4 * Support constants in enums.
5 * Deprecate +=/-= syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
6 * Add experimental support for Dova profile.
7 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
8 * Add clutter-gst-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil).
9 * Add gdu and gdu-gtk bindings.
10 * Add libesmtp bindings (Adrien Bustany).
11 * Add mx-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
12 * Add orc-0.4 bindings (Fabian Deutsch).
13 * Add rest-extras-0.6 bindings (Adrien Bustany).
14 * Updates to the GLib, GStreamer, Linux, SQLite, and other bindings.
20 * Infer type arguments when calling generic methods.
21 * Support `in' operator for arrays.
22 * Add experimental support for regular expression literals.
23 * Add experimental support for chained relational expressions.
24 * Add va_list support.
25 * Add clutter-gtk-0.10 bindings (Gordon Allott).
26 * Add gdl-1.0 bindings (Nicolas Joseph).
27 * Add gstreamer-app-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge).
28 * Add gstreamer-cdda-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge).
29 * Add gudev-1.0 bindings (Jim Nelson).
30 * Add libgda-report-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
31 * Add libgvc (graphviz) bindings (Martin Olsson).
32 * Add purple bindings (Adrien Bustany).
33 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
38 * Support coalescing operator ??.
39 * Support to_string and bitwise complement with enums.
40 * Return handler id when connecting signal handlers.
41 * Support struct comparison.
42 * Support constructor chaining in structs.
43 * Enforce protected member restrictions.
44 * Improve performance of flow analysis.
45 * Support automatic line continuations in Genie.
46 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer.
47 * Add --enable-mem-profiler commandline option.
48 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
53 * Support array and string slicing.
54 * Add --symbols commandline option.
55 * Add avahi-gobject bindings (Sebastian Noack).
56 * Add ccss-1 bindings (Ali Sabil).
57 * Add libarchive bindings (Julian Andres Klode).
58 * Add libmagic bindings (Jens Georg).
59 * Add readline bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
60 * Add twitter-glib-1.0 bindings (Adrien Bustany).
61 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
66 * Support constructor chain up to GObject using Object (...).
67 * Add syntax for string templates.
68 * Support (!) non-null casts.
69 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
74 * Support `using' directives inside namespaces.
75 * Use const only for immutable structs.
76 * Support string marshalling for enums in D-Bus (Didier Ptitjes).
77 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
78 * Add libgda-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
79 * Many bug fixes for closures and async methods.
84 * Add support for closures.
85 * Improve support for asynchronous methods.
86 * Support async methods in D-Bus servers.
87 * Add clutter-1.0 bindings (Rob Taylor).
88 * Add GVariant, GSettings, and dconf bindings (Ryan Lortie).
89 * Add linux, libnl-1, and libasound bindings (Michael 'Mickey' Lauer).
90 * Add gnutls bindings (Jiří Zárevúcky).
91 * Add librest bindings (Adrien Bustany).
92 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
97 * Add support for static properties.
98 * Add support for delegate properties.
99 * Support virtual default handler for signals.
100 * Add limited support for derived compact classes.
101 * Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal).
102 * Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
103 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
108 * Add support for array properties.
109 * Support implicit and explicit GValue casts.
110 * Add initial support for generic methods.
111 * Add postgres bindings.
112 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
117 * Add initial support for POSIX profile.
118 * Add --vapi and --gir commandline options.
119 * Add initial x11, xcb, and cairo-xcb bindings.
120 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
125 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
126 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
131 * Introduce new syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
132 * Add experimental support for fixed-length arrays.
133 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
134 * Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
140 * Do not generate header files unless requested by the -H commandline
141 option. This requires changes in the build system of Vala projects.
142 * Support conditional compilation.
147 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
148 * Add librsvg-2.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
149 * Add Maemo libosso bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
150 * Add V4L2 bindings (Matías De la Puente).
156 * Support signals in static D-Bus clients.
157 * Various improvements to asynchronous method support (Ryan Lortie).
158 * Report unused internal methods.
159 * Extend POSIX bindings.
160 * Add FUSE bindings (John Carr).
161 * Add libdaemon bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
167 * Do not require libgee for custom indexer access.
168 * Add Log.FILE, Log.LINE, and Log.METHOD constants.
169 * Various improvements to the .gir reader.
170 * Add Lua bindings (pancake and Phil Housley).
171 * Add MySQL bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
172 * Add partial POSIX bindings.
178 * Improve syntax of owned property getters.
179 * Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options.
180 * Remove --disable-non-null commandline option.
186 * Support array initializers as expressions.
187 * Support += to efficiently append elements to arrays.
188 * Calculate length for null-terminated arrays.
189 * Support initializers for multi-dimensional arrays.
190 * Add `owned' keyword to replace `#'.
191 * Various fixes in coroutine support.
192 * Support boxed structs as GObject properties.
198 * Rewrite D-Bus server support to directly use libdbus.
