news 28 Posted July 22, 2008 GLib 2.17.4 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.17/ glib-2.17.4.tar.bz2 md5sum: 9692116d39c2bd00c53a9b469711e3fc glib-2.17.4.tar.gz md5sum: cf7730a308a5ba9e4db71a73efa4e53b This is the fifth 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 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 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4 =================================================== * GIO: - New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type, g_content_type_guess_for_tree - Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class - New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors: g_volume_get_activation_root * GObject: - New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure: g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler * Internationalization: - Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_ * GMarkup: - Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push, g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers" * Bugs fixed: 541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without... 541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the... 543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local 543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash... 528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit 337518 GMarkup: Subparser support 541794 drive-eject-button signal 541793 activation root for volumes 467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3 428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris 542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup 482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption 406120 g_ascii_strtod 334234 "printf" format error 536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_ 540616 mem leak in filechooser button 539229 gobject-query calls itself query 521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala 543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use 543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html 530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century 535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ... 543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file * Updated translation: German (de) Estonian (et) Pashto (ps) Albanian (sq) Thai (th) Traditional Chinese (zh_HK) Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) Thanks to the people who contributed to this release: Michael Natterer Behdad Esfahbod Mart Raudsepp Ryan Lortie Morten Welinder Christian Persch David Zeuthen Lin Ma Hiroyuki Ikezoe Marc-Andre Lureau Alessandro Vesely Ryan Schmidt Emmanuele Bassi Yu Kuan Michael Meeks Sven Herzberg July 21, 2008 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
