GLib 2.25.10 is released

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

hi Everyone,

GLib 2.25.10 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.25/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.25/

66e6a090c88a94f715889429498d940ff5bb890b3479b78f4c4c05f8a50b2a38  glib-2.25.10.tar.bz2
630485c1f2cf54f2665db869c7204ca6e52a4e59c2f211f0ce8aeb5c8ac0a888  glib-2.25.10.tar.gz

This is a development release leading to GLib 2.26.

Notes:

 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
  a bit of testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs
  remaining to be found. This release should not be used
  in production.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
  copy of GLib 2.24. If you have problems, you'll need
  to reinstall GLib 2.24.

 * GLib 2.26 will be source and binary compatible with
  the GLib 2.24 series; however, the new API additions
  in GLib 2.25.x are not yet finalized, so there may
  be incompatibilities between this release and the final
  2.26 release.

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.


About GLib
==========

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 2.25.9 to GLib 2.25.10
====================================================

+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| WARNING: There have been API changes in GDBus. Users of these  |
| APIs will need to be adapted.  In particular, a new release of |
| dconf is required to go along with this one.  There has also   |
| been a change in the GSettings backend API used for keyfiles.  |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+

* GDBus:
 - add direction parameter to filter functions (API change)
 - allow calling other interfaces with a GDBusProxy
 - padding added to class struct fields (ABI change)
 - fixes for closures-based functions

* GVariant:
 - new is_floating() call
 - add g_value_take_variant() call (required for marshallers)

* GSettings:
 - support for binding GParamSpecEnum properties
 - ifelse-style condition support for GLIB_GSETTINGS m4 macro
 - remove gsettings-schema-convert tool (now in GConf)
 - allow introspection of all installed schemas
 - allow introspection of the keys in a schema
 - rewrite keyfile backend (API change)

* GNIO:
 - don't implicitly close GSocket until it is destroyed
 - windows fixups

* Other:
 - allow GChecksum to take (NULL, 0) for data/length
 - GRelation and GCompletion are now deprecated
 - introduce G_PARAM_DEPRECATED and G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC
 - add working directory to GApplication platform data
 - lots of documentation cleanups
 - PCRE updated to 8.02

* Build:
 - the IA__g_* style symbol aliasing has been disabled and replaced with
   the -Bsymbolic-functions linker flag on platforms that support it.
   Please be on the watch for portability issues and report them to us.
 - many test cases have been moved to the GTester framework
 - lcov support has been added for tests
 - many windows fixes

* Bugs fixed:
 501057  lcov coverage suite and GLib integration
 551271  deprecate GRelation
 601686  Implement diagnostic mode
 603309  GSocketOutputStream broken on Windows (?)
 616718  GLIB_GSETTINGS macro can't be used conditionally
 616855  GSocketConnection: don't close the socket if it's still reffed
 618866  g_ptr_array_remove_index_fast memory leak
 619878  keyfile backend calls keys_changed with invalid argument
 619879  keyfile backend doesn't make use of expected_type
 621092  Add with_closures() variants for bindings
 621172  Cross compiling fails
 621838  Actually add cwd to platform data
 621945  Filter outgoing messages in GDBusConnection
 621947  add g_value_take_variant
 622038  GSettings: "It is a programmer error" documentation is unclear
 622154  [patch] update documentation for g_application_new
 622281  binding: Add SYNC_CREATE to the flags
 622480  Improve documentation for g_strcmp0()
 622554  g_error called if schema not installed
 622601  Return interned strings from g_settings_list_keys

* Translation updates:
 - Galician


Thanks to all contributors:
 Matthias Clasen
 Christian Dywan
 Emmanuele Bassi
 Milan Bouchet-Valat
 David Zeuthen
 Dan Winship
 Tor Lillqvist
 Javier Jardón
 Sven Herzberg
 Patrick Hulin,
 Christian Persch
 Johan Dahlin
 Christian Persch
 Jürg Billeter


June 24, 2010
Ryan Lortie