1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
2 =================================================
5 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
6 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
7 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
10 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
12 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
13 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
14 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
15 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
18 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
19 floating reference. [Tim]
20 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
23 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
24 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
26 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
27 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
29 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
30 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
32 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
35 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
36 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
37 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
39 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
40 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
41 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
42 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
43 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
45 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
46 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
47 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
48 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
49 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
50 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
51 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
52 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
55 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
56 =================================================
59 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
60 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
61 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
62 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
65 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
68 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
69 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
70 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
71 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
72 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
73 variants [Martyn Russell]
76 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
77 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
80 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
83 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
84 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
85 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
86 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
87 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
88 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
89 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
90 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
92 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
94 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
95 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
96 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
97 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
100 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
101 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
102 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
104 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
105 =================================================
107 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
108 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
109 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
111 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
112 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
115 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
116 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
117 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
119 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
122 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
123 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
124 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
125 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
126 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
127 never worked as intended.
128 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
129 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
130 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
131 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
132 efficient and scalable implementation.
133 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
136 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
137 unnecessary recursion.
140 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
141 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
142 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
146 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
149 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
150 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
151 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
155 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
156 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
157 since they are in glib.h
160 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
161 =================================================
162 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
163 * Fix build problems on OS X
164 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
165 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
166 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
167 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
168 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
170 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
171 =================================================
172 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
173 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
174 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
175 in GValues should also be changed to access
176 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
178 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
179 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
181 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
182 =================================================
183 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
184 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
186 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
187 =================================================
188 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
190 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
191 work on s390 [Matthias]
192 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
194 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
196 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
197 =================================================
198 * Thread-related changes
199 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
200 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
201 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
202 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
203 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
204 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
205 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
206 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
207 "make check" to fail when using older versions
208 of gettext [Matthias]
209 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
210 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
212 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
214 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
215 =================================================
216 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
217 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
218 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
219 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
220 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
221 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
223 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
225 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
226 =================================================
228 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
229 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
230 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
231 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
233 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
234 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
236 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
237 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
238 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
239 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
240 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
242 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
243 =================================================
244 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
245 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
246 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
247 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
249 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
250 =================================================
252 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
253 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
254 * Misc new functions:
255 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
256 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
257 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
259 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
260 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
261 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
262 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
265 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
266 =================================================
268 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
269 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
270 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
271 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
273 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
274 - Accept -? [Matthias]
275 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
276 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
277 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
278 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
280 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
282 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
283 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
285 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
286 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
287 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
288 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
289 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
290 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
291 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
292 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
293 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
294 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
295 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
297 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
298 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
299 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
300 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
301 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
302 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
303 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
304 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
305 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
306 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
307 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
308 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
309 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
310 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
311 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
312 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
314 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
315 =================================================
317 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
318 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
319 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
320 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
321 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
323 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
324 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
325 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
326 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
327 when check for executables [Tor]
328 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
329 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
330 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
331 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
332 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
333 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
334 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
336 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
337 =================================================
340 - GOption, a commandline option parser
341 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
342 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
343 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
344 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
346 * Miscellaneous new functions
347 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
348 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
349 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
350 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
351 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
352 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
353 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
354 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
355 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
356 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
358 * Performance improvements
359 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
360 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
361 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
362 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
363 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
366 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
367 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
368 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
369 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
370 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
371 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
372 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
375 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
376 =================================================
377 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
378 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
379 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
380 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
381 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
382 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
383 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
385 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
386 =================================================
387 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
388 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
390 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
392 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
393 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
394 allocated memory [Matthias]
395 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
397 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
398 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
399 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
400 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
402 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
403 =================================================
405 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
406 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
408 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
410 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
411 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
412 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
413 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
414 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
416 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
417 =================================================
419 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
420 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
421 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
423 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
424 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
425 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
426 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
427 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
428 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
429 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
430 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
431 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
432 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
434 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
435 =================================================
436 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
437 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
438 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
439 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
440 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
443 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
444 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
445 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
446 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
447 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
448 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
450 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
451 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
452 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
453 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
454 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
455 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
456 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
457 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
460 =================================================
462 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
463 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
465 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
466 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
467 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
468 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
469 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
470 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
471 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
472 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
473 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
475 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
476 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
478 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
479 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
481 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
482 =================================================
483 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
484 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
485 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
486 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
487 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
488 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
489 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
490 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
491 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
492 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
494 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
495 =================================================
497 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
498 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
499 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
500 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
501 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
502 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
504 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
505 =================================================
507 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
508 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
510 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
511 [Federico Mena Quintero]
513 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
514 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
515 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
516 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
517 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
518 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
519 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
520 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
521 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
522 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
523 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
524 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
526 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
527 =================================================
529 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
530 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
531 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
532 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
534 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
535 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
536 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
538 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
539 =================================================
541 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
542 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
543 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
544 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
546 * Documentation updates [Owen]
547 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
549 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
550 =================================================
552 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
553 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
554 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
555 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
556 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
557 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
558 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
560 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
561 =================================================
563 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
564 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
565 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
566 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
567 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
568 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
569 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
570 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
571 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
572 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
573 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
575 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
576 =================================================
578 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
579 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
580 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
581 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
582 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
583 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
584 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
585 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
587 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
588 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
590 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
591 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
592 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
594 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
596 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
597 =================================================
599 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
600 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
601 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
602 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
604 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
605 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
606 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
607 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
608 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
609 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
610 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
611 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
612 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
613 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
614 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
615 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
616 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
618 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
620 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
621 =================================================
623 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
624 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
625 with context [Matthias Clasen]
626 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
627 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
628 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
629 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
630 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
631 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
632 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
633 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
634 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
635 * GObject [Tim Janik]
636 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
637 like 'swapped-signal'.
