1 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.2 to GLib 2.20.3 2 =================================================== 3 4 * Bug fixes: 5 578769 implement GWinHttpFileInputStream::close_fn 6 580347 off-by-1 bug in GWinHttpFile 7 579558 Application employing gvfs crashes with only libgvfs... 8 581879 GFileMonitor crash: emit_cb not handling monitor disposal... 9 583324 locking problem in g_main_context_iterate 10 11 * Updated translations: 12 Valencian-Catalan 13 14 15 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.1 to GLib 2.20.2 16 =================================================== 17 18 * Bug fixes: 19 579862 requesting xattr::foo ends up calling getxattr(... 20 573246 g_desktop_app_info_dup() can access NULL pointer 21 22 * Updated translations: 23 Catalan 24 Czech 25 Pashto 26 27 28 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.0 to GLib 2.20.1 29 =================================================== 30 31 * Bug fixes: 32 575555 Use fsync() when replacing files to avoid data loss on 33 575708 runaway inotify madness 34 575270 GVolumeMonitor::mount-pre-unmount not being emitted 35 577128 glib make check Failed to execute child process... 36 573673 Always show "backup" directories 37 578369 g_time_val_from_iso8601() parses timezones incorrectly 38 578002 Fix a small typo in GFile docs 39 578017 G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED docs 40 41 * Updated translations: 42 Arabic 43 Assamese 44 Basque 45 Bularian 46 Brazilian Portuguese 47 British English 48 Catalan 49 Danish 50 French 51 Galician 52 German 53 Greek 54 Hungarian 55 Italian 56 Japanese 57 Kannada 58 Lithuanian 59 Malayalam 60 Norwegian bokml 61 Oriya 62 Polish 63 Punjabi 64 Russian 65 Simplified Chinese 66 Slovenian 67 Spanish 68 Swedish 69 Tamil 70 71 72 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.9 to GLib 2.20.0 73 =================================================== 74 75 * Base64 support: Avoid integer overflows. CVE-2008-4316 76 77 * Bugs fixed: 78 574019 GChecksum: document and guarantee hex characters in lower case 79 573454 Unable copy/move files to directories symlinked to gvfs share 80 561172 gnome-open fails on local URIs with anchors 81 573970 crash in gunixvolumemonitor:update_mounts when unmounting 82 573843 g_get_current_dir returns non-absolute path 83 84 * Updated translations: 85 Assamese (as) 86 Bengali (bn_IN) 87 Czech (cs) 88 Hindi (hi) 89 Italian (it) 90 Japanese (ja) 91 Lithuanian (lt) 92 Malayalam (ml) 93 Marathi (mr) 94 Oriya (or) 95 Polish (pl) 96 Romanian (ro) 97 Telugu (te) 98 99 100 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.8 to GLib 2.19.9 101 =================================================== 102 103 * GMarkup: 104 - Considerable speedup 105 106 * GIO 107 - Add G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION flag to allow replacing 108 the destination of a copying operation as if it did not exit before. 109 - Be more careful when classifying files as desktop files 110 - Support desktop file key X-GIO-NoFuse which disables the use 111 of fuse pathnames for %u and %U arguments 112 113 * Bugs fixed: 114 572672 glib/gthread.c: argument is different type 115 572464 Doc for g_file_get_contents 116 572151 it's and its confused in docs and comments 117 570501 g_win32_get_system_data_dirs uses invalid conversion... 118 167569 g_string_append_printf crashes on win32 when used... 119 572508 gmarkup speedup 120 560564 Replacing a symlink with its linked file truncates... 121 549298 impossible to copy files with p (pipe) flag 122 543183 Clarify docs for g_file_has_prefix 123 540461 g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size() doesn't behave... 124 573462 GEmblemedIcon leak 125 573421 Clarify message format in GMountOperation 126 573658 Deadlock in giomodule.c 127 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -? 128 573527 Wrong shell to run config.status in Makefile.in.in 129 573128 A couple of typos in GObject documentation 130 131 * Updated translations: 132 Catalan (ca) 133 British English (en_GB) 134 Spanish (es) 135 Basque (eu) 136 Finnish (fi) 137 French (fr) 138 Gujarati (gu) 139 Hebrew (he) 140 Hungarian (hu) 141 Korean (ko) 142 Maithili (mai) 143 Norwegian bokml (nb) 144 Dutch (nl) 145 Portugese (pt) 146 Swedish (sv) 147 Thai (th) 148 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK) 149 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) 150 151 152 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.7 to GLib 2.19.8 153 =================================================== 154 155 * GIO: Fix missing exports of new API 156 157 * Fix strict aliasing warnings and violations to make Glib work 158 with gcc 4.4 159 160 161 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.6 to GLib 2.19.7 162 =================================================== 163 164 * GIO 165 - GFile gained an attribute for the actual file size in bytes 166 - GMountOperation gained an "aborted' signal that allows to abort 167 a mount operation from the backend side 168 169 * Bugs fixed: 170 523742 Use noinst for non-installable libraries 171 566747 URIs opened with firefox %u load as local files 172 541225 Can't compile gio on AIX duplicate case value in gioerror.c 173 571598 GAsyncResult with NULL gobject 174 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes 175 176 * Updates translations: 177 Basque (eu) 178 Gujarati (gu) 179 Italian (it) 180 Japanese (ja) 181 Norwegian bokml (nb) 182 Dutch (nl) 183 Portugese (pt) 184 Thai (th) 185 Vietnamese (vi) 186 187 188 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.5 to GLib 2.19.6 189 =================================================== 190 191 * New format macro to print goffset data: G_OFFSET_FORMAT 192 193 * GIO: 194 - Add a GFilter{Input,Output}Stream::close-base-stream properties which 195 determine whether the base stream will be closed when the filter stream 196 is finalized. 197 - g_data_input_stream_read_line and ..._read_until have asynchronous 198 variants now. 199 200 * Bugs fixed: 201 568294 A wrong reference in the description of g_bookmark_file_... 202 563141 RFE: define G_OFFSET_FORMAT 203 569105 g_time_val_to_iso8601() assumes time_t==long 204 568394 dropping the last reference to a stream filter closes... 205 568741 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't work 206 568723 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't take count == -1 207 568575 _async functions for GDataInputStream 208 209 * Updated translations: 210 Bulgarian (bg) 211 Finnish (fi) 212 Hungarian (hu) 213 Oriya (or) 214 Swedish (sv) 215 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK) 216 Traditional Chinese (zy_TW) 217 218 219 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.4 to GLib 2.19.5 220 =================================================== 221 222 * Update included PCRE to 7.8 223 224 * g_base64_decode_inplace: New function to do base64 decoding in place 225 226 * Bugs fixed: 227 567138 get_package_directory_from_module() does not free ... 228 566569 gregex docs clarification 229 566573 g_match_info_fetch_pos docs 230 564728 Add function to decode base64 encoded data in place 231 567838 G_STRUCT_OFFSETOF fails to compile under icc 9.1 232 567977 textdomain() macro should not return NULL ... 233 512779 --disable-regex breaks compilation 234 566770 error code 0 for Too many open files is useless 235 565484 g_content_type_guess passes non-UTF8 text to XDG ... 236 237 * Updated translations: 238 Catalan (ca) 239 Spanish (es) 240 Italian (it) 241 Swedish (sv) 242 243 244 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.3 to GLib 2.19.4 245 =================================================== 246 247 * GIO: 248 - Use O_NOATIME when sniffing mimetypes 249 - Add a convenience method to check if a GSimpleAsyncResult 250 is valid 251 252 * Bugs fixed: 253 560676 function access for g_threads_supported 254 565905 There is no g_context_group_set_translation_domain 255 564210 SUN Studio 12 has supported visibility attribute 256 565136 GObject's "notify" signal parameters are wrong in gtk-doc 257 565831 error in interface creation sample 258 566348 g_file_open_tmp uses the wrong g_mkstemp on win32 259 566064 Add NOATIME flag to query_info_flags 260 566170 g_async_result_verify_source_object 261 262 * Updated translations: 263 Spanish (es) 264 Norwegian bokml (nb) 265 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 266 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) 267 268 269 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.1 to GLib 2.19.3 270 =================================================== 271 272 * Bugs fixed: 273 508021 Add support for the CRIS and CRISv32 architectures 274 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permission to use 275 558458 Cannot build gio tests on Solaris using SUN cc 276 555465 GUnix{Input,Output}Stream lacks fd/close_fd_at_close property 277 558298 Hide ecryptfs mounts 278 515777 incorrect date&time on copy 279 562452 Ensure we return G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED if cancelling 280 g_simple_async_result_run_in_thread 281 473150 g_type_module_use inconsistently increases the use 282 counter in case of error 283 563150 G_GU?INT*_MODIFIER/FORMAT docs 284 563156 Document printing and scanning gunichar values 285 286 * Updated translations: 287 Hebrew (he) 288 Italian (it) 289 290 291 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.0 to GLib 2.19.1 292 =================================================== 293 294 * GIO: 295 - g_icon_to_string, g_icon_new_for_string: GIcon serialization support 296 - G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON: new file attribute for preview images 297 - g_app_info_get_commandline: new function to get the full commandline 298 - g_mount_shadow, g_mount_unshadow, g_mount_is_shadowed: New functions 299 to 'shadow' mounts (i.e. hide them from the UI when they already 300 have a different representation, like a bookmark) 301 302 * Bugs fixed: 303 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion 304 557087 mem leak in g_content_types_get_registered 305 556921 gpoll.h breaks hal compilation 306 557210 g_compute_checksum_for_* asserts with less than 2 bytes 307 558381 Add support for compile time assertions 308 558185 'parent' variable in g_local_file_get_child_for_display_name() 309 hits g_object_unref(NULL) assertion 310 558513 g_warn_if_fail FIXME in gtestutils 311 558672 NULL key lookup using g_hash_table_lookup_extended() 312 555740 gicon serialization 313 557182 preview functionality 314 528320 Incorrect icons displayed for files with custom mimetype icons 315 556910 Memory leak: sub 316 557592 Missing include in gwinhttpfile.c 317 556415 Crash on Windows 2000 in g_winhttp_vfs_init() 318 555935 Clarify the mechanism of overwriting properties 319 552776 ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r not mentioned 320 559448 GObject Reference Manual (typo) 321 561212 GFileReadMoreCallback API doc refers to non-existant function 322 560569 gkeyfile doesn't use the set list_separator in some cases 323 560568 gkeyfile docs buglet 324 559413 g_option_group_set_error_hook docs buglet 325 562378 callback return value not respected for callback option 326 with no arg 327 559110 Do not include libintl.h after glibintl.h 328 557603 carbon check output misplaced 329 562544 g_key_file_get_string and g_key_file_get_value 330 documentation does not explain the difference 331 547264 Missing "no flags" flag 332 562638 GDebugKey key member should be const 333 562639 g_parse_debug_flags() parsing "help" 334 562549 g_byte_array_free should tell how free data 335 559452 GObject Reference Manual (typo) 336 559462 GObject Reference Manual (typo) 337 559517 GObject Reference Manual (typo) 338 562538 GObject interface tutorial shouldn't finalise with 339 "Please forget everything" 340 561352 Leak of icon description 341 561375 Leaks mountpoint description 342 561807 inotify_sub.c: dup_dirname() fails to remove trailing '/' 343 562393 g_buffered_input_stream_read_byte broken if data available 344 541715 win32 : patch for warnings and signature problems in recent code 345 547481 g_data_input_stream_read_line behaves not as stated in the docs 346 548163 Nautilus displays wrong error message for too long file names 347 559633 gtk_image_new_from_gicon does not always work for .desktop files 348 555486 No way to recover command line from GAppInfo 349 350 * Translation updates: 351 Spanish (es) 352 Ukrainian (uk) 353 354 355 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.1 to GLib 2.19.0 356 =================================================== 357 358 * Rewrite GHashTable to use open addressing with quadratic probing instead 359 of chaining. This has the potential to reduce memory fragmentation 360 significantly, while being slightly faster due to better locality and 361 no need to call alloc/free functions for nodes. Benchmarks suggest it 362 also uses less memory overall. 363 364 * Make g_poll available as public api 365 366 * New macros g_assert_error and g_assert_no_error to assert 367 that a GError is set or unset 368 369 * g_cancellable_make_pollfd: New method to make a GPollFD for a cancellable 370 371 * g_app_info_can_delete, g_app_info_delete, g_app_info_reset_type_associations: 372 New functions to clean up app infos and content types 373 374 * When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris when possible, 375 and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris. 376 377 * Bugs fixed: 378 505361 gunixinputstream.c assumes poll() available 379 509446 portable blocking gio cancellation 380 553820 gpoll.c: undeclared identifier 381 553724 python interpretter path not patched in correctly 382 553857 gbacktrace.h requires signal.h 383 553447 g_assert_no_error() 384 554092 glib doesn't return G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT et al on OS X 385 528670 Always pass file:/// uri's in GAppLaunchContext 386 555224 Improve g_format_size_for_display doc 387 555309 giochannel breaks on error 388 554790 g_convert() misbehaves with winiconv versions 389 555314 mem leak in gmarkup 390 555313 GFileAttribute boxed type get_type function should... 391 552861 glib-2.0.m4 calls system(3) without storing its result 392 554557 Patch to fix gcc warnings about missing format specifiers 393 552107 Small libtool fixes 394 551355 Make glib build with libtool 2.2 395 555311 format not a string literal and no format arguments 396 556101 static mutex yields warnings with g++ 397 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion 398 526456 Open addressing in GHashTable 399 553426 cancellable clarifications 400 545350 GAppInfo deletion 401 545351 Reset associations for content type 402 552168 volume's mount not mounted after g_volume_mount_finish 403 554970 segfault when update-desktop-database is not available... 404 554745 GFileAttributeInfoList should be boxed 405 555121 Improved build-time handling of gio module-dir 406 555711 Wrong fallback order of mimetype icons 407 555331 Deprecate adoption of mounts 408 556335 make check fails in abicheck.sh 409 556334 Warning when building without selinux support 410 556422 g_file_enumerator_next_file: unclear... 411 412 * Updated translations: 413 Arabic (ar) 414 Danish (da) 415 Polish (pl) 416 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 417 Romanian (ro) 418 Russian (ru) 419 420 421 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.0 to GLib 2.18.1 422 =================================================== 423 424 * Bugs fixed: 425 550433 g_test_init doesn't recognize --help 426 523463 Core dump in gmain.c:2482:IA__g_main_context_check 427 551228 G_STRFUNC on recent Sun compiler should be expanded... 