GLib 2.8.6 released

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

GLib 2.8.6 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/
 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.8/

glib-2.8.6.tar.bz2   md5sum: fce6835fd8c99ab4c3e5213bc5bcd0ed
glib-2.8.6.tar.gz    md5sum: 135c276a63b0987aa914ac2736315b4f


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 2.8.5 to GLib 2.8.6
=================================================

* Fix a problem with g_object_compat_control()
  which can lead to segfaults in GTK+ applications
  on 64bit platforms.

* Fix a memory allocation problem in GKeyFile.
  [Morten Welinder]

* New and updated translations (ca,ja,ml,sv,zh_HK,zh_TW)


Matthias Clasen
Jan 18 2006