1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.10 to GLib 2.12.11
2 =====================================================
4 * Remove leftover debug spew from thread pool code
6 * Make g_strtoll() parse negative numbers correctly
9 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.9 to GLib 2.12.10
10 ====================================================
13 149144 Missing linker flags in tests prevent build with -z defs ...
14 399611 Variable checking base64 public functions
15 350802 GMarkupParser reports wrong position for invalid UTF-8
16 398069 Files missing from GLib distribution
17 398203 Screwy definition of g_date_set_time()
18 399971 goption flag typo
19 400044 g_utf8_char_validated doesn't return -2 when maxlen is 0
20 404832 g_date_strftime should use wcsftime if available
21 407431 GLib-Genmarshal-WARNING **: failed to open "/dev/stdin": ...
22 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
23 346808 Minor tweaks for using GLib from Digital Mars c/c++ compi...
24 396899 glib mentions non-existing PATCH bugzilla keyword
26 * New and updated translations (ar,be@latin,bn_IN,dz,en_GB,et,fi,
27 fr,gu,hu,it,ko,lt,mk,nb,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,sq,sv,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
30 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.8 to GLib 2.12.9
31 ===================================================
33 * Fix an unintended ABI break in the 2.12.8 release
36 397139 glib-2.12.8 breaks ABI
39 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.7 to GLib 2.12.8
40 ===================================================
42 * Due to an oversight, GLib has been linked against
43 libpthread since 2.12.2. This has been fixed by
44 moving the monotonic timer support into gthread.
47 393812 glib links against pthread
48 394258 gthread.c: illegal include order
49 394641 Undefined reference in gthread
50 394150 gettime implementation breaks compilation on darwin 6
51 395203 g_timer_elapsed off by 2 order of magnitude
52 394262 image/* mimetype breaks stuff
53 392636 glib-2.0.m4 ignores PKG_CONFIG environment variable
54 395419 Glib-2.12.7 with mingw(w32api-3.8/windows) fails to compi...
55 329031 G_GNUC_INTERNAL fails with gcc-2.95
57 * Updated translations (ar,bg,ca,it,nl,th)
60 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.6 to GLib 2.12.7
61 ===================================================
64 - The stricter syntax checks introduced in 2.12.5 have
65 been reduced to warnings for the 2.12 series
68 - The slice allocator has gained address validation that
69 can be activated with the environment variable
71 - The allocator emits a warning if it detects too late
75 - Take double-width and zero-width characters into account
76 when formatting --help output
79 391370 Recent crash on file
80 346955 NON-ASCII UTF-8 arg_description in GOptionEntry causes wr...
81 371631 Bug in g_bit_nth_lsf?
82 376645 Win32: Fatal warnings abort application even if IsDebugge...
83 389300 g_utf8_collate_key modifies the locale
84 390913 gslice.c: illegal declaration (C99)
85 304517 glib/libcharset/localcharset.c/_g_locale_charset_raw: han...
86 336438 unicode collate test failing
87 391364 Warnings during ./configure due to $SED being undefined i...
88 391367 config.status warning for datarootdir support in glib-get...
