4 * Support BusName sender parameter in GDBus servers.
5 * More refactoring in the code generator.
6 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
11 * Update libnotify bindings to 0.7.0.
12 * Improvements to the .gir reader.
13 * Bug fixes and binding updates.
18 * Require and target GLib >= 2.16.
19 * Guard access to out parameters to allow null arguments.
20 * Add support for local constants.
21 * Support file descriptor passing with GDBus.
22 * Support cached property values in GDBus clients.
23 * Support Cancellable parameter in GDBus clients.
24 * Support no-reply methods in GDBus clients and servers.
25 * More refactoring in the code generator.
26 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
31 * Use byte indices for strings.
32 * Use uint8[] for binary data in bindings.
33 * Add support for parallel compilation.
34 * Improve compiler performance.
35 * More refactoring in the code generator.
36 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
41 * Port GIR parser and writer to GIR version 1.2.
42 * Update GLib bindings to 2.26 branch.
48 * Add --fatal-warnings commandline option.
49 * Deprecate string.len () in favor of string.length.
50 * Deprecate use of D-Bus GLib in favor of GDBus.
51 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
56 * Fix regression introduced by codegen refactoring.
61 * Drop deprecated support for assigning to construct properties.
62 * Some refactoring in the code generator.
63 * Bug fixes in bindings and vapigen.
68 * Add version suffix to support parallel installation.
69 * Define VALA_X_Y according to compiler version.
70 * Enable version header by default.
71 * Add vala.m4 with VALA_CHECK_PACKAGES macro.
72 * Add gedit-2.20 bindings (Andrea Del Signore).
73 * Add tokyocabinet bindings (Evan Nemerson).
74 * Various improvements to the Dova profile.
75 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
80 * Append documentation comments to generated C files.
81 * Skip <doc> tags in .gir files.
82 * Various improvements to the Dova profile.
83 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
88 * Support newlines in double quoted string literals.
89 * Add experimental support for main blocks.
90 * Add experimental vala tool to compile and run code.
91 * Initial support for generic delegates.
92 * Support using GClosure for delegate parameters.
93 * Support GBoxed-based memory management.
94 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer.
95 * Various improvements to the Dova profile.
96 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
101 * Initial support for GDBus-based clients and servers.
102 * Support implicit and explicit GVariant casts.
103 * Add support for [Deprecated] attribute.
104 * Add GenericArray as alternative binding to GPtrArray.
105 * Add gdk-pixbuf-3.0, gdk-3.0, gdk-x11-3.0, and gtk+-3.0 bindings.
106 * Updates to the GLib bindings.
112 * Support constants in enums.
113 * Deprecate +=/-= syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
114 * Add experimental support for Dova profile.
115 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
116 * Add clutter-gst-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil).
117 * Add gdu and gdu-gtk bindings.
118 * Add libesmtp bindings (Adrien Bustany).
119 * Add mx-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
120 * Add orc-0.4 bindings (Fabian Deutsch).
121 * Add rest-extras-0.6 bindings (Adrien Bustany).
122 * Updates to the GLib, GStreamer, Linux, SQLite, and other bindings.
128 * Infer type arguments when calling generic methods.
129 * Support `in' operator for arrays.
130 * Add experimental support for regular expression literals.
131 * Add experimental support for chained relational expressions.
132 * Add va_list support.
133 * Add clutter-gtk-0.10 bindings (Gordon Allott).
134 * Add gdl-1.0 bindings (Nicolas Joseph).
135 * Add gstreamer-app-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge).
136 * Add gstreamer-cdda-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge).
137 * Add gudev-1.0 bindings (Jim Nelson).
138 * Add libgda-report-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
139 * Add libgvc (graphviz) bindings (Martin Olsson).
140 * Add purple bindings (Adrien Bustany).
141 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
146 * Support coalescing operator ??.
147 * Support to_string and bitwise complement with enums.
148 * Return handler id when connecting signal handlers.
149 * Support struct comparison.
150 * Support constructor chaining in structs.
151 * Enforce protected member restrictions.
152 * Improve performance of flow analysis.
153 * Support automatic line continuations in Genie.
154 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer.
155 * Add --enable-mem-profiler commandline option.
156 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
161 * Support array and string slicing.
162 * Add --symbols commandline option.
163 * Add avahi-gobject bindings (Sebastian Noack).
