GLib 2.7.3 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.7/ glib-2.7.3.tar.bz2 md5sum: 076452cb961adf4b46eaeee920cf4469 glib-2.7.3.tar.gz md5sum: 97cace8bf679eedfd985d877d6812106 This is the fourth development release leading up to GLib 2.8. Notes: * This is unstable development release. While it has had a bit of 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 2.6. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib 2.6.5. * GLib 2.8 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib 2.6.x series. The new API additions in GLib 2.7.x are finalized at this point, and GLib 2.7.x should be considered API frozen. Unless serious issues with the new APIs come up, there will be no API changes between this release and the 2.8.0 release. * GLib 2.7.3 contains changes which make the reference counting and signal emission in GObject thread-safe. While the patch (see bug 166020) has been subject to several rounds of review, it would be worthwhile to pay particular attention to possible problems due to this change. We will make a final evaluation of the atomic refcounting changes before releasing 2.8. * Remaining issues for GLib 2.8 can be found with the following bugzilla query: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=glib&target_milestone=2.8 +API+Freeze&&target_milestone=2.8 +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 2.7.2 to GLib 2.7.3 ================================================= * GOption - Allow callbacks with optional arguments [Pawel Sliwowski] - Allow to turn off the automatic long option name disambiguation [Adam McLaurin] - Only allow printable ASCII as short option names [Matthias] * Win32 - Build fixes [Tor Lillqvist] - Rewrite iochannel socket implementation [Tor] * GObject - Threadsafety improvements; in particular, refcounting of objects is done atomically now. [Wim Taymans, Tim Janik] * Bug fixes [Morten Welinder, Matthias, Wim Taymans] * Documentation improvements [Richard Laager, Matthias] * New and improved translations (bf,cs,hu,nb,nl,no) A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=309859,147392,310148,308886,171840,310243,166020 July 15, 2005 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