89 371670 Faster g_bit_* operations
91 * Updated translations (ar,de,en_CA,en_GB,sv,vi)
94 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.5 to GLib 2.12.6
95 ===================================================
97 * Fix a configure test that was added in 2.12.5 to
98 not declare every poll() broken
100 * Make GKeyFile accept keys that are commonly used
103 354707 No return() in non-void function
104 387260 hang in zenity
105 387823 glib 2.12.5 is breaking hal
107 * New and updated translations (ca,gu,mk,th)
110 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.4 to GLib 2.12.5
111 ===================================================
113 * Various portability fixes
116 302672 poll is completely broken on Mac OS X 10.4
117 362328 errorcheck_mutex_test fails to compile due to missing -pthread
118 316434 glib-2.6.6 fails to compile on AIX 5.1 due to assembler errors
119 172406 gconvert.c, function open_converter
120 327800 Hang during self-test of threads
121 343825 Double expansion in m4macros/glib-gettext.m4 will fail with
123 380801 build on Solaris does not work out of the box
124 386252 HEAD broken with last commit
125 138153 g_utf8_next_char problem with gcc -Wcast-qual
126 161288 glib doesn't configure well on Mac OS < 10.3
127 321977 GIOChannel ref_count private variable should be gint instead
129 343191 GKeyFile silently loses values
130 346373 test failures in glib-2.10.3 on NetBSD
131 347944 make check fails 2 test on Solaris 9
132 355955 Hash tables in gwin32.c do not g_strdup their keys
133 357585 Calls to set_cloexec inefficient on Solaris
134 359190 gtimer.c failes to compile on solaris-2.9
135 378078 extremely unlikely read-after-free in instance_real_class_get
136 379207 gthreadpool.h causes warning with GCC and -Wshadow
137 385132 solaris gettext support fix
138 385910 Suprising behaviour with duplicate groups in GKeyFile
139 386838 mapping-test freezes
140 315061 compiler specific flag in gthread-2.0.pc
141 362543 Compilation fail when configured with --disable-visibility
142 362918 monotonic clock test uses AC_TRY_RUN
143 369908 g_key_file_get_string not stripping final space
144 373864 sanity_check is a bash script
146 * Translation updates (ar,en_CA,es,he,nb,pl,sq)
149 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.3 to GLib 2.12.4
150 ===================================================
152 * Fix build problems related to Posix timers.
155 321974 nanosleep on AIX / g_timer API using high
157 353584 va_end called on caller supplied va_list
158 353580 va_copy detection breaks if user sets
159 CFLAGS=-Werror-implicit-function-declaration
160 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
161 358421 typos in gmain.c
163 * New and updated translations (bn,bn_IN,dz,el,en_GB,
164 et,fa,hi,hy,it,ka,nn,pt_BR,ro,sl,sr,sr@Latn,ta)
167 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.2 to GLib 2.12.3
168 ===================================================
170 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
171 for GTimer when available.
173 * Make the construction of singleton objects work
177 351583 API documentation issues with 2.15 release
178 336114 desktop locks immediately after changing
180 351853 GKeyFile creates non-UTF-8 error messages
182 * Translation updates (fr,hu,ja,ku,lt,lv,ml,or,
186 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2
187 ===================================================
190 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29
191 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters
192 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value
193 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave
194 unconvertable characters in place instead of
195 replacing them by NUL
198 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns
199 string with NUL bytes
200 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group
201 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what
203 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29
204 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs
205 349792 Wrong english string (UI)
206 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature
208 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko,
209 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW)
212 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1
213 ===================================================
215 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
218 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl...
219 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839
220 336281 Update to UCD 5.0
221 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32
222 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper()
223 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c
225 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi,
226 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt)
229 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12
230 =================================================
233 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM
235 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl)
238 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4
239 ===================================================
242 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean
244 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of
248 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups
250 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th)
253 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3
254 ===================================================
257 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of
261 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8
263 * Updated translations (fi)
265 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2
266 ===================================================
268 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers
270 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text
272 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries
274 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently
275 running source, and determine if it is destroyed
278 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before
279 other _g_*_thread_init() functions
280 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free()
281 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables
282 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded
284 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function
285 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all
287 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const
288 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE
289 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR?
291 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi)
294 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1
295 ===================================================
298 - Support 64-bit integers
299 - Allow optional text before and after the options
303 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB
304 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads
305 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double
306 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half)
307 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops)
308 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES
309 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar
310 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
311 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32
312 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption
314 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete
315 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads
317 * Updated translation (es)
319 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0
320 ===================================================
322 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
323 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
325 * Base64 encoding support
327 * Unicode 5.0 support
329 * GOption supports floating point numbers
331 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers
334 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK
335 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries
336 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats
337 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg
338 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE
339 329789 option-test.c type confusion
340 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and
341 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined
342 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define
343 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401'
344 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds
346 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out
348 334646 goption + error out params
349 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove()
350 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test
351 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool
352 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation
353 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect
354 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error
355 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs
356 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment
357 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it
358 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description
359 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line
360 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump
362 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn,
363 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN)
366 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1
367 ===================================================
370 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl]
371 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov]
372 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio
374 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg]
377 - Fix g_listenv() implementation.