164 * Add ccss-1 bindings (Ali Sabil).
165 * Add libarchive bindings (Julian Andres Klode).
166 * Add libmagic bindings (Jens Georg).
167 * Add readline bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
168 * Add twitter-glib-1.0 bindings (Adrien Bustany).
169 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
174 * Support constructor chain up to GObject using Object (...).
175 * Add syntax for string templates.
176 * Support (!) non-null casts.
177 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
182 * Support `using' directives inside namespaces.
183 * Use const only for immutable structs.
184 * Support string marshalling for enums in D-Bus (Didier Ptitjes).
185 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
186 * Add libgda-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
187 * Many bug fixes for closures and async methods.
192 * Add support for closures.
193 * Improve support for asynchronous methods.
194 * Support async methods in D-Bus servers.
195 * Add clutter-1.0 bindings (Rob Taylor).
196 * Add GVariant, GSettings, and dconf bindings (Ryan Lortie).
197 * Add linux, libnl-1, and libasound bindings (Michael 'Mickey' Lauer).
198 * Add gnutls bindings (Jiří Zárevúcky).
199 * Add librest bindings (Adrien Bustany).
200 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
205 * Add support for static properties.
206 * Add support for delegate properties.
207 * Support virtual default handler for signals.
208 * Add limited support for derived compact classes.
209 * Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal).
210 * Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
211 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
216 * Add support for array properties.
217 * Support implicit and explicit GValue casts.
218 * Add initial support for generic methods.
219 * Add postgres bindings.
220 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
225 * Add initial support for POSIX profile.
226 * Add --vapi and --gir commandline options.
227 * Add initial x11, xcb, and cairo-xcb bindings.
228 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
233 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
234 * Many bug fixes and binding updates.
239 * Introduce new syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
240 * Add experimental support for fixed-length arrays.
241 * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).
242 * Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
248 * Do not generate header files unless requested by the -H commandline
249 option. This requires changes in the build system of Vala projects.
250 * Support conditional compilation.
255 * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
256 * Add librsvg-2.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
257 * Add Maemo libosso bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
258 * Add V4L2 bindings (Matías De la Puente).
264 * Support signals in static D-Bus clients.
265 * Various improvements to asynchronous method support (Ryan Lortie).
266 * Report unused internal methods.
267 * Extend POSIX bindings.
268 * Add FUSE bindings (John Carr).
269 * Add libdaemon bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
275 * Do not require libgee for custom indexer access.
276 * Add Log.FILE, Log.LINE, and Log.METHOD constants.
277 * Various improvements to the .gir reader.
278 * Add Lua bindings (pancake and Phil Housley).
279 * Add MySQL bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
280 * Add partial POSIX bindings.
286 * Improve syntax of owned property getters.
287 * Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options.
288 * Remove --disable-non-null commandline option.
294 * Support array initializers as expressions.
295 * Support += to efficiently append elements to arrays.
296 * Calculate length for null-terminated arrays.
297 * Support initializers for multi-dimensional arrays.
298 * Add `owned' keyword to replace `#'.
299 * Various fixes in coroutine support.
300 * Support boxed structs as GObject properties.
306 * Rewrite D-Bus server support to directly use libdbus.
307 * Register structs as boxed types.
308 * Improve error reporting on invalid code.
309 * Support private class fields and class destructors.
310 * Add partial raptor and rasqal bindings.
311 * Drop vala-gen-project, moved to vtg.
317 * Report uninitialized local variables.
318 * Report unused fields, methods, and local variables.
319 * Fix error handling in complex statements.
320 * Improve support for generic types.
321 * Support parameter arrays in bindings.
322 * Do not require libgee for foreach statements.
323 * Support enums in D-Bus clients and servers.
324 * Support structs in hash tables in D-Bus servers.
325 * Experimental static D-Bus client support.
326 * Add --dump-tree commandline option to write code tree to file.
332 * Support type checks for error domains and error codes.
333 * Experimental support for yield statements and coroutines.
334 * Support GValue and GHashTable in D-Bus clients.
335 * Various improvements to the .gir reader.
336 * Drop deprecated support for static classes.
337 * Modularize code generator.
343 * Support more flexible constructors.
344 * Partial support for reading and writing .gir files.
345 * Improve compiler performance.
346 * Copy arrays where necessary.
