GLib 2.29.2

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.29.2 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.29/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.29/

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glib-2.29.2.tar.gz
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glib-2.29.2.tar.bz2

The is the initial development snapshot of the 2.29 series.


Overview of Changes from GLib 2.28.0 to 2.29.2
==============================================

* GApplication
 - The documentation has been enhanced and clarified
 - An opt-out for uniqueness has been added: G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE
 - GApplication now syncs settings before g_application_run() returns

* GDBus
 - Interface lookups are now happening in constant time
 - Signature checking and handling of various unexpected
   situations has been improved

* GVariant
 - The format accepted by the GVariant parser has beend documented
 - GVariant accepts G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARDICT for a{sv}

* GDateTime:
 - The return value of g_datetime_compare() has been fixed to
   match strcmp() semantics
 - In order to handle problems with changing timezones, a
GTimeZoneMonitor
   has been added to GIO, and g_time_zone_refresh_local() can be
   called to update the cached information about the local timezone

* GOption now uses /proc/self/cmdline to set the program name instead
  and only falls back to "<unknown>" if that is unavailable

* GSettings:
 - The schema compiler now warns about references to non-existing
schemas

* Commandline utilities are now fully translated

* Signals can now indicate that collecting their arguments must
  always happen, even in the absence of connected signal handlers,
  using the G_SIGNAL_MUST_COLLECT flag.

* Bugs fixed:
 635099 Memory leak in gdbus introspection when parsing xml
 640489 $ and ^ do not match lines if G_REGEX_MULTILINE|G_R...
 642042 Overriding GDBus org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties im...
 642052 g_timeout_add(_seconds) cannot handle large intervals
 642490 notify_desktop_launch() "g_variant_new_bytestring:...
 613269 g_type_get_qdata() doesn't work as I expected on subtypes
 624943 G_VALUE_NOCOPY_CONTENTS is undocumented
 637738 object_interface_check_properties never actually executes
 638185 GIOCondition should be annotated as "flags"
 639478 GDBusServer's g_dbus_server_new_sync() function should just...
 641755 Add g_settings_get/set_uint() helpers
 641768 dconf gsettings backend silently drops writes if it can't...
 642797 g_app_info_get_default_for_type() broken for subtypes
 642825 Unnecessary assertion failure in g_option_context_parse()
 642944 NULL key lookup using g_hash_table_lookup_extended()
 643074 Incorrect documentation for g_socket_receive() and g_socket...
 643197 g_application_id_is_valid docs imply no valid ids
 643468 GApplication docs: Warn that handling "command-line" means...
 643478 GApplication::local_command_line vfunc documentation seems wrong
 643624 Can g_variant_unref() on an already free'd variant
 643649 g_application_run() should say that argc/argv can be NULL
 643780 shouldn't need to create an action group to use actions...
 643795 g_timeout_add_seconds fires with intervals 1 second longer...
 644309 Program name is not set when using GtkApplication
 644428 Crash in failure section of g_markup_collect_attributes()
 644465 undefined reference to `_usleep'
 644552 g_timeout_add_seconds(1, ...) may have a latency of up to 2...
 644607 Correct internal definition of C_()
 645789 annotations for g_file_*_contents
 646039 g_settings_list_children() returns child that cannot be opened
 646310 Accept range with only min or max
 646420 g_dbus_method_invocation_get_parameters() docs should say...
 646843 occasional abort on autologin
 646985 add G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE flag
 647579 gsettings: Implement reset-recursively
 647600 gsettings description has typo

* Translation updates
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
Ryan Lortie
Will Thompson
Benjamin Otte
Damien Lespiau
Stef Walter
Colin Walters
Lin Ma
Tor Lillqvist
Vincent Untz
Chun-Wei Fan
Andreas Rottmann
Cosimo Cecchi
Kjell Ahlstedt
Murray Cumming
Martin Nordholts
Matt Barnes
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Owen W. Taylor
Olivier Crête
Christian Persch
Tristan Van Berkom
David Zeuthen
Jonathan Matthew
Martin Pitt
Dan Winship


April 13, 2011
Matthias Clasen