199 * Register structs as boxed types.
200 * Improve error reporting on invalid code.
201 * Support private class fields and class destructors.
202 * Add partial raptor and rasqal bindings.
203 * Drop vala-gen-project, moved to vtg.
209 * Report uninitialized local variables.
210 * Report unused fields, methods, and local variables.
211 * Fix error handling in complex statements.
212 * Improve support for generic types.
213 * Support parameter arrays in bindings.
214 * Do not require libgee for foreach statements.
215 * Support enums in D-Bus clients and servers.
216 * Support structs in hash tables in D-Bus servers.
217 * Experimental static D-Bus client support.
218 * Add --dump-tree commandline option to write code tree to file.
224 * Support type checks for error domains and error codes.
225 * Experimental support for yield statements and coroutines.
226 * Support GValue and GHashTable in D-Bus clients.
227 * Various improvements to the .gir reader.
228 * Drop deprecated support for static classes.
229 * Modularize code generator.
235 * Support more flexible constructors.
236 * Partial support for reading and writing .gir files.
237 * Improve compiler performance.
238 * Copy arrays where necessary.
239 * Basic support for static properties.
240 * Partial support for struct holding object references.
241 * Add tracker indexer bindings (Roberto Majadas)
242 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
248 * Notify on property changes by default (Jared Moore)
249 * Add unique-1.0 bindings (Phil Housley)
250 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
256 * Various improvements to D-Bus client and service support.
257 * Basic support for detailed signals.
258 * Check types of printf arguments.
259 * Support `in' operator for Gee.Collection and Gee.Map (Jamie McCracken)
260 * Add libgsf-1 bindings (Michael Lawrence)
261 * Add loudmouth-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
262 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
268 * Support overriding default method handlers of signals.
269 * Support dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects.
270 * Experimental support for nullable value types.
271 * Improve support for classes not deriving from GLib.Object.
272 * Support """verbatim strings""".
273 * Add parser for Genie (Jamie McCracken)
274 * Experimental support for arrays of arrays.
275 * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
276 * Improvements to D-Bus support (Ali Sabil, Philip Van Hoof, Yu Feng)
277 * Add libepc-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
278 * Add libtiff bindings (Christian Meyer)
279 * Updates to the GStreamer bindings (Ali Sabil and Jaap A. Haitsma)
280 * Many bug fixes and performance improvements.
285 * Add support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods.
286 * Various improvements to methods in D-Bus services.
287 * Add support for properties and signals in D-Bus services (Yu Feng)
288 * Add Time API to GLib bindings.
289 * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
290 * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
296 * Enable non-null types by default.
297 * Add --disable-non-null commandline option.
298 * New handwritten parser.
299 * Support virtual methods in interfaces.
300 * Add `dynamic' type modifier for D-Bus client support.
301 * Add experimental support for writing D-Bus services.
302 * Don't require `new' operator for structs.
303 * Warn when using deprecated syntax.
304 * Add libsexy bindings (Evan Nemerson)
305 * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
311 * Support nested namespaces.
312 * Support static constructors.
313 * Register enums with GType (Marc-André Lureau)
314 * Small syntax change for default values of properties.
315 * Add --verbose commandline option (Daniel Silverstone)
316 * Improve pointer support.
317 * Add GNOME Keyring bindings (Andrea Del Signore)
318 * Add SDL bindings (Levi Bard)
319 * Add libftdi bindings (Evan Nemerson)
320 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and SQLite bindings.
321 * Many bug fixes all over the place.
326 * Support private property accessors.
327 * Support default values for properties.
328 * Improve support for array length and delegate target parameters.
329 * Improve delegate and signal handler support.
330 * Introduce new syntax to declare errordomains.
331 * Improve exception support.
332 * Report errors for missing return statements.
333 * Report warnings for unreachable code.
334 * Improve support for generic types.
335 * Support pointer member access and pointer element access.
336 * Support pointer arithmetic.
337 * Add --quiet commandline option (Emmanuele Bassi)
338 * Add WebKit bindings.
339 * Add JSON-GLib bindings (Ali Sabil)
340 * Add goocanvas bindings (Roberto Majadas)
341 * Add hildon-fm-2 bindings (Levi Bard)
342 * Add taglib bindings (Andreas Brauchli)
343 * Add libusb bindings (Evan Nemerson)
344 * Add bzip2 bindings (Maciej Piechotka)
345 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and libsoup bindings.
352 * Add support for instance delegates.
353 * Support conditional method compilation.
354 * Add support for nested generic types.
355 * Add size_t and ssize_t.
356 * Use non-null types by default with --enable-non-null option.
357 * Limited support for nullable types.
358 * Add basic support for method pre- and postconditions.
359 * Improve pointer support.
360 * Always enable memory management.
