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Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.3
==================================
* g_clear_pointer and g_clear_object no longer use atomics
* Bugs fixed:
711547 win32: silence some build warnings
725511 Compiled resource files should have the same /-separators everywhere
725513 Some tests fail to build on W32
725514 W32: gfileutils does not preserve errno correctly
725515 test-printf fails on W32
728730 gsocket: Set SO_NOSIGPIPE on sockets on Darwin
729703 Leaks a GError in g_file_move
730932 statically assert that reasonable assumptions about enums are true
732085 gtype: Fast-path for g_type_is_a
732754 GDBusMessage: optimise (de)serialisation of fixed arrays
733345 ginetaddress: Add a precondition to g_inet_address_new_from_string()
733576 Patches from static analysis run on 2.40
733715 glib's configure.ac makes accidentally use of nested function
733934 win32: improve the package installation dir lookup
733960 W32: spawning a console process creates a new window when stdout...
733969 Remove atomic aspects of g_clear_pointer/object
733982 Do not crash when checking whether an instance type is of a given...
734035 gedit hangs up when there's no GSettings key in the registry
* Translation updates:
Basque
Brazilian Portuguese
Lithuanian
Slovenian
Spanish
Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.2
==================================
* The Unicode support has been updated to version 7.0
of the Unicode standard
* GNotification now supports priorities for notifications
* GCredentials has gained NetBSD support
* GMutex now uses a faster, native implementation on Linux
* Bugs fixed:
699132 Pluggable event loop backends
720708 g_assert_warning(): number of arguments doesn't match for...
722092 Add GtkApplication resources support
724986 Change gio/data-to-c.pl to /usr/bin/env perl.
727974 Fix up failure-to-see-expected-message logging
728256 gcredentials: add NetBSD support
728401 GDateTime: Add guards to g_date_time_new()
729825 Formatting of g_alloca documentation
729914 instead of DEBUG_CODE and IF_DEBUG, provide a common macro...
730293 clang++-3.4: error: 'register' storage class specifier is ...
731339 giochannel: avoid setting uninitialised length
731424 #ifdef spaghetti for load_user_special_dirs() implementations
731623 GNotification: add support for a priority setting
731929 update tables to unicode 7.0.0
731950 gvalue: New g_value_from_instance
731986 GLib: implement GMutex natively on Linux
732184 GObject: warn on use of deprecated properties
732357 Docs: various fixes and improvements
732429 GActionEntry: improve documentation
732465 Fix build on x64 Visual C++ builds
732704 Docs: various fixes and improvements
732739 ginetsocketaddress: Explicitly initialise flags for getaddr...
732754 GDBusMessage: optimise (de)serialisation of fixed arrays
732984 g_object_ref(NULL) in g_dbus_object_manager_client_finalize
733084 Typos in g_bytes_hash() and g_time_zone_find_interval() docs
733146 spawn helper does not use correctly the parameters
* Translation updates:
Lithuanian
Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.1
==================================
* Bug fixes:
697229 Custom Interface implementations will be broken with glib 2.37/38
698614 GObject: prevent installing properties after init
729269 gvariant: Fix confusion between type and format strings in the docs
730198 broken valgrind.h leads to crashes in g_type_free_instance on mingw64
730807 GMutex performance regression
730963 gconvert: mention that the g_convert len should be in bytes
730984 Faster instance type check for fundamentals
731050 <structname> tags appear in documentation
731200 unconditional 'notify' during g_object_set() is problematic
731335 gtype: guard uses of new fundamental type check
731341 gparam: change value of G_PARAM_EXPLICIT_NOTIFY
731366 run-assert-msg-test.sh gdb leaves assert-msg-test zombie
731425 giomodule protects function-call with different token than function...
731513 clang: build failure: implicit declaration of function '__atomic_load_4'
731584 gbookmarkfile: Cleaner error handling code to pacify static analysis
731657 Prevent an invalid @CARBON_LIBS@ from appearing in the .pc files
731979 docs: Correct param to interface's default_init()
731996 Return folder as icon for directories
732002 gwakeup: Clarify buffer sizing in g_wakeup_signal()
732005 Remove unused assignments
732019 gtestdbus: Don’t close stdout for dbus-daemon
732068 gsignal: Add an example to the g_signal_connect_swapped() documentation
732081 gsocket: Document that g_socket_create_source() holds a socket ref
732107 gsocketlistener: Reconsider closing sockets on listener finalisation
Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.0
===================================
* Many bugfixes found by static analysis, including potential fd leaks
and NULL pointer dereferences.
