GLib 2.6.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/ glib-2.6.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 649b89c8bfd152feea6db6f68b7cd54e glib-2.6.0.tar.gz md5sum: 3138af4f8ea6a1fcf03a502c405e5c52 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. GLib 2.6 is a stable release adding an incremental improvement in functionality over GLib 2.4 while maintaining binary and source compatibility. New features include: Major new APIs * GOption, a command-line option parser * GKeyFile, a parser/editor for files with .INI-style syntax * Functions to support the XDG basedir specification * Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8. Performance improvements * Optimize g_utf8_validate() * Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() * Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1) * Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols * Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail() Miscellaneous new functions * g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings * g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists * g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers * g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler * g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names * g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays * g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version * G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported * glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime * g_debug() completes the family of logging functions Other changes * On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require those to be in UTF-8 and functions that return file names return UTF-8. * Use higher precision for mathematical constants * Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri * Support ll as a printf format modifier for long long on all platforms * Add stricter checking on exported ABI * Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries * Require ngettext More information about GLib is available at: http://www.gtk.org/ The GLib 2.6 Team: Hans Breuer, Matthias Clasen, Tim Janik, Tor Lillqvist, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, and Sebastian Wilhelmi Special thanks to: Anders Carlsson [GOption] Ray Strode [GKeyFile, XDG basedir support] Arjan van de Ven [PLT reduction] Thanks to all the GLib 2.6 contributors, including: Adam Hooper, Alex Larsson, Andrea Campi, Archana Shah, BenoÃt Carpentier, Bruce Hochstetler, Christian Persch, Christophe Fergeau, Crispin Flowerday, Danek Duvall, Danilo Segan, Darin Adler, David MacLachlan,, Ed Griffiths, Federico Mena Quintero, Frederic Crozat, Glynn Foster, Gustavo Carneiro, Havoc Pennington, Hidetaka Iwai, Hidetoshi Tajima, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Ivan Wong, J. Ali Harlow, James Henstridge, Jody Goldberg, John Ehresman, Jonas Jonnson, Jon-Kare Hellan, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Kaz Sasayama, Kazuki IWAMOTO, Kjartan Maraas, Linus Walleij, Lucas Rocha, Mariano SuÃrez-Alvarez, Mark McLoughlin, Masatake YAMATO, Mats-Ola Persson, Michael Natterer, Morten Welinder, Murray Cumming, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Niklas Lundell, Nikolai Weibull, Oliver Guntermann, Peter Zelezny, Philippe Blain, Robert Ãgren, Sebastian Wilhelmi, SÃren Sandmann, Stepan Kasal, Sven Herzberg, Sven Neumann, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Tim-Philipp MÃller, Tommi Komulainen, Vincent Noe 16 December, 2004 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
