1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
2 ===================================================
4 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
6 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
7 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy
9 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
12 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
15 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
16 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
17 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
18 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
19 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
20 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
21 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
22 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
23 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
24 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
25 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
26 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
27 the interface g_type_register_fundamental
28 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
29 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
30 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
31 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
32 537392 Additional colon in xattr name
33 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
34 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
35 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
37 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
39 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
40 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
41 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
42 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
43 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
44 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
45 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
47 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
48 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
49 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
50 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
51 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
53 * Translation updates:
61 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0
62 ===================================================
64 * Update to Unicode 5.1
66 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
68 * Update included PCRE to 7.7
70 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included.
71 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn
72 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
74 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
76 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
78 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find
79 additional GIO modules
81 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size
84 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
86 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the
87 rate at which events are reported
89 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of
92 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the
93 size of the written data.
96 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
97 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
98 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
99 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
101 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
102 315437 extern inline -> static inline
103 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
104 alphanumerics into half width
105 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
106 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
107 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
108 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
109 526619 make test-report crash
110 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
111 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
112 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
113 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
114 528667 Typos in testing module documentation
115 459905 Bug in wcwidth data
116 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
117 501651 Update glib/libcharset
118 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
119 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
120 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
121 517419 gio win32 directory monitor
122 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
123 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
124 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
125 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
126 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
127 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
128 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
129 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
130 describe purpose of nick and blurb
131 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
132 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
133 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
134 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
136 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
137 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
138 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
139 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
140 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
141 524350 Make glib build without NLS again
142 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
143 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
144 524950 Minor documentation typos.
145 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
146 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
147 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
148 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
149 534759 Build failure in gio
150 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
151 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
152 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
153 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
154 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
155 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
156 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
158 * Updated translations:
164 Candian English (en_CA)
165 British English (en_GB)
174 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
186 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1
187 ===================================================
189 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new
191 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
194 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0
195 ===================================================
197 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0
200 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount
201 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor
203 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake
206 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute()
207 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
208 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new().
209 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly
210 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs
211 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio
212 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor
213 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists
214 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32
215 518720 No MIME type for empty files
216 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x"
217 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding()
218 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be...
220 * Updated translations:
222 Bengali India (bn_IN)
234 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
241 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6
242 ===================================================
245 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview
246 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix
247 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants
248 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function
249 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now
250 - Only show mounts in /media and ~
251 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix
254 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function
255 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
256 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or
257 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run
258 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32
261 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme
263 * Updated translations:
265 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
267 British English (en_GB)
273 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
275 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
279 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5
280 ===================================================
282 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6
285 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume
286 should be mounted automatically
287 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get
288 the default handler for a file
289 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to
290 launch the default handler for a URI
291 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list
293 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation
294 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation)
295 - There is the beginning of a test suite
296 - standard::description: new file attribute
297 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls
300 - class initialization is now threadsafe
302 * Updated translations:
314 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
319 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4
320 ===================================================
322 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated
325 - g_file_copy has an async variant now
326 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers
327 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs.
328 - There is now a registration API to let modules register
329 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations
332 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function
333 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1)
334 385132 solaris gettext support fix
335 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w...
336 510292 GOption main help not shown
337 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async
338 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs
339 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks
340 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group'
342 * Updated translations:
355 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3
356 ===================================================
359 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings
360 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers
361 that are longer than 64 bytes
364 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers
365 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now
366 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed
369 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size
370 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile
371 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
372 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio
373 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback?
374 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear
375 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5
376 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length.
378 * Updated translations:
385 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2
386 ===================================================
389 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via
390 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value
391 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file
392 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function
395 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free
396 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it.
397 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear.
398 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden
399 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute...
400 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root
401 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear.
403 * Updated translations:
412 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1
413 ===================================================
416 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again
417 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3
418 - C99 comments have been removed from headers
419 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used
422 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all()
423 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit
424 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor
425 files and directories now
428 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_...