428 551410 gtestutils.c: using printf without prototype 429 551731 g_date_set_time[_t] docs should mention what timezone 430 548321 <string.h> is not included in gi18n-lib.h 431 551149 xdgmime mem leak 432 550647 synchronous pipe I/O when reading mount reply 433 551887 Docs for g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename aren't... 434 551681 g_content_type_guess() too naive with filenames 435 552352 g_app_info_launch doesn't work if "Path" key... 436 551408 gmodule.def generated to builddir... 437 552359 g_file_info_get_icon should return GThemedIcon, and... 438 439 * Updated translations: 440 Arabic (ar) 441 Bengali India (bn_IN) 442 British English (en_GB) 443 Hindi (hi) 444 Croatian (hr) 445 Korean (ko) 446 Oriya (or) 447 Turkish (tr) 448 Telugu (te) 449 450 451 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.7 to GLib 2.18.0 452 =================================================== 453 454 * Win32: 455 - rework the g_poll() implementation to match poll() semantics more closely 456 457 * Bugs fixed: 458 324234 Using g_io_add_watch_full() to wait for connect() to return... 459 548278 Async GETs connections are always terminated unexpectedly... 460 500246 Bug fixes for giowin32 461 523939 Example program for GValue 462 550096 GBookmarkFile parser is not forward compatible 463 550040 Move GString, rand and printf tests to the unit test framework 464 550104 trivial documentation fix for g_get_home_dir 465 548988 g_file_replace fails on Windows when the target file exists 466 550059 Wrong docs for g_emblemed_icon_add_emblem 467 548800 Missing a g_object_get_type function 468 550056 Missing documentation for g_emblemed_icon_get_emblems 469 470 * Updated translations: 471 Bulgarian (bg) 472 Czech (cs) 473 German (de) 474 Estonian (et) 475 Basque (eu) 476 French (fr) 477 Hebrew (he) 478 Hungarian (hu) 479 Italian (it) 480 Japanese (ja) 481 Lithuanian (lt) 482 Maithili (mai) 483 Dutch (nl) 484 Swedish (sv) 485 Thai (th) 486 Ukrainian (uk) 487 Vietnamese (vi) 488 489 490 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7 491 =================================================== 492 493 * More fixes for 64-bit Windows 494 495 * GIO 496 - Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows 497 498 * Bugs fixed: 499 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect 500 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  ..  501 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues 502 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure 503 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build 504 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict 505 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc 506 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor 507 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without... 508 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly 509 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop 510 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories... 511 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors 512 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile... 513 547262 Missing link in the docs 514 515 * Updated translations: 516 Arabic (ar) 517 Catalan (ca) 518 Spanish (es) 519 Basque (eu) 520 Finnish (fi) 521 Galician (gl) 522 Hebrew (he) 523 Marathi (mr) 524 Norwegian bokml (nb) 525 Portugese (pt) 526 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 527 Swedish (sv) 528 Thai (th) 529 530 531 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6 532 =================================================== 533 534 * Fix problems on 64-bit Windows 535 536 * g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access 537 the user_data outside of callbacks 538 539 * GIO 540 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of 541 g_mount_guess_content_type 542 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related 543 metadata to icons 544 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems 545 to icons 546 547 * Bugs fixed: 548 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am 549 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers 550 545485 Implicit declaration of utime() 551 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal... 552 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue 553 529694 SELinux context setting support 554 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc... 555 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type 556 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess... 557 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation 558 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs 559 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop... 560 546079 leak in xdgmime 561 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs 562 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink 563 564 * Updated translations: 565 Arabic (ar) 566 Estonian (et) 567 Galician (gl) 568 Italian (it) 569 Japanese (ja) 570 Korean (ko) 571 Norwegian bokml (nb) 572 Pashto (ps) 573 Portugese (pt) 574 575 576 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4 577 =================================================== 578 579 * GIO: 580 - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type, 581 g_content_type_guess_for_tree. 582 - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class 583 - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors: 584 g_volume_get_activation_root 585 586 * GObject: 587 - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure: 588 g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler 589 590 * Internationalization: 591 - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_ 592 593 * GMarkup: 594 - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push, 595 g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers" 596 597 * Bugs fixed: 598 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without... 599 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the... 600 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local 601 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash... 602 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit 603 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support 604 541794 drive-eject-button signal 605 541793 activation root for volumes 606 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3 607 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris 608 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup 609 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption 610 406120 g_ascii_strtod 611 334234 "printf" format error 612 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_ 613 540616 mem leak in filechooser button 614 539229 gobject-query calls itself query 615 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala 616 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use 617 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html 618 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century 619 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ... 620 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file 621 622 * Updated translation: 623 German (de) 624 Estonian (et) 625 Pashto (ps) 626 Albanian (sq) 627 Thai (th) 628 Traditional Chinese (zh_HK) 629 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) 630 631 632 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3 633 =================================================== 634 635 * PCRE 636 - fix for CVE-2008-2371 637 638 * Bugs fixed: 639 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes 640 537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601 641 539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says... 642 535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT 643 539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT 644 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync 645 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules 646 539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest 647 539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify 648 538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES 649 540545 Monotonic time and timer offset 650 535947 want g_set_error_literal 651 539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF 652 536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile 653 538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser 654 540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists 655 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate 656 538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get 657 539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias 658 540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL 659 534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile 660 536733 gio build failure on Irix 661 536160 Add g_file_monitor() 662 538127 FileChooser broken on win32 663 531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+ 664 538564 gio should have gio-types.h 665 540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before 666 667 Updated translations: 668 Korean (ko) 669 Occitan (oc) 670 671 672 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1 673 =================================================== 674 675 * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime() 676 677 * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers 678 for corresponding gettext functions with added functionaliy 679 680 * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including 681 icons for mime types 682 683 * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name() 684 685 * Bugs fixed: 686 535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset 687 528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private 688 528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags 689 537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS() 690 530527 Misprint in the description of the interface 691 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS 692 530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and 693 'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo 694 528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface 695 528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value 696 amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked 697 528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for 698 the interface g_type_register_fundamental 699 528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for 700 the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc 701 537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe 702 537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder 703 537392 Additional colon in xattr name 704 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems 705 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/") 706 503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no 707 translation 708 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message 709 338162 Use po/LINGUAS 710 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file 711 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre 712 455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD 713 fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use 714 498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail 715 511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents 716 531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with 717 gcc 4.0 or newer 718 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via 719 g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal() 720 531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac 721 535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly 722 535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function) 723 724 * Translation updates: 725 Arabic (ar) 726 German (de) 727 Italian (it) 728 Norwegian bokml (nb) 729 Thai (th) 730 731 732 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0 733 =================================================== 734 735 * Update to Unicode 5.1 736 737 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12 738 739 * Update included PCRE to 7.7 740 741 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included. 742 This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn 743 it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES. 744 745 * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0 746 747 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO 748 749 * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find 750 additional GIO modules 751 752 * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size 753 function attribute 754 755 * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum 756 757 * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the 758 rate at which events are reported 759 760 * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of 761 a file 762 763 * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the 764 size of the written data. 765 766 * Bugs fixed: 767 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode 768 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa) 769 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile 770 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and 771 other optimizations 772 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources 773 315437 extern inline -> static inline 774 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width 775 alphanumerics into half width 776 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first 777 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c 778 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems 779 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation 780 526619 make test-report crash 781 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0 782 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform 783 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working 784 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped 785 528667 Typos in testing module documentation 786 459905 Bug in wcwidth data 787 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table 788 501651 Update glib/libcharset 789 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol 790 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private 791 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc 792 517419 gio win32 directory monitor 793 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback 794 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0 795 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems 796 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation 797 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object 798 Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual 799 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section 800 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should 801 describe purpose of nick and blurb 802 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker 803 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ... 804 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "... 805 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany 806 521672 compile error 807 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor 808 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde... 809 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation 810 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature 811 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type 812 524350 Make glib build without NLS again 813 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ... 814 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c. 815 524950 Minor documentation typos. 816 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to... 817 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss... 818 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection 819 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `... 