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authorRyan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>2013-11-11 23:09:11 -0500
committerRyan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>2013-11-12 00:05:09 -0500
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+Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.0 to GLib 2.39.1
+====================================================
+
+ * GSettings fixes/improvements
+
+ - GSettingsSchema API is now more powerful and consistent
+
+ - new GSettingsSchemaKey API allows accessing metadata for keys:
+ type, default value, range and the long-awaited support for summary
+ and description
+
+ - GSettingsSchemaSource gains support for listing schemas within a
+ source. Deprecate the global API that did this for the default
+ source.
+
+ - 'gsettings list-schemas' now works properly with --schemadir
+
+ - deprecate a bunch of now-redundant functionality on GSettings
+
+ - add API to GSettings for getting the default value of a key (as set
+ by the sysadmin)
+
+ - add API to GSettings for determining if the user has assigned a
+ particular value to a key (ie: we are not just reading the default)
+
+ - ignore qualified tags and attributes appearing in schema files
+
+ * Applications/Actions
+
+ - make GSimpleAction a bit more strict with respect to state changes
+ that would violate the interface (ie: by changing the state type
+ after construction)
+
+ - throw an error when attempting to 'Describe' a non-existent action
+ via D-Bus instead of returning a bogus description
+
+ - throw an error when attempting to invoke unsupported methods on an
+ Application (eg: 'Open' on an app that doesn't HANDLES_OPEN)
+ instead of emitting a g_critical() in context of the app (which is
+ not itself at fault for the errant call)
+
+ * Appinfo
+
+ - substantially rework GDesktopAppInfo to reduce the amount of disk
+ accesses that are performed in common situations
+
+ - add a new class: GAppInfoMonitor for discovering when applications
+ are installed/removed
+
+ - add a new g_desktop_app_info_search() API for searching for
+ installed applications by name, keywords, etc.
+
+ * GMarkup: add new G_MARKUP_IGNORE_QUALIFIED flag for skipping over
+ "qualified" tags and attributes (those with a colon in the name, such
+ as 'my:tag')
+
+ * GDBus
+
+ - ignore qualified tags, as above
+
+ - GTestDBus: unset all D-Bus addresses (such as STARTER) to ensure
+ that test programs don't pick them up
+
+ - add new session_bus_run() convenience in the tests and use it
+
+ * GRand: use real random data as a seed on win32 and use the
+ timestamp/pid/uid fallback only on UNIX machines where we can't open
+ '/dev/urandom'. This may cause issues with older mingw32 releases
+ due to a missing prototype for the rand_s() API.
+
+ * Many win32 (and particularly MSVC) portability fixes. Many
+ additional tests are now runnable when building with MSVC.
+
+ * Due to early testing of the (soon to land) GCleanup framework, a very
+ large number of memory errors have been found and fixed (mostly in
+ the testcases, but some in glib itself).
+
+ * GIO:
+
+ - some more seeking cleanups: particularly on GLocalFileInputStream
+
+ - don't leave a .trashinfo file around if trashing a file fails
+
+ - Add a request_certificate virtual method to GTlsInteraction
+
+Translations updated:
+ Assamese
+ Galician
+ Greek
+ Spanish
+ Tamil
+
+Bugs fixed:
+ 635641 schema compiler should ignore unknown attributes
+ 637257 g_tls_client_connection_gnutls_retrieve_function needs to be able to block
+ 637956 GKeyfileSettingsBackend should ignore file deletions
+ 645453 keys from base schema missing from extended schema
+ 665634 g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml() errors on unknown attributes in XML files
+ 668232 Unable to get description and summary for a key
+ 668233 Unable to determine if a key is set to the default / what the default value is
+ 680838 Need g_settings_schema_source_get_schemas()
+ 683017 API for accessing GSettings Schema metadata
+ 687185 org.gtk.Actions.Describe doesn't return an error for non-existing action names
+ 687202 If trashing fails, the ".trashinfo" file is not removed
+ 695558 The --schemadir option has no effect
+ 696424 GSimpleAction.state property is not right
+ 697348 GTestDBus should unset DBUS_STARTER_ADDRESS, DBUS_STARTER_BUS_TYPE
+ 710133 Emit backward compatible code with gdbus-codegen
+ 710691 glib-networking: locking during implicit handshake
+ 710738 GRand has lame fallback for Windows
+ 710859 Typo in gio docs
+ 710885 Two fixes for GApplication
+ 710962 error: 'F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC' undeclared (first use in this function)
+ 710964 Add g_hash_table_get_key_array()
+ 710991 test: g_debug messages shouldn't affect g_assert_expected_messages
+ 711016 g_settings_list_keys () segfaults for empty schemas
+ 711048 glocalfileinputstream.c allows skip past end of file
+ 711049 Fix build of GLib-GIO 2.39.x on Windows/MSVC
+ 711064 Adding child source to blocked source can cause a segfault
+ 711070 Copying a symlink over another one segfaults
+ 711099 gapplication test failure
+ 711520 GDesktopAppInfo: allow more than one level of legacy folder prefixes
+ 711556 Add GAppInfoMonitor
+ 711557 Add g_desktop_app_info_search()
+ 711600 trivial portability fix
+ 711632 The desktop-app-info test fails during make check
+ 711754 gmain: Fix use of uninitialized memory in sigaction structure
+ 711755 private: Use threading primitives correctly in private test
+ 711756 gthreadpool: Don't pass bad data to GThreadPool sorter
+ 711768 Fix memory leaks in libgmodule tests
+ 711775 utils: Don't free memory owned by glib in test
+ 711782 boxed: Fix double free in boxed unit tests
+ 711803 gsubprocess: Fix a number of leaks and a segfault
+ 711808 gtestdbus: Fix leak of GMainLoop
+
Overview of changes from GLib 2.38.0 to GLib 2.39.0
====================================================