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+New API in glibmm 2.28:
+(There was no stable glibmm 2.26 release)
+
+Glib:
+* Variant: A new hierarchy of templated Variant<> types, for use with
+  Gio::Settings and Gio::DBus.
+  (José Alburquerque, Yannick Guesnet, Murray Cumming)
+* OptionGroup:
+  - Add add_entry() that takes a slot with callback function.
+  - on_post_parse() overrides no longer need to call the base class.
+  (Kjell Ahlstedt)
+* RefPtr: Make it work with sorted containers.
+  (David Kozub)
+* Regex: Added and used a MatchInfo class.
+  (José Alburquerque)
+* General:
+  - build_filename(): Add method overloads to take up to 9 arguments,
+  for convenience.
+  (Fabricio Godoy)
+  - Added get_system_data_dirs() and get_system_config_dirs().
+  (Murray Cumming)
+
+Gio:
+* Proxy, ProxyAddress and ProxyResolver.
+  (Murray Cumming)
+* Settings: For application settings, replacing GConf (or Gnome::Conf).
+  (Jonathon Jongsmam, José Alburquerque, Murray Cumming)
+* DBus: API to use or implement D-Bus services.
+  (José Alburquerque, Yannick Guesnet, Michael Edwards,
+  Martin Braure de Calignon and Murray Cumming.)
+* SocketControlMessage, UnixCredentialsMessage and UnixFDMessage.
+  (José Alburquerque)
+* Added UnixFDList.
+  (José Alburquerque)
+
+gmmproc:
+* Support for use of std::vector<> instead of ListHandle<>, SListHandle<>,
+and ArrayHandle.
+(Krzesimir Nowak)
+
+See also this list of new API:
+http://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/unstable/since_2_28.html
+
+Gio::DBus, Glib::Variant and Gio::Settings were a huge amount of difficult
+work mostly by José Alburquerque, with help from Jonathon Jongsmam,
+Yannick Guesnet, Michael Edwards, Martin Braure de Calignon and Murray Cumming.
+Some of José Alburquerque's work was funded by Openismus GmbH.
+Thank you, everyone.
+
+
 2.28.0 (unstable):
 
 Gio:
@@ -62,7 +112,7 @@ Gio:
 
 Glib:
 * Correct some range checks to use >= instead of just >.
-  (MUrray Cumming) Thanks to Michael Edwards.
+  (Murray Cumming) Thanks to Michael Edwards.
 * Vectorutils, ArrayHandle: Check for NULL pointers.
   (Krzesimir Nowak)
 
@@ -223,7 +273,7 @@ Glib:
 * RefPtr: Make it work with sorted containers.
   (David Kozub) Bug #626858
 * Variant:
-  - Make all he get_iter() methods const.
+  - Make all the get_iter() methods const.
   - Added dictionary entry and dictionary specializations.
   - VariantContainerBase: Add a create() method from an array of variants.
   - Added tests.