GLib 2.25.8 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.25.8 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.25/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.25/


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A development release leading to GLib 2.26.


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 2.25.7 to GLib 2.25.8
===================================================

* Initial support for dtrace and systemtap profiling:
 - mainloop sources can be named
 - probes for memory allocation with g_malloc and gslice
 - gquark name tracking
 - type creation
 - object life-cyle (creation, finalization, ref, unref)
 - signal creation and emission

* GVariant
 - has been fixed to work with the FreeBSD malloc
 - added introspection annotations
 - new function: g_variant_builder_add_parsed

* GSettings:
 - g_settings_set/get_strv functions have lost their length parameter
 - g_settings_set_strv accepts NULL
 - added introspection annotiations

* GPermission: an abstract interface for representing permissions,
  with a minimal implementation named GSimplePermission

* GApplication: a basic application support class, with a D-Bus based
  implementation

* Bugs fixed:
 619585 glib-compile-schemas asserts on FreeBSD
 620384 Annotate GVariant and GSettings _strv() functions
 606044 Add support for dtrace/systemtap static markers
 620350 add g_variant_builder_add_parsed() API
 620349 utf8ify GVariant printer
 620767 Typo in GSettings documentation: "INTLTOOL_NOMERGE_RULE"
 620312 Fix g_settings_[gs]et_strv() API
 620519 GPermission
 620582 GPermission needs a simple implementation
 620496 GSettings schema compiler should reject invalid paths
 620173 missing single header inclusion guards
 620265 g_assertion_message_error should take const GError *

* Translation updates:
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Thanks to all contributors:
Ryan Lortie
David Zeuthen
Havoc Pennington
Lin Ma
Colin Walters
Mikhail Zabaluev
Alexander Larsson
Milan Bouchet-Valat
Javier Jardón
Murray Cumming
Will Thompson
Michael Natterer


June 8, 2010
Matthias Clasen