ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.3.6 and glibmm 2.3.7

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** Special notes:

The API is now frozen. Only incredibly important API changes will be allowed 
before the final fully-frozen gtkmm 2.4.0 release on April 12th.

*** gtkmm and glibmm 2.4:

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. The 2.3.x tarballs are the unstable 
development series that will become the stable gtkmm 2.4. gtkmm 2.3/2.4 will
wrap any additional API in GTK+ 2.4. glibmm is now a separate module, for use in
non-GUI software.

gtkmm 2.3/2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can install this
unstable library without the risk of breaking existing applications. This allows us
to break ABI and API, though we will try not to break API unless it is absolutely 
necessary.

We recommend the use of jhbuild or garnome for testing in a separate prefix.

The stable (API/ABI-frozen) gtkmm 2.4.0 will be released soon. 
gtkmm is on the official GNOME Platform Bindings release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

glibmm 2.3.8:

* Fix crash when using Glib::Main signals.
  (Martin Schulze)
* Corrected the configure-time SUN compiler check.
  (Murray Cumming, Alexander Nedotsukov)

gtkmm 2.3.7:

* Gtk:
  - Action:
    - create_tool_item(), create_menu(), and create_icon() return specific types.
      (Bryan Forbes)
    - Constructors: Give 0 instead of "" to GTK+ for empty strings, to make 
      stock items work. (Murray Cumming)
  - Container: Keep managed child widgets alive when remove()ing them.
    (Murray Cumming)
  - IconTheme: Wrapped the changed signal. (Murray Cumming)
  - FileFilter: It's a Gtk::Object, not a Glib::Object. (Murray Cumming) 
  - TreeView: Added move_column_to_start(). (Andrew E. Makeev)
  - UIManager: Fixed typo in disconnect_proxy signal name. (Bryan Forbes)
  - many: Do the extra reference for several get_*() methods.
    (Bryan Forbes, Murray Cumming) 

* Documentation:
  - Reference documentation: Corrected some mention of null parameters, and g_free(), 
    in generated-from-C docs. (Murray Cumming)
  - Book: Corrected typos and updated libsigc++ syntax. (Elijah Newren)
  - FAQ: Don't mention gtkmm 1.2 so much. (Elijah Newren)
  - Examples: Adde book/menus_and_toolbars, to show UIManager. (Murray Cumming)


*** Download

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
and
http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

There is active discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org


-- 
Murray Cumming
murray usa net
www.murrayc.com