1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.5 to GLib 2.8.6
2 =================================================
4 * Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control()
5 which can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications
8 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile.
11 * New and updated translations (ca,ja,ml,sv,zh_HK,zh_TW)
13 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.4 to GLib 2.8.5
14 =================================================
16 322520 g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename reads too
17 much [Christian Persch]
18 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false
19 without setting error [Tim-Philipp Müller]
20 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version()
22 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout
23 and stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
24 323273 Invalid macro in genums.h: G_FLAGS_TYPE
26 - Other fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Arjan van de Ven]
27 * Add g_object_compat_control() [Tim Janik]
29 - Strip trailing slashes in g_stat() [Tor Lillqvist]
30 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor]
32 * Translation updates (be,bg,en_CA,es,fi,fr,gl,gu,nl,vi,zh_CN)
34 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.3 to GLib 2.8.4
35 =================================================
36 * Support aborting on critical warnings by setting
37 G_DEBUG=fatal_criticals in the environment
39 * Bug fixes [Sebastien Bacher, Tor Lillqvist,
40 Manish Singh, Morten Welinder, Andy Wingo]
41 * Documentation improvements [Steffen Gutmann,
43 * Translation updates (he,ja,nl,th)
45 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.2 to GLib 2.8.3
46 =================================================
47 * Fix an error that crept in with a change to
48 glib-mkenums in 2.8.2 [Matthias]
49 * Documentation improvements [Davyd Madeley]
50 * Translation updates (bn)
52 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.1 to GLib 2.8.2
53 =================================================
55 - the g_spawn* functions now take their arguments
56 in UTF-8 [Tor Lillqvist]
57 - Avoid extra console windows in some situations
59 * Bug fixes [Kjartan Maraas, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
61 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Mark Drago,
62 Matthew F. Barnes, Behdad Esfahbod]
63 * Translation updates (bg,ca,cs,cy,da,de,el,en_CA,es,et,
64 eu,fi,fr,gl,gu,hu,it,ja,nb,nl,no,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,ru,sk,
65 sq,sr,sr@Latn,sv,uk,vi,zh_TW)
67 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
68 =================================================
69 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
70 * Fix build problems on OS X
71 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
72 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
73 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
74 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
75 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
77 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
78 =================================================
79 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
80 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
81 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
82 in GValues should also be changed to access
83 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
85 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
86 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
88 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
89 =================================================
90 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
91 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
93 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
94 =================================================
95 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
97 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
98 work on s390 [Matthias]
99 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
101 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
103 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
104 =================================================
105 * Thread-related changes
106 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
107 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
108 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
109 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
110 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
111 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
112 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
113 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
114 "make check" to fail when using older versions
115 of gettext [Matthias]
116 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
117 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
119 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
121 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
122 =================================================
123 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
124 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
125 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
126 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
127 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
128 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
130 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
132 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
133 =================================================
135 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
136 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
137 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
138 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
140 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
141 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
143 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
144 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
145 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
146 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
147 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
149 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
150 =================================================
151 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
152 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
153 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
154 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
156 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
157 =================================================
159 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
160 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
161 * Misc new functions:
162 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
163 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
164 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
166 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
167 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
168 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
169 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
172 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
173 =================================================
175 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
176 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
177 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
178 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
180 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
181 - Accept -? [Matthias]
182 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
183 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
184 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
185 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
187 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
189 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
190 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
192 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
193 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
194 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
195 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
196 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
197 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
198 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
199 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
200 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
201 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
202 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
204 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
205 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
206 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
207 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
208 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
209 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
210 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
211 Bastien, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
212 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
213 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
214 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
215 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
216 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
217 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
218 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
219 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
221 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
222 =================================================
224 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
225 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
226 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
227 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
228 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
230 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
231 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
232 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
233 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
234 when check for executables [Tor]
235 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
236 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
237 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
238 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
239 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
240 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
241 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
243 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
244 =================================================
247 - GOption, a commandline option parser
248 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
249 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
250 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
251 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
253 * Miscellaneous new functions
254 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
255 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
256 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
257 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
258 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
259 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
260 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
261 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
262 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
263 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
265 * Performance improvements
266 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
267 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
268 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
269 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
270 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
273 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
274 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
275 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
276 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
277 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
