GLib 2.7.1 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.7.1 is now available for download at:

   ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.7/

glib-2.7.1.tar.bz2      md5sum: f6a6f4acd56b98e9372e5326e2657c10
glib-2.7.1.tar.gz       md5sum: 739c01270ca2395db62e76751fc6fc84

This is the second development release leading up to GLib-2.8.  

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 2.6. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall GLib 2.6.5.

 * GLib 2.8 will be source and binary compatible with
   the GLib 2.6.x series; however, the new API additions
   in GLib 2.7.0 are not yet finalized, so there may
   be incompatibities between this release and the final
   2.8 release.

 * Remaining issues for GLib 2.8 can be found with the 
   following bugzilla query:


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=glib&target_milestone=2.8
+API+Freeze&&target_milestone=2.8
+Freeze&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

 * 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 2.7.0 to GLib 2.7.1
=================================================
* GOption 
 - Allow callback arguments without parameters [Dan Winship]
* GMappedFile: an mmap wrapper [David Schleef, Behdad Esfahbod]
* Misc new functions:
 - g_get_host_name [Tor Lillqvist]
 - g_mkdir_with_parents [Tor]
 - g_build_pathv, g_build_filenamev [Todd A. Fisher, 
   Matthias Clasen]
* Bug fixes [Roger Leigh, Masatake YAMATO, Kjartan Maraas,
  Manish Singh, Tor, Murray Cumming, Kian Duffy, Morten Welinder]
* Documentation improvements [Hong Gang XU, Dan Winship, Matthias]
* New and updated translations (bg,cs,da,en_CA,es,et,nb,nl,no,
  sk,th,zh_TW)


A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=302632,5200,60509,308528,308602,149092,308546,148218,308295,309157,307064


June 30, 2005