news 28 Posted July 5, 2008 GLib 2.16.4 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.16/ glib-2.16.4.tar.bz2 md5sum: 2ab79b3c93258827cc6ea8ee50128e49 glib-2.16.4.tar.gz md5sum: 7fcca39f1f151633bb7d53ee285e5f2d This is a bug fix release in the 2.16 series. 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 2.16.3 to GLib 2.16.4 =================================================== * Update to PCRE 7.7 - fix a heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE (CVE-2008-2371) * Bug fixes: 528752 Win32 build and SSL not working 539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync() 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules 519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform 536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal() 529321 make check fails in glib/pcre 314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file 502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message 538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes 540459 there are no way of getting the real number of bytes written in GMemoryOutputStream 540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate(seekable,0,...) 530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0 528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/") 536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems 537392 Additional colon in xattr name 528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ... 526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss... 527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection 532852 totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `... 459905 Bug in wcwidth data 534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table * Updated translations: Bulgarian (bg) German (de) Thanks to all contributors: Federico Mena Quintero Tor Lillqvist Michael Natterer Wouter Bolsterlee Hiroyuki Ikezoe Sebastian Dröge Jean-Yves Lefort Takao Fujiwara Thiago Macieira Behdad Esfahbod Tomas Bzatek Padraig O'Briain Michael Meeks Joe Shaw David Zeuthen Bastien Nocera Akira Tagoh Owen Taylor Christian Neumair Danny Baumann Alessandro Morandi July 1, 2008 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
