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@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +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. |