347 * Basic support for static properties.
348 * Partial support for struct holding object references.
349 * Add tracker indexer bindings (Roberto Majadas)
350 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
356 * Notify on property changes by default (Jared Moore)
357 * Add unique-1.0 bindings (Phil Housley)
358 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
364 * Various improvements to D-Bus client and service support.
365 * Basic support for detailed signals.
366 * Check types of printf arguments.
367 * Support `in' operator for Gee.Collection and Gee.Map (Jamie McCracken)
368 * Add libgsf-1 bindings (Michael Lawrence)
369 * Add loudmouth-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
370 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
376 * Support overriding default method handlers of signals.
377 * Support dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects.
378 * Experimental support for nullable value types.
379 * Improve support for classes not deriving from GLib.Object.
380 * Support """verbatim strings""".
381 * Add parser for Genie (Jamie McCracken)
382 * Experimental support for arrays of arrays.
383 * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
384 * Improvements to D-Bus support (Ali Sabil, Philip Van Hoof, Yu Feng)
385 * Add libepc-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
386 * Add libtiff bindings (Christian Meyer)
387 * Updates to the GStreamer bindings (Ali Sabil and Jaap A. Haitsma)
388 * Many bug fixes and performance improvements.
393 * Add support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods.
394 * Various improvements to methods in D-Bus services.
395 * Add support for properties and signals in D-Bus services (Yu Feng)
396 * Add Time API to GLib bindings.
397 * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
398 * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
404 * Enable non-null types by default.
405 * Add --disable-non-null commandline option.
406 * New handwritten parser.
407 * Support virtual methods in interfaces.
408 * Add `dynamic' type modifier for D-Bus client support.
409 * Add experimental support for writing D-Bus services.
410 * Don't require `new' operator for structs.
411 * Warn when using deprecated syntax.
412 * Add libsexy bindings (Evan Nemerson)
413 * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
419 * Support nested namespaces.
420 * Support static constructors.
421 * Register enums with GType (Marc-André Lureau)
422 * Small syntax change for default values of properties.
423 * Add --verbose commandline option (Daniel Silverstone)
424 * Improve pointer support.
425 * Add GNOME Keyring bindings (Andrea Del Signore)
426 * Add SDL bindings (Levi Bard)
427 * Add libftdi bindings (Evan Nemerson)
428 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and SQLite bindings.
429 * Many bug fixes all over the place.
434 * Support private property accessors.
435 * Support default values for properties.
436 * Improve support for array length and delegate target parameters.
437 * Improve delegate and signal handler support.
438 * Introduce new syntax to declare errordomains.
439 * Improve exception support.
440 * Report errors for missing return statements.
441 * Report warnings for unreachable code.
442 * Improve support for generic types.
443 * Support pointer member access and pointer element access.
444 * Support pointer arithmetic.
445 * Add --quiet commandline option (Emmanuele Bassi)
446 * Add WebKit bindings.
447 * Add JSON-GLib bindings (Ali Sabil)
448 * Add goocanvas bindings (Roberto Majadas)
449 * Add hildon-fm-2 bindings (Levi Bard)
450 * Add taglib bindings (Andreas Brauchli)
451 * Add libusb bindings (Evan Nemerson)
452 * Add bzip2 bindings (Maciej Piechotka)
453 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and libsoup bindings.
460 * Add support for instance delegates.
461 * Support conditional method compilation.
462 * Add support for nested generic types.
463 * Add size_t and ssize_t.
464 * Use non-null types by default with --enable-non-null option.
465 * Limited support for nullable types.
466 * Add basic support for method pre- and postconditions.
467 * Improve pointer support.
468 * Always enable memory management.
469 * Add libgnome-menu bindings (Roberto Majadas)
470 * Add liboobs-1 bindings (Roberto Majadas)
471 * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, SQLite, and libxml2 bindings.
472 * Small documentation improvements.
478 * Add Vala Project Generator.
479 * Support `in` operator for enums.
480 * Support typeof for generic type parameters.
481 * Replace gidlgen by vala-gen-introspect with a real C parser.
482 * Update all bindings to use vala-gen-introspect.
483 * Fix many gcc warnings.
484 * Fix build with Cygwin and MinGW (Yaakov Selkowitz).
490 * Use .vapi as file extension for bindings.
491 * Add Vala Reference Manual.