* Increased use of (nullable) attribute on out values and return types
now that it is supported (mostly from porting Vala metadata).
* use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn handling of desktop
files, deprecating g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env()
* add support for g_desktop_app_info_get_implementations() to find
desktop files that have an Implements= line for a given interface
* GHmac has gained SHA-512 support
* support the new mimeapps specification (most notably, moving the
assoications/defaults configuration to ~/.config/mimeapps.list).
* libgobject is now linked -Wl,-z,nodelete when possible to avoid errors
when gobject is used from a module for a program that does not itself
use gobject and that module is unloaded/reloaded
* ... and many other bug fixes.
623552 glib warns if backtrace.py is not present
667468 glib-2.30.2: ipv6 tests fail when no ipv6 support is available
668152 -framework Carbon linker flag not passed to pkg-config .pc files
707298 libgobject should be linked with -Wl,-z,nodelete
712391 Add g_desktop_app_info_get_implementors()
722723 Infinite recursion when calling g_io_stream_close_async() from libsoup
724741 hmac: Fix support for SHA-512 in GHmac
726040 networkaddress: fix parsing of uri with @ after authority
726318 gio: Document that GSocket is not thread safe
726611 socketclient: Leak on cancellation
726872 gio: Add names to idles and timeouts
727119 wrong IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_LINKLOCAL usage break android build
727123 GNotification: Some small documentation fixes
727320 docs: Remove escaping '\' from literals
727551 Check use_count of GApplication in g_application_release()
727559 g_file_copy: Don't set GError when we intend to ignore errors
727692 gio/gtlscertificate.c -- broken PEM-file processing (affects local CA root stores, for starters)
727890 soup_content_sniffer_real_sniff segfault
727900 gio: Add newer dbus UnknownXxxx and PropertyReadOnly errors
727928 gapplication-tool fixes
727939 INTLLIBS are always appended in configure checks
727964 g_io_extension_point_get_extension_by_name: Warn, but don't crash, for NULL inputs
728040 Implement new mimeapps spec
728066 Deal with startup notify id being NULL
728280 platform_get_argv0: fix sysctl(3) use on OpenBSD
728285 docs: Use markdown links in .h files, too
728350 gaction: Minor clarifications in the GAction documentation
728380 docs: Remove <!-- --> comment before plural s
728565 gfile: More explicitly document the context for GFileProgressCallback
728983 Docs: various fixes and improvements
729167 gobject: Document that classes/objects/interfaces are zero-filled
729563 GOption: A short option's value is included in G_OPTION_REMAINING
729813 AppInfo: use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for OnlyShowIn
729875 gio: cleanup gdbusmessage.c file
730045 Avoid overeager warning about deprecated properties
730189 gtestutils: Fix a very unlikely FD leak in test fork handling
730190 gsocket: Add missing preconditions to g_socket_send_message()
730277 gthread: Fix use of a local variable after it went out of scope
730278 gsubprocess: Add a missing va_end() call
730295 gdbus-tool: Remove dead variables
730493 Port annotations from Vala metadata
Translations updated:
Basque
Brazilian Portuguese
Catalan
Czech
Danish
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Punjabi
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Ukrainian
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.91 to GLib 2.39.92
=====================================================
This is a release candidate for 2.40.0.
There are no major changes in this release, but a few serious bugs have
been fixed.
* Bugs fixed:
710367 Crash in g_settings_backend_dispatch_signal()
723899 G_DEFINE_TYPE() causes compiler warnings with clang due to foo_get_instance_private
724859 Let the test_wait_until() test also run on non-*nix
724916 gio unmount code makes XFCE's Thunar crash
725651 GSubprocessLauncher: Does not copy the calling process environment.
725656 Unskip GVariantDict
725891 gio tests: add codegen to BUILT_SOURCES
726046 Recent commit created symbolic icons issues
* Translations:
Chinese
French
Korean
Latvian
Norwegian bokmål
Portuguese
Russian
Traditional Chinese
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.90 to GLib 2.39.91
=====================================================
This release introduces a hard dependency on present and functioning
clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. It also introduces a dependency on
pthread_condattr_setclock() unless your system happens to have
pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np() (as do Mac OS and Android). This
release is known to be broken with at least GNU/Hurd, pending addition
of working pthread_condattr_setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) there.
