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Sat Dec 22 12:08:56 2001 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * configure.in: 1.3.12, binary, interface age 0. * NEWS: Updated.
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.12:
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* Implement closure chaining, fixing up API (Tim Janik)
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* Closure chaining test case (James Henstridge)
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* Make GType long not int where both are equal width (Tim)
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* Win32 fixes and improvements (Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist)
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* Fixes for NetBSD. (Dan Winship)
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* Use snprintf() for g_printf_string_upper_bound() where possible. (Matthias Clasen)
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* Save space for GBSearchArray (Tim Janik)
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* Documentation improvements. (Matthias, Sven Neumann, Havoc Pennington)
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Other contributors: Darin Adler, Chris Blizzard, Anders Carlson, Daniel Elstner, Michael Meeks,
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Mark McLoughlin, Dave Neary, Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, HideToshi Tajima,
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Sebastian Wilhelmi.
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.11:
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* Win32 fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist]
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* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
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* Portable directory handling API [Hans]
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* Threading fixes [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Havoc Pennington]
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* Fix excess relocations in Unicode tables [Andrew Taylor]
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* Fix gpattern for UTF-8 [Matthias Clasen]
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* Support overriding class closures [Tim Janik]
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* Support for derivation from G_TYPE_POINTER [Owen Taylor]
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* Hide pointers to type information inside GType to reduce locking
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[Alex Larsson, Tim]
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* Adds check for direct inclusion of gobject/*.h [Owen]
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* GObject API cleanups [Tim]
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Other contributors: Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Daniel Egger, Eric Lemings,
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Michael Meeks, Mark McLoughlin, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Dan Winship
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.10:
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* Many Win32 fixes and improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
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* Documentation improvements [Matthias Clasen]
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* g_string_printfa() renamed to g_string_append_printf()
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* Use libcharset from libiconv to implement charset detection
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more portably. [Owen Taylor, Hidetoshi Tajima]
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* Add 64 bit type support to GObject [Joshua Pritikin, Mathieu Lacage, Owen]
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* Make support for 64 bit integers a requirement [Joshua]
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* GPattern improvements [Tim Janik, Matthias]
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* Locale independent g_ascii_strtod / g_ascii_dtostr [Alex Larsson]
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* Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.
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Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Jakub Jelinek, James Antill, Andrew Taylor,
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Ben Gertzfield, Elliot Lee, Manish Singh, Abel Cheung, Laszlo Peter,
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Sven Neumann, George Lebl, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhelmi,
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Jacob Berkman
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.9:
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==================================
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* Fixes for comparison of threads [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
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* Use vasprintf() when possible for g_strdup_printf [Matthias Clasen]
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* Win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
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* Add a len argument to g_ascii_strup/strdown
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* Bug, portability fixes, cleanups.
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Other Contributors: Darin Adler, Katsuhiro Okuno, Joshua N. Pritikin
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.8:
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* Documentation updates [Owen]
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* Made GType interfaces overridable in derived types
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* Many win32 fixes [Tor Lillqvist]
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* Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
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Other contributors:
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Darin Adler, Matthias Clasen, Ron Steinke, Hans Breuer, Alex Larsson
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.7:
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* Integrate GClosure support into the main loop [Owen Taylor]
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* More GSignal convenience functions (macros) [Sven Neumann, Tim Janik]
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* Introduced weak references for GObject [James Henstridge, Sven, Tim]
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* Minor hash table optimizations
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* Main loop and threading improvements [Sebastian Wilhelmi]
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* Added g_ascii_* functions to be used for locale insensitive UTF-8
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compliant code instead of old string functions [Darin Adler, Alex Larsson]
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* Add functions for Unicode case-conversion, normalization, and
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collation [Owen]* GString improvements [Owen]
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* Reworked the GIOChannel code [Hidetoshi Tajima, Ron Steinke]
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* Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]
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* Make code 64bit clean [Mark Murnane]
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* More G_CONST_RETURN fixes
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* Many improvements to the win32 code [Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
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* Miscellaneous bug and API fixes
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Other contributors:
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Michael Natterer, Christopher James Lahey, Padraig O'Briain,
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Matthias Clasen, Josh Pritikin, Steve Baker, Cesar Rincon, Garry R. Osgood,
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Michael Meeks, Laszlo Peter, Martin Baulig, Kjartan Maraas, Andrew Lanoix,
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Peter Williams
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6:
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* Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join
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* Removed ability to adjust thread stack size
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* Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to
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be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option
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* GMarkup speedups
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* GDate const, convenience fixups
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* Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler
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* Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path.
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* g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len
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* Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr.
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* Misc bug fixes
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.5:
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* Added an installed glib-mkenums Perl program for parsing enumeration
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declarations from header files.
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* Mark some additional deprecated functions.
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* Bug and Portability fixes
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.4:
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* Efficiency improvements for GThreadPool
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* A few bug fixes
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* Build fixes
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* Documentation improvements
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
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GLib:
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* More user_data support in various functions.
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* Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
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* Unicode handling improvements.
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* Implemented debugging traps.
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* G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
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* Various new small utility functions.
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* Random number generator precision improvements.
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* New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
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* Many Win32 improvements.
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* Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
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* Many documentation improvements.
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* Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
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of static mutexes.
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* GHookLIst API cleanups.
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* Improved format support of GDate parser.
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* String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
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* Hashtable API additions.
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* New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
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* Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
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GObject:
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* Added many convenience functions.
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* GClosure and GParamSpec use float/sink ref-counting scheme now.
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* Reworked property change notification.
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* Binary searchable array cleanups, so it's widely usable now.
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* Added static content keeping for some GValue types.
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* Support for statically scoped signal parameters.
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* Extinguished property trailer args in set/get interface.
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* Added support for abstract types.
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* G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
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* Split parameter exchange functionality into value transforms
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and parameter conversions.
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* Added signal emission hooks and signal accumulators.
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* Added interface prerequisites to support is_a (interface, object)
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relations.
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* Implemented GValueArray.
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* New types, boxed: G_TYPE_VALUE, G_TYPE_CLOSURE, G_TYPE_GSTRING
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GParamSpecs: G_TYPE_PARAM_PARAM, G_TYPE_PARAM_POINTER, G_TYPE_PARAM_CLOSURE,
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G_TYPE_VALUE_ARRAY, G_TYPE_PARAM_UNICHAR, G_TYPE_PARAM_VALUE_ARRAY.
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* Varrags value collection improvements.
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* Implemented debugging traps.
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* Made things thread-safe.
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* Many documentation improvements.
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* Many cleanups, optimizations and bug fixes.
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
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GLib:
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* Win32 build improvements [Tor]
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* Improvements to error reporting
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(g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
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* Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
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* New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
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* Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
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not to be freed. [Darin]
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* Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
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* Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
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* Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
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on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
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* Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
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g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
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* Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
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* Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
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and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
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* Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
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* Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
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* Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
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and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
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* Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
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* autoconf improvements. [Raja]
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* Many documentation improvements.
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* Bug fixes.
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GObject:
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* Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
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* Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
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* Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
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* Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
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* Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
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* Bug fixes.
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What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
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=========================
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* New GObject library added including object system based on
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the GTK+ object system.
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* Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
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computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
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characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
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on libunicode.
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* GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
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* Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
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* Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
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* Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
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* BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
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* Many improvements to the Windows ports.
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* Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
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* Double ended queue implementation.
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* GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
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* New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
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et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
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* New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
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* g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
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more tightly defined semantics.
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* the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.
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