GLib 2.5.7 released [unstable]

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.5.7 is now available for download at:

   ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/

glib-2.5.7.tar.gz       md5sum: 730a3980ad9058d8ed9612eccc617d9b
glib-2.5.7.tar.bz2      md5sum: 563aeefa2680d02c68f4e350b8b11092


This is the 8th development release leading up to GLib 2.6.  

Notes:

 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
   fairly extensive 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 2.4. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall GLib 2.4.7.

 * GLib 2.6 will be source and binary compatible with
   the GLib 2.4.x series. The new API additions in GLib 
   2.5.x are finalized at this point, and GLib 2.5.x 
   should be considered API frozen. Unless serious issues
   with the new APIs come up, there will be no API 
   changes between this release and the 2.6.0 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 2.5.6 to GLib 2.5.7
=================================================
* Optimize g_utf8_validate() [Owen Taylor, Matthias Clasen]
* Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() [Havoc Pennington, 
  Morten Welinder]
* Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1) 
  [Sven Neumann]
* Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries [Owen]
* Add G_GNUC_MALLOC to mark functions returning newly 
  allocated memory  [Matthias]
* Win32 bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ãgren,
  Bruce Hochstetler]
* Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Matthias, Manish Singh, Morten,
  Frederic Crozat, Tor]
* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor, Owen, Tom Copeland]
* New and updated translations (cs,da,de,en_CA,en_GB,es,nb,nl,sq,zh_CN)


A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?
bug_id=158263,158469,125627,159131,156421,159557,136255,159001,159664,61780,149826,157258,153727,160213,160215,160162


December 2, 2004