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GLib 2.16.6 released

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GLib 2.16.6 is now available for download at:

 

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.16/

http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.16/

 

glib-2.16.6.tar.bz2 md5sum: 664e59093c31896a3a46b7cd93fdd3dd

glib-2.16.6.tar.gz md5sum: 65c594a471406a377bee8171a2ea43d4

 

This is the final 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 2.16.5 to GLib 2.16.6

===================================================

 

* GBookmarkFile: Make the parser less strict about unknown attributes

 

* Bugs fixed:

547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict, and

unnecessary

548321 is not included in gi18n-lib.h

535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories, new files get

the correct umask

544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue

545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc and .cpp files

545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in

g_unix_mount_guess_should_display

546079 leak in xdgmime

546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink

547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors

542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop

551149 xdgmime mem leak

550647 synchronous pipe I/O when reading mount reply

 

 

Thanks to all contributors:

Emmanuele Bassi

Ignacio Casal Quinteiro

Loïc Minier

Priit Laes

Bastien Nocera

Carlos Garcia Campos

Christian Kellner

Felix Riemann

Padraig O'Briain

Christian Persch

Christian Neumair

 

 

September 12, 2008

Matthias Clasen

 

 

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