Overview of Changes from GLib 2.25.10 to GLib 2.25.11
=====================================================
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| WARNING: There have been minor API changes in GDBus and GVariant. |
| These API changes will not affect many users, but they do require |
| a new version of GTK+ to be installed. |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Build:
- add a --disable-Bsymbolic configure flag to disable linking with
-Bsymbolic-functions
- this release sees the complete removal of the old 'g*alias' hacks
- honour the NOCONFIGURE environment variable from autogen.sh
- use proper feature test macros for isnan
- use pkg-config to check for zlib
- add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am
GDBus:
- hide Class and instance structures for all GDBus types except
GDBusProxy. This breaks API by preventing subclassing, but probably
nobody was doing that.
- add new GDBusConnection call to support flushing all pending
outgoing messages
- change the register_object API to add a reference to the
GDBusInterfaceInfo object so the caller need not keep it alive
themselves
- don't rewrite the serial number when sending messages that already
have a serial number
- better error checking for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment
variable
- switch to g_parse_debug_string for G_DBUS_DEBUG and add a lot of new
flags
- add support for temporarily freezing a freshly created
GDBusConnection. Do this until after the ::new-connection signal
has finished running on GDBus services.
- never require non-closed connections (the user is incapable of doing
this due to the obvious race)
- remove weird/misleading redundant check on NameOwnerChanged signal
- emit GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed on NameOwnerChanged
GVariant:
- the 'g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array' APIs have been removed
- g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring has been added, with different
arguments and different behaviour
- g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring_array has been added, doing
essentially the same thing as the 'strv' functions, but with byte
strings instead of utf8 strings
- G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING ('ay'), BYTESTRING_ARRAY ('aay') and
STRING_ARRAY ('as') constants have been added
- the undocumented behaviour that g_variant_get_strv() deserialised
arrays of object paths or signature strings has been dropped
- additional varargs support for converting bytestrings or bytestring
arrays with ^ay ^aay ^&ay and ^a&ay
- improved gobject-introspection annotation
- fix a problem with GBuffer calling g_slice_free for the wrong type
- fix leaks in the type inferencing code of the parser
GSettings:
- improved documentation
- updated schema XML DTD, now xincluded into the docs
- added support for schemas that extend other schemas (using the
'extends=' attribute). Values of keys in the base schema can be
overridden using <override>.
- added theoretical support for lists (using the 'list-of=' attribute)
- lots of new tests
- add support for flags (implemented similarly to enums)
- add support for generating .enums.xml files to gsettings.m4:
gsettings_ENUM_NAMESPACE = org.example.myapp
gsettings_ENUM_FILES = ../path/to/*.h
will generate org.example.myapp.enums.xml with mappings for all
enums and flags in the specified .h files.
- warn with g_message() if the 'memory' backend is used by default
(ie: because no other GSettings backends are installed)
- fix get_property() for GSettings::schema
- command line tool: fix a bug that prevented non-basic values from
being set due to a premature free
- command line tool: bash completion support
- chain up in _finalize
- add a new g_settings_get_mapped API to read settings that require
post-processing
- retry with the translated or schema default value if the
GSettingsBindGetMapping function fails
- schema compiler: never fail due to empty schema directories (but
warn)
- peek rather than ref/unref the GEnumClass in the mapping function
- schema compiler: compile *.enums.xml before *.gschemas.xml to ensure
that we have all the enums that the schemas may reference
- schema compiler: improve accuracy of line numbers in error reports
- fix crashes in the keyfile backend caused by invalid group names in
the keyfile
Other:
- always intern GBinding prop names
- base64: remove asserts preventing conversion of empty strings
- document NULL special-cases for GValueArray
- GNode docs improvements
- improve detection of 'system internal' mounts
- fix leaks in the inotify GFileMonitor implementation
- annotate all custom GIO GSources to improve debugging (e.g. using
SystemTap)
Tests:
- Turn on glibc malloc checking features for make check
- improvements for GSettings tests, plus new tests
- improved tests for GKeyfile
- new tests for GDir, GSList, GSList, GAppLaunchContext,
CharsetConverter, GIcon, ...
- move some tests to GTester (tree tests, uri tests)
- generally, really an awful lot of new tests
- don't try to allocate 2gigs of memory anymore for the array test
552363 g_value_array_{insert,prepend,append}'s special cases for NULL
561248 Improve return value description from g_node_prev/next_sibling()
570036 Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am
576833 g_sprintf add a reference to g_strdup_printf
576854 g_strconcat() documentation should provide a hint about bad l10n
582227 reference: add other URI functions to 'URI Functions' section
599223 should provide g_spawn_* variants that take a GAppLaunchContext
610784 array test failing
613057 Leak in inotify GFileMonitor implementation
620536 Annotate all custom GIO GSource using g_source_set_name
620913 More control with G_DBUS_DEBUG
622124 implement flags
622127 GSettings extended key validation
622128 retry with default value for failed mapping
622294 More annotations for GVariant
622565 glib-compile-schemas fails when no schemas
622600 Fix missing prototype warning
622813 gsettings mapping & enum buglet
623142 Ensure ::new-connection runs before processing D-Bus messages
623143 Never require non-closed connections
623319 use g_parse_debug_string for dbus debug flags
623401 process enums first
623402 schema compiler reports wrong line numbers
623407 g_keyfile_settings_backend_new crashes with the key "/"
623473 zlib should be checked with pkg-config
623537 GDBusProxy has weird checking on NameOwnerChanged
623538 GDBusProxy::g-properties-changed emission for corner cases
623692 directory with file at multiple MLS levels may display empty
623720 gschema.dtd does not contain enum definitions
623770 quoting of expand_macro in gdesktopappinfo.c
623772 gdesktopappinfo.c, function child_setup
623780 g_unix_is_mount_path_system_internal
623954 g_settings_finalize
623955 Dubious return values
