GLib 2.9.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.9/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.9/
glib-2.9.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: b71e24bba5e137d39ed576e1dfdd3680 glib-2.9.0.tar.gz md5sum: 3148ba2159c1de84e93c012fee04cd54 This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.10. 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 2.8. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib 2.8.4. * GLib 2.10 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib 2.8.x series; however, the new API additions in GLib 2.9.0 are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibities between this release and the final 2.10 release. * Remaining issues for GLib 2.10 can be found with the following bugzilla query: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=glib&target_milestone=2.10 +API+Freeze&&target_milestone=2.10 +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 2.8.x to GLib 2.9.0 ================================================= * Unicode support: - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 4.1, adding several new values to the GUnicodeBreakType enumeration. This breaks Pango <= 1.10 [Behdad Esfahbod] - The various Unicode character predicate functions (g_unichar_isalpha, g_unichar_isdigit,...) have been optimized [Behdad] - g_utf8_pointer_to_offset, g_utf8_offset_to_pointer: These functions handle negative offsets now, and going backwards in g_utf8_offset_to_pointer uses "stutter stepping". [Larry Ewing, Matthias Clasen] * Memory management: - Mem chunks are no longer used internally in GLib and GObject. GMemChunk will be deprecated in GLib 2.10 - All APIs based on GAllocator (g_list_push/pop_allocator, and similar push/pop_allocator functions for other data structures) have been deprecated, since they never worked as intended. - The g_slice_* functions have been added as a new API for fast allocation of small memory blocks. The implementation in GLib 2.9.0 is just a simple wrapper around malloc. GLib 2.10 will have an efficient and scalable implementation. [Tim Janik, Matthias] * Pattern matching: - g_pattern_match has been optimized to avoid unnecessary recursion. [Tim, Matthias] * g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string: - New functions to intern strings. These are now used by GObject to avoid duplicating static strings [Matthias] * g_thread_foreach: - New function to iterate over all GThreads [Tim, Matthias] * g_date_set_time_t, g_date_set_time_val: - New functions to set a GDate from a time_t or GTimeVal value. g_date_set_time has been deprecated in favor of these. [Roger Leigh] * g_snprintf and g_vsnprintf: - These functions are no longer declared in gprintf.h, since they are in glib.h [Matthias] November 18, 2005 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
