GLib 2.8.0 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.8.0 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/

glib-2.8.0.tar.bz2   md5sum: 803305bfd59cf7421d90983bf63e5227
glib-2.8.0.tar.gz    md5sum: a1447fdb1d4c989ec7852d8f935403ad

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.


GLib 2.8 is a stable release adding an incremental improvement
in functionality over GLib 2.6 while maintaining binary and
source compatibility. New features include:

Major new APIs
* GMappedFile, a wrapper around mmap()

Miscellaneous new functions
* g_access(), g_chdir(), g_chmod() and g_creat() wrap more of 
  the Posix file API
* g_build_filenamev() and g_build_pathv() are language-binding 
  friendly variants of existing functions
* g_file_set_contents() replaces a file atomically
* g_mkdir_with_parents() does the same as mkdir -p
* g_get_host_name() returns the host name
* g_listenv() returns the names of all set environment variables
* g_try_new(), g_try_renew(), g_try_new0() and g_try_malloc0()
  are variants of existing allocation functions that can fail
* g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename() returns collation keys
  which are more suitable for sorting filenames
* g_win32_locale_filename_from_utf8() converts a filename from UTF-8
  to the system codepage

Other changes
* Use atomic operations to make reference counting threadsafe for
  GIOChannel, GObject, GParamSpec and GClosure.
* Make GOption more flexible by allowing callbacks which expect
  filenames, callbacks with optional arguments and allow to turn
  off automatic long option name disambiguation
* Make g_value_transform() handle enum values correctly on ppc64.
  Third-party code accessing enumeration values in GValues should 
  also be changed to access v_long, not v_int, in order to work on 
  bigendian 64bit machines.



More information about GLib is available at:

 http://www.gtk.org/


The GLib Team:

 Hans Breuer, Matthias Clasen, Tim Janik, Tor Lillqvist, 
 Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, and Sebastian Wilhelmi

Special thanks to:

 Wim Taymans [atomic reference counting]


Thanks to all the GLib 2.8 contributors, including:

Adam McLaurin, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Alex Larsson, Bastian Nocera,
Behdad Esfahbod, Benjamin Otte, Ben Maurer, Benoît Carpentier, 
Benoit Dejean, Billy Skaggs, Björn Lindqvist, Brian Cameron, 
Bryan Silverthorn, Callum McKenzie, Changwoo Ryu, , Christian Biere, 
Daniel Atallah, Daniel Vaillard, Dan Winship, Dave Benson, David Hoover,
David Schleef, Ed Avis, Fabrício Barros Cabral, Federico Mena Quintero, 
Gert Doering, Hans Petter Jansson, Hazael Maldonado Torres, Hong Gang
XU, Hong Jen Yee, J. Ali Harlow, Jared Lash, Jeff Franks, Jochen Baier, 
Jon-Kare Hellan, Kazuki Iwamoto, Kian Duffy, Kjartan Maraas, 
Marc Meissner, Masatake YAMATO, Mathieu Lacage, Matthew F. Barnes, 
Matthias Hasselmann, Michael Banck, Michael Lorenz, Mikael Magnusson, 
Morten Welinder, Murray Cumming, Nicolas Laurent, Noah Levitt, Ole
Laursen, Oliver Sessink, Paul Cornett, Pawel Sakowski, Pawel Sliwowski, 
Richard Laager, Robert Ögren, Roger Leigh, Roger Leigh, Ross Burton, 
Sebastien Bacher, Simon Budig, Søren Sandmann, Stefan Kasal, Stefan
Kost, Suren A. Chilingaryan, Sven Neumann, Thomas Leonard, Tim Musson, 
Tim-Philipp Müller, Todd A. Fisher, Tommi Komulainen, Ulf Lamping, 
Vincent Untz


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12 August 2005