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vala 0.35.1

About vala
==========

valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala
source code.

The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the
GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the
following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda
expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null
types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules
(Plugins)

Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially
GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All
that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing
the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes
with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME
Platform.

Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written
in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the
generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject-
based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily
possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries
from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as
a library, so that all compile-time information is available when
generating a binding.

ChangeLog
=========

2016-11-22  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        Release 0.35.1

2016-11-21  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        gstreamer-1.0: Make ElementFactory.get_static_pad_templates fully "unowned"
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774791

2016-11-20  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

2016-11-19  Carlos Garnacho  <carlosg gnome org>

        codegen: Use GTask instead of GSimpleAsyncResult if 2.36 target is selected
        GTask brings some differences compared to GSimpleAsyncResult. Most namely,
        g_task_return*() operations perform at once the async result data asignment
        and the caller's main context activation. This is something that has to be
        done exactly once, so the code flow has slight changes to ensure that.

        Also, the async operation data used to be attached early through
        g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gpointer, only to be maybe replaced by
        the real return data. If GTask is being used, we set this data through
        g_task_set_task_data().

        There's code out there relying on immediate return here when state is
        !=0. As GTask always defers the finalization to an idle in its main
        context, ensure the source is dispatched and the task completed before
        returning.

        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763345

2016-11-16  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.89.0+48e7f419

2016-11-13  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

        gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.89.0+2520662d

2016-11-12  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        Fix build with -Werror=redundant-decls

        Fix build with -Werror=enum-compare

2016-11-11  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        tests: Enable -Werror=redundant-decls

        codegen: Don't write declaration of CreationMethod for compact-classes twice
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772661

        ccode: Fix and disable deprecating EnumValue
        This still requires GCC 6.0 and later to work.
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47043

        Move "blurb", "nick" and "notify" into Property

        Transform CCode*'s "deprecated" into using CCodeNode's "modifiers"

2016-11-10  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        tests: Add missing main() in bug641418-*.test

        codegen: g_free is already NULL-safe

        codegen: Don't implicitly initialize local variables with an initializer

        Don't initilize local variable if not requested

        codegen: Remove unused create_local()

        codegen: Make get_temp_variable() default to init=false

        Revert "Always initialize temp variables to fix fatal warnings of GCC 4.8"
        This reverts commit eeb861dfba147bc37cfc7a9c22e1b582cf20ff31.

2016-11-09  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        Add G_GNUC_PRINTF/SCANF attribute for Printf/ScanfFormat functions
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710862

2016-11-08  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        Transform CCodeParameter's "format_arg" into CCodeNode's "modifiers"

        Add CCodeNode "modifiers" and transform CCodeFunction's "attributes" to it

        vala: Clean up PropertyAccessor API

2016-11-08  Alistair Thomas  <astavale yahoo co uk>

        vala: check a property has an accessor and/or a mutator
        Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773956

2016-11-07  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.89.0+fa7d77d4

        codegen: Add G_GNUC_FORMAT attribute for FormatArg function-pointers

        tests: More cases of FormatArg functions

2016-11-07  Jürg Billeter  <j bitron ch>

        codegen: Add G_GNUC_FORMAT attribute for FormatArg functions
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774060

        tests: Enable -Werror=format-nonliteral

2016-11-07  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        vala: Pass through the format-literal
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774060

2016-11-07  Richard Wiedenhöft  <richard wiedenhoeft xyz>

        Fix broken destruction of null-terminated arrays in async data structs
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762819

2016-11-06  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        doap: Add description as required

        Drop obsolete MAINTAINERS file

        Add myself to doap

        Update bugreport and package urls

2016-11-05  Timm Bäder  <mail baedert org>

        method: Print encountered type if return types mismatch
        If a class overrides a method of a base type, print both the encountered
        return type and the return type expected by the base class.

        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769501

2016-11-05  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        gtk+-4.0: Fix cheader_filename for Gdk and update to 3.89.0+a47fb1c4

2016-11-04  Andrea Del Signore  <sejerpz gmail com>

        girwriter: Use the correct tag- and element-name for an annotation
        The correct syntax is <attribute name=".." value=".."/>

        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769597

2016-11-03  Severin Heiniger  <severinheiniger gmail com>

        codegen: Allow underscores in type parameter names
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644938

2016-11-03  Jürg Billeter  <j bitron ch>

        tests: Enable -Werror=format-security

        codegen: Avoid temporary variables for calls to [FormatArg] methods
        This prevents bogus C compiler warnings with -Wformat-nonliteral.

        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769229

        Do not use non-literal printf format strings

        Add [FormatArg] attribute to Parser.get_error

        glib-2.0: Add [FormatArg] attributes to gettext functions

        Support [FormatArg] attribute for parameters
        This attribute specifies that the method takes and returns a printf
        or scanf format string without modifying the order or types of expected
        arguments, e.g., to translate the format string. This allows the
        compiler to check the printf/scanf arguments.

2016-11-03  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        Fix deprecation of class/struct fields
        Respect the "deprecated" attributes given to class and struct fields, while
        actually adding G_GNUC_DEPRECATED to their declaration.

        codegen: Simplify get_enum_value_canonical_cconstant()

        codegen: Simplify get_signal_canonical_constant()

        glib-2.0: Add simple fast-path to string.replace()

        vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

        gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.89.0+c9a313a1

2016-11-01  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        parser: Cache current token if possible

        codegen: Mark GLibValue as internal

2016-11-01  Jürg Billeter  <j bitron ch>

        Check printf arguments of object creation expressions

2016-11-01  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        vapi: Add unstable bindings for gtk+-4.0 (based on 3.89.0+3c1f7267)

        Don't create constant Regex on demand and use static field where possible

        ccodewriter: Use private _bol field instead of property

        writer: Some string optimizations

        field: Drop unused methods

        vala: Add missing TokeType cases for to_string()

        Avoid some string copying

2016-10-30  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        ccode: Replace if-else-tree with switch

        vala: Avoid superfluous string copying

        codegen: Some simplifications

        Use more "...".printf to concat strings

        codegen: Drop superfluous dynamic-type cast

        webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.15.1

        gdk-3.0: Update to 3.22.2+0ad5d51d

2016-10-27  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

2016-10-25  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        build: Conditionally adjust VALAFLAGS in case of proper bootsrapped builds
        This adds --hide-internal to VALAFLAGS to allow symbols to be marked
        'internal' in Vala source files and not appear in the dynamic symbol table
        of libvala.

        The build system checks for minimum valac version to fullfill required
        support of needed VALAFLAGS.

        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771920

2016-10-25  Evan Nemerson  <evan coeus-group com>

        codegen: Only emit notify signals if the value actually changed
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631267

2016-10-24  Rico Tzschichholz  <ricotz ubuntu com>

        gdk-3.0: Update to 3.22.1+a1115c05

2016-10-20  Luca Bruno  <lucabru src gnome org>

        Add explicit copy method for arrays
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650663

2016-10-20  Matthias Berndt  <matthias_berndt gmx de>

        vapi: Add missing type parameters for delegates
        https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772204


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