Pango:

- Lots of improvements to the documentation
- better integration with fontconfig and cairo (honours font pixelsize)
- improved font rendering support for foreign language modules like:
 Arabic, Latin, Greek,
- conditional compilation of module subset for embedded platforms
- added MacOS backend
- updates to unicode 4.1
- the usual load of bugfixes (more than 50)
- many different optimizations helped to improve overall pango performance
- some code cleanups


GLib:

1)
GLib pro vides new Memory Management
- got rid of GMemChunk
- got rid of GAllocator APIs
- new memory management API GSlice:

2)
Using GSlice:
   yourmem = g_slice_new  (StructureType);
             g_slice_free (StructureType, yourmem);
   G_SLICE=always-malloc
   G_DEBUG=gc-friendly

3)
GLib Type System changes:
- G_TYPE_HASH_TABLE (refence counted hash tables)
- G_TYPE_GTYPE to store types in GValues and properties
- GInitiallyUnowned: moved initial floating reference from GtkObject

4)
More improvements:
- GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarks
 stored using the Desktop Bookmark specification.
- Priority sorting in GAsyncQueue
- Reaping of idle threads from GThreadPool

5)
Glib changes roundup:
- Some significant core changes (MainLoop, etc.)
- Many misc improvements, optimizaitons and bugfixes
- Lots of improvements to the documentation                     (e.g. Deprecation warnings carry version information)
- Many translation updates as always

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