New API: g_str_to_ascii()
* Fixed bugs:
670144 unconditional use of CLOCK_MONOTONIC is broken
673607 invalid assumption in g_cond_wait_until() / g_get_monotonic_time() API
710142 Add more impressive transliteration to GLib
722360 make check fails
722604 (partial) Various tests are failing with 2.39.3
723316 g_hash_table_iter_remove() should be explicit whether or not it is safe while iterating the table
724609 Fix build of GIO on Windows
724687 gmain: make monotonic time really monotonic, everywhere
724706 gsource: document priority of child sources
724707 some GSocket source improvements
724839 GMainContext: some source ID cleanups
724858 Dist gtranslit-data.h
724994 Missing icons for bookmarks in file chooser
725023 Can no longer find apps by executable/desktop file name
* Translations:
Lithuanian
Polish
Thai
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.4 to GLib 2.39.90
====================================================
* Fixed bugs:
625408 make GVariant dictionaries more useful
660809 document that if you fail a precondition check, documented guarantees do not apply
661576 fix handling of constructors that destroy half-constructed objects
679957 g_inet_address_new_from_string is not able to handle dots and numbers IPv4 addresses
712837 gvariant: Document the need to cast varargs when constructing GVariants
721458 g_simple_async_result_is_valid has a NULL check for the wrong source_tag
721977 improve split handling of command line arguments
722033 win32: fixup lib.exe invocation
723422 Fix g_socket_get_available() with TCP on Windows
723616 gio/tests: fix race when generating code
724001 gsubprocess: Fix a broken link in the documentation
724124 glib/tests/collate.c fails if no en_US locale
724126 intermittent GApplication test failure: /gapplication/local-actions: lines of output permuted
724233 gsocketservice: Note g_socket_listener_close() for closing open sockets
724239 soup_session_queue_message - Connection terminated unexpectedly
724278 gsocketconnection: Document closing connections with g_io_stream_close()
724330 configure.ac: tweak inotify check
724385 gtestutils: make the new assert messages more detailed
724401 gsubprocess: Mutex leak
724417 glib master build broken on OpenBSD
724434 Build failure in gio/gresolver.c
* Updated translations:
Brazilian Portuguese
Galician
Indonesian
Italian
Kannada
Norwegian bokmål
Spanish
Thai
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.3 to GLib 2.39.4
===================================================
* Fixed Bugs:
139699 Correction for g_main_context_unref()
583036 g_strchomp and g_strchug are not declared const
683388 improve documentation for application developers
685204 ./configure fails to add the '-g' flag to CFLAGS
688406 GStaticMutex broke ABI on at least ARM EABI during 2.31.x
693299 cannot compile on Solaris: error in gbitlock.c
707111 Clarify type transformability and compatibility
711547 win32: silence some build warnings
719344 Fix the various test programs (or GLib itself) on Windows
722025 cleanup/clarify command line argument encoding on Windows
722323 remove unused include 'gslist.h' in 'gbookmarkfile.c'
722326 gstringchunk: Use g_slist_free_full() where possible
722357 gio: fix small memory leak on local xattr
722436 Adjust doc to Makefile.decl renaming
722503 GSimpleAction: add default activate handler
722526 glib/deprecated/gthread.h error on FreeBSD
722591 [documentation] broken link to GtkAction from GAction.html
722973 Broken example in GApplication reference
723048 'network-access' test can fail to guess interface index
723360 gmain: Note that g_source_destroy() can be called multiple times
* Updated Translations:
Assamese
Tamil
Traditional Chinese
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.2 to GLib 2.39.3
===================================================
No major changes this release -- mostly lots of small fixes and
improvements in test coverage.
