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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
* More user_data support in various functions.
* Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
* Unicode handling improvements.
* Implemented debugging traps.
* G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
* Various new small utility functions.
* Random number generator precision improvements.
* New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
* Many Win32 improvements.
* Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
* Many documentation improvements.
* Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
of static mutexes.
* GHookLIst API cleanups.
* Improved format support of GDate parser.
* String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
* Hashtable API additions.
* New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
* Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
GLib:
* Win32 build improvements [Tor]
* Improvements to error reporting
(g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
* Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
* New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
* Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
not to be freed. [Darin]
* Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
* Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
* Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
* Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
* Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
* Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
* Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
* Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
* Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
* Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
* autoconf improvements. [Raja]
* Many documentation improvements.
* Bug fixes.
GObject:
* Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
* Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
* Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
* Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
* Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
* Bug fixes.
What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
* New GObject library added including object system based on
the GTK+ object system.
* Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
on libunicode.
* GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
* Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
* Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
* Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
* BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
* Many improvements to the Windows ports.
* Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
* Double ended queue implementation.
* GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
* New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
* New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
* g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
more tightly defined semantics.
* the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.
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