429 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user
430 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys
431 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end
432 315437 extern inline -> static inline
433 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ...
434 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension
435 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC
436 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility
437 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output
438 504879 giofam incorrectly linked
439 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes
440 505058 xattr namespace docs
441 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA
442 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared
443 505887 older darwin lacks lchown
444 506374 gmemoryinputstream api
445 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun...
446 503051 Small bug in glib interface
447 506395 Updates to GIO documentation
448 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib
449 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs
450 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem
451 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation
452 507835 bug in gunixinputstream
454 * Updated translations:
456 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
465 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0
466 ===================================================
470 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation
471 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs
472 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp,
475 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1
478 * GTest: a test framework
483 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach
486 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to
487 get the stack of open elements
488 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error
490 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling
494 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate
495 success, instead of void
496 - Various performance improvements
499 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify
500 a free function for leftover elements
503 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions
504 to ease error propagation
506 * Internationalization:
507 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro
508 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows
510 * GLib builds with automake 1.10
513 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match...
514 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc...
515 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio...
516 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali...
517 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ...
518 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed
519 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ...
520 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement
521 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string...
522 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined
523 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value
524 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo...
525 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda...
526 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long
527 490637 gobject documentation patch
528 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0
529 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup
530 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment
531 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4
532 500638 gkeyfile speedup ...
533 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"...
534 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
535 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning
536 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates
537 503222 Need context to translate
538 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table
539 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir
540 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra...
541 71704 file include order
542 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
543 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool"
544 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list...
545 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co...
546 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th...
547 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc...
548 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat...
549 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u...
550 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_...
551 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_...
552 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings
553 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string
554 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency
555 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2"
556 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification
557 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni...
558 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free()
559 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs
560 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string()
562 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function
563 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API
564 443648 MD5 digest support
565 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9
566 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca...
567 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows
568 500507 GHashTableIter API
570 * Translation updates
571 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
579 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
580 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
585 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3
586 ===================================================
591 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse
592 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization
593 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong
595 * Updated translations:
597 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
603 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2
604 ===================================================
607 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai...
608 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused
609 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob...
610 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM...
611 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code
612 478349 Broken link to gettext website
613 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC
615 * Updated translations:
622 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1
623 ===================================================
626 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f...
627 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out
628 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML
629 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_...
630 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file.
631 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G...
632 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate
633 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre
634 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c
635 468694 Typoes in documentation
636 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me...
637 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation
638 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib
639 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread
641 * Updated translations:
646 Canadian English (en_CA)
647 British English (en_GB)
663 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
667 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn)
675 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
676 ===================================================
678 * Last-minute API additions:
679 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public
680 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
685 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
686 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
687 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
689 * Updated translations:
696 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
700 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
701 ===================================================
703 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
704 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
705 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
708 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
709 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
712 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
713 445813 g_module_open error, add file name
714 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
715 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
716 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
717 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
718 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
719 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
720 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
722 * Updated translations
731 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
732 ===================================================
734 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
735 caused trouble for C++ bindings
738 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
739 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
741 * Updated translations
742 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
746 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
747 ===================================================
749 * xdg-user-dirs support:
750 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
751 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
754 - new api to duplicate slices
756 * Regular expression support:
757 - GRegex is a boxed type now
760 44793 make check failing in trunk
761 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
762 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
763 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
764 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
765 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
767 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
768 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
769 57693 g_string_vprintf()
770 442029 add g_slice_dup()
771 445065 Add GRegex boxed type
772 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
774 * Updated translations:
782 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
783 ===================================================
786 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
787 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
788 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
791 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
792 ===================================================
795 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
798 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
800 * Regular expression support:
801 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
802 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental
803 replacement have been added
804 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
806 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
810 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
811 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
812 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
813 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
814 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
815 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
817 * Updated translations:
819 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
822 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
823 ===================================================
826 - Add g_unichar_ismark()
829 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
831 * Updated translations:
832 Belarusian Latin (be@latin)
833 British English (en_GB)
835 Norwegian bokmål (nb)
841 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
842 ===================================================
846 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
847 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
848 to obtain information about the compiled regex
851 - Fix roundtrip problems
852 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
855 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
858 - Add a function to get the formatted help string
861 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
862 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
865 * Updated transations:
866 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
870 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
871 =================================================
873 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
874 a balanced binary tree.