* fix a crasher in code from gdbus-codegen
* improvements to gobject gdb helper script
* portability:
- fix a deadlock issue with kqueue on FreeBSD
- work around a quirk in the sunstudio compiler
- rename a variable to avoid clashing with a macro definition of
'environ' on some platforms (like mingw)
- use POSIX-specified <poll.h> over <sys/poll.h>
- many improvements to Visual Studio projects and and some build
fixes for Windows
* tests
- a very large number of improvements in test coverage
- don't report skipped tests as failures
- return 77 if we skip all tests in an executable
- improve gtest documentation and fix some minor issues
- fix g_test_trap_reached_timeout() return value
- remove some dead code uncovered during test coverage expansion
- Use tap mode for installed tests too, when using tap
* fix races in unix signal handling
* make our GVariant-based commandline tools (glib-compile-schemas,
gdbus, gapplication) print out GVariant parse errors in context
* GApplication now has a --gapplication-service command line switch to
turn any GApplication into a service
* improve compatibility of GApplication and GOptionContext
* fix gsettings.m4 wrt. builddir != srcdir with non-recursive make
* use a directory monitor in GKeyfileSettingsBackend
* improve robustness of some GIcon classes
Bugs fixed
141251 poll(2) is in <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h> per SUS standard
613732 [PATCH] gobject.py: Don't install frame filters when GDB does not support them
708212 g_variant_parser_error_get_quark() has unexpected name.
710965 GApplication: add --gapplication-service switch
711090 periodic failure of spawn-multithreaded async testcase
712171 gsettings.m4: @GSETTINGS_RULES@: Support srcdir != builddir with nonrecursive make
712630 Revert "gsettings m4: check for .xml in src/builddir"
715028 GVariant: add way to print context of parse errors
719344 Fix the various test programs (or GLib itself) on Windows
720263 gtestutils: skipping a test should count as success, not failure
720539 gdbus-codegen: Fix crasher in goa-using apps
720635 Make gdb pretty-printers compatible with Python3
720891 g_settings_get_child does not inherit the backend
721034 glib 2.38.2 cannot be compiled with SunStudio Compiler under Solaris
721059 g_subprocess_launcher_set_environ vs "environ"
721074 kqueue: deadlock
721087 Missing -lselinux in pkg-config --libs --static gio-2.0
721324 Error message is printed to stdout
721624 Regression in GTest framework reorders existing test cases
721625 backwards NEWS entry about g_source_remove change
721796 insufficient escaping in g_dbus_annotation_info_generate_xml()
721947 Improve GApplication ⇔ GOptionContext compatibility
Translations updated:
Brazilian Portuguese
Galician
Greek
Hebrew
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.1 to GLib 2.39.2
===================================================
* Portability
- Remove alleged support for OS/2
- Remove alleged support for BeOS
- Remove alleged support for last-millennium Unixes
- Require C90 compliance
- Require POSIX.1 (1990) compliance on Unix
- Require GNU make
* Bugs fixed:
113075 support "nonnull" attribute
159528 g_ptr_array_remove_range()
307947 The check for growing stack pointer in configure can fail
607016 docs should mention property notification order
671557 Fun with integers and g_key_file_load_from_data()
676761 don't use g_critical for a runtime error
690525 g_file_replace_contents_async doesn't copy its @conten...
691608 Support compilation with clang 3.2
697585 g_variant_builder_add's doc example is leaking
697828 g_hash_table_add() should return a boolean
702862 gdbus-codegen : look for deps in default install path
703522 Reference leak in GvariantBuilder documentation
705902 g_get_current_dir() should check PWD env var and retur...
708274 Added GObject Introspection annotations to genums.c
710519 Portability schmortability
710741 some mainloop instrumentation
710983 Test failures on powerpc
711047 Enable the build of the various test programs on Windo...
711051 Add basic test for the GNotification gtk backend
711088 gbacktrace: Don't close stderr when running gdb
711103 gmessages: Add g_info macro for G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO
711178 appinfo test problems
711546 utf8: report allocation error
711640 gdesktopappinfo: Rank Keywords matches higher than Gen...
711751 Fix memory leaks in libglib tests
711753 gthread-posix: Don't use gslice allocated GRecMutex
711796 glib-tap.mk: fix to actually use the TAP driver
711800 fix g_test_set_nonfatal_assertions()
711801 giomodule: Allow overriding source directory gio modul...
