Overview of changes for 1.4

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• Use Meson as the only build system

• #773504 - Avoid extra allocations [Garrett Regier]

• #780550 - meson error looking for python3 [Daniele Forghieri]

• #769206 - docs: Clarify when NULL might be returned [Matthew Leeds]

• #766281 - utils/json_from_string: Don't reset user-provided error

            argument [Heinrich Fink]

• #758580 - json_reader_is_value returns TRUE for null type but

            json_reader_get_value throws an error [Robert Ancell]

• #768788 - Incorrect account of jsonPath syntax in doc [Allin Cottrell]

• #774688 - json_from_string() could be optimized to avoid copying the

            root node [Ole André Vadla Ravnås]

Overview of changes for 1.2

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• Add simple wrapper functions for JsonGenerator and JsonParser to

  write and read a string from and to a JsonNode, respectively

• Drop use of deprecated GIO API

• Bump the dependency on GLib to 2.46

• Do not create `null` nodes for empty strings [#730803]

• Documentation fixes [Philip Withnall - #754384]

• Avoid crashes in the test suite [Iain Lane - #755977]

• Add simple iterator object for JSON objects [Philip Withnall - #755509]

• Detect missing commas in arrays

• Add support for g_auto* macros

• Allow making JSON types optionally immutable, in order to allow

  efficient hashing and equality tests [Philip Withnal - #756121]

• Improve the build under MSVC [Chun-wei Fan]

• Add Meson build system [Thibault Saunier - #773603]

• Support Visual Studio 2017 [Chun-wei Fan]

• Allow using G_DECLARE_INTERFACE with JsonSerializable

• Allow empty strings as JsonObject member names [Dr. David Alan Gilbert - #747279]

Overview of changes for 1.0

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• Bump the dependency on GLib to 2.38

• Use the TAP driver for the test suite

• Improve the syntax validation in JsonPath

• Validate the JsonParser input to be UTF-8

• Add command line tools for validating and formatting JSON

• Improve documentation

Overview of changes for 0.16.0

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• Fixes for building with VisualStudio. [Chun-wei Fan]

• Allow out-of-tree builds. [Colin Walters]

• Bump the dependency on GLib to 2.31.

• Use the new deprecation system provided by GLib.

• Simplify the value handling inside JsonNode.

• Use lcov to generate coverage reports for the test suite.

• Check expected ABI when building.

• Drop dependency on gnome-autogen.sh when building from Git.

Overview of changes for 0.14.0

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• Documentation fixes

• Bump the dependency on GLib to 2.26

• Allow building on Windows using VisualStudio [Chun-wei Fan]

• Add JSON ↔ GVariant translation [Eduardo Lima Mitev]

• Improve sanity checks when (de)serializing GObject

  properties [Tristan Van Berkom]

• Add missing introspection annotations [Luca Bruno]

• Add JsonReader.list_members()

• Allow using JsonReader.read_element() on JSON objects

• Remove all G_CONST_RETURN usage after the deprecation

• Allow JsonSerializable to override the introspection and

  modification of properties

• Add i18n support for GError messages

• Do not serialize GObject properties that match their default

  values.

• Make JsonReader perform a stricter validation especially when using

  the strongly typed accessors.

Overview of changes for 0.12.0

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• Support surrogate pairs in JSON strings [Eiichi Sato]

• Update the test suite

• Add (optional) coverage reports

• Improve strictness of JsonParser

• Improve error reporting of JsonParser

• Add JsonBuilder, a convenience API for programmatic building

  of JSON trees [Luca Bruno]

• Add methods for JsonParser and JsonGenerator to handle Input|OutputStream

  objects coming from GIO.

• Add JsonReader, a convenience API for cursor-based parsing of

  JSON trees

• Depend on GObject-Introspection ≥ 0.9.5

Overview of changes for 0.10.0

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• Fix generation of doubles [Cornelius Hald]

• Add more units to the test suite

• Add JsonNode macros for quick type checking

• Guarantee insertion order when parsing and generating JSON Objects

• Serialize GParamSpecObject properties

• Add serialization and deserialization for GBoxed types

• Add API for serializing GObjects to, and deserializing from, JsonNode

• Build environment fixes

• Documentation fixes

• Generate correct introspection data

• Make JsonSerializable in complete control of deserialization [Tristan Van

  Berkom]

Overview of changes for 0.8.0

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* Remove the in-tree Vala bindings: they are part of Vala, now

* Remove the in-tree Debian packaging

* Fix bug #958: JsonGenerator does not escape special characters

* Fix bug #965: Conditionally compile the test suite

* Display the filename and line inside the error messages when

  loading from a file

* Fix bug #1203: Correctly terminate a string array

* Fix bug #1393: Regression tests fail on OpenBSD

* Do not leak memory on error code paths

* Improve and clean up the build system

* Make JsonNode completely opaque

* Conditionally generate introspection data on build

* Fix bug #1353: Do not overwrite when copying

* Deprecate json_object_add_member()

* Add convenience accessors for JsonObject and JsonArray

* Add convenience iteration functions for JsonObject and JsonArray

* Automatically promote integers to gint64, to compensate for the

  lack of integer size in the JSON specificiation

* Disallow the inclusion of single header files: only json-glib,h

  and json-gobject.h can be included directly

* Documentation fixes

* Clean up and remove code duplication inside the Parser object

Overview of changes for 0.6.0

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* Allow deserialization of strings into enum and flag types

* Add the :indent-char property to JsonGenerator

* Add functions to retrieve copies of the nodes inside Object and Array

* Fix leaks and invalid accesses

* Use the right type for the buffer length parameter in JsonParser

* Provide a default implementation for JsonSerializable

* Provide our own JSON tokenizer (using GScanner) for the JSON-only

  features that would have been lost by using GScanner

* Add a fully automated test suite, using the GTest framework

* Allow 'null' nodes to return a value without warnings

* Add support for parsing Unicode characters escaped using \uXXXX

* Make the deserialization of G_TYPE_STRV properties more robust

* Export the public symbols only

* Provide GTypes for the enumerations

* Avoid a warning when trying to copy an empty JsonNode

* Fix gtk-doc cross-references with GLib and GObject documentation

Overview of changes for 0.4.0

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* Support parsing of negative numbers

* Fix parse error propagation and message

* More parser sanity checks

* GObject deserialization support

* Detect and parse JSON masked as a JavaScript assignment

* Allow using JsonNode with GObject properties and signals

* Add JsonGenerator:root property