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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2007-12-20 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> + * NEWS: Updates + * glib/Makefile.am: Fix make dist 2007-12-20 16:34:04 Tim Janik <timj@imendio.com> @@ -1,3 +1,123 @@ +Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.x to GLib 2.15.0 +=================================================== + +Major new features: + + * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation + in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs + module contains various backend implementations (cifs, ftp, sftp, + http, ...) + + * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1 + and SHA-256 + + * GTest: a test framework + +Smaller additions: + + * GHash: + - GHash has iterators, as an alternative to g_hash_table_foreach + + * GMarkup: + - g_markup_parse_context_get_element_stack: New function to + get the stack of open elements + - G_MARKUP_PREFIX_ERROR_POSITION: New flag to improve error + reporting + - g_markup_collect_attributes: Convenience function for handling + attributes + +* GKeyFile: + - Functions that take a GError now return a boolean to indicate + success, instead of void + - Various performance improvements + +* GAsyncQueue: + - g_async_queue_new_full: new function that allows to specify + a free function for leftover elements + +* GError: + - g_prefix_error and g_propagate_prefixed_error: New functions + to ease error propagation + +* Internationalization: + - C_: A new 2-argument variant of the Q_() macro + - Use native character set conversion API on Windows + +* GLib builds with automake 1.10 + +* Bugs fixed: + 455725 specific combination of g_utf8_strlen and g_pattern_match... + 467537 g_convert_with_iconv() not resetting iconv() state correc... + 497033 Commandline option parser should warn about missing optio... + 504527 gchecksum: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitiali... + 445362 Non-numeric local labels in gatomic.c are causing linker ... + 482313 gregex: no way to tell why compilation failed + 317775 main loops continues to run after g_main_loop_quit() has ... + 418778 Insufficient pkg-config version requirement + 436293 g_option_context_new() doc should mention that the string... + 466557 glib-mkenums shifts ARGV[0] to undefined + 468882 GKeyFile doesn't accept "True" as a true boolean value + 469551 application --help messages are garbaged on none UTF-8 lo... + 479724 Memory leak upon calling "g_main_loop_run" in the seconda... + 490061 outptrs uninitialized after g_parse_long_long + 490637 gobject documentation patch + 495294 glib-genmarshal prints warnings but returns 0 + 496046 option to prefix location of errors for GMarkup + 498113 tests/regex-test fails on 64bit environment + 500506 Fails to build on OSX 10.4 + 500638 gkeyfile speedup ... + 500875 Make check fails as there is no "test" target for "build"... + 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message + 502927 g_array_index triggers cast aligment warning + 503029 g_time_val_from_iso8601 parse non-ISO8601 dates + 503222 Need context to translate + 503420 gkeyfile leaks a hash table + 503470 Fix build when builddir != srcdir + 504227 Inverse variant for g_test_trap_assert_stdout, g_test_tra... + 71704 file include order + 491957 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co... + 491959 Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool" + 491965 Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list... + 491966 Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_co... + 491968 The documentation does not mention the restriction for th... + 491970 The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is inc... + 491974 The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iterat... + 491975 The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_u... + 491979 Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_... + 491982 Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_... + 501107 EXTRA_DIST automake warnings + 501997 g_utf8_normalize() returns NULL on invalid string + 502590 C_/g_dpgettext efficiency + 464259 g_set_application_name() docs should say "Since 2.2" + 496518 gbase64.c API doc clarification + 498728 g_key_file_get_*_list should set length to 0 when returni... + 500361 Improve docs for g_array_free() and g_ptr_array_free() + 501853 g_checksum_get_digest docs + 503862 Allow NULL strings in g_parse_debug_string() + 142676 Q_ + 367550 Add g_async_queue_new_full() with GDestroyNotify function + 375651 Minor enhancements to GKeyFile API + 443648 MD5 digest support + 449937 Upgrade auto* sources to be clean under automake1.9 + 452887 gmarkup context "get element" function is useless when ca... + 491549 [PATCH] Eliminate libiconv dependency on Windows + 500507 GHashTableIter API + +* Translation updates + Belarusian Latin (be@latin) + Czech (cs) + German (de) + Spanish (es) + Esperanto (et) + French (fr) + Korean (ko) + Marathi (mr) + Norwegian bokmål (nb) + Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) + Slovenian (sl) + Swedish (sv) + + Overview of Changes from GLib 2.14.2 to GLib 2.14.3 =================================================== |