820 534759 Build failure in gio 821 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory 822 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c 823 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION 824 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o... 825 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S... 826 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type 827 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i... 828 829 * Updated translations: 830 Arabic (ar) 831 Bulgarian (bg) 832 Catalan (ca) 833 Czech (cs) 834 Greek (el) 835 Candian English (en_CA) 836 British English (en_GB) 837 Spanish (es) 838 Estonian (et) 839 Basque (eu) 840 Galician (gl) 841 Hebrew (he) 842 Hungarian (hu) 843 Japanese (ja) 844 Lithuanian (lt) 845 Norwegian bokml (nb) 846 Dutch (nl) 847 Occitan (oc) 848 Portugese (pt) 849 Russian (ru) 850 Slovak (sk) 851 Albanian (sq) 852 Swedish (sv) 853 Turkish (tr) 854 Vietnamese (vi) 855 856 857 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.0 to GLib 2.16.1 858 =================================================== 859 860 * Fix a crash in g_themed_icon_new 861 862 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6 863 864 865 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.6 to GLib 2.16.0 866 =================================================== 867 868 * Fix the definition of G_INLINE_FUNC to work with gcc 4.3.0 869 870 * GIO: 871 - Add missing GMountMountFlags argument to g_unix_volume_mount 872 - Fix the adopt_orphan_mount vfunc to take a volume monitor 873 reference 874 - Add properties to GThemedIcon for bindings sake 875 876 * Bugs fixed: 877 520484 gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_path_is_absolute() 878 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length. 879 517676 g_themed_icon_new*() do more than call g_object_new(). 880 518816 should handle rmdir returning EEXIST correctly 881 519352 g_[s]list_delete_link() docs 882 519489 Fixes for sparse warnings in gio 883 520169 add monitor argument to vfunc for GVolumeMonitor 884 520700 Add type check in g_file_query_exists 885 521145 FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME not present on Mingw32 886 518720 No MIME type for empty files 887 521013 in documentation, goffset doesn't say "Since 2.x" 888 521028 Missleading error messages from g_io_channel_set_encoding() 889 517484 GMainLoop could set the thread "Alertable" for APCs to be... 890 891 * Updated translations: 892 Assamese (as) 893 Bengali India (bn_IN) 894 Czech (cs) 895 German (de) 896 Spanish (es) 897 Estonian (et) 898 Finnish (fi) 899 French (fr) 900 Gujarati (gu) 901 Italian (it) 902 Lithuanian (lt) 903 Malayalam (ml) 904 Marathi (mr) 905 Norwegian bokml (nb) 906 Romanian (ro) 907 Russian (ru) 908 Slovak (sk) 909 Ukrainian (uk) 910 911 912 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.5 to GLib 2.15.6 913 =================================================== 914 915 * GIO: 916 - New file attributes: trash::item-count, filesystem::use-preview 917 - Rename g_file_contains_file to g_file_has_prefix 918 - g_file_query_filesystem_info grew async variants 919 - g_themed_icon_append_name: new convenience function 920 - g_content_type_get_icon is implemented now 921 - Only show mounts in /media and ~ 922 - g_file_contains_file has been renamed to g_file_has_prefix 923 924 * Win32: 925 - g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module: new function 926 which supersedes g_win32_get_package_installation_directory 927 - Use alertable wait functions so that I/O completion routines or 928 user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls can be run 929 - Fix race conditions in g_spawn implementation on win32 930 931 * Other: 932 - g_uri_get_scheme has been renamed go g_uri_parse_scheme 933 934 * Updated translations: 935 Arabic (ar) 936 Belarusian Latin (be@latin) 937 Catalan (ca) 938 British English (en_GB) 939 Finnish (fi) 940 Galician (gl) 941 Hebrew (he) 942 Italian (it) 943 Kannada (kn) 944 Norwegian bokml (nb) 945 Dutch (nl) 946 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 947 Vietnamese (vi) 948 949 950 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.4 to GLib 2.15.5 951 =================================================== 952 953 * Update the included PCRE to 7.6 954 955 * GIO: 956 - g_volume_should_automount: new function to determine if a volume 957 should be mounted automatically 958 - g_file_query_default_handler: new convenience function to get 959 the default handler for a file 960 - g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri new convenience function to 961 launch the default handler for a URI 962 - Use mimeapps.list and defaults.list as discussed on xdg list 963 recently 964 - g_app_info_get_default_for_uri_scheme has a real implementation 965 now (gvfs provides a GConf-based implementation) 966 - There is the beginning of a test suite 967 - standard::description: new file attribute 968 - GMountMountFlags flags argument added to mount calls 969 970 * GObject: 971 - class initialization is now threadsafe 972 973 * Updated translations: 974 Arabic (ar) 975 Catalan (ca) 976 Spanish (es) 977 Basque (eu) 978 Italian (it) 979 Japanese (ja) 980 Kannada (kn) 981 Korean (ko) 982 Macedonian (mk) 983 Occitan (oc) 984 Portugese (pt) 985 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 986 Swedish (sv) 987 Thai (th) 988 989 990 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.3 to GLib 2.15.4 991 =================================================== 992 993 * G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION has been deprecated 994 995 * GIO: 996 - g_file_copy has an async variant now 997 - Drives and volumes now have API to get identifiers 998 like Hal UDIs or UUIDs. 999 - There is now a registration API to let modules register 1000 extensions they provide, such as volume monitor implementations 1001 1002 * Bugs fixed: 1003 511807 g_time_val_to_iso8601() uses MT-unsafe gmtime() function 1004 316260 [patch] Doc patches for gnode (2.8.1) 1005 385132 solaris gettext support fix 1006 484261 ./configure check for system PCRE unicode support fails w... 1007 510292 GOption main help not shown 1008 511580 Implement g_file_copy_async 1009 511654 Compile errors due to C99 constructs 1010 487909 g_utf8_strreverse and combining marks 1011 512381 unused variable 'is_main_group' 1012 1013 * Updated translations: 1014 Arabic (ar) 1015 Belarusian (be) 1016 Czech (cz) 1017 Spanish (es) 1018 French (fr) 1019 Galician (gl) 1020 Portugese (pt) 1021 Russian (ru) 1022 Swedish (sv) 1023 Thai (th) 1024 1025 1026 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.2 to GLib 2.15.3 1027 =================================================== 1028 1029 * GChecksum: 1030 - g_checksum_update can accept nul-terminated strings 1031 - The MD5 implementation works correctly on buffers 1032 that are longer than 64 bytes 1033 1034 * GIO: 1035 - Don't include a copy of the inotify headers, rely on system headers 1036 - g_file_find_enclosing_mount has an async variant now 1037 - Reduntant seek API on file streams has been removed 1038 1039 * Bugs fixed: 1040 508602 gmemory{in|out}putstream.c: unknown pointer size 1041 508771 There is no g_file_test/exists() for GFile 1042 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear. 1043 509465 AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 doesn't support gio 1044 509626 async functions: Document allowed NULL callback? 1045 509990 GSeekable documentation unclear 1046 510448 No inotify support on ARM or SH5 1047 510855 g_checksum_update(): Take -1 for length. 1048 1049 * Updated translations: 1050 Basque (eu) 1051 Marathi (mr) 1052 Swedish (sv) 1053 Ukrainian (uk) 1054 1055 1056 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.1 to GLib 2.15.2 1057 =================================================== 1058 1059 * GIO: 1060 - Mount operation API change: unhandled methods get reported via 1061 the reply, rather than by the signal emission return value 1062 - File monitor API change: Add a GError argument to g_file_monitor_file 1063 - g_unix_mount_guess_should_display(): new function 1064 1065 * Bugs fixed: 1066 508224 [PATCH] FAM backend crashes due to double free 1067 508074 GAsyncResult documentation suggests g_freeing it. 1068 508108 GFile documentation slightly unclear. 1069 508309 rpc_pipefs mount points should be hidden 1070 508378 GFileInfo documentation implies that it changes attribute... 1071 508719 g_file_get_relative_path fails if parent is root 1072 508773 g_uri_escape_string() documentation unclear. 1073 1074 * Updated translations: 1075 Arabic (ar) 1076 Spanish (es) 1077 Hebrew (he) 1078 Italian (it) 1079 Korean (ko) 1080 Turkish (tr) 1081 1082 1083 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.15.0 to GLib 2.15.1 1084 =================================================== 1085 1086 * Portability fixes: 1087 - Assertion functions are marked as noreturn again 1088 - Handling of inline functions has been fixed to work with gcc 4.3 1089 - C99 comments have been removed from headers 1090 - The nonportable sed -i option is no longer used 1091 1092 * GIO: 1093 - Clarified the semantics of g_app_info_get_all() 1094 - API for memory input and output streams has been changed a bit 1095 - GDirectoryMonitor has been removed; GFileMonitor can monitor 1096 files and directories now 1097 1098 * Bugs fixed: 1099 504829 Invalid environment passed to g_spawn_async in g_desktop_... 1100 505258 crash in Users and Groups: Adding a user 1101 505815 g_content_types_get_registered should not g_free keys 1102 491218 g_timer_new() doesn't initialize timer->end 1103 315437 extern inline -> static inline 1104 476856 Inconsistency between standard and implementation of the ... 1105 480122 g_module_open fails to open modules with ".la" extension 1106 495589 gspawn.c failing to set FD_CLOEXEC 1107 500273 doesn't build with --disable-visibility 1108 504142 Do not show empty groups in --help output 1109 504879 giofam incorrectly linked 1110 505042 add file attribute for actually used file size in bytes 1111 505058 xattr namespace docs 1112 505674 Misprint in the definition of the macro G_CCLOSURE_SWAP_DATA 1113 505730 Fails to build on OSX 10.4: _NSGetEnviron not declared 1114 505887 older darwin lacks lchown 1115 506374 gmemoryinputstream api 1116 506461 Conversion of g_assert_not_reached() and friends into fun... 1117 503051 Small bug in glib interface 1118 506395 Updates to GIO documentation 1119 507628 Missing .pc entry for gio linking against glib 1120 505195 [patch] typo in g_try_new0 docs 1121 507822 g{file,directory}monitor changes signal problem 1122 506377 gmemoryoutputstream write implementation 1123 507835 bug in gunixinputstream 1124 1125 * Updated translations: 1126 Arabic (ar) 1127 Belarusian Latin (be@latin) 1128 Spanish (es) 1129 Basque (eu) 1130 Irish (ga) 1131 Hebrew (he) 1132 Occitan (oc) 1133 Vietnamese (vi) 1134 1135 1136 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0 1137 =================================================== 1138 1139 Major new features: 1140 1141 * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation 1142 in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs 1143 module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp, 1144 http, ...) 1145 1146 * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1 1147 and SHA-256 1148 1149 * GTest: a test framework 1150 1151 Smaller additions: 1152 1153 * GHash: 1154 - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach 1155 1156 * GMarkup: 1157 - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to 1158 get the stack of open elements 1159 - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error 1160 reporting 1161 - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling 1162 attributes 1163 1164 * GKeyFile: 1165 - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate 1166 success, instead of void 1167 - Various performance improvements 1168 1169 * GAsyncQueue: 1170 - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify 1171 a free function for leftover elements 1172 1173 * GError: 1174 - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions 1175 to ease error propagation 1176 1177 * Internationalization: 1178 - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro 1179 - Use native character set conversion API on Windows 1180 1181 * GLib builds with automake 1.10 1182 1183 * Bugs fixed: 1184 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match... 1185 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc... 1186 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio... 1187 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali... 1188 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ... 1189 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed 1190 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ... 1191 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement 1192 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string... 1193 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined 1194 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value 1195 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo... 1196 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda... 1197 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long 1198 490637 gobject documentation patch 1199 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0 1200 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup 1201 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment 1202 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4 1203 500638 gkeyfile speedup ... 1204 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"... 1205 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message 1206 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning 1207 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates 1208 503222 Need context to translate 1209 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table 1210 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir 1211 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra... 1212 71704 file include order 1213 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co... 1214 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool" 1215 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list... 1216 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co... 1217 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th... 1218 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc... 1219 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat... 1220 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u... 1221 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_... 1222 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_... 1223 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings 1224 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string 1225 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency 1226 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2" 1227 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification 1228 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni... 1229 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free() 1230 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs 1231 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string() 1232 142676 Q_ 1233 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function 1234 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API 1235 443648 MD5 digest support 1236 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9 1237 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca... 1238 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows 1239 500507 GHashTableIter API 1240 1241 * Translation updates 1242 Belarusian Latin (be@latin) 1243 Czech (cs) 1244 German (de) 1245 Spanish (es) 1246 Esperanto (et) 1247 French (fr) 1248 Korean (ko) 1249 Marathi (mr) 1250 Norwegian bokml (nb) 1251 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 1252 Slovenian (sl) 1253 Swedish (sv) 1254 1255 1256 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3 1257 =================================================== 1258 1259 * Update PCRE to 7.4 1260 1261 * Bugs fixed: 1262 487491 Fix some warnings from sparse 1263 488068 Small (one-time) memory leak in glib_gettext initialization 1264 493688 TYPE macro "_get_type ()" is documented wrong 1265 1266 * Updated translations: 1267 Arabic (ar) 1268 Belarusian Latin (be@latin) 1269 Estonian (et) 1270 Irish (ga) 1271 Slovenian (sl) 1272 1273 1274 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.1 to GLib 2.14.2 1275 =================================================== 1276 1277 * Bugs fixed: 1278 476849 Invocation of the interface "g_hook_free" fails in certai... 