[ANNOUNCE] JSON-GLib 0.7.4 - 0.8.0rc1 (developers snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

hi everyone;

JSON-GLib 0.7.4 is now available for download at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/json-glib/0.7/

SHA1 checksums:

  json-glib-0.7.4.tar.bz2:
  5a11c109b6c3cfb4e8bf211d514dcf41db6e13ff257cf733aa19cb8694ce655a

  json-glib-0.7.4.tar.gz:
  62ad42c695f643fdfb1564e859380adbef6f1e43e060c18dff4fca8330e5fdfc

this is the second developers snapshot of the JSON-GLib library leading
to the stable 0.8 cycle, and the first release candidate for 0.8.0; if
everything goes according to plan, 0.8.0 will be exactly like 0.7.4.

JSON-GLib is a library providing serialization and deserialization
support for the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format described by
RFC 4627. JSON is: 

  a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read
  and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based
  on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262
  3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely
  language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to
  programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java,
  JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON
  an ideal data-interchange language. -- From Introducing JSON 

Many high-level languages already provide native modules for parsing,
generating and manipulating JSON data streams. JSON-GLib is a C library
based on GLib and released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License version 2.1. It provides a parser and a generator GObject
classes and various wrappers for the complex data types employed by
JSON, such as arrays and objects.

JSON-GLib uses GLib native data types and the generic value container
GValue for ease of development. It also provides integration with the
GObject classes for direct serialization into, and deserialization from,
JSON data streams.

JSON-GLib currently requires:

 * GLib 2.16.0, or higher

Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.openedhand.com in the
json-glib product.

JSON-GLib is available in GNOME Git:

  http://git.gnome.org/cgit/json-glib

Detailed list of changes since 0.7.2
------------------------------------

Emmanuele Bassi (15):
      Post-release bump to 0.7.3
      [generator] Pre-compute the escape table
      [docs] Fix typo in JsonObject::set_object_member()
      [tests] Verify parsing base values
      [parser] Advance the tokenizer to avoid an infinite loop
      Indentation fixes
      Auto-promote integer types to G_TYPE_INT64
      Update NEWS
      Do not sanitize the object member's name
      [tests] Include json-glib.h
      [introspection] Use json-gobject.h
      Disallow single header file inclusion
      [build] Use our libtool for the typelib
      Update the NEWS file
      [release] 0.7.4

Rodrigo Moya (1):
      Use JSON_NODE_OBJECT, not JSON_NODE_ARRAY when creating the node
        in json_object_set_object_member()

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi, Senior Engineer        | emmanuele bassi intel com
Intel Open Source Technology Center     | http://oss.intel.com