ANNOUNCE: glibmm 2.46.0

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** glibmm:

glibmm 2.46 wraps glib 2.44

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

Changes in 2.46 compared to 2.44:

General:
* Use, and require C++11, using features such as move operations, noexcept
  auto, = delete, nulltpr, override.
  (Murray Cumming, Kjell Ahlstedt))

Glib::
* RefPtr:
  - Make it possible to stop use of RefPtr with certain classes.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
  - Make methods noexcept (C++11).
  (Murray Cumming)
  - Add move operations.
  (Murray Cumming, Marcin Kolny, Kjell Ahlstedt)
  * Add release():
  (Marcin Kolny)
* ObjectBase: Don't use std::auto_ptr (deprecated in C++11).
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* ObjectBase, Object, Interface, IOChannel, Markup: Add move operations
  (Murray Cumming) Add C++11 move operations.
  (Murray Cumming)
* HelperList: fix iterator check in operator[]
  (Maks Naumov)
* Add SettingsSchema, SettingsSchemaKey and SettingsSchemaSource.
  (Murray Cumming)
* Add Glib::format_size().
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Add get_user_special_dir(UserDirectory), deprecating 
  get_user_special_dir(GUserDirectory directory).
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Threads::Thread: Use GThread only via a pointer.
  Kjell Ahlstedt
* VariantBase: Add is_castable_to().
* VariantContainerBase: get_iter(): Accept casts of complicated types
  containing object paths and DBus type signatures to Variant<> types
  containing Glib::ustring and std::string.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Variant: Wrap handles and add get_data_as_bytes()
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Added SignalProxyDetailed.

Gio:
* Application: Add the shutdown signal.
  (Murray Cumming)
* NetworkMonitor: Add get_network_metered() and property.
  (Murray Cumming)
* Settings: Add signal_changed(key).
  (Kjell Ahlstedt, Murray Cumming)
* Added SimpleIOStream.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* SocketService: Add active property.
  (Murray Cumming)
* TlsClientConnection: Add copy_session_state().
  (Murray Cumming)

Gio::Dbus:
* Connection::signal_subscribe(): Pass nullptr instead of "".
  (Murray Cumming)

gmmproc:
* Generate C++11 move operations.
  (Murray Cumming)
* Mark all _CLASS_OPAQUE_REFCOUNTED classes as final (C++11).
  (Murray Cumming)
* generate_wrap_init.pl: Allow use of nested namespaces for whole module.
  (Marcin Kolny)
* _WRAP_METHOD: deprecated: Use G_GNUC_[BEGIN|END]_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
  per function, instead of one big undef [G|GDK|GTK]_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Add _IGNORE_PROPERTY() and _IGNORE_CHILD_PROPERTY() macros.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Add support for 'newin "n,m"' in some _WRAP macros.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* _WRAP_SIGNAL: Add support for detail_name.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Fetch property documentation from the docs.xml file, if available there.
  (Kjell Ahlstedt)

Build:
* MSVC Builds: Many improvements
  (Chun-wei Fan)
* Add missing GLIBMM_API for Interface
  (Mikhail Titov)



-- 
Murray Cumming
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