| Overview of Changes from GLib 2.0.x to GLib-2.1.x |
| ================================================= |
| |
| * Add copy of the Trio library to build and use for printf() when |
| system printf isn't good enough. Add g_printf()/etc. [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Add g_str_has_suffix()/g_str_has_prefix() [Alex Larsson] |
| * Add g_markup_parse_context_get_element() [Matthias] |
| * Add g_utf8_strreverse [Matthias] |
| * Add g_ascii_strtoull() [Tim Janik] |
| * Support scanning of 64-bit values with GScanner [Tim] |
| * Add g_set/get_application_name() [Havoc Pennington] |
| * Add G_LIKELY()/G_UNLIKELY() macros for hinting branch probabilities. |
| Use for g_return_if_fail(). [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Add G_GNUC_DEPRECATED macro [Tom Tromey] |
| * Improve the seeding algorithm of GRandom to avoid problems |
| with certain pathological seeds. Support G_RANDOM_VERSION=2.0 |
| environment variable. [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Improve thread configure checks, use -pthread where applicable |
| [Sebastian] |
| * Improve handlng of thread priorities [Sebastian] |
| * Fix up parameter names that might shadow functions from |
| system headers [Soeren Sandmann] |
| * Clean up usage of deprecated functions [Manish Singh] |
| * Docs fixes and improvements. In particular, include "Since" information. |
| [Matthias, Soeren, Martin Schulze, Daryll Strauss, Bill Janssen, |
| Owen Taylor, Morten Welinder]. |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.7 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Fix C++ warnings in gtype.h [Dom Lachowicz] |
| * Fix g_type_fundamental_next() [Tim Janik] |
| * Fix various missing includes of config.h [Morten Welinder] |
| * Handle main loop initialization before g_thread_init [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Various 64-bit fixes [Manish Singh] |
| * Fix GPoll on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Herman Bloggs] |
| * Fix bug with buffering on UTF-8 IOChannels [Daniel Elstner] |
| * Misc bug and build fixes [Soren Andersen, Gustavo Carneiro, Tor, |
| Tim, Havoc Pennington, Matthias Clasen, Sebastian Rittau, |
| Masahiro Sakai, Arvind Samptur, HideToshi Tajima, Owen Taylor] |
| * Updated and new translations (be,cs,de,*fa,it,lv,pt_BR,tr) |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp] |
| * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson] |
| * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II] |
| * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor] |
| * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, |
| Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier] |
| * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat, |
| Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij] |
| * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen] |
| * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi) |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.5 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp] |
| * Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson] |
| * Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II] |
| * Fix some problems with g_build_path() [Guillaume Chazarain, Owen Taylor] |
| * Fixes for --disable-debug [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, |
| Rajkumar Sivasamy, Laurent Vivier] |
| * Documentation fixes [Jacob Berkman, Manuel Clos, Jared Dukat, |
| Sebastian Rittau, Linus Welleij] |
| * Misc bug fixes [Anders Carlsson, Sam Couter, Morten Welinder, Owen] |
| * Updated translations (bg,ko,vi) |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.4 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Fix some 64-bit problems. (George Lebl, David L. Cooper II) |
| * Add note about Tru64 iconv to INSTALL. (Manuel Op de Coul) |
| * Fix problem with timouts > MAXINT. (Tim Janik, Owen Taylor) |
| * Updated translations (ca,es,fr,ja,gl,ms,nl,pl,pt,ru) |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.3 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Handle sorting 0-length arrays (Ron Arts) |
| * Threading fixes (Sebastian Wilhelmi) |
| * Portability fixes (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jacob Berkman, Gareth Pierce, |
| Sebastian, Qingjiang Yuan) |
| * Various fixes for glib-2.0.m4. (Jim Gettys, others.) |
| * Locate right glib-genmarshal when cross-compiling. (Mitch Natterer) |
| * Win32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist) |
| * Try to fix g_get_charset() related segfaults. (Owen) |
| * Fixes for gettext detection. (Dan Winship, HideToshi Tajima, Boyd Lynn Gerber, |
| Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.) |
| * Fix g_scanner_unexp_token() (Tim Janik, Sven Neumann) |
| * g_markup fixes. (Matthias Clasen.) |
| * Bug fixes and cleanups (Daniel Elstner, Matthias, Laszlo Peter, Morten Welinder, |
| Wayne Schuller) |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.1 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Portability fixes for Sun's Forte compiler [Erwann Chenede] |
| * Performance improvements for GObject parameter lookup, |
| g_filename_to/from_utf8() [Alex Larsson] |
| * Actually check interface prerequisites [Matthias Clasen, |
| Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] |
| * Fix problem with glib-mkenums taking huge amounts of stack. [Owen Taylor] |
| * Fix g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_func() for C++ [Damien Sandras] |
| * Fixes for g_log() and threading. |
| [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Tim Janik] |
| * Make g_print(), g_printerr(), g_warning(), etc, convert from |
| UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale [Sebastain Wilhelmi, Tim] |
| * Fixes for GIOChannel on windows. [Tor Lillquist] |
| * Fix gsize/gint mismatches in giochannel.c [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] |
| * Fix file descriptor leak in g_file_get_contents() [Matthias] |
| * Workaround iconv() problems on older Solaris [Lauri Alanko] |
| * Fix warnings with gcc-3.1 about asm const [Cody Russel] |
| * Minor bug fixes. |
| |
| Other contributors: Hans Breuer, LEE Sau Dan, Sven Neumann, Salmaso Raffaele, |
| Akira Tagoh, Morten Welinder |
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| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 |
| ================================= |
| |
| * Thread portability fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Documentation updates [Owen Taylor] |
| * Make g_strerror(), g_strsignal() properly return UTF-8, |
| call bind_text_domain_codeset() so that error strings |
