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Tue Apr  3 20:22:59 2001  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * NEWS: updates.

        * NEWS.pre-1-3: take over old news.

Tue Apr  3 20:23:24 2001  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * NEWS: updates.

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+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.1:
+
+* g_realloc() fix for SunOS (please report further problems).
+* Continued the never ending fix vendetta regarding getpwuid(),
+  this time AIX has been the culprit.
+* Upgrade to libtool 1.2f
+* Miscellaneous other buglets fixed.
+
+What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x):
+
+* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+
+* Win32 Portability
+* Threading support
+* GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
+  object code loading facilities in a portable manner
+* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
+* GQuarks and datasets
+* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data
+* An n-way tree implementation
+* GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations
+* GAllocator type and associated functions
+* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
+* Generic functions for TAB completions
+* Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
+* g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels
+* Generic main-loop mechanism
+* New glib-config helper script
+* Many more API extensions
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16:
+
+* Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes
+* Bug Fixes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15:
+
+* HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work
+* Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and
+  check() so it is not held over user code
+* A few Win32 fixups
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:
+
+* Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl
+* FreeBSD portability fixes
+* Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:
+
+* Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.
+* Improved thread related configure tests.
+* GSource destruction fixups.
+* Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.
+* Advanced Win32 portability.
+* Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,
+  loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well
+  as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.
+* GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
+  and GNU libtool 1.2d.
+* Lots of random portability and bug fixes.
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:
+
+* Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,
+  g_new_a, g_new0_a
+* New tests structure.  Type 'make check' on your system to run them.
+* Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:
+
+* provide defaults for POLL sysdefs
+* g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted
+* a few other enhancement/fixes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:
+
+* Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this
+* For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better
+* Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
+
+* Added threading support
+  - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
+    locking at runtime.
+  - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
+    Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
+  - All static variables should now properly locked.
+  - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
+    (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
+* Portability fixes.
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
+
+* Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
+
+* New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
+* New GAllocator type and associated functions
+* New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
+  its data pointers.
+* New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
+  insert elements at an arbitrary index
+* GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
+* Incremental freezing in ghash
+* New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
+  they got marshalled
+* Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
+* Added generic main-loop abstraction
+* Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
+* Bug fixes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
+
+* Win32 portability
+* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism 
+* Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
+* New functions:
+  - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
+  - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
+  - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references 
+    to other environment variables
+  - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
+    buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
+  - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
+  - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
+  - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order 
+  - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
+  - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
+  - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
+  - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
+  - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
+* New macros:
+  - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
+    syntax elements
+  - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
+    search path syntax conventions
+  - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
+    structure fields through their offsets
+* Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
+* Bug fixes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
+
+* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
+* New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
+* New string join/split/free routines 
+* Fixes
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
+
+* New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
+  object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
+* glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
+  (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
+  be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
+* Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
+  sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
+* New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
+  associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
+* New inline functions for bit masks tests.
+* GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
+* New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
+  platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
+  a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
+  People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
+  associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
+* New utility functions:
+  g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
+  g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
+  g_strnfill(), g_memdup(). 
+* Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
+  changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
+* The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
+  new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
+  keyed data of GtkObjects).
+* New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
+* Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
+* Libtool update to version 1.2b.
+* Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
+
+Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
+
+* Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
+* fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
+
+What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
+
+* An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
+* Bugfix for pointer arrays.
+
+What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
+
+* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
+  shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
+  incompatibilities.
+* There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
+* Fixups all over the place.
+* gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
+* API extensions for GList and GSList.
+* New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
+* GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
+* Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
+* Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
+  mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
+* More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
+* Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
+  gconstpointer.
+* Generic functions for TAB completions.
+* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.