Hi again, It's been a couple of weeks, so it's time for another GLib release. I'm feeling extra creative, so let's call this one "2.25.11". You can find it in the usual place: http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.25/ Make sure to check those checksums! f83cdc74b9a0a8514c496c68f3d4887d38d5de64ffb9b8cdede7e94bb140b16f glib-2.25.11.tar.bz2 28cbc02036a7f232f23ce56feda3e10bd74fe676902b305bf2a15a8b2c7c9225 glib-2.25.11.tar.gz This is a development release leading to GLib 2.26. Note that there have been some more ABI breaks this time around. You will want to install a new GTK+ and dconf to go with this release of glib (both of which will be along shortly). See the NEWS section below. We're going to try to slow it down with the API breaking, but probably we are not done yet. Particularly, some changes to GApplication are being considered for the next release. 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 2.24. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib 2.24. * GLib 2.26 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib 2.24 series; however, the new API additions in GLib 2.25.x are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities between this release and the final 2.26 release. * 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 2.25.10 to GLib 2.25.11 ===================================================== +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WARNING: There have been minor API changes in GDBus and GVariant. | | These API changes will not affect many users, but they do require | | a new version of GTK+ to be installed. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Build: - add a --disable-Bsymbolic configure flag to disable linking with -Bsymbolic-functions - this release sees the complete removal of the old 'g*alias' hacks - honour the NOCONFIGURE environment variable from autogen.sh - use proper feature test macros for isnan - use pkg-config to check for zlib - add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am GDBus: - hide Class and instance structures for all GDBus types except GDBusProxy. This breaks API by preventing subclassing, but probably nobody was doing that. - add new GDBusConnection call to support flushing all pending outgoing messages - change the register_object API to add a reference to the GDBusInterfaceInfo object so the caller need not keep it alive themselves - don't rewrite the serial number when sending messages that already have a serial number - better error checking for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable - switch to g_parse_debug_string for G_DBUS_DEBUG and add a lot of new flags - add support for temporarily freezing a freshly created GDBusConnection. Do this until after the ::new-connection signal has finished running on GDBus services. - never require non-closed connections (the user is incapable of doing this due to the obvious race) - remove weird/misleading redundant check on NameOwnerChanged signal - emit GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed on NameOwnerChanged GVariant: - the 'g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array' APIs have been removed - g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring has been added, with different arguments and different behaviour - g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring_array has been added, doing essentially the same thing as the 'strv' functions, but with byte strings instead of utf8 strings - G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING ('ay'), BYTESTRING_ARRAY ('aay') and STRING_ARRAY ('as') constants have been added - the undocumented behaviour that g_variant_get_strv() deserialised arrays of object paths or signature strings has been dropped - additional varargs support for converting bytestrings or bytestring arrays with ^ay ^aay ^&ay and ^a&ay - improved gobject-introspection annotation - fix a problem with GBuffer calling g_slice_free for the wrong type - fix leaks in the type inferencing code of the parser GSettings: - improved documentation - updated schema XML DTD, now xincluded into the docs - added support for schemas that extend other schemas (using the 'extends=' attribute). Values of keys in the base schema can be overridden using <override>. - added theoretical support for lists (using the 'list-of=' attribute) - lots of new tests - add support for flags (implemented similarly to enums) - add support for generating .enums.xml files to gsettings.m4: gsettings_ENUM_NAMESPACE = org.example.myapp gsettings_ENUM_FILES = ../path/to/*.h will generate org.example.myapp.enums.xml with mappings for all enums and flags in the specified .h files. - warn with g_message() if the 'memory' backend is used by default (ie: because no other GSettings backends are installed) - fix get_property() for GSettings::schema - command line tool: fix a bug that prevented non-basic values from being set due to a premature free - command line tool: bash completion support - chain up in _finalize - add a new g_settings_get_mapped API to read settings that require post-processing - retry with the translated or schema default value if the GSettingsBindGetMapping function fails - schema compiler: never fail due to empty schema directories (but warn) - peek rather than ref/unref the GEnumClass in the mapping function - schema compiler: compile *.enums.xml before *.gschemas.xml to ensure that we have all the enums that the schemas may reference - schema compiler: improve accuracy of line numbers in error reports - fix crashes in the keyfile backend caused by invalid group names in the keyfile Other: - always intern GBinding prop names - base64: remove asserts preventing conversion of empty strings - document NULL special-cases for GValueArray - GNode docs improvements - improve detection of 'system internal' mounts - fix leaks in the inotify GFileMonitor implementation - annotate all custom GIO GSources to improve debugging (e.g. using SystemTap) Tests: - Turn on glibc malloc checking features for make check - improvements for GSettings tests, plus new tests - improved tests for GKeyfile - new tests for GDir, GSList, GSList, GAppLaunchContext, CharsetConverter, GIcon, ... - move some tests to GTester (tree tests, uri tests) - generally, really an awful lot of new tests - don't try to allocate 2gigs of memory anymore for the array test 552363 g_value_array_{insert,prepend,append}'s special cases for NULL 561248 Improve return value description from g_node_prev/next_sibling() 570036 Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am 576833 g_sprintf add a reference to g_strdup_printf 576854 g_strconcat() documentation should provide a hint about bad l10n 582227 reference: add other URI functions to 'URI Functions' section 599223 should provide g_spawn_* variants that take a GAppLaunchContext 610784 array test failing 613057 Leak in inotify GFileMonitor implementation 620536 Annotate all custom GIO GSource using g_source_set_name 620913 More control with G_DBUS_DEBUG 622124 implement flags 622127 GSettings extended key validation 622128 retry with default value for failed mapping 622294 More annotations for GVariant 622565 glib-compile-schemas fails when no schemas 622600 Fix missing prototype warning 622813 gsettings mapping & enum buglet 623142 Ensure ::new-connection runs before processing D-Bus messages 623143 Never require non-closed connections 623319 use g_parse_debug_string for dbus debug flags 623401 process enums first 623402 schema compiler reports wrong line numbers 623407 g_keyfile_settings_backend_new crashes with the key "/" 623473 zlib should be checked with pkg-config 623537 GDBusProxy has weird checking on NameOwnerChanged 623538 GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed emission for corner cases 623692 directory with file at multiple MLS levels may display empty 623720 gschema.dtd does not contain enum definitions 623770 quoting of expand_macro in gdesktopappinfo.c 623772 gdesktopappinfo.c, function child_setup 623780 g_unix_is_mount_path_system_internal 623954 g_settings_finalize 623955 Dubious return values Updated translations: Galician Hebrew Norwegian bokmål Spanish Thanks to the contributors: Colin Walters Dan Winship Danielle Madeley David Zeuthen Kristian Rietveld Matthias Clasen Milan Bouchet-Valat Tor Lillqvist Will Thompson July 11, 2010 Ryan Lortie _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