876 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
879 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
880 for GTimer when available.
882 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
883 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
885 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
888 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
891 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
892 about zero-width characters.
894 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
897 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
898 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
899 be positioned before the function declaration.
901 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
902 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
904 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
907 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
908 to define types in modules.
910 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
912 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de,
913 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml,
914 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN,
918 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
919 ===================================================
922 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
923 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
924 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
925 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
926 unconvertable characters in place instead of
927 replacing them by NUL
930 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
931 string with NUL bytes
932 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
933 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
935 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
936 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
937 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
938 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
940 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
941 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
944 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
945 ===================================================
947 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
950 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
951 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
952 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
953 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
954 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
955 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
957 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
958 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
961 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
962 =================================================
965 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
967 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
970 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
971 ===================================================
974 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
976 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
980 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
982 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
985 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
986 ===================================================
989 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
993 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
995 * Updated translations (fi)
997 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
998 ===================================================
1000 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
1002 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
1004 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
1006 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
1007 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
1010 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
1011 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
1012 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
1013 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
1014 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
1016 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
1017 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
1019 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
1020 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
1021 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
1023 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
1026 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
1027 ===================================================
1030 - Support 64-bit integers
1031 - Allow optional text before and after the options
1035 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
1036 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
1037 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
1038 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
1039 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
1040 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
1041 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
1042 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
1043 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
1044 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
1046 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
1047 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
1049 * Updated translation (es)
1051 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
1052 ===================================================
1054 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
1055 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
1057 * Base64 encoding support
1059 * Unicode 5.0 support
1061 * GOption supports floating point numbers
1063 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
1066 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
1067 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
1068 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
1069 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
1070 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
1071 329789 option-test.c type confusion
1072 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
1073 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
1074 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
1075 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
1076 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
1078 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
1080 334646 goption + error out params
1081 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
1082 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
1083 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
1084 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
1085 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
1086 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
1087 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
1088 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
1089 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
1090 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
1091 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
1092 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
1094 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
1095 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
1098 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
1099 ===================================================
1102 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
1103 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
1104 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
1106 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
1109 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
1110 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
1112 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
1115 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
1116 ==================================================
1119 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
1121 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
1122 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1123 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
1124 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
1125 number of bytes to check is specified
1127 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
1128 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
1130 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
1131 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
1133 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
1135 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
1136 =================================================
1139 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
1140 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
1141 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
1143 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
1144 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
1146 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
1148 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
1149 =================================================
1151 * Memory management:
1152 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
1153 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
1154 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
1155 now be turned on at runtime by setting
1156 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
1159 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
1160 extension [Albert Chin]
1161 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
1162 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
1163 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
1164 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1166 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
1168 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
1169 =================================================
1172 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
1173 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
1177 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
1178 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
1179 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1181 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
1185 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
1186 =================================================
1189 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
1190 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
1192 * Change g_filename_display_name and
1193 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
1194 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
1195 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
1197 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
1198 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
1201 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
1203 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
1204 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
1206 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
1209 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
1211 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
1214 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
1215 =================================================
1217 * Memory management:
1218 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
1219 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
1220 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
1223 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
1225 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
1226 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
1227 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
1228 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
1231 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
1232 floating reference. [Tim]
1233 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
1236 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
1237 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
1239 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
1240 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
1242 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
1243 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
1245 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
1248 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
1249 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
1250 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
1251 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1252 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
1253 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1254 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
1255 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
1256 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
1258 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
1259 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
1260 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
1261 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
1262 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
1263 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
1264 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
1265 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
1268 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
1269 =================================================
1272 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
1273 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
1274 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
1275 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
1278 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
1281 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
1282 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
1283 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
1284 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
1285 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
1286 variants [Martyn Russell]
1289 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
1290 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
1293 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
1296 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
1297 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
1298 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
1299 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
1300 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
1301 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
1302 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
1303 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
1305 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
1307 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
1308 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
1309 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
1310 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
1313 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
1314 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
1315 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
1317 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
1318 =================================================
1320 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
1321 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
1322 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
1324 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
1325 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
1328 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
1329 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
1330 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
1332 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
1334 * Memory management:
1335 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
1336 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
1337 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
1338 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
1339 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
1340 never worked as intended.
