news 28 Posted March 2, 2009 GLib 2.19.10 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.19/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.19/ glib-2.19.10.tar.bz2 md5sum: 2cec449d5593835b6080d662a17078ca glib-2.19.10.tar.gz md5sum: fbae7251ba6486228a78388f829639ed This is the a 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 2.19.8 to GLib 2.19.10 ==================================================== * GMarkup: - Considerable speedup * GIO - Add G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION flag to allow replacing the destination of a copying operation as if it did not exit before. - Be more careful when classifying files as desktop files - Support desktop file key X-GIO-NoFuse which disables the use of fuse pathnames for %u and %U arguments * Bugs fixed: 572672 glib/gthread.c: argument is different type 572464 Doc for g_file_get_contents 572151 “it's†and “its†confused in docs and comments 570501 g_win32_get_system_data_dirs uses invalid conversion... 167569 g_string_append_printf crashes on win32 when used... 572508 gmarkup speedup 560564 Replacing a symlink with its linked file truncates... 549298 impossible to copy files with p (pipe) flag 543183 Clarify docs for g_file_has_prefix 540461 g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size() doesn't behave... 573462 GEmblemedIcon leak 573421 Clarify message format in GMountOperation 573658 Deadlock in giomodule.c 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -? 573527 Wrong shell to run config.status in Makefile.in.in 573128 A couple of typos in GObject documentation * Updated translations: Catalan (ca) British English (en_GB) Spanish (es) Basque (eu) Finnish (fi) French (fr) Gujarati (gu) Hebrew (he) Hungarian (hu) Korean (ko) Maithili (mai) Norwegian bokmål (nb) Dutch (nl) Portugese (pt) Swedish (sv) Thai (th) Traditional Chinese (zh_HK) Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) Thanks to all contributors: Kazuki Iwamoto Øystein Johansen Will Thompson Tor Lillqvist Paolo Borelli Owen Taylor Ryan Lortie Alexander Larsson Markus Duft Fabian Groffen David Zeuthen Christian Dywan Loïc Minier Dimitri Vorbiev March 2, 2009 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post