Re: GLib 2.24.0 released

[Joshua Lee <muzili gmail com>]

Hi All,
Will gdbus/gsettings package be included in future 2.24.x release?
Thanks.

Best regards,
Joshua

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> GLib 2.24.0 is now available for download at:
> 
>  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.24
>  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.24
> 
> sha256 sums:
> 7b6aa2cf21e734a6092a711bf196b8d2ddc589b971f93337610c10fa4f23400d
> glib-2.24.0.tar.bz2
> 579a668cef12e1db63ee15bbaccc2c9067aee095d85a5eafe4b9d8d4499febfc
> glib-2.24.0.tar.gz
> 
> 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 2.24 is a stable release adding an incremental improvement
> in functionality over GLib 2.22 while maintaining binary and
> source compatibility.
> 
> Major new features include:
> 
> * The requirements for g_thread_init() have been relaxed slightly,
>   it can be called multiple times, and does not have to be the first
>   call. GObject now links to GThread and threads are enabled
>   automatically when g_type_init() is called. Thread-safety issues
>   with boxed types in GObject have been fixed.  The -pthread flag
>   has been added to all gmodule .pc files, because it is not generally
>   permissible to load modules that are linked against libpthread if
>   the program has not been compiled with threading support.
> 
> * GType now has a G_DEFINE_INTERFACE convenience macro
> 
> * GIO supports lazy loading of GIO modules, and there is a new
>   gio-querymodule utility that goes along with this.
>   Packagers will need to adapt to this.
> 
> * GIO uses splice(2) to transfer data between file descriptors
>   without extraneous copies.
> 
> * The GVariant variant datatype has been added.
> 
> 
> For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the
> announcements of the 2.23.x development releases:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-November/msg00216.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-December/msg00072.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-January/msg00062.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-February/msg00022.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-February/msg00044.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-March/msg00039.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-March/msg00131.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 contributors, including
> Alberto Garcia, Alexander Larsson, Alex Larsson,
> Andre Klapper, Behdad Esfahbod, Benjamin Otte,
> Carlo Bramini, Christian Dywan, Christian Kellner,
> Christian Persch, Chris Wilson, Claudio Saavedra,
> Cody Russell, Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen,
> Dan Winship, Edward Hervey, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort,
> Felix Riemann, Fridrich Strba, Haakon Sporsheim,
> Hib Eris, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro,
> Javier Jardón, Jonh Wendell, Juan A. Suarez Romero,
> Kamal Mostafa, Krzesimir Nowak, Krzysztof Kosiński,
> Martin Pitt, Martyn Russell, Nicolas Setton,
> Paolo Bonzini, Paolo Borelli, Philip Withnall,
> Piotr Eljasiak, Priit Laes, River Tarnell,
> Ryan Lortie, Saleem Abdulrasool, Sebastian Dröge,
> Stefan Kost, Stéphane Démurget, Steve Grubb,
> Sven Herzberg, Thomas Kristensen, Tim-Philipp Müller,
> Tomas Bzatek, Vincent Untz, William Hua,
> Will Thompson, Xan Lopez
> 
> 
> March 27, 2010
> Matthias Clasen
> 
> 
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