1341 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
1342 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
1343 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
1344 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
1345 efficient and scalable implementation.
1346 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1349 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
1350 unnecessary recursion.
1353 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
1354 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
1355 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
1359 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
1362 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
1363 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
1364 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
1368 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
1369 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
1370 since they are in glib.h
1373 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
1374 =================================================
1375 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
1376 * Fix build problems on OS X
1377 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1378 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
1379 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
1380 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
1381 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
1383 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
1384 =================================================
1385 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
1386 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
1387 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
1388 in GValues should also be changed to access
1389 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
1391 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
1392 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1394 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
1395 =================================================
1396 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
1397 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
1399 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
1400 =================================================
1401 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
1403 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
1404 work on s390 [Matthias]
1405 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
1407 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
1409 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
1410 =================================================
1411 * Thread-related changes
1412 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
1413 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
1414 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
1415 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
1416 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
1417 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
1418 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
1419 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
1420 "make check" to fail when using older versions
1421 of gettext [Matthias]
1422 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1423 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
1425 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
1427 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
1428 =================================================
1429 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
1430 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
1431 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
1432 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
1433 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
1434 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
1436 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
1438 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
1439 =================================================
1441 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
1442 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
1443 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
1444 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
1446 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1447 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
1449 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
1450 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
1451 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
1452 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
1453 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
1455 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
1456 =================================================
1457 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
1458 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
1459 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1460 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
1462 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
1463 =================================================
1465 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
1466 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
1467 * Misc new functions:
1468 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
1469 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
1470 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
1472 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
1473 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
1474 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
1475 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
1478 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
1479 =================================================
1481 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
1482 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
1483 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
1484 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
1486 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
1487 - Accept -? [Matthias]
1488 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
1489 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
1490 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
1491 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1493 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
1495 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
1496 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
1498 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
1499 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
1500 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
1501 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
1502 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
1503 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
1504 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
1505 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
1506 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
1507 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
1508 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
1510 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
1511 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
1512 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
1513 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
1514 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
1515 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
1516 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
1517 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
1518 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
1519 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
1520 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
1521 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
1522 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
1523 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
1524 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
1525 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
1527 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
1528 =================================================
1530 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
1531 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
1532 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
1533 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
1534 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
1536 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
1537 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
1538 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
1539 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
1540 when check for executables [Tor]
1541 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
1542 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
1543 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
1544 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
1545 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
1546 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
1547 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
1549 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
1550 =================================================
1553 - GOption, a commandline option parser
1554 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
1555 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
1556 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
1557 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
1559 * Miscellaneous new functions
1560 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
1561 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
1562 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
1563 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
1564 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
1565 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
1566 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
1567 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
1568 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
1569 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
1571 * Performance improvements
1572 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
1573 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
1574 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1575 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
1576 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
1579 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
1580 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
1581 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
1582 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
1583 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
1584 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
1585 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
1588 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
1589 =================================================
1590 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
1591 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
1592 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
1593 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1594 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1595 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
1596 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
1598 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
1599 =================================================
1600 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
1601 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
1603 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
1605 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
1606 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
1607 allocated memory [Matthias]
1608 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
1610 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
1611 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
1612 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
1613 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
1615 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
1616 =================================================
1618 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
1619 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
1621 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
1623 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
1624 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
1625 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
1626 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
1627 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
1629 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
1630 =================================================
1632 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
1633 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
1634 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
1636 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
1637 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
1638 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
1639 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
1640 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
1641 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
1642 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
1643 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
1644 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
1645 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
1647 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
1648 =================================================
1649 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
1650 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
1651 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
1652 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
1653 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
1656 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
1657 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
1658 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1659 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
1660 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
1661 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
1663 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
1664 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
1665 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
1666 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
1667 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
1668 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
1669 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
1670 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
1672 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
1673 =================================================
1675 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
1676 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
1678 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
1679 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
1680 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
