GLib 2.5.4 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/ glib-2.5.4.tar.gz md5sum: 7a157ec36c14a430805cc959fb16763b glib-2.5.4.tar.bz2 md5sum: da6cc616614b98024334ffc78aafb9dc This is the fifth development release leading up to GLib-2.6. Notes: * This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production. * Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of GLib-2.4. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib-2.4.7. * GLib-2.6 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib-2.4.x series; however, the new API additions in GLib-2.5.0 are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibities between this release and the final 2.6 release. * With this release, GLib enters a slush API freeze. There are still a few open API issues, but it is likely that many of them will be punted to 2.8. The remaining API issues for GLib-2.6 can be found with following Bugzilla query: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=glib&target_milestone=2.6+API+Freeze&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org About GLib ========== GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. More information about GLib is available at: http://www.gtk.org/ An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib, can be found at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.3 to GLib 2.5.4 ================================================= Add GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files used in various freedesktop.org specifications. [Ray Strode] Make the handling of filename encodings consistent across all GLib functions, introduce wrappers for common POSIX functions which accept the same filename encoding. [Tor Lillqvist, Owen Taylor] GOption - Rename g_context_option_error_quark() to a more language-binding friendly name [Murray Cumming] - Accept backslashes in filenames on Win32 [Tor Lillqvist] * Strip the internal aliasing prefix IA__ from function names in assertions [Matthias Clasen] * Add a function to split uri lists. [Matthias] * Win32 bug fixes - Don't open console windows [Tor] * Other bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Robert Ãgren, Hidetaka Iwai, Matthias, Morten Welinder, Mats-Ola Persson, Tor, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Kjartan Maraas, Anders Carlsson, Tim-Philipp MÃller, Lucas Rocha, Andrea Campi, Manish Singh, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO] * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Linus Walleij, Nickolay, Philippe, Adam Hooper, Gustavo Carneiro] * New and updated translations (cs,en_CA,en_GB,ja,nb,nl,or,sr,sr@Latn,sq) A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=153042,153107,153113,153103,152954,141102,151175,153649,154078,154352,134813,154299,153091,153041,154676,154828,155589,155856,139974,155177,154696,156424,156447,156500,156499,156325,154299,155178 October 27, 2004 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
