1Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.1: 2 3* g_realloc() fix for SunOS (please report further problems). 4* Continued the never ending fix vendetta regarding getpwuid(), 5 this time AIX has been the culprit. 6* Upgrade to libtool 1.2f 7* Miscellaneous other buglets fixed. 8 9What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x): 10 11* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ 12* Win32 Portability 13* Threading support 14* GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic 15 object code loading facilities in a portable manner 16* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism 17* GQuarks and datasets 18* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data 19* An n-way tree implementation 20* GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations 21* GAllocator type and associated functions 22* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook) 23* Generic functions for TAB completions 24* Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN) 25* g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels 26* Generic main-loop mechanism 27* New glib-config helper script 28* Many more API extensions 29 30Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16: 31 32* Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes 33* Bug Fixes 34 35Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15: 36 37* HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work 38* Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and 39 check() so it is not held over user code 40* A few Win32 fixups 41 42Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14: 43 44* Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl 45* FreeBSD portability fixes 46* Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes 47 48Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13: 49 50* Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again. 51* Improved thread related configure tests. 52* GSource destruction fixups. 53* Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer. 54* Advanced Win32 portability. 55* Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains, 56 loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well 57 as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held. 58* GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4 59 and GNU libtool 1.2d. 60* Lots of random portability and bug fixes. 61 62Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12: 63 64* Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca, 65 g_new_a, g_new0_a 66* New tests structure. Type 'make check' on your system to run them. 67* Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal 68 69Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11: 70 71* provide defaults for POLL sysdefs 72* g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted 73* a few other enhancement/fixes 74 75Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9: 76 77* Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this 78* For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better 79* Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll 80 81Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8: 82 83* Added threading support 84 - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for 85 locking at runtime. 86 - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads, 87 Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR. 88 - All static variables should now properly locked. 89 - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe. 90 (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8) 91* Portability fixes. 92 93Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7: 94 95* Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h 96 97Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6: 98 99* New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*) 100* New GAllocator type and associated functions 101* New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all 102 its data pointers. 103* New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to 104 insert elements at an arbitrary index 105* GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations 106* Incremental freezing in ghash 107* New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after 108 they got marshalled 109* Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface 110* Added generic main-loop abstraction 111* Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants 112* Bug fixes 113 114Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5: 115 116* Win32 portability 117* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism 118* Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86 119* New functions: 120 - g_strescape: escapes backslashes 121 - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root 122 - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references 123 to other environment variables 124 - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current 125 buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer 126 - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order 127 - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted 128 - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order 129 - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted 130 - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index 131 - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast 132 - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp 133 - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists 134* New macros: 135 - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name 136 syntax elements 137 - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant 138 search path syntax conventions 139 - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling 140 structure fields through their offsets 141* Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros 142* Bug fixes 143 144Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4: 145 146* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook) 147* New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN) 148* New string join/split/free routines 149* Fixes 150 151Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3: 152 153* New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic 154 object code loading facilities in a portable manner. 155* glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule" 156 (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also 157 be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro. 158* Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be 159 sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now. 160* New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels, 161 associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library). 162* New inline functions for bit masks tests. 163* GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node. 164* New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some 165 platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of 166 a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf(). 167 People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the 168 associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf). 169* New utility functions: 170 g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(), 171 g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(), 172 g_strnfill(), g_memdup(). 173* Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible 174 changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c). 175* The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the 176 new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the 177 keyed data of GtkObjects). 178* New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged. 179* Better configure checks for ansi compliance. 180* Libtool update to version 1.2b. 181* Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;) 182 183Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2: 184 185* Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1 186* fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest 187 188What is new in GLib 1.1.1: 189 190* An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure. 191* Bugfix for pointer arrays. 192 193What is new in GLib 1.1.0: 194 195* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated 196 shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary 197 incompatibilities. 198* There is a glib-config helper script installed now. 199* Fixups all over the place. 200* gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore. 201* API extensions for GList and GSList. 202* New g_str*() functions for simple string handling. 203* GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling. 204* Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks. 205* Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data 206 mechansim, but works for generic memory locations). 207* More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments. 208* Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type 209 gconstpointer. 210* Generic functions for TAB completions. 211* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data. 212