GLib 2.12.7 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.12.7 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.12/
 http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.12/

glib-2.12.7.tar.bz2   md5sum: 7a9e949627cf55c844c3570ab83a2caf
glib-2.12.7.tar.gz    md5sum: 86dff2c80d9277bba7b899058bc2c29c

This is a bug fix release in the 2.12 series. 

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.

More information about GLib is available at:

 http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib, can
be found at:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html


Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12.6 to GLib 2.12.7
===================================================

* GKeyFile
 - The stricter syntax checks introduced in 2.12.5 have 
   been reduced to warnings for the 2.12 series
 
* GSlice
 - The slice allocator has gained address validation that
   can be activated with the environment variable
   G_SLICE=debug-blocks
 - The allocator emits a warning if it detects too late
   thread initialization

* GOption
 - Take double-width and zero-width characters into account
   when formatting --help output

* Bugs fixed
 391370 Recent crash on file
 346955 NON-ASCII UTF-8 arg_description in GOptionEntry causes wr...
 371631 Bug in g_bit_nth_lsf?
 376645 Win32: Fatal warnings abort application even if IsDebugge...
 389300 g_utf8_collate_key modifies the locale
 390913 gslice.c: illegal declaration (C99)
 304517 glib/libcharset/localcharset.c/_g_locale_charset_raw: han...
 336438 unicode collate test failing
 391364 Warnings during ./configure due to $SED being undefined i...
 391367 config.status warning for datarootdir support in glib-get...
 371670 Faster g_bit_* operations

* Updated translations (ar,de,en_CA,en_GB,sv,vi)


A list of all the fixed bugs can be found at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=336438,389300,304517,376645,390913,391367,391370,391364,371670,371631,346955


Thanks to all contributors:
Lőrinczy Zsigmond
Tim Janik
Andreas Köhler
Tor Lillqvist
Kazuki Iwamoto
Loïc Minier
Michael Natterer
Maciej Piechotka
Behdad Esfahbod


Matthias Clasen
January 4, 2007