711805 gdbus-connection: Fix race condition in test
711806 gtestdbus: Don't destroy GSource twice
711807 gtestdbus: Properly close server connections
711871 Broken and misleading configure check for growing stack
712136 'O_CLOEXEC' undeclared (first use in this function)
712148 Add system bus support to GTestDBus
712171 gsettings.m4: @GSETTINGS_RULES@: Support srcdir != bui...
712314 AIX port: splice(); major()/minor(); libtool library order
712315 GSettings: More docs for deprecated _list_schemas()
712393 gobject: Box GMappedFile
712547 GSocketClient "event" not useful for determining resol...
715164 Clang static analysis fixes
719395 GPtrArray add g_ptr_array_insert
719402 Crashes when startup
719472 leak in generated proxy-side property-setter
719687 fix or remove g_trap_object_ref
719809 Signal connection ids are always > 0 if successful
719837 gdbus-connection: Work around race in connection tests
719884 Fix documentation typos in GTask and GCancellable examples
719979 g_settings_get: check validity of format string
720080 Truncating a GMemoryOutputStream to a larger size cause...
720210 gdataset: Remove unused define
720236 Allow clean simple use of g_test_trap_subprocess()
* Translations updates:
Italian
Lithuanian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.0 to GLib 2.39.1
====================================================
* GSettings fixes/improvements
- GSettingsSchema API is now more powerful and consistent
- new GSettingsSchemaKey API allows accessing metadata for keys:
type, default value, range and the long-awaited support for summary
and description
- GSettingsSchemaSource gains support for listing schemas within a
source. Deprecate the global API that did this for the default
source.
- 'gsettings list-schemas' now works properly with --schemadir
- deprecate a bunch of now-redundant functionality on GSettings
- add API to GSettings for getting the default value of a key (as set
by the sysadmin)
- add API to GSettings for determining if the user has assigned a
particular value to a key (ie: we are not just reading the default)
- ignore qualified tags and attributes appearing in schema files
* Applications/Actions
- make GSimpleAction a bit more strict with respect to state changes
that would violate the interface (ie: by changing the state type
after construction)
- throw an error when attempting to 'Describe' a non-existent action
via D-Bus instead of returning a bogus description
- throw an error when attempting to invoke unsupported methods on an
Application (eg: 'Open' on an app that doesn't HANDLES_OPEN)
instead of emitting a g_critical() in context of the app (which is
not itself at fault for the errant call)
* Appinfo
- substantially rework GDesktopAppInfo to reduce the amount of disk
accesses that are performed in common situations
- add a new class: GAppInfoMonitor for discovering when applications
are installed/removed
- add a new g_desktop_app_info_search() API for searching for
installed applications by name, keywords, etc.
* GMarkup: add new G_MARKUP_IGNORE_QUALIFIED flag for skipping over
"qualified" tags and attributes (those with a colon in the name, such
as 'my:tag')
* GDBus
- ignore qualified tags, as above
- GTestDBus: unset all D-Bus addresses (such as STARTER) to ensure
that test programs don't pick them up
- add new session_bus_run() convenience in the tests and use it
* GRand: use real random data as a seed on win32 and use the
timestamp/pid/uid fallback only on UNIX machines where we can't open
'/dev/urandom'. This may cause issues with older mingw32 releases
due to a missing prototype for the rand_s() API.
* Many win32 (and particularly MSVC) portability fixes. Many
additional tests are now runnable when building with MSVC.
* Due to early testing of the (soon to land) GCleanup framework, a very
large number of memory errors have been found and fixed (mostly in
the testcases, but some in glib itself).
