================================================
802 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
803 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
805 * Base64 encoding support
807 * Unicode 5.0 support
809 * GOption supports floating point numbers
811 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
814 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
815 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
816 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
817 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
818 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
819 329789 option-test.c type confusion
820 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
821 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
822 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
823 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
824 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
826 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
828 334646 goption + error out params
829 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
830 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
831 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
832 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
833 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
834 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
835 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
836 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
837 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
838 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
839 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
840 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
842 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
843 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
846 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
847 ===================================================
850 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
851 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
852 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
854 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
857 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
858 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
860 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
863 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
864 ==================================================
867 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
869 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
870 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
871 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
872 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
873 number of bytes to check is specified
875 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
876 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
878 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
879 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
881 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
883 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
884 =================================================
887 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
888 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
889 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
891 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
892 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
894 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
896 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
897 =================================================
900 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
901 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
902 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
903 now be turned on at runtime by setting
904 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
907 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
908 extension [Albert Chin]
909 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
910 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
911 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
912 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
914 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
916 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
917 =================================================
920 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
921 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
925 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
926 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
927 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
929 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
933 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
934 =================================================
937 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
938 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
940 * Change g_filename_display_name and
941 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
942 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
943 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
945 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
946 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
949 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
951 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
952 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
954 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
957 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
959 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
962 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
963 =================================================
966 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
967 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
968 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
971 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
973 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
974 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
975 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
976 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
979 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
980 floating reference. [Tim]
981 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
984 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
985 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
987 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
988 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
990 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
991 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
993 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
996 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
997 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
998 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
999 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1000 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1001 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1002 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1003 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1004 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1006 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1007 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1008 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1009 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1010 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1011 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1012 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1013 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1016 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1017 =================================================
1020 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1021 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1022 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1023 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1026 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1029 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1030 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1031 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1032 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1033 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1034 variants [Martyn Russell]
1037 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1038 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1041 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1044 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1045 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1046 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1047 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1048 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1049 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1050 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1051 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1053 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1055 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1056 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1057 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1058 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1061 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1062 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1063 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1065 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1066 =================================================
1068 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1069 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1070 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1072 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1073 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1076 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1077 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1078 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1080 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1082 * Memory management:
1083 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1084 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1085 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1086 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1087 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1088 never worked as intended.
1089 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1090 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1091 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1092 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1093 efficient and scalable implementation.
1094 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1097 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1098 unnecessary recursion.
1101 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1102 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1103 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1107 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1110 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1111 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1112 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1116 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1117 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1118 since they are in glib.h
1121 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1122 =================================================
1123 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1124 * Fix build problems on OS X
1125 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1126 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1127 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1128 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1129 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1131 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1132 =================================================
1133 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1134 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1135 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1136 in GValues should also be changed to access
1137 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1139 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1140 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1142 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1143 =================================================
1144 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1145 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1147 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1148 =================================================
1149 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1151 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1152 work on s390 [Matthias]
1153 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1155 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1157 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1158 =================================================
1159 * Thread-related changes
1160 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1161 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1162 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1163 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1164 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1165 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1166 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1167 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1168 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1169 of gettext [Matthias]
1170 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1171 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1173 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1175 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1176 =================================================
1177 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1178 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1179 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1180 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1181 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1182 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1184 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1186 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1187 =================================================
1189 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1190 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1191 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1192 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1194 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1195 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1197 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1198 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1199 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1200 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1201 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1203 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1204 =================================================
1205 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1206 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1207 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1208 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1210 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1211 =================================================
1213 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1214 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1215 * Misc new functions:
1216 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1217 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1218 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1220 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1221 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1222 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1223 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1226 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1227 =================================================
