news 28 Posted February 2, 2009 GLib 2.19.6 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.19/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.19/ glib-2.19.6.tar.bz2 md5sum: d78ebdcb6a9bbd7cce1f396501037f9b glib-2.19.6.tar.gz md5sum: be37b6a73ca6ea2f1575730bbd49568d This is the sixth 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; the new API additions in GLib 2.19 are finalized at this point. * 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 2.19.5 to GLib 2.19.6 =================================================== * New format macro to print goffset data: G_OFFSET_FORMAT * GIO: - Add a GFilter{Input,Output}Stream::close-base-stream properties which determine whether the base stream will be closed when the filter stream is finalized. - g_data_input_stream_read_line and ..._read_until have asynchronous variants now. * Bugs fixed: 568294 A wrong reference in the description of g_bookmark_file_... 563141 RFE: define G_OFFSET_FORMAT 569105 g_time_val_to_iso8601() assumes time_t==long 568394 dropping the last reference to a stream filter closes... 568741 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't work 568723 g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async doesn't take count == -1 568575 _async functions for GDataInputStream * Updated translations: Bulgarian (bg) Finnish (fi) Hungarian (hu) Oriya (or) Swedish (sv) Traditional Chinese (zh_HK) Traditional Chinese (zy_TW) Thanks to all contributors: Takeshi Aihana Tor Lillqvist Stefan Kost Christian Persch Matthias Drochner Ryan Lortie Paolo Borelli February 2, 2009 _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