* GIO:
- some more seeking cleanups: particularly on GLocalFileInputStream
- don't leave a .trashinfo file around if trashing a file fails
- Add a request_certificate virtual method to GTlsInteraction
Translations updated:
Assamese
Galician
Greek
Spanish
Tamil
Bugs fixed:
635641 schema compiler should ignore unknown attributes
637257 g_tls_client_connection_gnutls_retrieve_function needs to be able to block
637956 GKeyfileSettingsBackend should ignore file deletions
645453 keys from base schema missing from extended schema
665634 g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml() errors on unknown attributes in XML files
668232 Unable to get description and summary for a key
668233 Unable to determine if a key is set to the default / what the default value is
680838 Need g_settings_schema_source_get_schemas()
683017 API for accessing GSettings Schema metadata
687185 org.gtk.Actions.Describe doesn't return an error for non-existing action names
687202 If trashing fails, the ".trashinfo" file is not removed
695558 The --schemadir option has no effect
696424 GSimpleAction.state property is not right
697348 GTestDBus should unset DBUS_STARTER_ADDRESS, DBUS_STARTER_BUS_TYPE
710133 Emit backward compatible code with gdbus-codegen
710691 glib-networking: locking during implicit handshake
710738 GRand has lame fallback for Windows
710859 Typo in gio docs
710885 Two fixes for GApplication
710962 error: 'F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC' undeclared (first use in this function)
710964 Add g_hash_table_get_key_array()
710991 test: g_debug messages shouldn't affect g_assert_expected_messages
711016 g_settings_list_keys () segfaults for empty schemas
711048 glocalfileinputstream.c allows skip past end of file
711049 Fix build of GLib-GIO 2.39.x on Windows/MSVC
711064 Adding child source to blocked source can cause a segfault
711070 Copying a symlink over another one segfaults
711099 gapplication test failure
711520 GDesktopAppInfo: allow more than one level of legacy folder prefixes
711556 Add GAppInfoMonitor
711557 Add g_desktop_app_info_search()
711600 trivial portability fix
711632 The desktop-app-info test fails during make check
711754 gmain: Fix use of uninitialized memory in sigaction structure
711755 private: Use threading primitives correctly in private test
711756 gthreadpool: Don't pass bad data to GThreadPool sorter
711768 Fix memory leaks in libgmodule tests
711775 utils: Don't free memory owned by glib in test
711782 boxed: Fix double free in boxed unit tests
711803 gsubprocess: Fix a number of leaks and a segfault
711808 gtestdbus: Fix leak of GMainLoop
Overview of changes from GLib 2.38.0 to GLib 2.39.0
====================================================
* prep for the 2.40 series (version macros, docs index, etc.)
* GNotification
- new API for sending persistent notifications via the desktop shell
- notifications persist when the application has quit and clicking on
them can restart the application with an action (via
DBusActivatable)
* GSubprocess
- new API for launching subprocesses
- nice GIO integration like async functions, cancellability, etc.
- a convenient communicate() API inspired by the same API in Python
- related: the gspawn API now has a CLOEXEC flag for the created
pipes for stdin/stdout/stderr
* New gapplication(1) commandline tool
- intended to be used with DBusActivatable apps
- can be used for launching apps, opening files, invoking application
actions and listing apps and actions
- bash tab completion is supported
* GDesktopAppInfo changes:
- g_file_get_path() can implicitly cause a FUSE mount so don't call
it until we know we need it (for an app that doesn't support URIs)
- don't crash when trying to load from a keyfile with
DBusActivatable=true
- remove some dead code, refactor the search path handling a bit and
do a large-scale whitespace cleanup (prep work for the pending
desktop file index)
* File monitors
- fix broken handling of mount point monitoring
- remove some strange use of GObject::constructor() from the base
class and inotify backend
- fix GFileMonitor to work in the non-default main context even when
the main context is not running (or is blocked)
- add internal private API for easily creating a file monitor in the
GLib worker thread
* GSettings
- g_settings_list_children: only list viable schemas. This fixes a
longstanding issue where 'gsettings list-recursively' will crash
when there are invalid schemas installed
- don't accept invalid paths on g_settings_new_with_path, etc.
* GIO
- GFile now has a thumbnail::is-valid attribute to check if the
thumbnail in thumbnail::path needs to be regenerated
- GDBusProxy now has a flag to control autostarting of services at
construction time
- for GSeekable, properly introduce the concept of "resizable" vs.
"fixed-sized" streams in the docs, explaining the expected
semantics of the interface in each case
- fix some cases in GMemoryOutputStream that were violating the above
expectations (which may cause a slight API incompatibility)
- clean up GCredentials code and add support for Hurd and Solaris
- improve splicing by using different codepaths for the case where we
have real _read_async() and _write_async() implementations on the
stream vs. the case where they are internally emulated (via
dispatching the sync variant of the call in a thread)
* GKeyFile
- fix a leak in g_key_file_get_(u)int64 when we fail to parse the
value as an integer
- add long-requested API g_key_file_save_to_file()
* Portability improvements
- avoid using O_DIRECTORY on platforms that don't have it
- be careful about systems that define SOCK_CLOEXEC but don't
actually support it (like Hurd)
- only use SA_RESTART if it exists
* Other small API changes/additions
- a pair of functions to support matching strings for the type of
search functionality that you'd expect to have with things like
GtkSearchBar. This will also be used by the desktop file index.