638 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
639 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
640 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
641 init() implementations
642 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
643 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
644 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
645 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
646 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
648 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
650 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
651 =================================================
653 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
654 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
655 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
656 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
657 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
658 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
659 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
660 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
662 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
663 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
664 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
665 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
666 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
667 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
668 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
669 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
670 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
671 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
672 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
673 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
675 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
676 =================================================
678 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
679 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
680 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
681 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
682 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
683 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
685 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
686 =================================================
688 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
689 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
690 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
691 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
692 if necessary [Manish Singh]
693 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
694 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
695 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
696 * Bug and portability fixes
697 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
699 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
701 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
702 =================================================
704 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
705 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
707 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
709 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
711 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
712 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
713 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
714 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
716 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
717 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
719 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
720 =================================================
722 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
723 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
724 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
725 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
726 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
727 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
728 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
729 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
730 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
731 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
732 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
733 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
734 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
735 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
736 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
738 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
739 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
740 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
741 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
742 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
743 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
744 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
746 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
747 =================================
749 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
750 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
751 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
752 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
753 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
754 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
755 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
756 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
757 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
758 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
759 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
761 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
762 =================================
764 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
765 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
766 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
767 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
768 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
769 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
770 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
771 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
772 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
773 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
774 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
776 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
777 =================================
779 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
780 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
781 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
782 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
783 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
784 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
785 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
786 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
787 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
788 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
789 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
791 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
792 =================================
794 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
795 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
796 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
797 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
799 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
800 =================================
802 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
803 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
804 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
805 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
806 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
807 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
808 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
809 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
810 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
811 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
812 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
813 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
814 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
817 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
818 =================================
820 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
821 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
822 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
823 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
824 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
825 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
826 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
827 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
828 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
829 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
830 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
831 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
832 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
833 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
834 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
835 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
838 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
839 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
842 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
843 =================================
845 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
846 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
847 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
848 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
849 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
851 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
852 ======================================
854 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
855 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
856 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
857 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
858 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
860 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
862 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
863 ===================================
865 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
866 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
867 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
868 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
869 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
870 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
871 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
873 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
876 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
877 ===================================
879 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
880 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
881 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
882 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
883 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
884 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
885 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
886 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
887 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
889 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
892 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
893 ===================================
895 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
896 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
897 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
898 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
899 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
900 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
901 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
903 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
904 ===================================
906 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
907 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
908 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
909 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
910 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
911 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
912 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
913 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
915 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
916 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
920 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
921 ===================================
923 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
924 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
925 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
926 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
927 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
928 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
929 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
930 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
931 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
933 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
934 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
936 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
937 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
940 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
941 ===================================
943 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
944 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
945 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
946 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
947 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
948 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
949 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
950 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
951 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
952 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
954 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
955 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
956 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
960 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
961 ==================================
963 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
964 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
965 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
966 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
967 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
969 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
972 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
973 ==================================
975 * Documentation updates [Owen]
976 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
977 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
978 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
981 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
984 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
985 ==================================
987 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
988 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
989 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
990 * Minor hash table optimizations
991 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
992 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
993 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
994 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
995 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
996 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
997 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
998 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
999 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1000 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1001 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1004 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1005 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1006 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1010 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1011 ==================================
1013 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1014 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1015 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1016 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1018 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1019 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1020 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1021 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1022 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1026 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1027 ==================================
1029 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1030 declarations from header files.
1031 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1032 * Bug and Portability fixes
1035 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1036 ==================================
1038 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1041 * Documentation improvements
1044 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1045 ==================================
1049 * More user_data support in various functions.
1050 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1051 * Unicode handling improvements.
1052 * Implemented debugging traps.
1053 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1054 * Various new small utility functions.
1055 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1056 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1057 * Many Win32 improvements.
1058 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1059 * Many documentation improvements.
1060 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1062 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1063 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1064 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1065 * Hashtable API additions.
1066 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1067 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1071 * Added many convenience functions.
1072 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1073 * Reworked property change notification.
1074 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1075 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1076 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1077 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1078 * Added support for abstract types.
1079 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1080 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1081 and parameter conversions.
1082 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1083 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1085 * Implemented GValueArray.
1086 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1087 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1088 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1089 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1090 * Implemented debugging traps.
1091 * Made things thread-safe.
1092 * Many documentation improvements.
1093 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1096 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1097 ==================================
1101 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1102 * Improvements to error reporting
1103 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1104 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1105 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1106 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1107 not to be freed. [Darin]
1108 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1109 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1110 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1111 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1112 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1113 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1114 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1115 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1116 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1117 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1118 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1119 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1120 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1121 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1122 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1123 * Many documentation improvements.
1128 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1129 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1130 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1131 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1132 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1136 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1137 =========================
1139 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1140 the GTK+ object system.
1141 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1142 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1143 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1145 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1146 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1147 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1148 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1149 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1150 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1151 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1152 * Double ended queue implementation.
1153 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1154 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1155 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1156 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1157 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1158 more tightly defined semantics.
1159 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.