1279 359165 marshallers can throw warnings with -Wunused 1280 477957 more discussion on g_value_set_object vs. g_value_take_ob... 1281 478459 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED doesn't work with G_IMPLEM... 1282 483337 inline is disabled for MSVC when compiling C code 1283 478349 Broken link to gettext website 1284 469231 g_spawn optimization for setting all open fds to CLOEXEC 1285 1286 * Updated translations: 1287 Arabic (ar) 1288 Galician (gl) 1289 Hebrew (he) 1290 Korean (ko) 1291 1292 1293 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.0 to GLib 2.14.1 1294 =================================================== 1295 1296 * Bugs fixed: 1297 476840 Invocation of the interface "g_utf8_strreverse" crashes f... 1298 444765 Fix FIXME in gregex.c when new pcre is out 1299 464145 g_markup_escape_text Produces Invalid XML 1300 465625 g_type_default_interface_ref() does not ensure working g_... 1301 466768 Clearify that comments can be put anywhere in a Key-file. 1302 474229 The GError documentation should give convention for the G... 1303 474899 G_BREAKPOINT() docs inaccurate 1304 475854 Overuse of -lpcre when using system pcre 1305 473879 Incorrect includes in gregex.c 1306 468694 Typoes in documentation 1307 469051 g_snprintf () talks about characters where it probably me... 1308 457601 Missing arch specific atomic implementation 1309 475923 Missing pcre flags when static-linking against glib 1310 475619 glibthread-2.0.la does not list -lpthread 1311 1312 * Updated translations: 1313 Bulgarian (bg) 1314 Catalan (ca) 1315 Danish (da) 1316 German (de) 1317 Canadian English (en_CA) 1318 British English (en_GB) 1319 Spanish (es) 1320 Estonian (et) 1321 Finnish (fi) 1322 French (fr) 1323 Gujarati (gu) 1324 Hungarian (hu) 1325 Italian (it) 1326 Georgian (ka) 1327 Kannada (kn) 1328 Lithuanian (lt) 1329 Makedonian (mk) 1330 Norwegian (nb) 1331 Dutch (nl) 1332 Polish (pl) 1333 Portugese (pt) 1334 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 1335 Romanian (ro) 1336 Russian (ru) 1337 Albanian (sq) 1338 Serbian (sr, sr@Latn) 1339 Swedish (sv) 1340 Tamil (ta) 1341 Thai (th) 1342 Ukrainian (uk) 1343 Vietnamese (vi) 1344 1345 1346 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0 1347 =================================================== 1348 1349 * Last-minute API additions: 1350 - Make g_unichar_combining_class public 1351 - Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE 1352 1353 * Update PCRE to 7.2 1354 1355 * Bugs fixed: 1356 453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public 1357 462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block 1358 417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency 1359 1360 * Updated translations: 1361 Assamese (as) 1362 Basque (eu) 1363 Kannada (kn) 1364 Malayalam (ml) 1365 Dutch (nl) 1366 Polish (pl) 1367 Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) 1368 Turkish (tr) 1369 1370 1371 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7 1372 =================================================== 1373 1374 * The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that 1375 occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator 1376 has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine 1377 in this scenario. 1378 1379 * New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make 1380 it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions 1381 1382 * Bugs fixed: 1383 454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML 1384 445813 g_module_open error, add file name 1385 453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name 1386 341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in 1387 447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests 1388 454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice. 1389 454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice. 1390 383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation 1391 65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe 1392 1393 * Updated translations 1394 Assamese (as) 1395 Spanish (es) 1396 Gujarati (gu) 1397 Japanese (ja) 1398 Korean (ko) 1399 Macedonian (mk) 1400 1401 1402 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6 1403 =================================================== 1404 1405 * Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5 1406 caused trouble for C++ bindings 1407 1408 * Bugs fixed: 1409 450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free() 1410 451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static 1411 1412 * Updated translations 1413 Norwegian bokml (nb) 1414 Sinhala (si) 1415 1416 1417 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5 1418 =================================================== 1419 1420 * xdg-user-dirs support: 1421 - the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined 1422 - user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes 1423 1424 * Slice allocator: 1425 - new api to duplicate slices 1426 1427 * Regular expression support: 1428 - GRegex is a boxed type now 1429 1430 * Bugs fixed: 1431 44793 make check failing in trunk 1432 354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols 1433 363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc 1434 443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized... 1435 446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL) 1436 447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc 1437 447583 GStaticRWLock 1438 447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path 1439 448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high 1440 57693 g_string_vprintf() 1441 442029 add g_slice_dup() 1442 445065 Add GRegex boxed type 1443 448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds() 1444 1445 * Updated translations: 1446 Swedish (sv) 1447 Oriya (or) 1448 Hebrew (he) 1449 Spanish (es) 1450 Estonian (et) 1451 1452 1453 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4 1454 =================================================== 1455 1456 * Bugs fixed: 1457 444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks 1458 444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_... 1459 444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc... 1460 1461 1462 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3 1463 =================================================== 1464 1465 * GKeyFile: 1466 - Added defines for easier handling of desktop files 1467 1468 * Unicode support: 1469 - Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0 1470 1471 * Regular expression support: 1472 - GRegex structs can now be ref-counted 1473 - Some new functions for dealing with incremental 1474 replacement have been added 1475 - The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed 1476 1477 * g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support 1478 xdg-user-dirs 1479 1480 * Bugs fixed: 1481 419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w... 1482 434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b... 1483 423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below 1484 339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files 1485 442265 API additions/changes for GRegex 1486 432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup 1487 1488 * Updated translations: 1489 Estonian (et) 1490 Norwegian bokml (nb) 1491 1492 1493 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2 1494 =================================================== 1495 1496 * Unicode support: 1497 - Add g_unichar_ismark() 1498 1499 * GOption: 1500 - Allow to use callbacks for remaining args 1501 1502 * Updated translations: 1503 Belarusian Latin (be@latin) 1504 British English (en_GB) 1505 Galician (gl) 1506 Norwegian bokml (nb) 1507 Oriya (or) 1508 Spanish (es) 1509 Thai (th) 1510 1511 1512 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1 1513 =================================================== 1514 1515 * GRegex: 1516 - Portability fixes 1517 - Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo 1518 - Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count() 1519 to obtain information about the compiled regex 1520 1521 * GKeyFile: 1522 - Fix roundtrip problems 1523 - Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs() 1524 1525 * Unicode support: 1526 - Fix corner cases in case conversion routines 1527 1528 * GOption: 1529 - Add a function to get the formatted help string 1530 1531 * GHash: 1532 - Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and 1533 g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and 1534 values in list form 1535 1536 * Updated transations: 1537 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) 1538 Arabic (ar) 1539 1540 1541 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0 1542 ================================================= 1543 1544 * Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using 1545 a balanced binary tree. 1546 1547 * Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions, 1548 based on PCRE. 1549 1550 * Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday() 1551 for GTimer when available. 1552 1553 * Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT, 1554 g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear(). 1555 1556 * Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a 1557 GStringChunk. 1558 1559 * Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode 1560 script information. 1561 1562 * Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information 1563 about zero-width characters. 1564 1565 * Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias 1566 type attribute. 1567 1568 * G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the 1569 Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to 1570 be positioned before the function declaration. 1571 1572 * The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging 1573 information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks. 1574 1575 * Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and 1576 bind-now-modules. 1577 1578 * Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier 1579 to define types in modules. 1580 1581 * Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here. 1582 1583 * New and updated translations (be,bg,bn,ca,cs,de, 1584 en_CA,en_GB,et,fa,fr,he,hu,it,ja,ku,lt,mg,mk,ml, 1585 nb,ne,nn,pt,pt_BR,ro,sr,sr@Latn,sv,ta,uk,vi,zh_CN, 1586 zh_HK,zh_TW) 1587 1588 1589 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.1 to GLib 2.12.2 1590 =================================================== 1591 1592 * Unicode updates: 1593 - Normalization is following Unicode TR #29 1594 - g_unichar_isxdigit() only accept characters 1595 for which g_unichar_xdigit_value() returns a value 1596 - g_unichar_toupper and g_unichar_tolower leave 1597 unconvertable characters in place instead of 1598 replacing them by NUL 1599 1600 * Bugs fixed 1601 348491 g_utf8_strup() and g_utf8_strdown() returns 1602 string with NUL bytes 1603 349825 GKeyFile always inserts a newline before a group 1604 347842 g_unichar_isxdigit() is too general about what 1605 it considers a digit 1606 348694 g_utf8_normalize() hasn't been updated to PR #29 1607 348785 Hint about G_DEBUG in Message Logging docs 1608 349792 Wrong english string (UI) 1609 349952 gparamspecs.c uses gcc feature 1610 1611 * Translation updates (ca,cs,de,dz,es,eu,fi,gu,ko, 1612 nl,pl,tr,uk,zh_HK,zh_TW) 1613 1614 1615 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.0 to GLib 2.12.1 1616 =================================================== 1617 1618 * Update to final Unicode Character Database 5.0.0 1619 1620 * Bugs fixed: 1621 346660 issues with base64 api documentation / g_base64_decode_cl... 1622 348136 Coverity reports allocation of wrong size CID #2839 1623 336281 Update to UCD 5.0 1624 346197 g_date_strftime %F option doesnt work for win32 1625 348011 Small optimization to real_toupper() 1626 246494 prototype mismatch in glib/gconvert.c 1627 1628 * New and updated translations (bg,bn_IN,ca,dz,eu,fi, 1629 fr,he,it,ja,mk,or,pt) 1630 1631 1632 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.4 to GLib 2.12 1633 ================================================= 1634 1635 * Bugs fixed: 1636 344905 leap-year bug in g_time_val_from_iso8601 w/o HAVE_TIMEGM 1637 1638 * Updated translations (cy,nb,nl) 1639 1640 1641 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.3 to GLib 2.11.4 1642 =================================================== 1643 1644 * GBookmarkFile: 1645 - g_bookmark_file_remove_item returns a boolean 1646 1647 * g_mkstemp accepts the XXXXXX in the middle of 1648 the template 1649 1650 * Bugs fixed: 1651 344868 g_key_file_to_data should separate groups 1652 1653 * Updated translations (de,es,fr,gu,hi,ko,th) 1654 1655 1656 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.2 to GLib 2.11.3 1657 =================================================== 1658 1659 * GBookmarkFile: 1660 - g_bookmark_file_move_item: Return TRUE in case of 1661 an empty target 1662 1663 * Bugs fixed: 1664 343919 gunicollate.c: strxfrm bug on VC8 1665 1666 * Updated translations (fi) 1667 1668 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.1 to GLib 2.11.2 1669 =================================================== 1670 1671 * Add g_ascii_stroll to parse signed 64bit integers 1672 1673 * GMarkup: add a flag to treat CDATA as text 1674 1675 * GHashTable: add functions to remove all entries 1676 1677 * GMainLoop: add functions to find the currently 1678 running source, and determine if it is destroyed 1679 1680 * Bug fixes: 1681 342563 g_atomic_thread_init() needs to be called before 1682 other _g_*_thread_init() functions 1683 343548 Potential use after free in callers of g_string_free() 1684 168538 Wish: Clearing contents of GHashTables 1685 321886 GTK+ cannot be reliably used in multi-threaded 1686 applications 1687 341826 goption.c: 'strtoll' is C99's function 1688 343899 g_ascii_formatd dosn't work as expected for all 1689 format strings 1690 317793 Make GEnumValue strings const 1691 337129 Compile warnings in G_IMPLEMENT_INTERFACE 1692 303622 What is G_TYPE_CHAR? 1693 1694 * Updated translations (bg,dz,eu,gl,ja,ko,nl,th,vi) 1695 1696 1697 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.11.0 to GLib 2.11.1 1698 =================================================== 1699 1700 * GOption 1701 - Support 64-bit integers 1702 - Allow optional text before and after the options 1703 in help output 1704 1705 * Bug fixes: 1706 340538 gbase64-test writes OOB 1707 340816 GKeyFile set_string_list invalid memory reads 1708 339105 g_key_file_parse_value_as_double 1709 340434 convert-test.c fails (function test_one_half) 1710 311043 Memory leaks (and potential infinite loops) 1711 when using G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES 1712 335198 Error checking mutexes are fubar 1713 341237 Add a G_OPTION_ARG_INT64 1714 341192 g_io_channel_set_flags not implemented on win32 1715 336120 Allow adding description before/after GOption 1716 --help output body 1717 341191 misplaced check in g_relation_delete 1718 340530 mismatched calloc / g_free in win32 threads 1719 1720 * Updated translation (es) 1721 1722 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.x to GLib 2.11.0 1723 =================================================== 1724 1725 * GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks 1726 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification. 