| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7: |
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| * 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 |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6: |
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| * 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 |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5: |
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| * Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration |
| declarations from header files. |
| * Mark some additional deprecated functions. |
| * Bug and Portability fixes |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4: |
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| * Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool |
| * A few bug fixes |
| * Build fixes |
| * Documentation improvements |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3: |
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| * 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. |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2: |
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| GLib: |
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| * 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. |
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| GObject: |
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| * 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. |
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| What's new in GLib 1.3.1: |
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| * 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. |
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