GLib 2.9.2 released

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

GLib 2.9.2 is now available for download at:

   ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.9/
   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.9/

glib-2.9.2.tar.bz2      md5sum: 98a33482d62735ed7e202bbbd5b27851
glib-2.9.2.tar.gz       md5sum: 17a76927efd9df931dee1c158bb5b8c8

This is the third development release leading up to GLib 2.10.

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 2.8. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall GLib 2.8.5.

 * GLib 2.10 will be source and binary compatible with
   the GLib 2.8.x series (for some caveats, see the
   README). At this point, the API additions in the
   2.9.x series are mostly finished. The only area
   where API changes between 2.9.2 and 2.10 are likely
   is the 'floating reference' feature, which is still
   being discussed on gtk-devel-list gnome org 

 * 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 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2
=================================================

* Memory management:
 - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik]
 - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently
   sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost.  [Tim]

* Thread support:
 - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik,
   Sebastian Wilhelmi]
 - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the
   tasks of a threadpool.  [Martyn Russell]
 - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads
   to exit after a certain time.  [Martyn]

* Type system:
 - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial
   floating reference. [Tim]
 - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias]

* Main loop:
 - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current
   thread is the owner of the context.  [Michael Meeks]

* Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as
  wrapper functions instead of macros.  [Manish Singh]

* Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero,
  Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams]

* New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW)

* Bugs fixed:
 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8
        tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow]
 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error
        [Tim-Philipp MÃller]
 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov]
 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto]
 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to
        gpointer [Andrew Paprocki]
 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes,
        Stanislav Brabec]
 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton]
 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and
        stderr [Tor Lillqvist]
 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from <glib/gstdio.h> [Jani Monoses]
 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto]
 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams]
 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal]
 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]


Matthias Clasen
Jan 6, 2006