4 * Add parse and try_parse methods to boolean and numeric types.
5 * Add clutter-gtk-1.0 bindings.
6 * Add pixmap-1 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
7 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
12 * Add last_index_of and last_index_of_char to string class.
13 * More refactoring in the code generator (Luca Bruno).
14 * Improvements to the .gir writer (Michal Hruby).
15 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
20 * Add index_of, index_of_char, and char_count to string class.
21 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
26 * Support BusName sender parameter in GDBus servers.
27 * More refactoring in the code generator.
28 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
33 * Update libnotify bindings to 0.7.0.
34 * Improvements to the .gir reader.
35 * Bug fixes and binding updates.
40 * Require and target GLib >= 2.16.
41 * Guard access to out parameters to allow null arguments.
42 * Add support for local constants.
43 * Support file descriptor passing with GDBus.
44 * Support cached property values in GDBus clients.
45 * Support Cancellable parameter in GDBus clients.
46 * Support no-reply methods in GDBus clients and servers.
47 * More refactoring in the code generator.
48 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
53 * Use byte indices for strings.
54 * Use uint8[] for binary data in bindings.
55 * Add support for parallel compilation.
56 * Improve compiler performance.
57 * More refactoring in the code generator.
58 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
63 * Port GIR parser and writer to GIR version 1.2.
64 * Update GLib bindings to 2.26 branch.
70 * Add --fatal-warnings commandline option.
71 * Deprecate string.len () in favor of string.length.
72 * Deprecate use of D-Bus GLib in favor of GDBus.
73 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
78 * Fix regression introduced by codegen refactoring.
83 * Drop deprecated support for assigning to construct properties.
84 * Some refactoring in the code generator.
85 * Bug fixes in bindings and vapigen.
90 * Add version suffix to support parallel installation.
91 * Define VALA_X_Y according to compiler version.
92 * Enable version header by default.
93 * Add vala.m4 with VALA_CHECK_PACKAGES macro.
94 * Add gedit-2.20 bindings (Andrea Del Signore).
95 * Add tokyocabinet bindings (Evan Nemerson).
96 * Various improvements to the Dova profile.
97 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
102 * Append documentation comments to generated C files.
103 * Skip <doc> tags in .gir files.
104 * Various improvements to the Dova profile.
105 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
110 * Support newlines in double quoted string literals.
111 * Add experimental support for main blocks.
112 * Add experimental vala tool to compile and run code.
113 * Initial support for generic delegates.
114 * Support using GClosure for delegate parameters.
115 * Support GBoxed-based memory management.
116 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer.
117 * Various improvements to the Dova profile.
118 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
123 * Initial support for GDBus-based clients and servers.
124 * Support implicit and explicit GVariant casts.
125 * Add support for [Deprecated] attribute.
126 * Add GenericArray as alternative binding to GPtrArray.
127 * Add gdk-pixbuf-3.0, gdk-3.0, gdk-x11-3.0, and gtk+-3.0 bindings.
128 * Updates to the GLib bindings.
134 * Support constants in enums.
135 * Deprecate +=/-= syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
136 * Add experimental support for Dova profile.
137 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
138 * Add clutter-gst-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil).
139 * Add gdu and gdu-gtk bindings.
140 * Add libesmtp bindings (Adrien Bustany).
141 * Add mx-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
142 * Add orc-0.4 bindings (Fabian Deutsch).
143 * Add rest-extras-0.6 bindings (Adrien Bustany).
144 * Updates to the GLib, GStreamer, Linux, SQLite, and other bindings.
150 * Infer type arguments when calling generic methods.
151 * Support `in' operator for arrays.
152 * Add experimental support for regular expression literals.
153 * Add experimental support for chained relational expressions.
154 * Add va_list support.
155 * Add clutter-gtk-0.10 bindings (Gordon Allott).
156 * Add gdl-1.0 bindings (Nicolas Joseph).
157 * Add gstreamer-app-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge).
158 * Add gstreamer-cdda-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge).
159 * Add gudev-1.0 bindings (Jim Nelson).
160 * Add libgda-report-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
161 * Add libgvc (graphviz) bindings (Martin Olsson).
162 * Add purple bindings (Adrien Bustany).
163 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
168 * Support coalescing operator ??.
169 * Support to_string and bitwise complement with enums.
170 * Return handler id when connecting signal handlers.
171 * Support struct comparison.
172 * Support constructor chaining in structs.