- g_str_is_ascii() with obvious purpose
- g_test_expect_message() no longer appears to allow you to catch
G_LOG_ERROR messages
* GMainContext/GSource
- fix handling of overflowing the 'next source id' counter
- g_source_remove() will now throw a critical in the case that you
try to remove a non-existent source. We expect that there is some
code in the wild that will fall afoul of this new critical but
considering that we now reuse source IDs, this code is already
broken and should probably be fixed.
- simplify handling of the 'current dispatching source' to not
require use of a linked list
* GObject
- the long-broken (and leaky) pattern of destroying a just-allocated
object from inside of a custom GObject::constructor is now
officially completely illegal and will abort the program
* Unicode: update to 6.3.0
* Bug fixes
- g_file_copy() now falls back to pathname queryinfo. This should
clear up the bugs with copying from some GVfs backends (afp,
gphoto, archive, at least).
- fix an out-of-bounds read in the xdgmime code
- fix a typo in the /org/freedesktop/DBus path on the object manager
client
- skip emitting path_namespace='/' in match rules in order to
workaround a bug in the D-Bus daemon and fix our own implementation
(which shared exactly the same bug)
- fix crashes on precondition violations for GParamSpec constructors
- many other small fixups (see bug list)
* Many documentation improvements
Bugs fixed:
309224 g_key_file_save_to_file missing
583321 QNX: no SA_RESTART
661576 fix handling of constructors that destroy half-constructed objects
672102 GSubprocess class
684842 Seeks on GMemoryOutputStream don't have opaque semantics
688492 Add a notification API
691581 g_output_stream_real_splice_async doesn't use overriden read/write_async functions
702516 gfileutils: Make -Werror=format-nonliteral happy
704218 New gapplication(1) tool
704593 g_setenv: on some systems (BSD, OSX…), setting a variable to NULL crashes the system
704882 GLocalDirectoryMonitorClass mount_notify field is useless
704887 file monitoring improvements
705029 Support for Solaris credentials
705688 g_settings_list_children: only list viable schemas
706254 Afp backend cannot copy files
707887 Attempting to create GObject Property with underscore prefix segfaults
708042 gapplication: don't rely on cmdline being finalized immediately
708265 add support for GNU/Hurd in GLib D-Bus Library
708266 fix error code checks when SOCK_CLOEXEC is defined but not supported
708529 xdgmime: valgrind warns about invalid reads
708677 incorrect object path 'deskop' used in gio/gdbusobjectmanagerclient.c
708714 Typo in docs of GLIB_VERSION_2_40 macro.
708753 gdesktopappinfo: Call g_file_get_path() on demand
708793 glib build fails with clang < 3.1: error: expected ';' after top level declarator
708828 GDBusProxy: add the ability to call methods on non autostarted proxies
708860 glib-2.38.0 doesn't build on Solaris 10
708972 gnetworking.h in tarball screws up out-of-source builds
709113 [PATCH] Main loop dispatch path has needless linked list
709227 Update to unicode 6.3.0
709301 goutputstream: Add clear warning about short writes to _write_bytes() and async version
709326 GDesktopAppInfo crashes creating a DBusActivatable app without a filename
709440 Fix overloading of "source" and "target" terminology in GBinding
709615 Cannot use g_test_expect_message with g_error
709753 Add helpers for string matches when using GtkSearchBar-like widget
709898 Expose thumbnail validity in GFile attributes
709966 Remove outdated documentation
709994 Minor fix for HACKERS doc to direct hackers to proper help file
709995 Obsolete makefile rules
710002 G_MAXUINT may be assigned as duplicate source id
710313 Memory leak in g_key_file_get_(u)int64 with invalid integer values
710345 [Patches] Fix some redundant-decls
710496 g_locale_to/from_utf8() doc updated.
