=== 20 April 2013 === More than a year has past since I (Andreas) took over the maintenance for `gflags`. Only few minor changes have been made since then, much to my regret. To get more involved and stimulate participation in the further development of the library, I moved the project source code today to [https://github.com/schuhschuh/gflags GitHub]. I believe that the strengths of [http://git-scm.com/ Git] will allow for better community collaboration as well as ease the integration of changes made by others. I encourage everyone who would like to contribute to send me pull requests. Git's lightweight feature branches will also provide the right tool for more radical changes which should only be merged back into the master branch after these are complete and implement the desired behavior. The SVN repository remains accessible at Google Code and I will keep the master branch of the Git repository hosted at GitHub and the trunk of the Subversion repository synchronized. Initially, I was going to simply switch the Google Code project to Git, but in this case the SVN repository would be frozen and force everyone who would like the latest development changes to use Git as well. Therefore I decided to host the public Git repository at GitHub instead. Please continue to report any issues with gflags on Google Code. The GitHub project will only be used to host the Git repository. One major change of the project structure I have in mind for the next weeks is the migration from autotools to [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake]. Check out the (unstable!) [https://github.com/schuhschuh/gflags/tree/cmake-migration cmake-migration] branch on GitHub for details. === 25 January 2012 === I've just released gflags 2.0. The `google-gflags` project has been renamed to `gflags`. I (csilvers) am stepping down as maintainer, to be replaced by Andreas Schuh. Welcome to the team, Andreas! I've seen the energy you have around gflags and the ideas you have for the project going forward, and look forward to having you on the team. I bumped the major version number up to 2 to reflect the new community ownership of the project. All the [http://gflags.googlecode.com/svn/tags/gflags-2.0/ChangeLog changes] are related to the renaming. There are no functional changes from gflags 1.7. In particular, I've kept the code in the namespace `google`, though in a future version it should be renamed to `gflags`. I've also kept the `/usr/local/include/google/` subdirectory as synonym of `/usr/local/include/gflags/`, though the former name has been obsolete for some time now. === 18 January 2011 === The `google-gflags` Google Code page has been renamed to `gflags`, in preparation for the project being renamed to `gflags`. In the coming weeks, I'll be stepping down as maintainer for the gflags project, and as part of that Google is relinquishing ownership of the project; it will now be entirely community run. The name change reflects that shift. === 20 December 2011 === I've just released gflags 1.7. This is a minor release; the major change is that `CommandLineFlagInfo` now exports the address in memory where the flag is located. There has also been a bugfix involving very long --help strings, and some other minor [http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/source/browse/tags/gflags-1.7/ChangeLog changes]. === 29 July 2011 === I've just released gflags 1.6. The major new feature in this release is support for setting version info, so that --version does something useful. One minor change has required bumping the library number: `ReparseCommandlineFlags` now returns `void` instead of `int` (the int return value was always meaningless). Though I doubt anyone ever used this (meaningless) return value, technically it's a change to the ABI that requires a version bump. A bit sad. There's also a procedural change with this release: I've changed the internal tools used to integrate Google-supplied patches for gflags into the opensource release. These new tools should result in more frequent updates with better change descriptions. They will also result in future `ChangeLog` entries being much more verbose (for better or for worse). See the [http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/source/browse/tags/gflags-1.6/ChangeLog ChangeLog] for a full list of changes for this release. === 24 January 2011 === I've just released gflags 1.5. This release has only minor changes from 1.4, including some slightly better reporting in --help, and an new memory-cleanup function that can help when running gflags-using libraries under valgrind. The major change is to fix up the macros (`DEFINE_bool` and the like) to work more reliably inside namespaces. If you have not had a problem with these macros, and don't need any of the other changes described, there is no need to upgrade. See the [http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/source/browse/tags/gflags-1.5/ChangeLog ChangeLog] for a full list of changes for this release. === 11 October 2010 === I've just released gflags 1.4. This release has only minor changes from 1.3, including some documentation tweaks and some work to make the library smaller. If 1.3 is working well for you, there's no particular reason to upgrade. === 4 January 2010 === I've just released gflags 1.3. gflags now compiles under MSVC, and all tests pass. I *really* never thought non-unix-y Windows folks would want gflags, but at least some of them do. The major news, though, is that I've separated out the python package into its own library, [http://code.google.com/p/python-gflags python-gflags]. If you're interested in the Python version of gflags, that's the place to get it now. === 10 September 2009 == I've just released gflags 1.2. The major change from gflags 1.1 is it now compiles under MinGW (as well as cygwin), and all tests pass. I never thought Windows folks would want unix-style command-line flags, since they're so different from the Windows style, but I guess I was wrong! The other changes are minor, such as support for --htmlxml in the python version of gflags. === 15 April 2009 === I've just released gflags 1.1. It has only minor changes fdrom gflags 1.0 (see the [http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/source/browse/tags/gflags-1.1/ChangeLog ChangeLog] for details). The major change is that I moved to a new system for creating .deb and .rpm files. This allows me to create x86_64 deb and rpm files. In the process of moving to this new system, I noticed an inconsistency: the tar.gz and .rpm files created libraries named libgflags.so, but the deb file created libgoogle-gflags.so. I have fixed the deb file to create libraries like the others. I'm no expert in debian packaging, but I believe this has caused the package name to change as well. Please let me know (at [mailto:google-gflags@googlegroups.com google-gflags@googlegroups.com]) if this causes problems for you -- especially if you know of a fix! I would be happy to change the deb packages to add symlinks from the old library name to the new (libgoogle-gflags.so -> libgflags.so), but that is beyond my knowledge of how to make .debs. If you've tried to install a .rpm or .deb and it doesn't work for you, let me know. I'm excited to finally have 64-bit package files, but there may still be some wrinkles in the new system to iron out. === 1 October 2008 === gflags 1.0rc2 was out for a few weeks without any issues, so gflags 1.0 is now released. This is much like gflags 0.9. The major change is that the .h files have been moved from `/usr/include/google` to `/usr/include/gflags`. While I have backwards-compatibility forwarding headeds in place, please rewrite existing code to say {{{ #include }}} instead of {{{ #include }}} I've kept the default namespace to google. You can still change with with the appropriate flag to the configure script (`./configure --help` to see the flags). If you have feedback as to whether the default namespace should change to gflags, which would be a non-backwards-compatible change, send mail to `google-gflags@googlegroups.com`! Version 1.0 also has some neat new features, like support for bash commandline-completion of help flags. See the [http://code.google.com/p/google-gflags/source/browse/tags/gflags-1.0rc2/ChangeLog ChangeLog] for more details. If I don't hear any bad news for a few weeks, I'll release 1.0-final.