[glibmm/glibmm-2-56] 2.56.0

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahl src gnome org>]

commit 8236b0f457e6ede0511f5e197017baa31eb953b4
Author: Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com>
Date:   Sat Mar 31 09:28:37 2018 +0200

    2.56.0

 NEWS         |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 configure.ac |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3676dc0..56d6085 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,47 @@
+2.56.0 (stable):
+
+Glib:
+* Threads::Private: Fix gobj().
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #791711 (octoploid)
+* TimeoutSource: Use monotonic time consistently.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #792524 (Dainis Jonitis)
+* Add RefPtr::get().
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #495762 (Hubert Figuiere)
+
+Gio:
+* TlsClientConnection: Deprecate set/get/property_use_ssl3().
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
+* DataInputStream: Deprecate read_until().
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
+* Application: Add property_resource_base_path_string().
+  This is a replacement for property_resource_base_path() which can't be
+  fixed without breaking ABI.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #787496 (Daniel Boles)
+* Application: Add three set_option_context_*() methods.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
+* DesktopAppInfo: Add get_locale_string().
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
+
+Documentation:
+* Slightly elaborate Glib::Variant<Variant> docs.
+  (Daniel Boles) Bug #778219
+
+tests:
+* glibmm_variant: Don't use C++14 features when a C++11 compiler is used.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt, Jonathan Wakely) Bug #787648 (Armin K.)
+* glibmm_interface_move test: Avoid unused function warnings.
+  (Murray Cumming)
+
+gmmproc:
+* _WRAP_METHOD: Accept optional list of exceptions in errthrow.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #787979 (Daniel Boles)
+* _WRAP_METHOD: Suppress the @return section in generated documentation
+  if return type is void.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #787978 (Daniel Boles)
+* Add _MEMBER_SET_STR macro, setter for strings.
+  (Pavlo Solntsev) Bug #793778
+
+
 2.54.1 (stable):
 
 Glib:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c20e778..23cf5f4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 ## along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-AC_INIT([glibmm], [2.54.1],
+AC_INIT([glibmm], [2.56.0],
         [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibmm],
         [glibmm], [http://www.gtkmm.org/])
 AC_PREREQ([2.59])