173 * Enforce protected member restrictions.
174 * Improve performance of flow analysis.
175 * Support automatic line continuations in Genie.
176 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer.
177 * Add --enable-mem-profiler commandline option.
178 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
183 * Support array and string slicing.
184 * Add --symbols commandline option.
185 * Add avahi-gobject bindings (Sebastian Noack).
186 * Add ccss-1 bindings (Ali Sabil).
187 * Add libarchive bindings (Julian Andres Klode).
188 * Add libmagic bindings (Jens Georg).
189 * Add readline bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
190 * Add twitter-glib-1.0 bindings (Adrien Bustany).
191 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
196 * Support constructor chain up to GObject using Object (...).
197 * Add syntax for string templates.
198 * Support (!) non-null casts.
199 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
204 * Support `using' directives inside namespaces.
205 * Use const only for immutable structs.
206 * Support string marshalling for enums in D-Bus (Didier Ptitjes).
207 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
208 * Add libgda-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
209 * Many bug fixes for closures and async methods.
214 * Add support for closures.
215 * Improve support for asynchronous methods.
216 * Support async methods in D-Bus servers.
217 * Add clutter-1.0 bindings (Rob Taylor).
218 * Add GVariant, GSettings, and dconf bindings (Ryan Lortie).
219 * Add linux, libnl-1, and libasound bindings (Michael 'Mickey' Lauer).
220 * Add gnutls bindings (Jiří Zárevúcky).
221 * Add librest bindings (Adrien Bustany).
222 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
227 * Add support for static properties.
228 * Add support for delegate properties.
229 * Support virtual default handler for signals.
230 * Add limited support for derived compact classes.
231 * Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal).
232 * Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
233 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
238 * Add support for array properties.
239 * Support implicit and explicit GValue casts.
240 * Add initial support for generic methods.
241 * Add postgres bindings.
242 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
247 * Add initial support for POSIX profile.
248 * Add --vapi and --gir commandline options.
249 * Add initial x11, xcb, and cairo-xcb bindings.
250 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
255 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
256 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
261 * Introduce new syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
262 * Add experimental support for fixed-length arrays.
263 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
264 * Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
270 * Do not generate header files unless requested by the -H commandline
271 option. This requires changes in the build system of Vala projects.
272 * Support conditional compilation.
277 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
278 * Add librsvg-2.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
279 * Add Maemo libosso bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
280 * Add V4L2 bindings (Matías De la Puente).
286 * Support signals in static D-Bus clients.
287 * Various improvements to asynchronous method support (Ryan Lortie).
288 * Report unused internal methods.
289 * Extend POSIX bindings.
290 * Add FUSE bindings (John Carr).
291 * Add libdaemon bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
297 * Do not require libgee for custom indexer access.
298 * Add Log.FILE, Log.LINE, and Log.METHOD constants.
299 * Various improvements to the .gir reader.
300 * Add Lua bindings (pancake and Phil Housley).
301 * Add MySQL bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
302 * Add partial POSIX bindings.
308 * Improve syntax of owned property getters.
309 * Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options.
310 * Remove --disable-non-null commandline option.
316 * Support array initializers as expressions.
317 * Support += to efficiently append elements to arrays.
318 * Calculate length for null-terminated arrays.
319 * Support initializers for multi-dimensional arrays.
320 * Add `owned' keyword to replace `#'.
321 * Various fixes in coroutine support.
322 * Support boxed structs as GObject properties.
328 * Rewrite D-Bus server support to directly use libdbus.
329 * Register structs as boxed types.
330 * Improve error reporting on invalid code.
331 * Support private class fields and class destructors.
332 * Add partial raptor and rasqal bindings.
333 * Drop vala-gen-project, moved to vtg.
339 * Report uninitialized local variables.
340 * Report unused fields, methods, and local variables.
341 * Fix error handling in complex statements.
342 * Improve support for generic types.
343 * Support parameter arrays in bindings.
344 * Do not require libgee for foreach statements.
345 * Support enums in D-Bus clients and servers.
346 * Support structs in hash tables in D-Bus servers.
347 * Experimental static D-Bus client support.
348 * Add --dump-tree commandline option to write code tree to file.
354 * Support type checks for error domains and error codes.
355 * Experimental support for yield statements and coroutines.
356 * Support GValue and GHashTable in D-Bus clients.
357 * Various improvements to the .gir reader.
358 * Drop deprecated support for static classes.