378 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs
380 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv)
383 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0
384 ==================================================
387 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator
389 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding
390 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
391 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas]
392 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum
393 number of bytes to check is specified
395 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for
396 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist]
398 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee,
399 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost]
401 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk)
403 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6
404 =================================================
407 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik]
408 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod]
409 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas]
411 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David
412 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod]
414 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru
416 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5
417 =================================================
420 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator
421 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc
422 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can
423 now be turned on at runtime by setting
424 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik]
427 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library
428 extension [Albert Chin]
429 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16
430 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft]
431 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer]
432 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto]
434 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN)
436 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4
437 =================================================
440 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which
441 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit
445 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after
446 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another
447 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
449 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten
453 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3
454 =================================================
457 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by
458 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge]
460 * Change g_filename_display_name and
461 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode
462 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question
463 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias]
465 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico
466 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost]
469 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X
471 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata]
472 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree
474 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding)
477 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming
479 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi)
482 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
483 =================================================
486 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
487 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
488 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim]
491 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
493 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
494 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell]
495 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
496 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn]
499 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
500 floating reference. [Tim]
501 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]
504 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
505 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks]
507 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
508 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh]
510 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
511 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]
513 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)
516 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
517 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
518 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
519 [Tim-Philipp Müller]
520 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
521 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
522 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
523 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
524 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
526 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
527 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
528 stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
529 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
530 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
531 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
532 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
533 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]
536 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
537 =================================================
540 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
541 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
542 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
543 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
546 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
549 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed
550 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
551 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
552 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
553 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
554 variants [Martyn Russell]
557 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been
558 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
561 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist]
564 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
565 constants [Andrew Paprocki]
566 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
567 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
568 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
569 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
570 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
571 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
573 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
575 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
576 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
577 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
578 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
581 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
582 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
583 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
585 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0
586 =================================================
588 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1,
589 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType
590 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10
592 - The various Unicode character predicate functions
593 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have
596 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer:
597 These functions handle negative offsets now, and
598 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses
600 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen]
603 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and
604 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10
605 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator,
606 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other
607 data structures) have been deprecated, since they
608 never worked as intended.
609 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a
610 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks.
611 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple
612 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an
613 efficient and scalable implementation.
614 [Tim Janik, Matthias]
617 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid
618 unnecessary recursion.
621 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string:
622 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used
623 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings
627 - New function to iterate over all GThreads
630 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val:
631 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or
632 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated
636 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf:
637 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h,
638 since they are in glib.h
641 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1
642 =================================================
643 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton]
644 * Fix build problems on OS X
645 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
646 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal]
647 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam
648 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias]
649 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk)
651 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0
652 =================================================
653 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values
654 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz]
655 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values
656 in GValues should also be changed to access
657 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian
659 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value
660 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Müller]
662 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7
663 =================================================
664 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias]
665 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist]
667 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6
668 =================================================
669 * Add native implementations of atomic operations
671 * Make atomic reference counting of closures
672 work on s390 [Matthias]
673 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv().
675 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton]
677 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5
678 =================================================
679 * Thread-related changes
680 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett]
681 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik]
682 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for
683 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim]
684 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim]
685 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias]
686 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship]
687 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause
688 "make check" to fail when using older versions
689 of gettext [Matthias]
690 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
691 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier,
693 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW)
695 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4
696 =================================================
697 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange
698 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering]
699 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee]
700 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist]
701 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh]
702 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn,
704 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN)
706 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3
707 =================================================
709 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski]
710 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name
711 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin]
712 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias]
714 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
715 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor]
717 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting
718 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik]
719 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans]
720 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias]
721 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no)
723 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2
724 =================================================
725 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer]
726 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson]
727 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
728 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW)
730 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
731 =================================================
733 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
734 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
735 * Misc new functions:
736 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
737 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
738 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher,
740 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
741 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
742 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
743 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
746 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0
747 =================================================
749 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan]
750 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera]
751 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias]
752 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann]
754 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt]
755 - Accept -? [Matthias]
756 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks]
757 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard]
758 - Report missing arguments as errors [Björn Lindqvist]
759 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Müller]
761 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes]
763 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh]
764 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist]
766 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor]
767 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias]
768 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder]
769 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson]
770 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Søren Sandmann,
771 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho]
772 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost]
773 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking
774 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson]
775 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with
776 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner]
778 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer]
779 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs]
780 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor]
781 - Use more precise timers [Tor]
782 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert Ögren]
783 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas,
784 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent,
785 Bastien, FabrÃcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah,
786 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan,
787 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu,
788 Christian Biere, Noah, Benoît Carpentier]
789 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Müller,
790 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink,
791 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage]
792 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl,
793 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN)
795 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
796 =================================================
798 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
799 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
800 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
801 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
802 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
804 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
805 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
806 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor]
807 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
808 when check for executables [Tor]
809 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
810 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder,
811 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk]
812 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
813 Flowerday, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
814 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera]
815 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
817 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0
818 =================================================
821 - GOption, a commandline option parser
822 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files
823 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification
824 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename
825 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8.
