GLib 2.17.7 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.17.7 is now available for download at:

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

glib-2.17.7.tar.bz2	md5sum: 50abcc857a93498fe7d8d0bda2ed2805
glib-2.17.7.tar.gz	md5sum: 135f08f90198690da27e2194654bd15c

This is another 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 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
===================================================

* More fixes for 64-bit Windows

* GIO
 - Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows

* Bugs fixed:
 546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
 546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
 547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
 547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
 547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
 547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
 502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
 546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
 546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
 546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
 542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop 
 535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
 547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
 546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
 547262 Missing link in the docs

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Thanks to all contributors
Tor Lillqvist
Sven Neumann
Ryan Lortie
Behdad Esfahbod
Federico Mena Quintero
Kalle Vahlman
Peter O'Gorman
Tim Janik
Paul Pogonyshev
Loïc Minier
Felix Riemann
Erik van Pienbroek
Padraig O'Briain 
Bastien Nocera


August 18, 2008
Matthias Clasen