359 * Modularize code generator.
365 * Support more flexible constructors.
366 * Partial support for reading and writing .gir files.
367 * Improve compiler performance.
368 * Copy arrays where necessary.
369 * Basic support for static properties.
370 * Partial support for struct holding object references.
371 * Add tracker indexer bindings (Roberto Majadas)
372 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
378 * Notify on property changes by default (Jared Moore)
379 * Add unique-1.0 bindings (Phil Housley)
380 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
386 * Various improvements to D-Bus client and service support.
387 * Basic support for detailed signals.
388 * Check types of printf arguments.
389 * Support `in' operator for Gee.Collection and Gee.Map (Jamie McCracken)
390 * Add libgsf-1 bindings (Michael Lawrence)
391 * Add loudmouth-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
392 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
398 * Support overriding default method handlers of signals.
399 * Support dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects.
400 * Experimental support for nullable value types.
401 * Improve support for classes not deriving from GLib.Object.
402 * Support """verbatim strings""".
403 * Add parser for Genie (Jamie McCracken)
404 * Experimental support for arrays of arrays.
405 * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
406 * Improvements to D-Bus support (Ali Sabil, Philip Van Hoof, Yu Feng)
407 * Add libepc-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
408 * Add libtiff bindings (Christian Meyer)
409 * Updates to the GStreamer bindings (Ali Sabil and Jaap A. Haitsma)
410 * Many bug fixes and performance improvements.
415 * Add support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods.
416 * Various improvements to methods in D-Bus services.
417 * Add support for properties and signals in D-Bus services (Yu Feng)
418 * Add Time API to GLib bindings.
419 * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
420 * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
426 * Enable non-null types by default.
427 * Add --disable-non-null commandline option.
428 * New handwritten parser.
429 * Support virtual methods in interfaces.
430 * Add `dynamic' type modifier for D-Bus client support.
431 * Add experimental support for writing D-Bus services.
432 * Don't require `new' operator for structs.
433 * Warn when using deprecated syntax.
434 * Add libsexy bindings (Evan Nemerson)
435 * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
441 * Support nested namespaces.
442 * Support static constructors.
443 * Register enums with GType (Marc-André Lureau)
444 * Small syntax change for default values of properties.
445 * Add --verbose commandline option (Daniel Silverstone)
446 * Improve pointer support.
447 * Add GNOME Keyring bindings (Andrea Del Signore)
448 * Add SDL bindings (Levi Bard)
449 * Add libftdi bindings (Evan Nemerson)
450 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and SQLite bindings.
451 * Many bug fixes all over the place.
456 * Support private property accessors.
457 * Support default values for properties.
458 * Improve support for array length and delegate target parameters.
459 * Improve delegate and signal handler support.
460 * Introduce new syntax to declare errordomains.
461 * Improve exception support.
462 * Report errors for missing return statements.
463 * Report warnings for unreachable code.
464 * Improve support for generic types.
465 * Support pointer member access and pointer element access.
466 * Support pointer arithmetic.
467 * Add --quiet commandline option (Emmanuele Bassi)
468 * Add WebKit bindings.
469 * Add JSON-GLib bindings (Ali Sabil)
470 * Add goocanvas bindings (Roberto Majadas)
471 * Add hildon-fm-2 bindings (Levi Bard)
472 * Add taglib bindings (Andreas Brauchli)
473 * Add libusb bindings (Evan Nemerson)
474 * Add bzip2 bindings (Maciej Piechotka)
475 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and libsoup bindings.
482 * Add support for instance delegates.
483 * Support conditional method compilation.
484 * Add support for nested generic types.
485 * Add size_t and ssize_t.
486 * Use non-null types by default with --enable-non-null option.
487 * Limited support for nullable types.
488 * Add basic support for method pre- and postconditions.
489 * Improve pointer support.
490 * Always enable memory management.
491 * Add libgnome-menu bindings (Roberto Majadas)
492 * Add liboobs-1 bindings (Roberto Majadas)
493 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, SQLite, and libxml2 bindings.
494 * Small documentation improvements.
500 * Add Vala Project Generator.
501 * Support `in` operator for enums.
502 * Support typeof for generic type parameters.
503 * Replace gidlgen by vala-gen-introspect with a real C parser.
504 * Update all bindings to use vala-gen-introspect.
505 * Fix many gcc warnings.
506 * Fix build with Cygwin and MinGW (Yaakov Selkowitz).
