glib 2.25.12 is here!

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

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Available for download now!

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.25/

With certified SHA256 authenticity!

  7796298766ce54cb2fc4128b3a82f357731b881a87121661ac022eb71fa7cfc1  glib-2.25.12.tar.bz2
  b447adb27cf40b1c68b71483565c3883db8e1f928dfd03a9f54dd5772bc46958  glib-2.25.12.tar.gz

This is a development release leading to GLib 2.26.

Lots of breaks in GDBus, but I think we're mostly done with those.
Looking forward, things should be pretty stable there.  GSettings too.
We still expect some very major changes to GApplication, which will
probably land in 2.25.13.

Here's the part that I copy/paste from last time:

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 2.24. If you have problems, you'll need
  to reinstall GLib 2.24.

 * GLib 2.26 will be source and binary compatible with
  the GLib 2.24 series; however, the new API additions
  in GLib 2.25.x are not yet finalized, so there may
  be incompatibilities between this release and the final
  2.26 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 2.25.11 to GLib 2.25.12
=====================================================

+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| WARNING: There have been many API changes in GDBus -- sending     |
| messages, subscribing to signals, closing connections and         |
| registering subtrees are affected.  The ABI for GSettingsBackend  |
| has also been changed.  For both reasons, a new dconf release is  |
| required (and will be along soon).                                |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

Build:
  - cleanup automake setup
  - rename configure.in to configure.ac
  - various docs fixups
  - move glibconfig.h to glib/
  - disable dtrace support on Mac OS (which has incompatible 'dtrace')

GSettings:
  - add support for vendor override files (to change the default values
    in a schema)
  - change GSettingsBackend vtable
  - add g_settings_reset()
  - support binding to G_TYPE_STRV properties

GDBus:
  - many bug fixes, including a serialisation fix
  - stop handling incoming connections as soon as stop() is called
  - proper support for file descriptor passing
  - new flags parameter for sending messages
  - new flags parameter for subscribing to signals
  - always reset the message serial when sending a message unless
    G_DBUS_SEND_MESSAGE_FLAGS_PRESERVE_SERIAL is given
  - constness fixes for introspection structures
  - clean ups to subtree registration API

Other:
  - fix divide by zero bug in g_malloc_n functions
  - GIO: don't blindly assume that SOCK_CLOEXEC is supported
  - make GObject property notify freezes threadsafe
  - GIO: clean up credentials passing
  - GApplication: make default-quit not apply if register=FALSE
  - GIO: add annotations for gobject-introspection

Bugs closed:
 166020 use GAtomic for refcounting
 617483 Credentials passing
 622005 [GApplication] no way to modify the "default-quit" property
 623293 vendor override files
 623810 Message serialization bug
 623815 Don't check sender for GDBusProxy objects where name is not set
 624473 GDBusSubtreeIntrospectFunc return type
 624483 GDBusSubtreeEnumerateFunc clarification
 624484 GDBusSubtreeDispatchFunc clarification
 624754 gdbusaddress.c missing sys/wait.h
 624968 div by zero in g_malloc_n family
 624991 GSettings mapping for G_TYPE_STRV
 625383 Add missing GI annotations

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Thanks to everyone who helped:
 Behdad Esfahbod
 Benjamin Otte
 Colin Walters
 David Hoyt
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 Eduardo Lima Mitev
 Javier Jardón
 Julien Cristau
 Matthias Clasen
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 Owen Taylor
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July 29, 2010
Ryan Lortie
>From the Hague :)