news 28 Posted October 17, 2008 GLib 2.19.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.19/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.19/ glib-2.19.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 0ff01feebce78b61ce37877e20d71eba glib-2.19.0.tar.gz md5sum: 994a5b839883e83d0af9e6e86a2e15b7 This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.20. 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 2.18. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GLib 2.18. * GLib 2.20 will be source and binary compatible with the GLib 2.18 series; however, the new API additions in GLib 2.19.0 are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities between this release and the final 2.20 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 2.18.1 to GLib 2.19.0 =================================================== * Rewrite GHashTable to use open addressing with quadratic probing instead of chaining. This has the potential to reduce memory fragmentation significantly, while being slightly faster due to better locality and no need to call alloc/free functions for nodes. Benchmarks suggest it also uses less memory overall. * Make g_poll available as public api * New macros g_assert_error and g_assert_no_error to assert that a GError is set or unset * g_cancellable_make_pollfd: New method to make a GPollFD for a cancellable * g_app_info_can_delete, g_app_info_delete, g_app_info_reset_type_associations: New functions to clean up app infos and content types * When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris when possible, and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris. * Bugs fixed: 505361 gunixinputstream.c assumes poll() available 509446 portable blocking gio cancellation 553820 gpoll.c: undeclared identifier 553724 python interpretter path not patched in correctly 553857 gbacktrace.h requires signal.h 553447 g_assert_no_error() 554092 glib doesn't return G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT et al on OS X 528670 Always pass file:/// uri's in GAppLaunchContext 555224 Improve g_format_size_for_display doc 555309 giochannel breaks on error 554790 g_convert() misbehaves with winiconv versions 555314 mem leak in gmarkup 555313 GFileAttribute boxed type get_type function should... 552861 glib-2.0.m4 calls system(3) without storing its result 554557 Patch to fix gcc warnings about missing format specifiers 552107 Small libtool fixes 551355 Make glib build with libtool 2.2 555311 format not a string literal and no format arguments 556101 static mutex yields warnings with g++ 556186 gpoll.h breaks gmain.h inclusion 526456 Open addressing in GHashTable 553426 cancellable clarifications 545350 GAppInfo deletion 545351 Reset associations for content type 552168 volume's mount not mounted after g_volume_mount_finish 554970 segfault when update-desktop-database is not available... 554745 GFileAttributeInfoList should be boxed 555121 Improved build-time handling of gio module-dir 555711 Wrong fallback order of mimetype icons 555331 Deprecate adoption of mounts 556335 make check fails in abicheck.sh 556334 Warning when building without selinux support 556422 g_file_enumerator_next_file: unclear... * Updated translations: Arabic (ar) Danish (da) Polish (pl) Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) Romanian (ro) Russian (ru) Thanks to all contributors: Tor Lillqvist Hans Petter Jansson Dan Winship Michael Natterer Sven Herzberg Sebastien Bacher Behdad Esfahbod David Zeuthen Christophe Fergeau Christian Persch Andreas Köhler Kjartan Maraas Patryk Zawadzki Nelson BenÃtez León Pascal Terjan Colin Walters Alexander Larsson Krysztof KosiÅ„ski Armin Burgmeier October 16, 2008 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
