GLib 2.23.6 released

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

GLib 2.23.6 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.23/ [soon]
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.23/

MD5 sums:
72e6eadc16d7022376ecef12c6fe905e  glib-2.23.6.tar.bz2
ade4082e79cd73add701eaf81a9f0b92  glib-2.23.6.tar.gz

SHA1 sums:
14e366d8ff26de72f50c0ab44130cb64b0028630  glib-2.23.6.tar.bz2
8dc885ccc623bce913f0828cade182ee1146fce9  glib-2.23.6.tar.gz

This is a development release leading up to GLib 2.24.

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 2.22. If you have problems, you'll need
  to reinstall GLib 2.22.

 * GLib 2.24 will be source and binary compatible with
  the GLib 2.22 series; however, the new API additions
  in GLib 2.23 are not yet finalized, so there may be
  incompatibilities between this release and the final
  2.24 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 2.23.5 to GLib 2.23.6
===================================================

* Class private data:
  - support for private data associated with a GTypeClass

* GVariant merge is now complete:
  - loading functions and parser merged

* Windows improvements:
  - socket fixes
  - various build improvements
  - removal of GCC/C99isms in favour of portable code
  - drop unmaintained Visual Studio 8 support

* Minor API addition:
  - g_desktop_app_info_get_filename()

* Bugs fixed:
 521707 Class private data
 612502 build fails on glib/tests/gvariant.c
 612832 [GDesktopAppInfo] New function g_desktop_app_info_get_filename
 612702 [PATCH] Fix GSocket-related crash on Windows
 612736 Improve the documentation about single include
 610858 gvariant test fails sometimes
 612327 uninitialized variable

* New translations:
 Afrikaans
 LowGerman

* Updated translations:
 Czech
 Finnish
 Galician
 Greek
 Punjabi
 Romanian
 Serbian


Thanks to the contributors:
 Matthias Clasen
 Tor Lillqvist
 Sebastian Dröge
 William Hua
 Benjamin Otte
 Christian Persch
 Colin Walters
 Thomas Kristensen
 Javier Jardón
 Dagobert Michelsen
 Behdad Esfahbod


March 21, 2010
Ryan Lortie