updates.

Tue Apr  3 20:22:59 2001  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * NEWS: updates.

        * NEWS.pre-1-3: take over old news.

Tue Apr  3 20:23:24 2001  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * NEWS: updates.

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+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
+
+* 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.
+
 Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
 
 GLib:
@@ -60,214 +82,3 @@ What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
   more tightly defined semantics.
 * the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.
                                 
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.1:
-
-* g_realloc() fix for SunOS (please report further problems).
-* Continued the never ending fix vendetta regarding getpwuid(),
-  this time AIX has been the culprit.
-* Upgrade to libtool 1.2f
-* Miscellaneous other buglets fixed.
-
-What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x):
-
-* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+
-* Win32 Portability
-* Threading support
-* GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
-  object code loading facilities in a portable manner
-* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
-* GQuarks and datasets
-* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data
-* An n-way tree implementation
-* GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations
-* GAllocator type and associated functions
-* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
-* Generic functions for TAB completions
-* Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
-* g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels
-* Generic main-loop mechanism
-* New glib-config helper script
-* Many more API extensions
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16:
-
-* Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes
-* Bug Fixes
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15:
-
-* HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work
-* Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and
-  check() so it is not held over user code
-* A few Win32 fixups
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:
-
-* Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl
-* FreeBSD portability fixes
-* Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:
-
-* Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.
-* Improved thread related configure tests.
-* GSource destruction fixups.
-* Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.
-* Advanced Win32 portability.
-* Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,
-  loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well
-  as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.
-* GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
-  and GNU libtool 1.2d.
-* Lots of random portability and bug fixes.
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:
-
-* Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,
-  g_new_a, g_new0_a
-* New tests structure.  Type 'make check' on your system to run them.
-* Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:
-
-* provide defaults for POLL sysdefs
-* g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted
-* a few other enhancement/fixes
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:
-
-* Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this
-* For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better
-* Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
-
-* Added threading support
-  - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
-    locking at runtime.
-  - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
-    Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
-  - All static variables should now properly locked.
-  - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
-    (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
-* Portability fixes.
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
-
-* Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
-
-* New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
-* New GAllocator type and associated functions
-* New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
-  its data pointers.
-* New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
-  insert elements at an arbitrary index
-* GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
-* Incremental freezing in ghash
-* New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
-  they got marshalled
-* Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
-* Added generic main-loop abstraction
-* Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
-* Bug fixes
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
-
-* Win32 portability
-* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism 
-* Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
-* New functions:
-  - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
-  - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
-  - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references 
-    to other environment variables
-  - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
-    buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
-  - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
-  - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
-  - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order 
-  - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
-  - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
-  - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
-  - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
-  - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
-* New macros:
-  - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
-    syntax elements
-  - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
-    search path syntax conventions
-  - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
-    structure fields through their offsets
-* Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
-* Bug fixes
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
-
-* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
-* New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
-* New string join/split/free routines 
-* Fixes
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
-
-* New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
-  object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
-* glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
-  (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
-  be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
-* Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
-  sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
-* New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
-  associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
-* New inline functions for bit masks tests.
-* GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
-* New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
-  platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
-  a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
-  People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
-  associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
-* New utility functions:
-  g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
-  g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
-  g_strnfill(), g_memdup(). 
-* Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
-  changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
-* The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
-  new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
-  keyed data of GtkObjects).
-* New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
-* Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
-* Libtool update to version 1.2b.
-* Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
-
-Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
-
-* Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
-* fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
-
-What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
-
-* An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
-* Bugfix for pointer arrays.
-
-What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
-
-* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
-  shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
-  incompatibilities.
-* There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
-* Fixups all over the place.
-* gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
-* API extensions for GList and GSList.
-* New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
-* GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
-* Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
-* Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
-  mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
-* More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
-* Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
-  gconstpointer.
-* Generic functions for TAB completions.
-* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.