GLib 2.17.6 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.17.6 is now available for download at:

   http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.17/

glib-2.17.6.tar.bz2  md5sum: b596b80ec89bbcc7ddb77fbf0e4db056
glib-2.17.6.tar.gz   md5sum: bbdcc3370d40e875bc0841474d9246af

This is the sixth development release leading up to GLib 2.18.

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 2.16. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall GLib 2.16.

 * GLib 2.18 will be source and binary compatible with
   the GLib 2.16 series. The new API additions in GLib 2.17 
   are finalized at this point. Except for unforeseen 
   last-minute problems, there should be no more API
   changes between this release and the final 2.18 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 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
===================================================

* Fix problems on 64-bit Windows

* g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
  the user_data outside of callbacks

* GIO
 - g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
   g_mount_guess_content_type
 - GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
   metadata to icons
 - GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
   to icons

* Bugs fixed:
 544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
 544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
 545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
 545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
 544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
 529694 SELinux context setting support
 545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
 545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
 545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
 544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
 541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
 546079 leak in xdgmime
 545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
 546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink

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Thanks to all contributors:
Mathias Hasselmann
Hiroyuki Ikezoe
Richard Hult
Tor Lillqvist
Tim Janik
Ryan Lortie
Kouhei Sutou
Priit Laes
Tomas Bzatek
David Zeuthen
Bastien Nocera
Kazuki Iwamoto
Hans Breuer
Paul Bolle
Erik Walthinsen
Marek Kasik
Clemens Buss
Carlos Garcia Campos
Erik Walthinsen
Christian Kellner


August 4, 2008
Matthias Clasen