512 * Use .vapi as file extension for bindings.
513 * Add Vala Reference Manual.
514 * Add support for object initializers.
515 * Emit #line directives in debug mode.
516 * Add --basedir option.
517 * Support creation methods in structs.
518 * Add support for [Notify] attribute for properties.
519 * Add experimental support for registering new fundamental classed types.
520 * Improve support for non-GObject classes.
521 * Improve error reporting.
522 * Add vapicheck to verify generated bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
523 * Drop xml_pp dependency (Alberto Ruiz).
529 * Convert reference-type structs to classes for a more consistent type system.
530 * Support `as` operator (Mathias Hasselmann).
531 * Improve array support.
532 * Experimental D-Bus client support.
533 * Add GConf bindings.
534 * Add libgnome and libgnomeui bindings.
535 * Add Glade bindings.
536 * Add libnotify bindings (Nicolas Christener, Roland Hostettler).
537 * Add GnomeVFS bindings.
538 * Add GtkSourceView bindings.
539 * Add Panel Applet bindings.
540 * Add GNOME Desktop Library bindings.
541 * Add libsoup bindings.
542 * Add libwnck bindings.
543 * Add GtkMozEmbed bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
544 * Add Poppler bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
545 * Add Enchant bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
546 * Add Hildon bindings (Marcelo Lira).
547 * Add SQLite bindings.
548 * Add curses bindings (Ed Schouten).
549 * Build system fixes (Nicolas Trangez).
550 * Add manual pages for gidlgen and vapigen (Kumar Appaiah).
551 * Many bug fixes all over the place.
556 * Use and support libgee collection library (internal copy for now).
557 * Performance improvements.
558 * Improve support for generic types.
559 * Many memory management fixes.
560 * Add support for inner classes.
561 * Add --cc and -X commandline options to control the C compiler.
562 * Use GSlice for reference-type structs.
563 * Add experimental GStreamer bindings.
568 * Support simple exception handling.
569 * Improve array and string support.
570 * Support multi-dimensional arrays.
571 * Add --thread commandline option.
578 * Add commandline options for running the C compiler and linker.
579 * Use # modifier for reference transfer in method parameters.
580 * Replace callback keyword by delegate.
581 * Improve and update GLib and GTK+ bindings.
582 * Add experimental GVFS binding.
583 * C89/MSVC portability fixes (Hans Breuer).
584 * Refactor code generator.
585 * Add experimental bindings generator.
591 * Add support for defining new generic classes.
592 * Improve array support.
593 * Memory management fixes.
594 * Improve abstract property support.
595 * Add basic support for flags types.
596 * Improve GLib binding.
603 * Add support for overridden properties.
604 * Support properties and signals in interfaces.
605 * Improve interface runtime suport.
606 * Verify that classes implement all abstract and interface methods.
607 * Basic compile-time support for generic types.
608 * Default to strong references for return values and local variables.
609 * Improve signal support.
610 * Add support for pointers.
611 * Improve support for numeric types.
612 * Support writing GTypeModule-based plug-ins.
613 * Improve manual memory management support.
614 * Improve GTK+ bindings.
620 * New object construction syntax.
621 * Interface implementations don't have to specify override anymore.
622 * Improve interface support.
627 * Improve interface support.
629 * Improve array support.
630 * Improve enum support.
631 * Add automated testing infrastructure.
632 * Fixes for prefix and postfix operators.
633 * Add more types to GLib bindings.
639 * Support base access.
640 * Support typeof expressions.
641 * Improve array support.
642 * Fix possible memory leak in foreach statements.
643 * Fix many warnings during C compilation.
644 * Improve GTK+ bindings.
649 * Support + operator in strings.
650 * Support unicode character literals.
651 * Add implicit conversions for numeric types.
652 * Improve interface support.
653 * Improve array support.
654 * Support arbitrary signal parameters.
655 * Add threading support.
656 * Support lock statements.
657 * Many improvements to the GTK+ bindings.
663 * Support namespace constants.
664 * Support switch statements.
665 * Array creation support.
666 * Provide complete but experimental bindings for GTK+ 2.10 and Cairo 1.2.
667 * Add implicit array length parameter.
668 * Follow package dependencies.
669 * Support hexadecimal and octal integer literals and hexadecimal escape
671 * Install libvala as shared library.
676 * Support named construction methods.
677 * Basic interface support.
678 * Improve error handling.