278 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
279 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
282 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
283 =================================================
284 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
285 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
286 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
287 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
288 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
289 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
290 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
292 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
293 =================================================
294 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
295 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
297 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
299 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
300 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
301 allocated memory [Matthias]
302 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
304 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
305 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
306 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
307 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
309 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
310 =================================================
312 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
313 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
315 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
317 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
318 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
319 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
320 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
321 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
323 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
324 =================================================
326 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
327 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
328 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
330 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
331 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
332 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
333 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
334 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
335 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
336 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
337 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
338 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
339 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
341 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
342 =================================================
343 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
344 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
345 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
346 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
347 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
350 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
351 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
352 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
353 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
354 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
355 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
357 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
358 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
359 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
360 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
361 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
362 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
363 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
364 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
366 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
367 =================================================
369 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
370 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
372 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
373 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
374 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
375 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
376 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
377 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
378 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
379 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
380 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
382 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
383 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
385 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
386 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
388 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
389 =================================================
390 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
391 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
392 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
393 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
394 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
395 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
396 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
397 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
398 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
399 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
401 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
402 =================================================
404 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
405 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
406 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
407 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
408 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
409 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
411 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
412 =================================================
414 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
415 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
417 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
418 [Federico Mena Quintero]
420 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
421 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
422 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
423 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
424 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
425 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
426 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
427 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
428 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
429 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
430 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
431 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
433 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
434 =================================================
436 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
437 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
438 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
439 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
441 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
442 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
443 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
445 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
446 =================================================
448 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
449 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
450 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
451 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
453 * Documentation updates [Owen]
454 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
456 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
457 =================================================
459 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
460 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
461 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
462 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
463 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
464 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
465 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
467 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
468 =================================================
470 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
471 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
472 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
473 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
474 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
475 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
476 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
477 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
478 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
479 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
480 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
482 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
483 =================================================
485 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
486 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
487 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
488 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
489 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
490 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
491 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
492 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
494 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
495 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
497 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
498 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
499 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
501 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
503 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
504 =================================================
506 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
507 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
508 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
509 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
511 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
512 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
513 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
514 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
515 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
516 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
517 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
518 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
519 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
520 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
521 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
522 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
523 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
525 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
527 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
528 =================================================
530 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
531 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
532 with context [Matthias Clasen]
533 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
534 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
535 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
536 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
537 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
538 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
539 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
540 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
541 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
542 * GObject [Tim Janik]
543 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
544 like 'swapped-signal'.