1681 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
1682 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
1683 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
1684 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
1685 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
1686 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1688 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
1689 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
1691 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
1692 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
1694 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
1695 =================================================
1696 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
1697 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
1698 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
1699 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
1700 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
1701 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
1702 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
1703 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
1704 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
1705 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
1707 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
1708 =================================================
1710 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
1711 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
1712 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
1713 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
1714 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
1715 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
1717 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
1718 =================================================
1720 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
1721 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
1723 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
1724 [Federico Mena Quintero]
1726 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
1727 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
1728 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
1729 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
1730 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
1731 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1732 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1733 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1734 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1735 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1736 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1737 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1739 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1740 =================================================
1742 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1743 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1744 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1745 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1747 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1748 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1749 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1751 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1752 =================================================
1754 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1755 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1756 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1757 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1759 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1760 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1762 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1763 =================================================
1765 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1766 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1767 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1768 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1769 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1770 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1771 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1773 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1774 =================================================
1776 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1777 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1778 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1779 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1780 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1781 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1782 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1783 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1784 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1785 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1786 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1788 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1789 =================================================
1791 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1792 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1793 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1794 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1795 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1796 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1797 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1798 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1800 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1801 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1803 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1804 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1805 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1807 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1809 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1810 =================================================
1812 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1813 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1814 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1815 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1817 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1818 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1819 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1820 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1821 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1822 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1823 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1824 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1825 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1826 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1827 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1828 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1829 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1831 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1833 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1834 =================================================
1836 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1837 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1838 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1839 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1840 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1841 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1842 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1843 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1844 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1845 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1846 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1847 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1848 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1849 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1850 like 'swapped-signal'.
1851 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1852 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1853 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1854 init() implementations
1855 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1856 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1857 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1858 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1859 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1861 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1863 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1864 =================================================
1866 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1867 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1868 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1869 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1870 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1871 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1872 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1873 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1874 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1875 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1876 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1877 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1878 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1879 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1880 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1881 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1882 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1883 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1884 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1885 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1886 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1888 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1889 =================================================
1891 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1892 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1893 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1894 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1895 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1896 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1898 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1899 =================================================
1901 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1902 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1903 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1904 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1905 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1906 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1907 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1908 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1909 * Bug and portability fixes
1910 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1912 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1914 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1915 =================================================
1917 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1918 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1919 Johannes Stezenbach]
1920 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1921 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1922 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1924 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1925 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1926 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1927 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1929 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1930 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1932 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1933 =================================================
1935 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1936 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1937 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1938 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1939 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1940 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1941 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1942 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1943 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1944 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1945 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1946 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1947 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1948 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1949 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1951 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1952 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1953 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1954 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1955 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1956 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1957 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1959 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1960 =================================
1962 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1963 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1964 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1965 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1966 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1967 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1968 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1969 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1970 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1971 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1972 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1974 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1975 =================================
1977 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1978 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1979 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1980 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1981 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1982 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1983 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1984 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1985 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1986 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1987 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1989 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1990 =================================
1992 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1993 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1994 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1995 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1996 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1997 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1998 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1999 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
2000 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
2001 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
2002 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