1727 1728 * Base64 encoding support 1729 1730 * Unicode 5.0 support 1731 1732 * GOption supports floating point numbers 1733 1734 * GKeyFile supports floating point numbers 1735 1736 * Bug fixes: 1737 155884 gatomic.c should be based on new SDK 1738 157877 update-desktop-database doesn't handle duplicate entries 1739 164719 keyfile parser doesn't support floats 1740 327662 Import BookmarkFile from libegg 1741 329548 Add G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE 1742 329789 option-test.c type confusion 1743 332841 Segmentation Fault when %llu is passed to vasnprintf and 1744 HAVE_SNPRINTF is not defined 1745 333879 gthread/gthread-win32.c: IsDebuggerPresent needs '#define 1746 _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0401' 1747 333916 g_timer_elapsed docs should mention that microseconds 1748 may be NULL 1749 334440 dlerror() portability issue causes crash on (old) a.out 1750 NetBSD platform 1751 334646 goption + error out params 1752 334799 g_remove() must check return value of remove() 1753 334943 make check FAIL: threadpool-test 1754 335215 Some breakages with GThreadPool 1755 336085 g_option_context_new parameter lacks better explanation 1756 336677 Documentation for g_object_ref_sink() is incorrect 1757 337027 gbookmarkfile.c: sys/time.h include error 1758 337553 Wrong escaping of URIs 1759 338572 Dereferencing NULL value in g_key_file_get_group_comment 1760 338845 g_completion_complete_utf8 crashes when NULL is passed to it 1761 339337 g_bookmark_file_set_description 1762 339338 gbookmarkfile.c, function expand_exec_line 1763 339340 gbookmarkfile.c, function bookmark_app_info_dump 1764 1765 * Translation updates (bg,en_GB,et,gl,gu,he,hi,ka,nb,nl,nn, 1766 or,pt_BR,ro,tr,vi,zh_CN) 1767 1768 1769 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.10.0 to GLib 2.10.1 1770 =================================================== 1771 1772 * Bugs fixed: 1773 314794 Broken pthread detection on Darwin [Gregor Riepl] 1774 322476 Missing check for .dylib [Vladimir Panov] 1775 333651 Inconsistent _g_charset_get_aliases prototype [Julio 1776 M. Merino Vidal] 1777 333761 GInitiallyUnowned breaks application code [Sven Herzberg] 1778 1779 * Win32 changes: 1780 - Fix g_listenv() implementation. 1781 - Allow up to 100 GPrivate structs 1782 1783 * Translation updates (fr,hu,lt,pl,sv) 1784 1785 1786 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.6 to GLib 2.10.0 1787 ================================================== 1788 1789 * Bugs fixed: 1790 328997 64bit pointer trunction in glib slab-allocator 1791 [Pascal Hofstee] 1792 331110 g_cond_broadcast(inform_cond) without holding 1793 inform_mutex [Chris Wilson, Sebastian Wilhelmi] 1794 332093 Fix some leaks in the tests [Kjartan Maraas] 1795 332435 g_utf8_strlen returns wrong value if a maximum 1796 number of bytes to check is specified 1797 [Matthias Clasen] 1798 331367 gslice requires more POSIX-like semantics for 1799 GPrivate destructors [Tor Lillqvist] 1800 1801 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Kang Jeong-Hee, 1802 Tor Lillqvist, Stefan Kost] 1803 1804 * Translation updates (el,eu,ka,uk) 1805 1806 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.5 to GLib 2.9.6 1807 ================================================= 1808 1809 * Bugs fixed: 1810 329124 distclean removes README [Kjartan Maraas, Tim Janik] 1811 317679 GRelation field type not documented [Behdad Esfahbod] 1812 329123 Typo in GTime docs [Kjartan Maraas] 1813 1814 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, David 1815 Schleef, Kjartan Maraas, Behdad Esfahbod] 1816 1817 * Translation updates (cs,cy,it,ko,pt,sq,sr,sr@Latn,ru 1818 1819 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.4 to GLib 2.9.5 1820 ================================================= 1821 1822 * Memory management: 1823 Runtime debugging support: The slice allocator 1824 can be turned off by setting G_SLICE=always-malloc 1825 in the environment. Zeroing of freed memory can 1826 now be turned on at runtime by setting 1827 G_DEBUG=gc-friendly in the environment. [Tim Janik] 1828 1829 * Bugs fixed: 1830 328253 HP-UX/IA-64 uses ".so" as default shared library 1831 extension [Albert Chin] 1832 143380 unicode-encoding test fails converting to UTF-16 1833 with libiconv [Marc Moorcroft] 1834 328254 Build breakage (GSlice) [Jens Ganseuer] 1835 328705 C99ism in glib/gmem.c [Kazuki Iwamoto] 1836 1837 * Translation updates (da,et,zh_CN) 1838 1839 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.3 to GLib 2.9.4 1840 ================================================= 1841 1842 * Type system: 1843 Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control() which 1844 can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications on 64bit 1845 platforms. 1846 1847 * Thread suppport: 1848 Unused threads now fall back to the global pool after 1849 500 milliseconds, where they wait for another 1850 max-idle-time milliseconds. [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 1851 1852 * Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile. [Morten 1853 Welinder] 1854 1855 1856 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.2 to GLib 2.9.3 1857 ================================================= 1858 1859 * GTree: 1860 - Replace the simple recursive implementation by 1861 a nonrecursive, threaded one [Maurizio Monge] 1862 1863 * Change g_filename_display_name and 1864 g_filename_display_basename to use the Unicode 1865 replacement character U+FFFD instead of a question 1866 mark, and don't append "(invalid encoding)" [Matthias] 1867 1868 * Documentation improvements [Sven Herzberg, Federico 1869 Mena Quintero, Stefan Kost] 1870 1871 * Bugs fixed: 1872 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X 1873 [Bogdan Nicula] 1874 326558 Some test failures on IRIX 6.5 [Daichi Kawahata] 1875 169285 "threaded" tree implementation for GTree 1876 [Maurizio Monge] 1877 326747 g_filename_display_basename adds (invalid encoding) 1878 [Alberto Ruiz] 1879 1880 Other contributors: Christian Kellner, Murray Cumming 1881 1882 New and updated translations (bg,ca,de,es,et,gu,ja,nl,th,vi) 1883 1884 1885 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2 1886 ================================================= 1887 1888 * Memory management: 1889 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik] 1890 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently 1891 sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim] 1892 1893 * Thread support: 1894 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik, 1895 Sebastian Wilhelmi] 1896 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the 1897 tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell] 1898 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads 1899 to exit after a certain time. [Martyn] 1900 1901 * Type system: 1902 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial 1903 floating reference. [Tim] 1904 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias] 1905 1906 * Main loop: 1907 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current 1908 thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks] 1909 1910 * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as 1911 wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh] 1912 1913 * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero, 1914 Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams] 1915 1916 * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW) 1917 1918 * Bugs fixed: 1919 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8 1920 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow] 1921 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error 1922 [Tim-Philipp Mller] 1923 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov] 1924 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto] 1925 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to 1926 gpointer [Andrew Paprocki] 1927 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes, 1928 Stanislav Brabec] 1929 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton] 1930 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and 1931 stderr [Tor Lillqvist] 1932 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses] 1933 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto] 1934 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams] 1935 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal] 1936 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula] 1937 1938 1939 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1 1940 ================================================= 1941 1942 * Memory management 1943 - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik] 1944 - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to 1945 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod] 1946 - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen] 1947 1948 * Data structures 1949 - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim] 1950 1951 * Thread support 1952 - Support for Solaris threads has been removed 1953 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki] 1954 - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have 1955 been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority 1956 queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked 1957 variants [Martyn Russell] 1958 1959 * GObject: 1960 - The concept of a floating initial reference has been 1961 moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim] 1962 1963 * Win32 changes: 1964 - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist] 1965 1966 * Misc new API: 1967 - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64 1968 constants [Andrew Paprocki] 1969 - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the 1970 compiler to emit a warning if the value returned 1971 by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson] 1972 - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an 1973 extra user data argument [Martyn Russell] 1974 - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim] 1975 1976 * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter] 1977 1978 * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad, 1979 Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki, 1980 Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec, 1981 Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman] 1982 1983 * Documentation 1984 - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias] 1985 - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim] 1986 - Other improvements [Morten Welinder] 1987 1988 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0 1989 ================================================= 1990 * Unicode support: 1991 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1, 1992 adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType 1993 enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10 1994 [Behdad Esfahbod] 1995 - The various Unicode character predicate functions 1996 (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have 1997 been optimized 1998 [Behdad] 1999 - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer: 2000 These functions handle negative offsets now, and 2001 going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses 2002 "stutter stepping". 2003 [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen] 2004 2005 * Memory management: 2006 - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and 2007 GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10 2008 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator, 2009 and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other 2010 data structures) have been deprecated, since they 2011 never worked as intended. 2012 - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a 2013 new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks. 2014 The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple 2015 wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an 2016 efficient and scalable implementation. 2017 [Tim Janik, Matthias] 2018 2019 * Pattern matching: 2020 - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid 2021 unnecessary recursion. 2022 [Tim, Matthias] 2023 2024 * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string: 2025 - New functions to intern strings. These are now used 2026 by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings 2027 [Matthias] 2028 2029 * g_thread_foreach: 2030 - New function to iterate over all GThreads 2031 [Tim, Matthias] 2032 2033 * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val: 2034 - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or 2035 GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated 2036 in favor of these. 2037 [Roger Leigh] 2038 2039 * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf: 2040 - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h, 2041 since they are in glib.h 2042 [Matthias] 2043 2044 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.8.0 to GLib 2.8.1 2045 ================================================= 2046 * Optimize single-character insertions in GString [Ross Burton] 2047 * Fix build problems on OS X 2048 * Fix build problems on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer] 2049 * Other bug fixes [Matthew F. Barnes, Stepan Kasal] 2050 * Documentation improvements [Tristan van Berkom, Behnam 2051 Esfahbod, Gustavo Carneiro, Stepan Kasal, Matthias] 2052 * New and updated translations (ca,cy,ko,ro,uk) 2053 2054 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.7 to GLib 2.8.0 2055 ================================================= 2056 * Make g_value_transform() handle enum values 2057 correctly on ppc64. [Michael Lorenz] 2058 (Third-party code accessing enumeration values 2059 in GValues should also be changed to access 2060 v_long, not v_int, in order to work on bigendian 2061 64bit machines.) 2062 * Make g_flags_get_first_value() handle a value 2063 of 0 meaningfully. [Tim-Philipp Mller] 2064 2065 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.6 to GLib 2.7.7 2066 ================================================= 2067 * Make atomic operations on s390 work [Matthias] 2068 * Fix C++ guards in gstdio.h [Tor Lillqvist] 2069 2070 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.5 to GLib 2.7.6 2071 ================================================= 2072 * Add native implementations of atomic operations 2073 on s390 [Matthias] 2074 * Make atomic reference counting of closures 2075 work on s390 [Matthias] 2076 * Avoid an infinite loop in g_convert_with_iconv(). 