ANNOUNCE: glibmm 2.36.0

[Murray Cumming <murrayc openismus com>]

*** glibmm:

gtkmm 2.36 wraps glib 2.36.

glibmm stays in-sync with glib by following the official GNOME release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

Changes in 2.36 compared to 2.34:

Glib:
* AppInfo::get_all(): Fix ownerships.
  (Pavel Vasi) Bug #694505
  (José Alburquerque)
* Add ByteArray, because it is used in the GTls* API.
  (José Alburquerque)
* Resolver: Add lookup_records(), lookup_records_async()
  and lookup_records_finish().
  (José Alburquerque)
* Signal*::connect(): Make them less thread-unsafe.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #396958 (Daniel Elstner, Chris Vine)
* Threads: Add create(slot, name) to create named threads.
  (Andrew Potter) Bug #689863
* Variant: Allow containing complex types in arrays and in variants.
  (José Alburquerque)
* Variant: Don't refsink variants created using the custom cast ctor.
  (José Alburquerque)
* Variant< std::vector<std::string> >: Add create_from_object_paths().
  (José Alburquerque)
* VariantBase: Add check_format_string().
   (Murray Cumming)
* VariantBase: Add operator for BoolExpr (const void*).
  (Andrew Potter) Bug #690121
* VariantType: Add create_tuple().
  (Andrew Potter) Bug #688682
* VariantType: Correct the referencing in the create*() methods.
  (José Alburquerque) Bug #688440 (Andrew Potter)


Gio:
* AppInfo: Add create_duplicate().
  (José Alburquerque)
* ApplicationCommandLine: Add get_stdin() and
  create_file_for_arg().
  (Murray Cumming)
* AsyncResult: Added is_tagged().
  (Murray Cumming)
* Credentials: Add get_unix_pid().
  (José Alburquerque)
* DesktopAppInfo: Add has_key(),
  get_string() and get_boolean().
  (Murray Cumming)
* DesktopAppInfo: Add some new getter methods.
  (José Alburquerque)
* File: Remove refreturn to avoid memory leaks.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #691606 (Dodak4Gi)
* FileEnumerator: Add get_child().
  (Murray Cumming)
* FileInfo: Add get_deletion_date().
  (Murray Cumming)
* MemoryOutputStream: Add the steal_as_bytes() method.
  (José Alburquerque)
* SimpleAction: Fix stateful action constructor typo, allowing use.
  (Andrew Potter) Bug #690122
* SocketClient: Add get/set_tls(),
  get/set_tls_validation_flags(), get/set_proxy_resolver().
  Added timeout, tls, enable-proxy, tls-validation, and 
  proxy-resolver properties.
  Added the event signal.
  (Murray Cumming)
* SocketConnection: Add connect*() and is_connected() methods.
  (José Alburquerque)
* ThemedIcon: Wrap the "names" property.
  (José Alburquerque)
* Add TlsConnection, TlsClient, TlsServer, TlsDatabase,
  TlsCertificate, TlsPassword, TlsFileDatabase and TlsInteraction.
  (José Alburquerque)
* UnixConnection: Add [receive|send]_credentials_[async|finish]().
  (José Alburquerque)

Gio::DBus:
* DBus::[Connection|Proxy]: Use ifdefs for the UnixFDList call*() methods.
  (José Alburquerque)

gmmproc:
* Verify that void methods should not return a value.
  (José Alburquerque) Bug #696364
* Parse the argument list of methods correctly.
  (José Alburquerque)
* gmmproc: _WRAP_VFUNC: Support the wrapping of slots.
  (José Alburquerque)
* gmmproc: _WRAP_METHOD: Support wrapping methods with slots.
  (José Alburquerque) Bug #688587
* gmmproc: _WRAP_METHOD: Ensure that slot parameters can be optional.
  (José Alburquerque)
* gmmproc: _WRAP_[CREATE|CTOR|METHOD]: Allow any order of {} options.
  (José Alburquerque)
* gmmproc: _WRAP_ENUM: Skip enum constants whose names are deleted.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #544694 (Murray Cumming)
* gmmproc: _WRAP_CTOR: Handle *_new() functions with a final GError**.
  (José Alburquerque) Bug #687959

Build:
* Visual Studio Projects: Fix and update.
  (Chun-wei Fan)
* Add a test of implementing an interface,
  to detect the problem in glib 2.36.0 and
  the expected problem with glib >= 2.37.0
  See bug #697229
  (Murray Cumming)
* DBus::[Connection|Proxy]: Change ifdef G_OS_LINUX to ifdef G_OS_UNIX.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* ContentType: Fix typo in the content_type_get_symbolic_icon() implementation.
  (José Alburquerque)
* Remove the use of g_type_init() because it has been deprecated.
  (José Alburquerque)
* Strip trailing whitespace.
  (Mark Vender) 
* Fix the build with warnings enabled.
  (Murray Cumming)




Documentation:
* Signal[Timeout|Idle]::connect_once() docs: Warn about thread-unsafety.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #396963 (Daniel Elstner, Chris Vine)
* ThreadPool::push() docs: Note that sigc::trackable is not thread-safe.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #512348 (Chris Vine)
* Threads::Thread::create(): Update the documentation.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #512348 (Chris Vine)
* SignalProxy: Fix the documentation, especially of connect_notify().
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #126213, comment 5.
* Gio::Action: Add more documentation of get_state_hint() and get_state().
  (Kjell Ahlstedt) Bug #690134 (Andrew Potter)
* Predefine G_OS_UNIX or G_OS_WIN32 in Doxygen's configuration file.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* gmmproc: Improve the conversion of documentation to Doxygen format.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Documentation: Fix many warnings from Doxygen.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* gmmproc: Make enum documentation possible.
  (José Alburquerque) Bug #544694 (Murray Cumming)
* gmmproc: Improve the search for documentation of enums.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* gmmproc: Documentation: Adjust if the method has a slot param.
  (José Alburquerque) Bug #688587.
* docextract_to_xml.py: Replace &colon; with ':' in generated XML files.
  (José Alburquerque)
* gmmproc: Improve the documentation of properties.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* ustring docs: The global locale should be set when using C++ streams.
  (Debarshi Ray) Bug #661588


*** Development 

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