827 * Miscellaneous new functions
828 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings
829 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists
830 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers
831 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler
832 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names
833 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays
834 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version
835 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported
836 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime
837 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions
839 * Performance improvements
840 - Optimize g_utf8_validate()
841 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse()
842 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
843 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols
844 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail()
847 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require
848 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8.
849 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants
850 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri
851 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms
852 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols
853 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries
856 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0
857 =================================================
858 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific
859 options have been requested [Glynn Foster]
860 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch]
861 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
862 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
863 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN)
864 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255
866 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
867 =================================================
868 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
869 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington,
871 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1)
873 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
874 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly
875 allocated memory [Matthias]
876 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren,
878 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
879 Frederic Crozat, Tor]
880 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen]
881 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)
883 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6
884 =================================================
886 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options
887 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist]
889 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson,
891 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro]
892 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan,
893 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow]
894 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor]
895 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN)
897 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
898 =================================================
900 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
901 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
902 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
904 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
905 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
906 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
907 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
908 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
909 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
910 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
911 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
912 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
913 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]
915 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4
916 =================================================
917 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various
918 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode]
919 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all
920 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX
921 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist,
924 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding
925 friendly name [Murray Cumming]
926 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
927 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in
928 assertions [Matthias Clasen]
929 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias]
931 - Don't open console windows [Tor]
932 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ögren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias,
933 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas,
934 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Müller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish
935 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]
936 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe,
937 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro]
938 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq)
940 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3
941 =================================================
943 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO]
944 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson]
946 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols,
947 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the
948 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen]
949 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell]
950 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler]
951 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima]
952 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from
953 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor]
954 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Müller]
956 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist]
957 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto,
959 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias]
960 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro)
962 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2
963 =================================================
964 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven]
965 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson]
966 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer]
967 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode]
968 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan]
969 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel,
970 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg]
971 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny]
972 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch]
973 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa)
975 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1
976 =================================================
978 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James
979 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert
980 Ögren, Tommi Komulainen]
981 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann,
982 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall]
983 * New and updated translations (eu,hi)
985 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0
986 =================================================
988 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg]
989 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten
991 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri
992 [Federico Mena Quintero]
994 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions
995 correctly [Tor Lillqvist]
996 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor]
997 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong]
998 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman]
999 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan,
1000 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benoît Carpentier, Morten
1001 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal,
1002 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
1003 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday,
1004 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths]
1005 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa)
1007 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1
1008 =================================================
1010 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman]
1011 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor,
1012 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause,
1013 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain,
1015 * Documentation updates [Matthias]
1016 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi,
1017 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk)
1019 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0
1020 =================================================
1022 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
1023 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
1024 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II,
1025 Kjartan Maraas, Frédéric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh,
1027 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1028 * Updated translations (hr,ro)
1030 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6
1031 =================================================
1033 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin]
1034 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian]
1035 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist]
1036 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility
1037 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer]
1038 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1039 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN)
1041 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5
1042 =================================================
1044 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet]
1045 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
1046 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and
1047 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1048 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg]
1049 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main
1050 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
1051 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali]
1052 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow]
1053 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen]
1054 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq)
1056 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3
1057 =================================================
1059 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier]
1060 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen]
1061 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann]
1062 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik]
1063 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef]
1064 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1065 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford]
1066 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan,
1068 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren]
1069 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1071 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist]
1072 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson,
1073 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian,
1075 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta)
1077 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2
1078 =================================================
1080 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
1081 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(),
1082 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the
1083 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding.