361 * Add libgnome-menu bindings (Roberto Majadas)
362 * Add liboobs-1 bindings (Roberto Majadas)
363 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, SQLite, and libxml2 bindings.
364 * Small documentation improvements.
370 * Add Vala Project Generator.
371 * Support `in` operator for enums.
372 * Support typeof for generic type parameters.
373 * Replace gidlgen by vala-gen-introspect with a real C parser.
374 * Update all bindings to use vala-gen-introspect.
375 * Fix many gcc warnings.
376 * Fix build with Cygwin and MinGW (Yaakov Selkowitz).
382 * Use .vapi as file extension for bindings.
383 * Add Vala Reference Manual.
384 * Add support for object initializers.
385 * Emit #line directives in debug mode.
386 * Add --basedir option.
387 * Support creation methods in structs.
388 * Add support for [Notify] attribute for properties.
389 * Add experimental support for registering new fundamental classed types.
390 * Improve support for non-GObject classes.
391 * Improve error reporting.
392 * Add vapicheck to verify generated bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
393 * Drop xml_pp dependency (Alberto Ruiz).
399 * Convert reference-type structs to classes for a more consistent type system.
400 * Support `as` operator (Mathias Hasselmann).
401 * Improve array support.
402 * Experimental D-Bus client support.
403 * Add GConf bindings.
404 * Add libgnome and libgnomeui bindings.
405 * Add Glade bindings.
406 * Add libnotify bindings (Nicolas Christener, Roland Hostettler).
407 * Add GnomeVFS bindings.
408 * Add GtkSourceView bindings.
409 * Add Panel Applet bindings.
410 * Add GNOME Desktop Library bindings.
411 * Add libsoup bindings.
412 * Add libwnck bindings.
413 * Add GtkMozEmbed bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
414 * Add Poppler bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
415 * Add Enchant bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
416 * Add Hildon bindings (Marcelo Lira).
417 * Add SQLite bindings.
418 * Add curses bindings (Ed Schouten).
419 * Build system fixes (Nicolas Trangez).
420 * Add manual pages for gidlgen and vapigen (Kumar Appaiah).
421 * Many bug fixes all over the place.
426 * Use and support libgee collection library (internal copy for now).
427 * Performance improvements.
428 * Improve support for generic types.
429 * Many memory management fixes.
430 * Add support for inner classes.
431 * Add --cc and -X commandline options to control the C compiler.
432 * Use GSlice for reference-type structs.
433 * Add experimental GStreamer bindings.
438 * Support simple exception handling.
439 * Improve array and string support.
440 * Support multi-dimensional arrays.
441 * Add --thread commandline option.
448 * Add commandline options for running the C compiler and linker.
449 * Use # modifier for reference transfer in method parameters.
450 * Replace callback keyword by delegate.
451 * Improve and update GLib and GTK+ bindings.
452 * Add experimental GVFS binding.
453 * C89/MSVC portability fixes (Hans Breuer).
454 * Refactor code generator.
455 * Add experimental bindings generator.
461 * Add support for defining new generic classes.
462 * Improve array support.
463 * Memory management fixes.
464 * Improve abstract property support.
465 * Add basic support for flags types.
466 * Improve GLib binding.
473 * Add support for overridden properties.
474 * Support properties and signals in interfaces.
475 * Improve interface runtime suport.
476 * Verify that classes implement all abstract and interface methods.
477 * Basic compile-time support for generic types.
478 * Default to strong references for return values and local variables.
479 * Improve signal support.
480 * Add support for pointers.
481 * Improve support for numeric types.
482 * Support writing GTypeModule-based plug-ins.
483 * Improve manual memory management support.
484 * Improve GTK+ bindings.
490 * New object construction syntax.
491 * Interface implementations don't have to specify override anymore.
492 * Improve interface support.
497 * Improve interface support.
499 * Improve array support.
500 * Improve enum support.
501 * Add automated testing infrastructure.
502 * Fixes for prefix and postfix operators.
503 * Add more types to GLib bindings.
509 * Support base access.
510 * Support typeof expressions.
511 * Improve array support.
512 * Fix possible memory leak in foreach statements.
513 * Fix many warnings during C compilation.
514 * Improve GTK+ bindings.
519 * Support + operator in strings.
520 * Support unicode character literals.
521 * Add implicit conversions for numeric types.
522 * Improve interface support.
523 * Improve array support.
524 * Support arbitrary signal parameters.
525 * Add threading support.
526 * Support lock statements.
527 * Many improvements to the GTK+ bindings.
533 * Support namespace constants.
534 * Support switch statements.
535 * Array creation support.
536 * Provide complete but experimental bindings for GTK+ 2.10 and Cairo 1.2.
537 * Add implicit array length parameter.
538 * Follow package dependencies.
539 * Support hexadecimal and octal integer literals and hexadecimal escape
541 * Install libvala as shared library.
546 * Support named construction methods.
547 * Basic interface support.
548 * Improve error handling.