492 * Add support for object initializers.
493 * Emit #line directives in debug mode.
494 * Add --basedir option.
495 * Support creation methods in structs.
496 * Add support for [Notify] attribute for properties.
497 * Add experimental support for registering new fundamental classed types.
498 * Improve support for non-GObject classes.
499 * Improve error reporting.
500 * Add vapicheck to verify generated bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
501 * Drop xml_pp dependency (Alberto Ruiz).
507 * Convert reference-type structs to classes for a more consistent type system.
508 * Support `as` operator (Mathias Hasselmann).
509 * Improve array support.
510 * Experimental D-Bus client support.
511 * Add GConf bindings.
512 * Add libgnome and libgnomeui bindings.
513 * Add Glade bindings.
514 * Add libnotify bindings (Nicolas Christener, Roland Hostettler).
515 * Add GnomeVFS bindings.
516 * Add GtkSourceView bindings.
517 * Add Panel Applet bindings.
518 * Add GNOME Desktop Library bindings.
519 * Add libsoup bindings.
520 * Add libwnck bindings.
521 * Add GtkMozEmbed bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
522 * Add Poppler bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
523 * Add Enchant bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
524 * Add Hildon bindings (Marcelo Lira).
525 * Add SQLite bindings.
526 * Add curses bindings (Ed Schouten).
527 * Build system fixes (Nicolas Trangez).
528 * Add manual pages for gidlgen and vapigen (Kumar Appaiah).
529 * Many bug fixes all over the place.
534 * Use and support libgee collection library (internal copy for now).
535 * Performance improvements.
536 * Improve support for generic types.
537 * Many memory management fixes.
538 * Add support for inner classes.
539 * Add --cc and -X commandline options to control the C compiler.
540 * Use GSlice for reference-type structs.
541 * Add experimental GStreamer bindings.
546 * Support simple exception handling.
547 * Improve array and string support.
548 * Support multi-dimensional arrays.
549 * Add --thread commandline option.
556 * Add commandline options for running the C compiler and linker.
557 * Use # modifier for reference transfer in method parameters.
558 * Replace callback keyword by delegate.
559 * Improve and update GLib and GTK+ bindings.
560 * Add experimental GVFS binding.
561 * C89/MSVC portability fixes (Hans Breuer).
562 * Refactor code generator.
563 * Add experimental bindings generator.
569 * Add support for defining new generic classes.
570 * Improve array support.
571 * Memory management fixes.
572 * Improve abstract property support.
573 * Add basic support for flags types.
574 * Improve GLib binding.
581 * Add support for overridden properties.
582 * Support properties and signals in interfaces.
583 * Improve interface runtime suport.
584 * Verify that classes implement all abstract and interface methods.
585 * Basic compile-time support for generic types.
586 * Default to strong references for return values and local variables.
587 * Improve signal support.
588 * Add support for pointers.
589 * Improve support for numeric types.
590 * Support writing GTypeModule-based plug-ins.
591 * Improve manual memory management support.
592 * Improve GTK+ bindings.
598 * New object construction syntax.
599 * Interface implementations don't have to specify override anymore.
600 * Improve interface support.
605 * Improve interface support.
607 * Improve array support.
608 * Improve enum support.
609 * Add automated testing infrastructure.
610 * Fixes for prefix and postfix operators.
611 * Add more types to GLib bindings.
617 * Support base access.
618 * Support typeof expressions.
619 * Improve array support.
620 * Fix possible memory leak in foreach statements.
621 * Fix many warnings during C compilation.
622 * Improve GTK+ bindings.
627 * Support + operator in strings.
628 * Support unicode character literals.
629 * Add implicit conversions for numeric types.
630 * Improve interface support.
631 * Improve array support.
632 * Support arbitrary signal parameters.
633 * Add threading support.
634 * Support lock statements.
635 * Many improvements to the GTK+ bindings.
641 * Support namespace constants.
642 * Support switch statements.
643 * Array creation support.
644 * Provide complete but experimental bindings for GTK+ 2.10 and Cairo 1.2.
645 * Add implicit array length parameter.
646 * Follow package dependencies.
647 * Support hexadecimal and octal integer literals and hexadecimal escape
649 * Install libvala as shared library.
654 * Support named construction methods.
655 * Basic interface support.
656 * Improve error handling.