ANNOUNCE: GLib 1.1.3 Released

["Shawn T. Amundson" <amundson gimp org>]

GLib 1.1.3 is now at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.1/.

The 1.1.x releases of GLib are DEVELOPMENT RELEASES, and as such
there are usually large changes between releases.  You should not
expect 1.1.x series to be stable, since the focus is on enhanced
features.  You can find a stable version of GLib distributed with 
GTK+ 1.0.x series.

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:

* New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
  object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
* glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
  (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
  be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
* Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
  sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
* New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
  associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your
library).
* New inline functions for bit masks tests.
* GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
* New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
  platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
  a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
  People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
  associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
* New utility functions:
  g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
  g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
  g_strnfill(), g_memdup(). 
* Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source
* incompatible
  changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
* The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
  new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
  keyed data of GtkObjects).
* New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
* Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
* Libtool update to version 1.2b.
* Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)


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Shawn T. Amundson               
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