2077 [Sebastian Bacher] 2078 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton] 2079 2080 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.4 to GLib 2.7.5 2081 ================================================= 2082 * Thread-related changes 2083 - Fix build issues on HP-UX [Paul Cornett] 2084 - Threadsafe access to flags stored in datasets [Tim Janik] 2085 - Fix several issues with atomic refcounting for 2086 closures, objects and paramspecs [Tim] 2087 - Improve tests for atomic refcounting changes [Tim] 2088 * Fix handling of stateful encodings in g_convert_* [Matthias] 2089 * Fix translation of GOption help output [Dan Winship] 2090 * Catch format errors in translations. This may cause 2091 "make check" to fail when using older versions 2092 of gettext [Matthias] 2093 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2094 * Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Jochen Baier, 2095 Matthias, Tim] 2096 * New and updated translations (de,fi,gu,pl,pt,tr,zh_TW) 2097 2098 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.3 to GLib 2.7.4 2099 ================================================= 2100 * Fix g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange 2101 on Sparc64 [Gert Doering] 2102 * Fix a hang in g_thread_pool_free. [Hong Jen Yee] 2103 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillquist] 2104 * Other bug fixes [Benoit Dejean, Manish Singh] 2105 * Documentation improvements [Bryan Silverthorn, 2106 Callum McKenzie] 2107 * New and updated translations (de,lt,sq,zh_CN) 2108 2109 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3 2110 ================================================= 2111 * GOption 2112 - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski] 2113 - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name 2114 disambiguation [Adam McLaurin] 2115 - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias] 2116 * Win32 2117 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2118 - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor] 2119 * GObject 2120 - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting 2121 of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik] 2122 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans] 2123 * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias] 2124 * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no) 2125 2126 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.1 to GLib 2.7.2 2127 ================================================= 2128 * Win32 build fixes [Hans Breuer] 2129 * Bug fixes [Mikael Magnusson] 2130 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen] 2131 * New and updated translations (en_CA,es,et,ja,sr,sr@Latn,zh_TW) 2132 2133 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1 2134 ================================================= 2135 * GOption 2136 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship] 2137 * GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod] 2138 * Misc new functions: 2139 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist] 2140 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor] 2141 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher, 2142 Matthias Clasen] 2143 * Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas, 2144 Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder] 2145 * Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias] 2146 * New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no, 2147 sk,th,zh_TW) 2148 2149 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.x to GLib 2.7.0 2150 ================================================= 2151 * GKeyFile 2152 - Add unit tests [Matthias Clasen, Suren A. Chilingaryan] 2153 - Accept \r\n as line end [Bastian Nocera] 2154 - Don't interpret leading zeros as octal numbers. [Matthias] 2155 - Make key and group removal work [David Hoover, Matthias Hasselmann] 2156 * GOption 2157 - Improve formatting of --help output [Matthias, Noah Levitt] 2158 - Accept -? [Matthias] 2159 - Warn about duplicate main groups [Jeff Franks] 2160 - Treat '-' as non-option argument [Tim Musson, Thomas Leonard] 2161 - Report missing arguments as errors [Bjrn Lindqvist] 2162 - Add a boxed type for GDate [Tim-Philipp Mller] 2163 * GTree 2164 - g_tree_remove() and g_tree_steal() return status information [Matthew F. Barnes] 2165 * Stdio wrappers 2166 - Work regardless of large file support [Manish Singh] 2167 - Add g_access(), g_chmod(), g_creat(), g_chdir [Tor Lillqvist] 2168 * GObject 2169 - Implement "toggle references" to help language bindings [Owen Taylor] 2170 - Allow to mark names, nicks and blurbs of pspecs as static [Ben Maurer, Matthias] 2171 - Make pspec lookup a bit faster [Morten Welinder] 2172 * Add g_listenv() to list all set environment variables [Hans Petter Jansson] 2173 * Add g_file_set_contents() to atomically write a file. [Sren Sandmann, 2174 Sven Neumann, Manish, Alexis S. L. Carvalho] 2175 * Add g_try_malloc(), g_try_new(), g_try_new0() and g_try_renew() [Stefan Kost] 2176 * Add g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() to sort filenames taking 2177 extensions and numeric suffixes into account. [Ole Laursen, Alex Larsson] 2178 * Add G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED to mark varargs function with 2179 NULL-terminated argument lists. [Marc Meissner] 2180 * Win32 changes 2181 - Improved debugability [Ulf Lamping, Hans Breuer] 2182 - Make filename handling more robust [Tor, Billy Skaggs] 2183 - Improve g_get_system_data_dirs() [Tor] 2184 - Use more precise timers [Tor] 2185 - Build fixes [Kazuki Iwamoto, Hans, Tor, Robert gren] 2186 * Other bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Owen, Matthias, Morten, Kjartan Maraas, 2187 Pawel Sakowski, Tor, Simon Budig, Ed Avis, Manish, Nicolas Laurent, 2188 Bastien, Fabrcio Barros Cabral, Michael Banck, Daniel Atallah, 2189 J. Ali Harlow, Tim Janik, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Sven, Jon-Kare Hellan, 2190 Dave Benson, Tommi Komulainen, Benjamin Otte, Brian Cameron, Changwoo Ryu, 2191 Christian Biere, Noah, Benot Carpentier] 2192 * Documentation improvements [Vincent Untz, Matthias, Tim-Philipp Mller, 2193 Morten, Matthew, Federico Mena Quintero, Sebastian Bacher, Oliver Sessink, 2194 Stefan, Jared Lash, Tor, Owen, Daniel Vaillard, Mathieu Lacage] 2195 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,da,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,et,eu,fa,fr,gl, 2196 hu,id,it,lt,mn,ne,nl,pl,pt,pt_BR,ro,rw,sk,sq,sr,sr@Latn,tl,uk,xh,zh_CN) 2197 2198 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1 2199 ================================================= 2200 * GOption 2201 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski] 2202 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen] 2203 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes] 2204 * g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen] 2205 * Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias] 2206 * Win32 changes 2207 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist] 2208 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path() 2209 take and return UTF-8 now [Tor] 2210 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT 2211 when check for executables [Tor] 2212 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow] 2213 * Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder, 2214 Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk] 2215 * Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin 2216 Flowerday, Mariano Surez-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo, 2217 Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera] 2218 * New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv) 2219 2220 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0 2221 ================================================= 2222 2223 * Major new APIs 2224 - GOption, a commandline option parser 2225 - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files 2226 - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification 2227 - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename 2228 encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8. 2229 2230 * Miscellaneous new functions 2231 - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings 2232 - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists 2233 - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers 2234 - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler 2235 - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names 2236 - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays 2237 - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version 2238 - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported 2239 - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime 2240 - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions 2241 2242 * Performance improvements 2243 - Optimize g_utf8_validate() 2244 - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() 2245 - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1) 2246 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols 2247 - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail() 2248 2249 * Other changes 2250 - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require 2251 those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8. 2252 - Use higher precision for mathematical constants 2253 - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri 2254 - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms 2255 - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols 2256 - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries 2257 - Require ngettext 2258 2259 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0 2260 ================================================= 2261 * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific 2262 options have been requested [Glynn Foster] 2263 * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch] 2264 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2265 * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2266 * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN) 2267 Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255 2268 2269 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7 2270 ================================================= 2271 * Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen] 2272 * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington, 2273 Morten Welinder] 2274 * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1) 2275 [Sven Neumann] 2276 * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen] 2277 * Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly 2278 allocated memory [Matthias] 2279 * Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert gren, 2280 Bruce Hochstetler] 2281 * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten, 2282 Frederic Crozat, Tor] 2283 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen] 2284 * New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN) 2285 2286 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.5 to GLib 2.5.6 2287 ================================================= 2288 * GOption 2289 - Add G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE to allow options 2290 which unset a boolean variable [Tor Lillqvist] 2291 * GChildWatch 2292 - Use sigaction instead of signal [Jonas Jonnson, 2293 Archana Shah] 2294 - Make the very first SIGCHLD work [Gustavo Carneiro] 2295 * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Tor, David MacLachlan, 2296 Manish Singh, J. Ali Harlow] 2297 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Tor] 2298 * Updated translations (da,ja,tr,zh_CN) 2299 2300 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5 2301 ================================================= 2302 * GKeyFile 2303 - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode] 2304 - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting 2305 locale strings [Mark McLoughlin] 2306 * GOption 2307 - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen] 2308 - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias] 2309 - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias] 2310 * Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist] 2311 * Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames 2312 in displayable UTF-8 strings [Alex Larsson, Matthias] 2313 * Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor] 2314 * Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder, 2315 Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark] 2316 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor] 2317 2318 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4 2319 ================================================= 2320 Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various 2321 freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode] 2322 Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all 2323 GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX 2324 functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist, 2325 Owen Taylor] 2326 GOption 2327 - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding 2328 friendly name [Murray Cumming] 2329 - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist] 2330 * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in 2331 assertions [Matthias Clasen] 2332 * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias] 2333 * Win32 bug fixes 2334 - Don't open console windows [Tor] 2335 * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert gren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias, 2336 Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas, 2337 Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp Mller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish 2338 Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO] 2339 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe, 2340 Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro] 2341 * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq) 2342 2343 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.2 to GLib 2.5.3 2344 ================================================= 2345 * GOption 2346 - set the program name from argv[0] [Masatake YAMATO] 2347 - make contexts work without a main group [Anders Carlsson] 2348 * Performance 2349 - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols, 2350 and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the 2351 list of exported symbols. [Matthias Clasen] 2352 * Add API to get ISO 8601 week numbers [Niklas Lundell] 2353 * Add API to install an alternate default log handler [Darin Adler] 2354 * Add API to obtain a list of applicable locale names [Hidetoshi Tajima] 2355 * Reduce code size bloat by removing literal strings from 2356 the g_return_if_fail() macros [Owen Taylor] 2357 * Add g_strv_length [Tim-Philipp Mller] 2358 * Win32 changes 2359 - Add API to determine the Windows version [Tor Lillqvist] 2360 * Other bug fixes [Stepan Kasal, Anders, Tor, Kazuki Iwamoto, 2361 Manish Singh] 2362 * Documentation improvements [Morten Welinder, Matthias] 2363 * New and updated translations (es,nn,ro) 2364 2365 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.1 to GLib 2.5.2 2366 ================================================= 2367 * Add G_GNUC_INTERNAL macro [Arjan van de Ven] 2368 * Add GOption, a commandline option parser [Anders Carlsson] 2369 * Add glib_check_version [Michael Natterer] 2370 * Add XDG basedir API [Ray Strode] 2371 * Require ngettext [Danilo Segan] 2372 * Bug fixes [Manish Singh, Ray Strode, Vincent Noel, 2373 Jon-Kare Hellan, Jody Goldberg] 2374 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Peter Zelezny] 2375 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch] 2376 * New and updated translations (bs,eu,fi,gu,ne,pa) 2377 2378 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.0 to GLib 2.5.1 2379 ================================================= 2380 2381 * Bug fixes [Oliver Guntermann, Sven Neumann, James 2382 Henstridge, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Matthias Clasen, Robert 2383 gren, Tommi Komulainen] 2384 * Documentation improvements [Soeren Sandmann, 2385 Christophe Fergeau, Danek Duvall] 2386 * New and updated translations (eu,hi) 2387 2388 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.1 to GLib 2.5.0 2389 ================================================= 2390 2391 * New functions g_debug [Sven Herzberg] 2392 * Use higher precision for mathematical constants [Morten 2393 Welinder] 2394 * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_{to,from}_uri 2395 [Federico Mena Quintero] 2396 * Win32 2397 - Handle empty digit string in printf() functions 2398 correctly [Tor Lillqvist] 2399 - Support ll as format modifier for long long [Tor] 2400 - Be more careful about HOME [Tor, Ivan Wong] 2401 - Bug fixes [John Ehresman] 2402 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Danilo Segan, 2403 Owen Taylor, Nikolai Weibull, Benot Carpentier, Morten 2404 Welinder, Manish Singh, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal, 2405 Kaz Sasayama, Murray Cumming, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez] 2406 * Documentation updates [Matthias Clasen, Crispin Flowerday, 2407 Tommi Komulainen, Federico Mena Quintero, Ed Griffiths] 2408 * New and updated translations (ja,ne,no,wa) 2409 2410 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.0 to GLib 2.4.1 2411 ================================================= 2412 2413 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Roger Leigh, John Ehresman] 2414 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Owen Taylor, 2415 Matthias Clasen, Jonas Jonsson, Christian Krause, 2416 Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Christophe Saout, Philippe Blain, 2417 Piotr Klaban] 2418 * Documentation updates [Matthias] 2419 * New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,el,en_CA,en_GB,es,eu,fi, 2420 fr,gu,he,id,nl,pt,pl,ru,sr,sr@ije,sr@Latn,sv,uk) 2421 2422 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to GLib 2.4.0 2423 ================================================= 2424 2425 * Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen] 2426 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler] 2427 * Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L. Cooper II, 2428 Kjartan Maraas, Frdric L. W. Meunier, Christof Petig, Manish Singh, 2429 Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2430 * Documentation updates [Owen] 2431 * Updated translations (hr,ro) 2432 2433 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.5 to GLib 2.3.6 2434 ================================================= 2435 2436 * GAtomic bug fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Mark McLoughlin] 2437 * GMain threading fixes and improvements [Sebastian] 2438 * Win32 [Tor Lillqvist] 2439 - restore some symbols extraneously exported from gobject to maintain ABI compatibility 2440 - Misc build improvements and fixes [Tor, Cedric Gustin, Hans Breuer] 2441 * Documentation updates [Sebastian, Takeshi AIHANA, Matthias, Sven Herzberg] 2442 * New and updated translations (be,es,fi,ga,pa,sr@ije,zh_CN) 2443 2444 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.3 to GLib 2.3.5 2445 ================================================= 2446 2447 * Make glib-mkenums parse initializers with macros. [Matthias Clasen, muppet] 2448 * Respect locale era in g_date_set_parse(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan] 2449 * Add atomic operations and use it for the async queue and 2450 gonce implementation. [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2451 * Documentation improvements [Sebastian, Matthias, Sven Herzberg] 2452 * Add g_main_depth() for finding the recursion depth of the main 2453 loop [Owen Taylor, Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld] 2454 * Add g_spawn_close_pid(), needed on win32 [J. Ali] 2455 * Win32 fixes. [Hans Breuer, J. Ali Harlow] 2456 * Misc bugfixes [Sebastian, Matthias, Balazs Scheidler, Owen] 2457 * Updated translations (cy,et,ga,sq) 2458 2459 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.2 to GLib 2.3.3 2460 ================================================= 2461 2462 * Add a native AIX gmodule implementation. [Laurent Vivier] 2463 * Add g_node_copy_deep(). [James M. Cape, Matthias Clasen] 2464 * Extend GQueue API to match the GList API. [Soeren Sandmann] 2465 * Add g_hash_table_find(). [Tim Janik] 2466 * Add a G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL flag. [David Schleef] 2467 * Inline g_string_append_c() when possible. [Owen Taylor, Tim] 2468 * Wrap waitpid() as a GSource. [Jonathan R. Blandford] 2469 * Add g_completion_complete_utf8(). [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, 2470 Matthias] 2471 * Add g_strsplit_set(). [Soeren] 2472 * Documentation improvements. [Vincent Untz, Sebastian Wilhelmi, 2473 Soeren, Matthias] 2474 * Win32 build fixes. [Tor Lillqvist] 2475 * Misc bugfixes [Manish Singh, Noah Levitt, Simon Josefsson, 2476 Morten Welinder, Damien Carbery, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Sebastian, 2477 Matthias] 2478 * Updated translations (nn,cs,it,ko,sq,ms,az,hr,uk,sr,sr@Latn,sq,ta) 2479 2480 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.1 to GLib 2.3.2 2481 ================================================= 2482 2483 * Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh] 2484 * Add g_rand_new_with_seed_array(), g_rand_set_seed_array(), 2485 implementing the init-by-array functionality of the 2486 original mersenne twister. Add g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding. 2487 [George Lebl] 2488 * Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray Cumming] 2489 * Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen] 2490 * Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp Mller] 2491 * Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs Scheidler] 2492 * Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve 2493 g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer] 2494 * Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays. [Matthias] 2495 * Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction 2496 of GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik] 2497 * Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll Overgaard] 2498 * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish] 2499 * Win32 build fixes [Hans] 2500 * Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier Poncet, 2501 Zack Rusin] 2502 * Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq) 2503 2504 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.0 to GLib-2.3.1 2505 ================================================= 2506 2507 * Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common 2508 gettext support, including a Q_() macro for translation 2509 with context [Matthias Clasen] 2510 * Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable 2511 as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias] 2512 * Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for 2513 newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain] 2514 * Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt] 2515 * Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias] 2516 * Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh] 2517 * Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik] 2518 * Documentation improvements [Matthias] 2519 * GObject [Tim Janik] 2520 - Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names 2521 like 'swapped-signal'. 2522 - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize 2523 g_object_new() for static types [Tim] 2524 - Allow setting construct-only properties from within 2525 init() implementations 2526 - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get() 2527 * Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator. 2528 [Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader] 2529 * Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix, 2530 Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Mller, Manish, 2531 Morten Welinder] 2532 * Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru) 2533 2534 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.2.x to GLib-2.3.0 2535 ================================================= 2536 2537 * Replace Trio printf by gnulib vasnprintf [Matthias Clasen] 2538 * Update Unicode data to Unicode 4.0 [Noah Levitt] 2539 * Support XML-safe formatted output with 2540 g_markup_[v]printf_escaped [Owen Taylor] 2541 * Add g_file_read_link to read symbolic links [Matthias] 2542 * Add g_unichar_get_mirror_char to obtain the 2543 mirrored variant of a character [Noah] 2544 * Support for one-time initialization functions. 2545 [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2546 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_vasprintf 2547 g_string_chunk_insert_len, g_setenv, g_unsetenv [Matthias] 2548 * Docs improvements [Matthias] 2549 * Add support instance-private data on classed types 2550 [Mark McLoughlin, Tim Janik, Owen] 2551 * Optimize signal emissions [Soeren Sandmann, Tim] 2552 * Support a "default vtable" per interface [Tim] 2553 * Add support for properties on interfaces [Owen, Tim] 2554 * Miscellaneous API additions: g_value_take_string(), 2555 g_value_take_param(), g_value_take_object(), 2556 g_value_take_boxed(). [Matthias] 2557 * Win32 build fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2558 2559 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.5 to GLib-2.2.0 2560 ================================================= 2561 2562 * Fix a problem with g_thread_init() on 64-bit problems 2563 [Alceste Scalas, Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2564 * Add assembly implementations of byteswap macros 2565 for ia64 and x86_64. [Manish Singh] 2566 * IOChannel fixes for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Thorsten Maerz] 2567 * Updated translations (bg,ca,es,da,fi,lv,ru,sk) 2568 2569 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.4 to GLib-2.1.5 2570 ================================================= 2571 2572 * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2573 * Various post-rewrite fixes for glib-gettext.m4 [Owen Taylor, 2574 Jody Goldberg, Kjartan Maraas, Johannes Stezenbach] 2575 * Ensure we have a GUINT64_FORMAT by pulling in Trio 2576 if necessary [Manish Singh] 2577 * Further Trio build fixes [Matthias Clasen, Owen] 2578 * Hack around gcc, libtool issues with -pthread [Owen] 2579 * Docs improvements [Matthias] 2580 * Bug and portability fixes 2581 * Updated and new translations (bg,de,fi,fr,sq,fr) 2582 2583 Other contributors: Kai Poitschke, Morten Welinder 2584 2585 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.1.3 to GLib-2.1.4 2586 ================================================= 2587 2588 * autoconf changes to make it possible to cross compile 2589 GLib. [Owen Taylor, Dan Kegel, Amy Lin, Dimi Shahbaz, 2590 Johannes Stezenbach] 2591 * Use libintl when it has bind_textdomain_codeset() and 2592 GLib doesn't. [Owen] 2593 * Improve generation of pseudo-random integers [Morten Welinder, 2594 Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2595 * Avoid literal UTF-8 in favor of octal escapes [Owen, Tomas Ogren] 2596 * Cleanup include order [Sven Neumann] 2597 * autoconf cleanups and bug fixes [Daniel, Matthias Clasen, Owen] 2598 * Doc fixes and additions [Matthias] 2599 2600 Other contributors: James M. Cape, Frederic Crozat, Martin Gansser, 2601 Phuc LeHong, Manish Singh, Joshua Weage, Morten Welinder 2602 2603 Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x 2604 ================================================= 2605 2606 * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when 2607 system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen] 2608 * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson] 2609 * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias] 2610 * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias] 2611 * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik] 2612 * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim] 2613 * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington] 2614 * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities. 2615 Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen] 2616 * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey] 2617 * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems 2618 with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0 2619 environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2620 * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable 2621 [Sebastian] 2622 * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian] 2623 * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from 2624 system headers [Soeren Sandmann] 2625 * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh] 2626 * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information. 2627 [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen, 2628 Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder]. 2629 2630 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7 2631 ================================= 2632 2633 * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz] 2634 * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik] 2635 * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder] 2636 * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2637 * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh] 2638 * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs] 2639 * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner] 2640 * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor, 2641 Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau, 2642 Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor] 2643 * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr) 2644 2645 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6 2646 ================================= 2647 2648 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp] 2649 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson] 2650 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II] 2651 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor] 2652 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2653 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, 2654 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier] 2655 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat, 2656 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij] 2657 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen] 2658 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi) 2659 2660 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5 2661 ================================= 2662 2663 * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp] 2664 * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson] 2665 * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II] 2666 * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor] 2667 * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2668 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, 2669 Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier] 2670 * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat, 2671 Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij] 2672 * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen] 2673 * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi) 2674 2675 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4 2676 ================================= 2677 2678 * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II) 2679 * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul) 2680 * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor) 2681 * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru) 2682 2683 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3 2684 ================================= 2685 2686 * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts) 2687 * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi) 2688 * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce, 2689 Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan) 2690 * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.) 2691 * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer) 2692 * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist) 2693 * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen) 2694 * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber, 2695 Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.) 