GLib 2.18 released

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

GLib 2.18.0 is now available for download at:

 http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.18

glib-2.18.0.tar.bz2   md5sum: 06e5afe4ce055085dc5fd9fdab527bf7
glib-2.18.0.tar.gz    md5sum: e55609e7a08755b40d234090f5dfd530

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.

GLib 2.18 is a stable release adding an incremental improvement
in functionality over GLib 2.16 while maintaining binary and
source compatibility.

Major new features include:

 * Unicode 5.1 support

 * Support for the latest version of the shared-mime specification,
   including icons for mime types and content types for volumes

 * Improved internationalization support with g_dgettext(), g_dngettext()
   and NC_()

 * Support for "subparsers" in GMarkup

 * Support for emblems on icons

 * GIO supports HTTP URIs on Windows

For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the
announcements of the 2.17.x development releases:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-May/msg00108.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-June/msg00155.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-June/msg00156.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-July/msg00019.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-July/msg00180.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-August/msg00010.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-August/msg00152.html

More information about GLib is available at:

 http://www.gtk.org/


The GLib Team:

 Hans Breuer, Matthias Clasen, Tim Janik, Tor Lillqvist,
 Manish Singh, Owen Taylor, and Sebastian Wilhelmi


Thanks to all the GLib 2.16 contributors, including
Akira Tagoh
Alessandro Morandi
Alessandro Vesely
Alexander Larsson
Andrew Walton
Areg Beketovski
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Bastien Nocera
Behdad Esfahbod
Benjamin Otte
Björn Lindqvist
Carlos Garcia Campos
Christian Kellner
Christian Neumair
Christian Persch
Claudio Saavedra
Clemens Buss
Cody Russell
Colin Walters
Cosmio Cecchi
Danny Baumann
David Zeuthen
Emmanuele Bassi
Erik van Pienbroek
Erik Walthinsen
Federico Mena Quintero
Felix Riemann
Hiroyuki Ikezoe
Holger Berndt
Jared Moore
Jean-Yves Lefort
Jeffrey Stedfast
Jens Granseuer
Joe Marcus Clarke
Joe Shaw
Johan Dahlin
John Ehresman
Josselin Mouette
Kalle Vahlman
Kazuki Iwamoto
Kjartan Maraas
Kouhei Sutou
Kristian Rietveld
Lieven van der Heide
Lin Ma
Loïc Minier
Luca Ferretti
Marc-Andre Lureau
Marek Kasik
Markus Bergman
Markus Brinkmann
Mart Raudsepp
Mathias Hasselmann
Michael Meeks
Michael Natterer
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
Morten Welinder
Mukund Sivaraman
Neil Roberts
Olivier Crete
Padraig O'Briain
Paolo Borelli
Patrik Olsson
Paul Bolle
Paul Pogonyshev
Peter Kjellerstedt
Peter O'Gorman
Priit Laes
Richard Hult
Rob Bradford
Rodrigo Moya
Ross Burton
Ryan Lortie
Ryan Schmidt
Salvatore Iovene
Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Dröge
Sebastien Bacher
Simon Zheng
Sjoerd Simons
Stefan Kost
Sven Herzberg
Sven Neumann
Takao Fujiwara
Ted Percival
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Andersen
Tim-Philipp Müller
Tomas Bzatek
Vlad Grecescu
Yevgen Muntyan
Yukihiro Nakadaira
Yu Kuan


September 2, 2008
Matthias Clasen