news 28 Posted May 27, 2008 GLib 2.17.0 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.17/ glib-2.17.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 03da0783697df2db187c76d1534b3d93 glib-2.17.0.tar.gz md5sum: b86660c1b7fa481f6b21bfba2e3ba2eb This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.18. 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 2.16. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib 2.16. * GLib 2.18 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib 2.16 series; however, the new API additions in GLib 2.17.0 are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities between this release and the final 2.18 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 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0 =================================================== * Update to Unicode 5.1 * Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12 * Update included PCRE to 7.7 * Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included. This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES. * Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0 * On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO * Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find additional GIO modules * G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size function attribute * g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum * g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the rate at which events are reported * g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of a file * g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the size of the written data. * Bugs fixed: 522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode 523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa) 518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile 523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and other optimizations 525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources 315437 extern inline -> static inline 524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width alphanumerics into half width 525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first 525674 A typo in gmarkup.c 448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems 525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation 526619 make test-report crash 491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working 530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped 528667 Typos in testing module documentation 459905 Bug in wcwidth data 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table 501651 Update glib/libcharset 519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol 534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private 534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc 517419 gio win32 directory monitor 526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0 532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems 525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation 526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual 528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section 535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should describe purpose of nick and blurb 521513 Firefox crash when using file picker 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ... 533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "... 521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany 521672 compile error 521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor 522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde... 523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation 523019 Use new GCC 4 feature 523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type 524350 Make glib build without NLS again 524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ... 524742 A typo in gtestutils.c. 524950 Minor documentation typos. 525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to... 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss... 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection 532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `... 534759 Build failure in gio 534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory 521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c 524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION 525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o... 534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S... 520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type 523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i... * Updated translations: Arabic (ar) Bulgarian (bg) Catalan (ca) Czech (cs) Greek (el) Candian English (en_CA) British English (en_GB) Spanish (es) Estonian (et) Basque (eu) Galician (gl) Hebrew (he) Hungarian (hu) Japanese (ja) Lithuanian (lt) Norwegian bokmål (nb) Dutch (nl) Occitan (oc) Portugese (pt) Russian (ru) Slovak (sk) Albanian (sq) Swedish (sv) Turkish (tr) Vietnamese (vi) Thanks to all contributors: Tor Lillqvist Alexander Larsson Michael Natterer Tim Janik Sebastian Dröge Felix Riemann Emmanuele Bassi Claudio Saavedra Hiroyuki Ikezoe Peter Kjellerstedt Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis Rodrigo Moya Samuel Thibault Neil Roberts Lieven van der Heide John Ehresman Yukihiro Nakadaira Salvatore Iovene Cody Russell Olivier Crete Sjoerd Simons Behdad Esfahbod Federico Mena Quintero Mathias Hasselmann Mukund Sivaraman Jeffrey Stedfast Mukund Sivaraman Hans Breuer Kjartan Maraas Ted Percival Simon Zheng Benjamin Otte Vlad Grecescu Tomas Bzatek Lin Ma Joe Marcus Clarke Jens Granseuer Josselin Mouette David Zeuthen Sebastien Bacher A. 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