1085 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming]
1086 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
1087 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Müller]
1088 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler]
1089 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
1090 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
1091 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias]
1092 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction
1093 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
1094 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard]
1095 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
1096 * Win32 build fixes [Hans]
1097 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet,
1099 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)
1101 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1
1102 =================================================
1104 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
1105 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation
1106 with context [Matthias Clasen]
1107 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
1108 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
1109 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
1110 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
1111 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
1112 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
1113 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
1114 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
1115 * Documentation improvements [Matthias]
1116 * GObject [Tim Janik]
1117 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
1118 like 'swapped-signal'.
1119 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
1120 g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
1121 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within
1122 init() implementations
1123 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
1124 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
1125 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
1126 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
1127 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
1129 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
1131 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0
1132 =================================================
1134 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen]
1135 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt]
1136 * Support XML-safe formatted output with
1137 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor]
1138 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias]
1139 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the
1140 mirrored variant of a character [Noah]
1141 * Support for one-time initialization functions.
1142 [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1143 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf
1144 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias]
1145 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1146 * Add support instance-private data on classed types
1147 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen]
1148 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim]
1149 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim]
1150 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim]
1151 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(),
1152 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(),
1153 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias]
1154 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1156 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0
1157 =================================================
1159 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems
1160 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1161 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros
1162 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh]
1163 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz]
1164 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk)
1166 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5
1167 =================================================
1169 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1170 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor,
1171 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach]
1172 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio
1173 if necessary [Manish Singh]
1174 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1175 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen]
1176 * Docs improvements [Matthias]
1177 * Bug and portability fixes
1178 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr)
1180 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder
1182 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4
1183 =================================================
1185 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile
1186 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz,
1187 Johannes Stezenbach]
1188 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and
1189 GLib doesn't. [Owen]
1190 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder,
1192 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren]
1193 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann]
1194 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen]
1195 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias]
1197 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser,
1198 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder
1200 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x
1201 =================================================
1203 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when
1204 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen]
1205 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson]
1206 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias]
1207 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias]
1208 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik]
1209 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim]
1210 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington]
1211 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities.
1212 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen]
1213 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey]
1214 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems
1215 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0
1216 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1217 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable
1219 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian]
1220 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from
1221 system headers [Soeren Sandmann]
1222 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh]
1223 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information.
1224 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen,
1225 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder].
1227 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7
1228 =================================
1230 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz]
1231 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik]
1232 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder]
1233 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1234 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh]
1235 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs]
1236 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner]
1237 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor,
1238 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau,
1239 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor]
1240 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr)
1242 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
1243 =================================
1245 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1246 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1247 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1248 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1249 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1250 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1251 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1252 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1253 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1254 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1255 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1257 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5
1258 =================================
1260 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
1261 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
1262 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
1263 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor]
1264 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1265 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann,
1266 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier]
1267 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat,
1268 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij]
1269 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen]
1270 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi)
1272 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4
1273 =================================
1275 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II)
1276 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul)
1277 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor)
1278 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru)
1280 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3
1281 =================================
1283 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts)
1284 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi)
1285 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce,
1286 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan)
1287 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.)
1288 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer)
1289 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
1290 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen)
1291 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber,
1292 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.)
1293 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann)
1294 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.)
1295 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder,
1298 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1
1299 =================================
1301 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede]
1302 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup,
1303 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson]
1304 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen,
1305 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1306 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor]
1307 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras]
1308 * Fixes for g_log() and threading.