545 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
546 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
547 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
548 init() implementations
549 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
550 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
551 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
552 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
553 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
555 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
557 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
558 =================================================
560 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
561 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
562 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
563 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
564 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
565 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
566 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
567 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
569 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
570 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
571 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
572 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
573 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
574 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
575 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
576 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
577 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
578 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
579 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
580 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
582 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
583 =================================================
585 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
586 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
587 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
588 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
589 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
590 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
592 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
593 =================================================
595 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
596 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
597 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
598 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
599 if necessary [Manish Singh]
600 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
601 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
602 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
603 * Bug and portability fixes
604 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
606 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
608 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
609 =================================================
611 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
612 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
614 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
616 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
618 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
619 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
620 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
621 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
623 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
624 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
626 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
627 =================================================
629 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
630 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
631 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
632 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
633 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
634 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
635 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
636 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
637 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
638 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
639 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
640 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
641 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
642 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
643 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
645 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
646 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
647 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
648 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
649 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
650 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
651 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
653 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
654 =================================
656 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
657 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
658 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
659 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
660 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
661 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
662 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
663 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
664 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
665 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
666 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
668 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
669 =================================
671 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
672 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
673 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
674 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
675 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
676 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
677 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
678 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
679 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
680 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
681 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
683 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
684 =================================
686 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
687 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
688 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
689 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
690 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
691 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
692 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
693 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
694 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
695 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
696 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
698 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
699 =================================
701 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
702 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
703 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
704 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
706 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
707 =================================
709 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
710 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
711 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
712 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
713 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
714 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
715 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
716 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
717 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
718 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
719 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
720 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
721 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
724 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
725 =================================
727 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
728 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
729 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
730 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
731 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
732 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
733 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
734 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
735 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
736 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
737 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
738 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
739 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
740 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
741 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
742 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
745 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
746 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
749 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
750 =================================
752 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
753 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
754 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
755 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
756 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
758 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
759 ======================================
761 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
762 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
763 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
764 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
765 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
767 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
769 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
770 ===================================
772 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
773 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
774 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
775 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
776 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
777 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
778 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
780 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
783 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
784 ===================================
786 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
787 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
788 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
789 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
790 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
791 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
792 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
793 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
794 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
796 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
799 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
800 ===================================
802 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
803 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
804 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
805 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
806 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
807 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
808 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
810 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
811 ===================================
813 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
814 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
815 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
816 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
817 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
818 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
819 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
820 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
822 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
823 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
827 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
828 ===================================
830 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
831 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
832 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
833 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
834 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
835 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
836 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
837 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
838 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
840 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
841 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
843 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
844 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
847 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
848 ===================================
850 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
851 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
852 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
853 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
854 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
855 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
856 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
857 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
858 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
859 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
861 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
862 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
863 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
867 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
868 ==================================
870 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
871 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
872 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
873 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
874 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
876 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
879 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
880 ==================================
882 * Documentation updates [Owen]
883 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
884 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
885 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
888 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
891 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
892 ==================================
894 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
895 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
896 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
897 * Minor hash table optimizations
898 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
899 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
900 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
901 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
902 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
903 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
904 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
905 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
906 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
907 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
908 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
911 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
912 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
913 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
917 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
918 ==================================
920 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
921 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
922 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
923 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
925 * GDate const, convenience fixups
926 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
927 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
928 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
929 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
933 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
934 ==================================
936 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
937 declarations from header files.
938 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
939 * Bug and Portability fixes
942 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
943 ==================================
945 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
948 * Documentation improvements
951 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
952 ==================================
956 * More user_data support in various functions.
957 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
958 * Unicode handling improvements.
959 * Implemented debugging traps.
960 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
961 * Various new small utility functions.
962 * Random number generator precision improvements.
963 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
964 * Many Win32 improvements.
965 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
966 * Many documentation improvements.
967 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
969 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
970 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
971 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
972 * Hashtable API additions.
973 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
974 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
978 * Added many convenience functions.
979 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
980 * Reworked property change notification.
981 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
982 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
983 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
984 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
985 * Added support for abstract types.
986 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
987 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
988 and parameter conversions.
989 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
990 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
992 * Implemented GValueArray.
993 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
994 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
995 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
996 * Varrags value collection improvements.
997 * Implemented debugging traps.
998 * Made things thread-safe.
999 * Many documentation improvements.
1000 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1003 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1004 ==================================
1008 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1009 * Improvements to error reporting
1010 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1011 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1012 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1013 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1014 not to be freed. [Darin]
1015 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1016 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1017 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1018 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1019 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1020 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1021 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1022 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1023 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1024 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1025 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1026 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1027 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1028 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1029 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1030 * Many documentation improvements.
1035 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1036 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1037 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1038 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1039 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1043 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1044 =========================
1046 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1047 the GTK+ object system.
1048 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1049 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1050 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1052 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1053 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1054 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1055 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1056 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1057 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1058 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1059 * Double ended queue implementation.
1060 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1061 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1062 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1063 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1064 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1065 more tightly defined semantics.
1066 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.