GLib 2.21.3 released



GLib 2.21.3 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.21/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.21/

md5 sums:
8ed8d959a131e295ce75c8ebe867014e  glib-2.21.3.tar.bz2
645da32e63ef925a77c0ca237fc3e3a5  glib-2.21.3.tar.gz

sha1 sums:
ffcd13ac97787106ce943396d250cfa593d47345  glib-2.21.3.tar.bz2
80934e0907f40ba74b60c45721c110d504d213b3  glib-2.21.3.tar.gz

This is a development release leading up to GLib 2.22.

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 2.20. If you have problems, you'll need
  to reinstall GLib 2.20.

 * GLib 2.22 will be source and binary compatible with
  the GLib 2.20 series; however, the new API additions
  in GLib 2.21 are not yet finalized, so there may be
  incompatibilities between this release and the final
  2.22 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 2.21.2 to GLib 2.21.3
===================================================

* GMappedFile is refcounted now

* Mainloop: It is now possible to set per-thread default contexts,
  with g_main_context_push_thread_default.

* glib-mkenums supports a @basename@ substitution, in addition
  to @filename  

* GIO:
 - Vfs implementations can support storing of per-file metadata.
 - GCancellable can now be subclassed.
 - Unmount and eject methods now optionally allow interaction, via
   variants that take a GMountOperation object.

* Bugs fixed:
 556706 Inconsistent help arguments -h, -?
 579449 FileChoosers no longer work if an idle handler is active
 579933 mainloop FD_CLOEXEC has a race condition
 579984 alternate GMainContext support
 585937 gio/gsocket.c (glib 2.21.2) does not compile (Windows/mingw)
 586675 Runtime library location
 586797 Add GCancellables to GSocket ops
 586868 g_filename_complete_get_completions doesn't always return...
 587415 g_resolver_lookup_by_name_finish returns a freed list
 587434 regression tests fail, at least on x86_64
 586928 Avoid g++ warning in g_error()

* Updated translations:
 Estonian
 Hebrew


Thanks to all contributors:
Benjamin Otte
Alexander Larsson
Ryan Lortie
Thiago Macieira
David Zeuthen
Richard Hughes
Tom Parker
Jani Monoses
Christian Dywan
Dan Winship
Christian Persch


July 6, 2009
Matthias Clasen





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