Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.1:

* g_realloc() fix for SunOS (please report further problems).

* Continued the never ending fix vendetta regarding getpwuid(),

  this time AIX has been the culprit.

* Upgrade to libtool 1.2f

* Miscellaneous other buglets fixed.

What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x):

* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+

* Win32 Portability

* Threading support

* GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic

  object code loading facilities in a portable manner

* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism

* GQuarks and datasets

* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data

* An n-way tree implementation

* GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations

* GAllocator type and associated functions

* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)

* Generic functions for TAB completions

* Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)

* g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels

* Generic main-loop mechanism

* New glib-config helper script

* Many more API extensions

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16:

* Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes

* Bug Fixes

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15:

* HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work

* Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and

  check() so it is not held over user code

* A few Win32 fixups

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:

* Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl

* FreeBSD portability fixes

* Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:

* Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.

* Improved thread related configure tests.

* GSource destruction fixups.

* Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.

* Advanced Win32 portability.

* Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,

  loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well

  as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.

* GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4

  and GNU libtool 1.2d.

* Lots of random portability and bug fixes.

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:

* Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,

  g_new_a, g_new0_a

* New tests structure.  Type 'make check' on your system to run them.

* Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:

* provide defaults for POLL sysdefs

* g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted

* a few other enhancement/fixes

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:

* Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this

* For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better

* Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:

* Added threading support

  - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for

    locking at runtime.

  - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,

    Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.

  - All static variables should now properly locked.

  - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.

    (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)

* Portability fixes.

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:

* Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:

* New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)

* New GAllocator type and associated functions

* New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all

  its data pointers.

* New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to

  insert elements at an arbitrary index

* GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations

* Incremental freezing in ghash

* New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after

  they got marshalled

* Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface

* Added generic main-loop abstraction

* Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants

* Bug fixes

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:

* Win32 portability

* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism 

* Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86

* New functions:

  - g_strescape: escapes backslashes

  - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root

  - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references 

    to other environment variables

  - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current

    buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer

  - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order

  - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted

  - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order 

  - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted

  - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index

  - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast

  - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp

  - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists

* New macros:

  - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name

    syntax elements

  - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant

    search path syntax conventions

  - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling

    structure fields through their offsets

* Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros

* Bug fixes

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:

* Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)

* New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)

* New string join/split/free routines 

* Fixes

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 ;)

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:

* Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1

* fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest

What is new in GLib 1.1.1:

* An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.

* Bugfix for pointer arrays.

What is new in GLib 1.1.0:

* GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated

  shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary

  incompatibilities.

* There is a glib-config helper script installed now.

* Fixups all over the place.

* gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.

* API extensions for GList and GSList.

* New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.

* GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.

* Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.

* Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data

  mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).

* More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.

* Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type

  gconstpointer.

* Generic functions for TAB completions.

* GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.