| are in UTF-8 as well. [Owen, Tor Lillqvist] |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.0 rc1: |
| ====================================== |
| |
| * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist] |
| * Portability fixes [Finlay Dobbie, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] |
| * Fix up g_date_strftime [Daniel Elstner] |
| * Add some structure padding [Tim Janik] |
| * Make g_get_homedir() prefer the users home directory to $HOME |
| |
| Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, Paolo Maggi, Christian Rose |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.15: |
| =================================== |
| |
| * Speed up marshalers by using private access to GValue |
| [Anders Carlsson, Tim Janik] |
| * Reduce GValue to 2 elements [Tim] |
| * Add G_DEBUG environment variable, G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Fixes for AIX compilation [Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] |
| * Add padding to various structures [Owen Taylor, Tim] |
| * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillquist] |
| |
| Other contributors: James Henstridge, Ryan Lovett, Morten Welinder, |
| Daniel Elstner |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.14: |
| =================================== |
| |
| * Register value transformations for gint64, guint64 [Andy Wingo] |
| * Build with large-file support [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor] |
| * Fix handling of hostnames in URI's [Darin Adler] |
| * Main loop bug fixes [Havoc Pennington, Owen] |
| * Doc fixes and improvements [Manish Singh, Tim Janik] |
| * Support ' as attribute delimiters in GMarkup [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist] |
| * Threading bug and build fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann] |
| * Miscellaneous bug fixes |
| |
| Other contributors: Matthias Clasen, James Henstridge, Mitch Natterer, |
| Morten Welinder. |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.13: |
| =================================== |
| |
| * Fix g_filename_to/from_uri for Win32 [Tor Lillqvist, Darin Adler] |
| * Miscellaneous win32 fixes [Tor, Hans Breuer] |
| * Fix thread options for gcc on AIX [Jerome Zago, Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Documentation improvements [Ron Steinke, Matthias, Sebastian] |
| * Cache iconv converters as used by g_convert() [Jeffrey Stedfast] |
| * Bug fixes [Sven Neumann, Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen, Jeffrey, |
| Laszlo Peter, Havoc Pennington, Tim Janik] |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12: |
| =================================== |
| |
| * Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik) |
| * Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge) |
| * Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim) |
| * Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist) |
| * Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship) |
| * Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen) |
| * Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik) |
| * Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington) |
| |
| Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks, |
| Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima, |
| Sebastian Wilhelmi. |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11: |
| =================================== |
| |
| * Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist] |
| * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Portable directory handling API [Hans] |
| * Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington] |
| * Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor] |
| * Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik] |
| * Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor] |
| * Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking |
| [Alex Larsson, Tim] |
| * Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen] |
| * GObject API cleanups [Tim] |
| |
| Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings, |
| Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10: |
| =================================== |
| |
| * Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist] |
| * Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen] |
| * g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf() |
| * Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection |
| more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima] |
| * Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen] |
| * Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua] |
| * GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias] |
| * Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson] |
| * Many bug fixes and minor tweaks. |
| |
| Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor, |
| Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter, |
| Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi, |
| Jacob Berkman |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9: |
| ================================== |
| |
| * Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen] |
| * Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer] |
| * Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown |
| * Bug, portability fixes, cleanups. |
| |
| Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8: |
| ================================== |
| |
| * Documentation updates [Owen] |
| * Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types |
| * Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist] |
| * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes |
| |
| Other contributors: |
| Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7: |
| ================================== |
| |
| * Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor] |
| * More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik] |
| * Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim] |
| * Minor hash table optimizations |
| * Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi] |
| * Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8 |
| compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson] |
| * Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and |
| collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen] |
| * Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke] |
| * Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian] |
| * Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane] |
| * More G_CONST_RETURN fixes |
| * Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer] |
| * Miscellaneous bug and API fixes |
| |
| Other contributors: |
| Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain, |
| Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood, |
| Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix, |
| Peter Williams |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6: |
| ================================== |
| |
| * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join |
| * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size |
| * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to |
| be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option |
| * GMarkup speedups |
| * GDate const, convenience fixups |
| * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler |
| * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path. |
| * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len |
| * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr. |
| * Misc bug fixes |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5: |
| ================================== |
| |
| * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration |
| declarations from header files. |
| * Mark some additional deprecated functions. |
| * Bug and Portability fixes |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4: |
| ================================== |
| |
| * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool |
| * A few bug fixes |
| * Build fixes |
| * Documentation improvements |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3: |
| ================================== |
| |
| GLib: |
| |
| * More user_data support in various functions. |
| * Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops. |
| * Unicode handling improvements. |
| * Implemented debugging traps. |
| * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place. |
| * Various new small utility functions. |
| * Random number generator precision improvements. |
| * New configure option --disable-mem-pools. |
| * Many Win32 improvements. |
| * Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats. |
| * Many documentation improvements. |
| * Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation |
| of static mutexes. |
| * GHookLIst API cleanups. |
| * Improved format support of GDate parser. |
| * String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy(). |
| * Hashtable API additions. |
| * New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec). |
| * Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes. |
| |
| GObject: |
| |
| * Added many convenience functions. |
| * GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now. |
| * Reworked property change notification. |
| * Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now. |
| * Added static content keeping for some GValue types. |
| * Support for statically scoped signal parameters. |
| * Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface. |
| * Added support for abstract types. |
| * G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place. |
| * Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms |
| and parameter conversions. |
| * Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators. |
| * Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object) |
| relations. |
| * Implemented GValueArray. |
| * New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING |
| GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE, |
| G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY. |
| * Varrags value collection improvements. |
| * Implemented debugging traps. |
| * Made things thread-safe. |
| * Many documentation improvements. |
| * Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes. |
| |
| |
| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2: |
| ================================== |
| |
| GLib: |
| |
| * Win32 build improvements [Tor] |
| * Improvements to error reporting |
| (g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin] |
| * Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler] |
| * New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor] |
| * Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested |
| not to be freed. [Darin] |
| * Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian] |
| * Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen] |
| * Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based |
| on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen] |
| * Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(), |
| g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen] |
| * Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian] |
| * Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*), |
| and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc] |
| * Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian] |
| * Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc] |
| * Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0 |
| and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian] |
| * Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor] |
| * autoconf improvements. [Raja] |
| * Many documentation improvements. |
| * Bug fixes. |
| |
| GObject: |
| |
| * Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan] |
| * Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim] |
| * Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim] |
| * Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim] |
| * Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen] |
| * Bug fixes. |
| |
| |
| What's new in GLib 1.3.1: |
| ========================= |
| |
| * New GObject library added including object system based on |
| the GTK+ object system. |
| * Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters, |
| computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining |
| characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based |
| on libunicode. |
| * GString now properly handles embedded nuls. |
| * Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch. |
| * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3 |
| * Full thread support (thread creation and destruction). |
| * BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules. |
| * Many improvements to the Windows ports. |
| * Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support. |
| * Double ended queue implementation. |
| * GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu" |
| * New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings |
| et ceteri with the program name and the process id. |
| * New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister. |
| * g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and |
| more tightly defined semantics. |
| * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead. |
| |