GLib 2.6.1 released

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.6.1 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/

glib-2.6.1.tar.bz2   md5sum: b7a07863d66f328bafadfe7747b85274
glib-2.6.1.tar.gz    md5sum: 735c4095b9428aa2374262fcd2a252ff

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 2.6.0 to GLib 2.6.1
=================================================
* GOption
 - Make gtk_init(NULL, NULL) work again [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
 - Improve handling of -- [Matthias Clasen]
 - Don't show G_OPTION_REMAINING in --help output [Matthew F. Barnes]
* g_find_program_in_path() doesn't return directories [Tommi Komulainen]
* Add gmodule-export-2.0.pc [Matthias]
* Win32 changes
 - Improve hangling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
 - g_getenv(), g_setenv(), g_unsetenv(), g_find_program_in_path()
   take and return UTF-8 now [Tor] 
 - Make g_file_test() work more reliably, and use PATHEXT
   when check for executables [Tor]
 - Build and cross-compilation fixes [J. Ali Harlow]
* Other bug fixes [Jens Hatlak, Morten Welinder, 
  Tor, Kalpesh Shah, Adrian Bunk
* Documentation improvements [Marcin Krzyzanowski, Tor, Crispin
  Flowerday, Mariano Su�z-Alvarez, Christian Biere, Danny Milo,
  Vincent Untz, Bastien Nocera
* New and updated translations (cy,de,nl,ru,sq,sv)
                                
A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?
bug_id=161668,161683,161701,161934,161741,161797,161306,162747,162251,160738,157536,149907,162990,163144,163143,162594,161734,161484,161480,161713,145158,163029


January 7, 2005