1229 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1230 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1231 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1232 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1234 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1235 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1236 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1237 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1238 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1239 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1241 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1243 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1244 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1246 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1247 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1248 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1249 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1250 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1251 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1252 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1253 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1254 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1255 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1256 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1258 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1259 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1260 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1261 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1262 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1263 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1264 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1265 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1266 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1267 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1268 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1269 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1270 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1271 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1272 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1273 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1275 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1276 =================================================
1278 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1279 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1280 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1281 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1282 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1284 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1285 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1286 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1287 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1288 when check for executables [Tor]
1289 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1290 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1291 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1292 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1293 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1294 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1295 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1297 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1298 =================================================
1301 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1302 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1303 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1304 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1305 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1307 * Miscellaneous new functions
1308 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1309 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1310 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1311 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1312 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1313 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1314 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1315 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1316 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1317 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1319 * Performance improvements
1320 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1321 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1322 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1323 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1324 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1327 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1328 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1329 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1330 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1331 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1332 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1333 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1336 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1337 =================================================
1338 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1339 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1340 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1341 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1342 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1343 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1344 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1346 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1347 =================================================
1348 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1349 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1351 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1353 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1354 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1355 allocated memory [Matthias]
1356 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1358 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1359 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1360 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1361 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1363 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1364 =================================================
1366 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1367 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1369 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1371 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1372 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1373 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1374 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1375 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1377 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1378 =================================================
1380 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1381 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1382 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1384 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1385 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1386 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1387 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1388 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1389 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1390 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1391 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1392 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1393 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1395 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1396 =================================================
1397 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1398 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1399 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1400 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1401 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1404 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1405 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1406 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1407 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1408 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1409 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1411 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1412 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1413 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1414 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1415 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1416 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1417 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1418 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1420 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1421 =================================================
1423 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1424 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1426 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1427 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1428 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1429 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1430 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1431 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1432 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1433 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1434 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1436 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1437 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1439 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1440 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1442 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1443 =================================================
1444 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1445 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1446 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1447 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1448 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1449 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1450 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1451 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1452 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1453 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1455 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1456 =================================================
1458 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1459 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1460 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1461 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1462 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1463 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1465 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1466 =================================================
1468 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1469 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1471 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1472 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1474 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1475 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1476 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1477 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1478 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1479 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1480 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1481 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1482 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1483 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1484 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1485 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1487 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1488 =================================================
1490 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1491 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1492 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1493 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1495 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1496 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1497 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1499 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1500 =================================================
1502 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1503 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1504 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1505 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1507 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1508 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1510 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1511 =================================================
1513 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1514 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1515 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1516 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1517 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1518 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1519 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1521 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1522 =================================================
1524 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1525 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1526 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1527 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1528 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1529 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1530 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1531 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1532 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1533 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1534 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1536 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1537 =================================================
1539 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1540 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1541 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1542 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1543 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1544 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1545 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1546 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1548 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1549 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1551 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1552 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1553 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1555 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1557 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1558 =================================================
1560 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1561 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1562 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1563 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1565 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1566 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1567 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1568 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1569 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1570 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1571 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1572 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1573 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1574 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1575 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1576 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1577 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1579 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1581 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1582 =================================================
1584 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1585 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1586 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1587 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1588 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1589 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1590 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1591 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1592 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1593 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1594 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1595 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1596 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1597 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1598 like 'swapped-signal'.