1309 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik]
1310 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from
1311 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim]
1312 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist]
1313 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1314 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias]
1315 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko]
1316 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel]
1319 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele,
1320 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder
1323 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0
1324 =================================
1326 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1327 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor]
1328 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8,
1329 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings
1330 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist]
1332 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1:
1333 ======================================
1335 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1336 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1337 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner]
1338 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik]
1339 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME
1341 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose
1343 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15:
1344 ===================================
1346 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue
1347 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik]
1348 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim]
1349 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen]
1350 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1351 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim]
1352 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1354 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder,
1357 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14:
1358 ===================================
1360 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo]
1361 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor]
1362 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler]
1363 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen]
1364 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik]
1365 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen]
1366 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1367 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann]
1368 * Miscellaneous bug fixes
1370 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer,
1373 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13:
1374 ===================================
1376 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler]
1377 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer]
1378 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1379 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian]
1380 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast]
1381 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey,
1382 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik]
1384 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
1385 ===================================
1387 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
1388 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
1389 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
1390 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
1391 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
1392 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
1393 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
1394 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
1396 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
1397 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
1401 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
1402 ===================================
1404 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
1405 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1406 * Portable directory handling API [Hans]
1407 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
1408 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
1409 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
1410 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
1411 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
1412 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
1414 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
1415 * GObject API cleanups [Tim]
1417 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
1418 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
1421 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
1422 ===================================
1424 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
1425 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
1426 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
1427 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
1428 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
1429 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
1430 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
1431 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
1432 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
1433 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
1435 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
1436 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
1437 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
1441 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
1442 ==================================
1444 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1445 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
1446 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1447 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
1448 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
1450 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
1453 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
1454 ==================================
1456 * Documentation updates [Owen]
1457 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
1458 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
1459 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
1462 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
1465 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
1466 ==================================
1468 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
1469 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
1470 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
1471 * Minor hash table optimizations
1472 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
1473 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
1474 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
1475 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
1476 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
1477 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
1478 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
1479 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
1480 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
1481 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
1482 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
1485 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
1486 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
1487 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
1491 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
1492 ==================================
1494 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
1495 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
1496 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
1497 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
1499 * GDate const, convenience fixups
1500 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
1501 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
1502 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
1503 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
1507 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
1508 ==================================
1510 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
1511 declarations from header files.
1512 * Mark some additional deprecated functions.
1513 * Bug and Portability fixes
1516 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
1517 ==================================
1519 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
1522 * Documentation improvements
1525 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
1526 ==================================
1530 * More user_data support in various functions.
1531 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
1532 * Unicode handling improvements.
1533 * Implemented debugging traps.
1534 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1535 * Various new small utility functions.
1536 * Random number generator precision improvements.
1537 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
1538 * Many Win32 improvements.
1539 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
1540 * Many documentation improvements.
1541 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
1543 * GHookLIst API cleanups.
1544 * Improved format support of GDate parser.
1545 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
1546 * Hashtable API additions.
1547 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
1548 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
1552 * Added many convenience functions.
1553 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
1554 * Reworked property change notification.
1555 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
1556 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
1557 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
1558 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
1559 * Added support for abstract types.
1560 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
1561 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
1562 and parameter conversions.
1563 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
1564 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
1566 * Implemented GValueArray.
1567 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
1568 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
1569 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
1570 * Varrags value collection improvements.
1571 * Implemented debugging traps.
1572 * Made things thread-safe.
1573 * Many documentation improvements.
1574 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
1577 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
1578 ==================================
1582 * Win32 build improvements [Tor]
1583 * Improvements to error reporting
1584 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
1585 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
1586 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
1587 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
1588 not to be freed. [Darin]
1589 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
1590 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
1591 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
1592 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
1593 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
1594 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
1595 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
1596 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
1597 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
1598 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
1599 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
1600 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
1601 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
1602 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
1603 * autoconf improvements. [Raja]
1604 * Many documentation improvements.
1609 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
1610 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
1611 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
1612 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
1613 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
1617 What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
1618 =========================
1620 * New GObject library added including object system based on
1621 the GTK+ object system.
1622 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
1623 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
1624 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
1626 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
1627 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
1628 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
1629 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
1630 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
1631 * Many improvements to the Windows ports.
1632 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
1633 * Double ended queue implementation.
1634 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
1635 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
1636 et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
1637 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
1638 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
1639 more tightly defined semantics.
1640 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.