2696 * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann) 2697 * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.) 2698 * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder, 2699 Wayne Schuller) 2700 2701 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1 2702 ================================= 2703 2704 * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede] 2705 * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup, 2706 g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson] 2707 * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen, 2708 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] 2709 * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor] 2710 * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras] 2711 * Fixes for g_log() and threading. 2712 [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik] 2713 * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from 2714 UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Tim] 2715 * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillqvist] 2716 * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] 2717 * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias] 2718 * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko] 2719 * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel] 2720 * Minor bug fixes. 2721 2722 Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele, 2723 Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder 2724 2725 2726 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 2727 ================================= 2728 2729 * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2730 * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor] 2731 * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8, 2732 call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings 2733 are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist] 2734 2735 Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1: 2736 ====================================== 2737 2738 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2739 * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] 2740 * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner] 2741 * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik] 2742 * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME 2743 2744 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose 2745 2746 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15: 2747 =================================== 2748 2749 * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue 2750 [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik] 2751 * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim] 2752 * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen] 2753 * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] 2754 * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim] 2755 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2756 2757 Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder, 2758 Daniel Elstner 2759 2760 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14: 2761 =================================== 2762 2763 * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo] 2764 * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor] 2765 * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler] 2766 * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen] 2767 * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik] 2768 * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen] 2769 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist] 2770 * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] 2771 * Miscellaneous bug fixes 2772 2773 Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer, 2774 Morten Welinder. 2775 2776 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13: 2777 =================================== 2778 2779 * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler] 2780 * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer] 2781 * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2782 * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian] 2783 * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast] 2784 * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey, 2785 Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik] 2786 2787 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12: 2788 =================================== 2789 2790 * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik) 2791 * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge) 2792 * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim) 2793 * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist) 2794 * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship) 2795 * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen) 2796 * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik) 2797 * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington) 2798 2799 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks, 2800 Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima, 2801 Sebastian Wilhelmi. 2802 2803 2804 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11: 2805 =================================== 2806 2807 * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist] 2808 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen] 2809 * Portable directory handling API [Hans] 2810 * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington] 2811 * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor] 2812 * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen] 2813 * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik] 2814 * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor] 2815 * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking 2816 [Alex Larsson, Tim] 2817 * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen] 2818 * GObject API cleanups [Tim] 2819 2820 Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings, 2821 Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship 2822 2823 2824 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10: 2825 =================================== 2826 2827 * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist] 2828 * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen] 2829 * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf() 2830 * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection 2831 more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima] 2832 * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen] 2833 * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua] 2834 * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias] 2835 * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson] 2836 * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks. 2837 2838 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor, 2839 Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter, 2840 Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi, 2841 Jacob Berkman 2842 2843 2844 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9: 2845 ================================== 2846 2847 * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2848 * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen] 2849 * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer] 2850 * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown 2851 * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups. 2852 2853 Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin 2854 2855 2856 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8: 2857 ================================== 2858 2859 * Documentation updates [Owen] 2860 * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types 2861 * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist] 2862 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes 2863 2864 Other contributors: 2865 Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson 2866 2867 2868 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7: 2869 ================================== 2870 2871 * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor] 2872 * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik] 2873 * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim] 2874 * Minor hash table optimizations 2875 * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi] 2876 * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8 2877 compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson] 2878 * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and 2879 collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen] 2880 * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke] 2881 * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian] 2882 * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane] 2883 * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes 2884 * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer] 2885 * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes 2886 2887 Other contributors: 2888 Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain, 2889 Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood, 2890 Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix, 2891 Peter Williams 2892 2893 2894 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6: 2895 ================================== 2896 2897 * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join 2898 * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size 2899 * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to 2900 be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option 2901 * GMarkup speedups 2902 * GDate const, convenience fixups 2903 * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler 2904 * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path. 2905 * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len 2906 * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr. 2907 * Misc bug fixes 2908 2909 2910 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5: 2911 ================================== 2912 2913 * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration 2914 declarations from header files. 2915 * Mark some additional deprecated functions. 2916 * Bug and Portability fixes 2917 2918 2919 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4: 2920 ================================== 2921 2922 * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool 2923 * A few bug fixes 2924 * Build fixes 2925 * Documentation improvements 2926 2927 2928 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3: 2929 ================================== 2930 2931 GLib: 2932 2933 * More user_data support in various functions. 2934 * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops. 2935 * Unicode handling improvements. 2936 * Implemented debugging traps. 2937 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place. 2938 * Various new small utility functions. 2939 * Random number generator precision improvements. 2940 * New configure option --disable-mem-pools. 2941 * Many Win32 improvements. 2942 * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats. 2943 * Many documentation improvements. 2944 * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation 2945 of static mutexes. 2946 * GHookLIst API cleanups. 2947 * Improved format support of GDate parser. 2948 * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy(). 2949 * Hashtable API additions. 2950 * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec). 2951 * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes. 2952 2953 GObject: 2954 2955 * Added many convenience functions. 2956 * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now. 2957 * Reworked property change notification. 2958 * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now. 2959 * Added static content keeping for some GValue types. 2960 * Support for statically scoped signal parameters. 2961 * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface. 2962 * Added support for abstract types. 2963 * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place. 2964 * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms 2965 and parameter conversions. 2966 * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators. 2967 * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object) 2968 relations. 2969 * Implemented GValueArray. 2970 * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING 2971 GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE, 2972 G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY. 2973 * Varrags value collection improvements. 2974 * Implemented debugging traps. 2975 * Made things thread-safe. 2976 * Many documentation improvements. 2977 * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes. 2978 2979 2980 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2: 2981 ================================== 2982 2983 GLib: 2984 2985 * Win32 build improvements [Tor] 2986 * Improvements to error reporting 2987 (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin] 2988 * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler] 2989 * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor] 2990 * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested 2991 not to be freed. [Darin] 2992 * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian] 2993 * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen] 2994 * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based 2995 on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen] 2996 * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(), 2997 g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen] 2998 * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian] 2999 * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*), 3000 and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc] 3001 * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian] 3002 * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc] 3003 * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0 3004 and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian] 3005 * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor] 3006 * autoconf improvements. [Raja] 3007 * Many documentation improvements. 3008 * Bug fixes. 3009 3010 GObject: 3011 3012 * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan] 3013 * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim] 3014 * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim] 3015 * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim] 3016 * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen] 3017 * Bug fixes. 3018 3019 3020 What's new in GLib 1.3.1: 3021 ========================= 3022 3023 * New GObject library added including object system based on 3024 the GTK+ object system. 3025 * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters, 3026 computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining 3027 characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based 3028 on libunicode. 3029 * GString now properly handles embedded nuls. 3030 * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch. 3031 * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3 3032 * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction). 3033 * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules. 3034 * Many improvements to the Windows ports. 3035 * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support. 3036 * Double ended queue implementation. 3037 * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu" 3038 * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings 3039 et ceteri with the program name and the process id. 3040 * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister. 3041 * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and 3042 more tightly defined semantics. 3043 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead. 3044 3045 * bugs fixed: 3046