1599 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1600 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1601 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1602 init() implementations
1603 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1604 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1605 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1606 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1607 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1609 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1611 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1612 =================================================
1614 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1615 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1616 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1617 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1618 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1619 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1620 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1621 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1622 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1623 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1624 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1625 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1626 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1627 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1628 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1629 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1630 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1631 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1632 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1633 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1634 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1636 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1637 =================================================
1639 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1640 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1641 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1642 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1643 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1644 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1646 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1647 =================================================
1649 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1650 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1651 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1652 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1653 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1654 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1655 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1656 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1657 * Bug and portability fixes
1658 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1660 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1662 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1663 =================================================
1665 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1666 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1667 Johannes Stezenbach]
1668 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1669 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1670 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1672 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1673 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1674 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1675 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1677 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1678 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1680 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1681 =================================================
1683 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1684 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1685 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1686 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1687 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1688 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1689 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1690 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1691 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1692 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1693 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1694 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1695 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1696 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1697 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1699 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1700 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1701 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1702 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1703 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1704 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1705 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1707 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1708 =================================
1710 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1711 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1712 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1713 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1714 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1715 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1716 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1717 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1718 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1719 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1720 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1722 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1723 =================================
1725 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1726 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1727 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1728 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1729 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1730 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1731 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1732 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1733 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1734 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1735 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1737 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1738 =================================
1740 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1741 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1742 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1743 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1744 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1745 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1746 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1747 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1748 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1749 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1750 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1752 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1753 =================================
1755 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1756 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1757 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1758 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1760 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1761 =================================
1763 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1764 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1765 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1766 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1767 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1768 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1769 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1770 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1771 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1772 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1773 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1774 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1775 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1778 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1779 =================================
1781 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1782 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1783 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1784 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1785 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1786 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1787 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1788 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1789 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1790 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1791 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1792 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1793 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1794 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1795 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1796 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1799 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1800 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1803 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1804 =================================
1806 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1807 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1808 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1809 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1810 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1812 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1813 ======================================
1815 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1816 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1817 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1818 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1819 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1821 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1823 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1824 ===================================
1826 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1827 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1828 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1829 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1830 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1831 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1832 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1834 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1837 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1838 ===================================
1840 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1841 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1842 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1843 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1844 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1845 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1846 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1847 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1848 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1850 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1853 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1854 ===================================
1856 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1857 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1858 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1859 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1860 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1861 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1862 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1864 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1865 ===================================
1867 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1868 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1869 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1870 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1871 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1872 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1873 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1874 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1876 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1877 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1881 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1882 ===================================
1884 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1885 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1886 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1887 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1888 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1889 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1890 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1891 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1892 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1894 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1895 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1897 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1898 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1901 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1902 ===================================
1904 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1905 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1906 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1907 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1908 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1909 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1910 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1911 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1912 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1913 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1915 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1916 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1917 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1921 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1922 ==================================
1924 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1925 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1926 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1927 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1928 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1930 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1933 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1934 ==================================
1936 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1937 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1938 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1939 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1942 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1945 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1946 ==================================
1948 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1949 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1950 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1951 * Minor hash table optimizations
1952 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1953 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1954 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1955 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1956 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1957 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1958 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1959 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1960 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1961 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1962 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1965 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1966 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1967 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1971 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1972 ==================================
1974 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1975 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1976 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1977 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1979 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1980 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1981 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1982 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1983 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1987 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1988 ==================================
1990 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1991 declarations from header files.
1992 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1993 * Bug and Portability fixes
1996 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1997 ==================================
1999 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2002 * Documentation improvements
2005 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2006 ==================================
2010 * More user_data support in various functions.
2011 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2012 * Unicode handling improvements.
2013 * Implemented debugging traps.
2014 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2015 * Various new small utility functions.
2016 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2017 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2018 * Many Win32 improvements.
2019 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2020 * Many documentation improvements.
2021 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2023 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2024 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2025 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2026 * Hashtable API additions.
2027 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2028 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2032 * Added many convenience functions.
2033 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2034 * Reworked property change notification.
2035 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2036 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2037 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2038 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2039 * Added support for abstract types.
2040 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2041 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2042 and parameter conversions.
2043 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2044 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2046 * Implemented GValueArray.
2047 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2048 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2049 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2050 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2051 * Implemented debugging traps.
2052 * Made things thread-safe.
2053 * Many documentation improvements.
2054 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2057 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2058 ==================================
2062 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2063 * Improvements to error reporting
2064 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2065 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2066 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2067 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2068 not to be freed. [Darin]
2069 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2070 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2071 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2072 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2073 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2074 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2075 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2076 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2077 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2078 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2079 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2080 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2081 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2082 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2083 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2084 * Many documentation improvements.
2089 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2090 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2091 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2092 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2093 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2097 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2098 =========================
2100 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2101 the GTK+ object system.
2102 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2103 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2104 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2106 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2107 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2108 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2109 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2110 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2111 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2112 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2113 * Double ended queue implementation.
2114 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2115 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2116 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2117 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2118 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2119 more tightly defined semantics.
2120 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.