GLib 2.27.90

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.27.90 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.27/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.27/

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Another development release in the 2.27 development cycle.

Barring unforeseen emergencies, the API in this release should
be identical to the 2.28 API.


Overview of Changes from GLib 2.27.5 to 2.27.90
===============================================

* Test reports created by gtester-report can now
  include revision information

* The g_desktop_app_info_launch_* family of functions
  now emit a DBus signal when an application is launched.
  Additionally, there is a new variant
  g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager(), which
  gives more control over the launched process.

* The memory and null GSettings backends are now available
  as public API

* g_get_locale_variants() is a new function that returns a
  list of variants of a locale identifier

* Bugs fixed:
 587898 I/O timeouts for GSocket
 606960 gio: Add extension point for informing parties...
 631980 Handle an optional <revision> node in the report...
 634569 Document that g_variant_builder_add_value consumes...
 635998 Make _g_compute_locale_variants public
 636806 Add g_{memory,null}_settings_backend_get_default
 637262 Need a binary DER version of ::accepted-cas
 637544 Skip fsync() on btrfs
 637720 void functions should not return a value.
 637738 object_interface_check_properties never actually...
 637759 GIOChannel: fix a crash in g_io_channel_read_chars()
 637852 Updates to glib.vsprops file for MSVC 2008 builds...
 637858 Updates to test/testglib.c...
 638349 parameter name of g_variant_new_* may conflict...

* Translation updates:
 Hebrew
 Norwegian bokmÃl
 Simplified Chinese
 Spanish
 Swedish
 Uyghur
 Vietnamese

Contributors to this release:
Ryan Lortie
Pavel Holejsovsky
Chun-wei Fan
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
Cosimo Cecchi
Emmanuele Bassi
Thomas Kristensen
Colin Walters
Stef Walter
Nicolas Dufresne
Christian Persch


January 5, 2011
Matthias Clasen