2004 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
2005 =================================
2007 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
2008 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
2009 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
2010 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
2012 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
2013 =================================
2015 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
2016 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
2017 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
2018 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
2019 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
2020 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
2021 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
2022 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
2023 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
2024 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
2025 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
2026 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
2027 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
2030 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
2031 =================================
2033 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
2034 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
2035 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
2036 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
2037 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2038 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
2039 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
2040 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
2041 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
2042 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
2043 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
2044 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
2045 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2046 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
2047 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
2048 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
2051 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
2052 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
2055 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
2056 =================================
2058 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2059 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
2060 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
2061 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
2062 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
2064 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
2065 ======================================
2067 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2068 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2069 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
2070 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
2071 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
2073 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
2075 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
2076 ===================================
2078 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
2079 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
2080 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
2081 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
2082 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2083 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
2084 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2086 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
2089 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
2090 ===================================
2092 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
2093 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
2094 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
2095 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
2096 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
2097 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
2098 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2099 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
2100 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
2102 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
2105 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
2106 ===================================
2108 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
2109 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
2110 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2111 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
2112 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
2113 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
2114 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
2116 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
2117 ===================================
2119 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
2120 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
2121 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
2122 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
2123 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
2124 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
2125 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
2126 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
2128 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
2129 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
2133 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
2134 ===================================
2136 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
2137 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2138 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
2139 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
2140 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
2141 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
2142 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
2143 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
2144 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
2146 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
2147 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
2149 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
2150 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
2153 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
2154 ===================================
2156 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
2157 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
2158 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
2159 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
2160 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
2161 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
2162 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
2163 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
2164 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
2165 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
2167 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
2168 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
2169 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
2173 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
2174 ==================================
2176 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2177 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
2178 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2179 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
2180 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
2182 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
2185 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
2186 ==================================
2188 * Documentation updates [Owen]
2189 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
2190 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
2191 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
2194 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
2197 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
2198 ==================================
2200 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
2201 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
2202 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
2203 * Minor hash table optimizations
2204 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
2205 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
2206 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
2207 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
2208 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
2209 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
2210 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
2211 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
2212 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
2213 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
2214 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
2217 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
2218 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
2219 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
2223 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
2224 ==================================
2226 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
2227 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
2228 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
2229 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
2231 * GDate const, convenience fixups
2232 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
2233 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
2234 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
2235 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
2239 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
2240 ==================================
2242 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
2243 declarations from header files.
2244 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
2245 * Bug and Portability fixes
2248 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
2249 ==================================
2251 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
2254 * Documentation improvements
2257 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
2258 ==================================
2262 * More user_data support in various functions.
2263 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
2264 * Unicode handling improvements.
2265 * Implemented debugging traps.
2266 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2267 * Various new small utility functions.
2268 * Random number generator precision improvements.
2269 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
2270 * Many Win32 improvements.
2271 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
2272 * Many documentation improvements.
2273 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
2275 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
2276 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
2277 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
2278 * Hashtable API additions.
2279 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
2280 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
2284 * Added many convenience functions.
2285 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
2286 * Reworked property change notification.
2287 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
2288 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
2289 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
2290 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
2291 * Added support for abstract types.
2292 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
2293 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
2294 and parameter conversions.
2295 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
2296 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
2298 * Implemented GValueArray.
2299 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
2300 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
2301 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
2302 * Varrags value collection improvements.
2303 * Implemented debugging traps.
2304 * Made things thread-safe.
2305 * Many documentation improvements.
2306 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
2309 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
2310 ==================================
2314 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
2315 * Improvements to error reporting
2316 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
2317 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
2318 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
2319 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
2320 not to be freed. [Darin]
2321 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
2322 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
2323 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
2324 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
2325 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
2326 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
2327 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
2328 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
2329 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
2330 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
2331 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
2332 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
2333 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
2334 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
2335 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
2336 * Many documentation improvements.
2341 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
2342 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
2343 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
2344 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
2345 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
2349 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
2350 =========================
2352 * New GObject library added including object system based on
2353 the GTK+ object system.
2354 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
2355 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
2356 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
2358 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
2359 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
2360 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
2361 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
2362 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
2363 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
2364 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
2365 * Double ended queue implementation.
2366 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
2367 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
2368 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
2369 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
2370 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
2371 more tightly defined semantics.
2372 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.