710625 g_file_error_from_errno: Remove unneeded breaks
710666 Frame clock related bug fixes
710724 gmain: Warn when g_source_remove() fails
710726 Work around D-Bus bug with path_namespace='/' match rules
Translations:
Assamese
Brazilian Portuguese
Indonesian
Russian
Tamil
Traditional Chinese
What's new in Glib 2.38
========================
* Application support
- GIO now provides an implementation of Desktop Actions from the
desktop entry specification
- GApplication now implements the org.freedesktop.Application
interface as per the desktop entry specification, allowing for
standards-based D-Bus launching of GLib-based applications
- GDesktopAppInfo now supports DBusActivatable as per the desktop
entry specification, allowing GLib-based applications to use D-Bus
to launch other applications
- GApplication now has a "busy" flag that can be set on an application
to allow the shell to show that it is busy
* GObject
- the private offset for a given class type is now always constant.
This was done by reorganising the memory layout of instances so that
the private data comes before the "official" pointer for the object
(ie: at a negative offset). Valgrind macros were added to mitigate
any problems that this may have caused.
- a new G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE has been added along with a
generated function *_get_instance_private() that can now serve as an
equally-performing alternative to ->priv pointers in instances
(allowing memory savings)
- new G_PRIVATE_FIELD, G_PRIVATE_FIELD_P and G_PRIVATE_OFFSET macros
provide a convenient method of converting between named variables in
private structures and their (now constant) offsets
- installing properties on a GObjectClass must now be done from
class_init. It is no longer valid to install them after class_init
has returned.
- it is now possible to manually break a GObject property binding
without destroying one of the objects involved
* Icons
- the requirements for implementing the GIcon interface have changed
in order to make it possible to consume all implementations of GIcon
with a finite number of cases
- a new GBytesIcon type was added for an icon represented by an
in-memory binary blob in a known image format (ideally png).
- new APIs g_icon_serialize() and g_icon_deserialize() replace the old
to/from_string APIs and will always work, irrespective of which
types have been initialised in the calling process, allowing for a
serialised GdkPixbuf to be deserialised in a process that doesn't
have GdkPixbuf
- support for icons has been added to GMenuModel using the new APIs
* Actions and menus
- GPropertyAction provides a convenient way of creating a stateful
property corresponding to a property on a GObject, such as the
"visible-child-name" property of a GtkStack
- new API g_menu_remove_all()
- we now have established rules about what is a "valid" action name
and an API to check them
- a new API for converting detailed action names to and from the
split-out name and parameter value (as GVariant)
- for backwards compatibility, invalid action names can still be used
with most functions, but this is not recommended
* Other GIO
- GDBus now supports services that wish to handle some of all
properties on an interface asynchronously, without requiring the
service to reimplement the entire org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties
interface
- GFile now has a new _measure_disk_usage() (and async) API for
recursively determining the amount of disk space used by a
particular directory (akin to 'du').
- asynchronous version of g_file_trash() and g_file_make_directory()
have been added
* Other new API
- GRegex has a new function to query the maximum lookbehind length to
allow for regexp matching on streams
- GVariant has two new APIs for constructing strings that allow
avoiding copies in some cases: g_variant_new_take_string() and
g_variant_new_printf()
* Testing
- we can now generate TAP output
- new support functions for simplifying the process of dealing with
data files for srcdir != builddir and installed test cases
- g_test_trap_subprocess() provides a portable alternative to
g_test_trap_fork()
* Other
- GLib now builds on Android against the bionic C library
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.93 to 2.38.0
================================================
* fix the documentation for GSourceFuncs
* fix compilation on OS X/ppc64
Bugs fixed: 708445, 647145
Translations updated:
Danish
French
Portuguese
Punjabi
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.92 to 2.37.93
================================================
* a couple of bugfixes in the new g_file_measure_disk_usage() API
* updated Traditional Chinese translation
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.7 to 2.37.92
===============================================
* new API g_file_measure_disk_usage() similar to du(1)
* minor fixes
* Translation updates:
Assamese
Belarusian
Brazilian Portuguese
Catalan
Czech
Galician
German
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Korean
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Polish
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.6 to 2.37.7
==============================================
* GDateTime now supports %:z formatting variations
for timezones. This is a GNU date extension.
* Bugs fixed:
685387 Segfault with GObject.signal_handler_is_connected()...