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+Vala 0.51.1
+===========
+ * Highlights:
+  - Support "binding" to bind GtkCallback to class of given property [#1093]
+  - Add support for type narrowing [#894]
+  - Support chain up to simple generics constructor [#342]
+  - Perform runtime version check of libvala [#88]
+  - girparser: Handle anonymous delegate not backed by virtual-method or signal
+  - Add support for 'opaque' compact classes [#1129]
+  - Add further support for params arrays in constructors [#128]
+  - Improve handling of "NoWrapper" attribute
+  - Improve support of SimpleType struct constructors
+  - Use __attribute__ instead of G_GNUC_* in POSIX profile
+  - Add SDL 2.x bindings [#1032] amd drop SDL 1.x
+
+ * Various improvements and bug fixes:
+  - codegen:
+    + Improve GValueModule.visit_cast_expression()
+    + Drop obsolete dedicated handling of property value-parameter
+    + Apply CCodeModifiers.PRINTF to "string_printf" (POSIX)
+    + Allow CCode.type_cname for classes and use get_ccode_type_name()
+    + Always use G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS/INTERFACE for external symbols
+    + Also check array type of variable argument for ref parameters
+    + Don't leak array memory after it was implicitly copied
+    + Use g_boxed_free in free-wrapper for heap-allocated GLib.Value
+    + Don't leak GLib.Value when implicitly unboxing it
+    + Don't leak memory moving heap-allocated struct to stack
+    + Chain up to base struct destroy function
+    + Use g_memdup2 if target glib >= 2.68 is set
+    + Replace "g_memdup" with "_vala_memdup2" for target glib < 2.68
+    + Correctly retrieve symbol_reference of nested cast expressions [#1134]
+    + Strip all nested occurances of CCodeCastExpression [#1134]
+  - vala:
+    + Improve detection of duplicate package source files
+    + GtkChild fields/properties must be declared as unowned [#1121]
+    + Don't allow assigning GtkChild fields/properties [#1121]
+    + Apply stricter condition for lambda to delegate assignment
+    + Don't allow disposable SimpleType structs
+    + Rename Loop to LoopStatement and introduce a common base class
+    + GLib.Value unboxing returns unowned value
+    + Don't allow GLib.Value casting to nullable struct/simple types
+    + Add Block.unreachable_exit and have it set by FlowAnalyzer [#838]
+    + Convert Report.*() to real printf-like functions
+    + Avoid taking extra reference of foreach collection for index iteration
+    + Make sure parent_symbol for special async parameters is available
+    + Require a valid DataType instance for every TargetValue
+  - girparser:
+    + Minor improvement to field getter detection
+    + Apply "delegate_target" metadata for methods and parameters
+    + Apply "destroy_notify_cname" metadata for fields
+    + Apply "type_get_function" metadata for classes and inferfaces
+    + Set CCode.type_cname for classes if it doesn't match our default
+  - girwriter: Infer gir_namespace/version from target GIR filename [#606]
+  - girwriter: Write instance-parameter elements [#1128]
+  - libvaladoc/html: Don't sort struct fields to keep their original order
+  - libvaladoc: Correctly retrieve value for Api.Class.is_compact
+  - libvaladoc: Add wrapper for "agedge" of graphviz
+  - valadoc: Correctly set verbose flag on CodeContext
+  - valadoc: Replace png icons with elementary's svg version
+
+ * Bindings:
+  - Add enchant-2 bindings for Enchant 2.x
+  - Add gnu.vapi with binding for getopt_long() and some other GNU APIs
+  - Add libunwind-generic binding
+  - Fix several bindings which lead to invalid code by using them in:
+    cairo, gobject-2.0, pango, goocanvas-2.0, curses, alsa, bzlib, sqlite3,
+    libgvc, posix, gstreamer-1.0, gdk-3.0, gdk-x11-3.0, gtk+-3.0, gtk4,
+    fuse, libxml-2.0
+  - curses: Remove initial “w” from some Window method names for consistency
+  - gdk-pixbuf-2.0: Fix Pixbuf.save_to_streamv_async()
+  - gdk-pixbuf-2.0: Update to 2.42.3~
+  - gio-2.0: Fix binding of PollableOutputStream.write*_nonblocking()
+  - gio-2.0,gtk+-3.0,gtk4: Drop explicit c-type attributes of va_list parameters
+  - gio-2.0: Pick up missing invoker for some AppInfo/File.*() methods
+  - gio-2.0: Update to 2.67.3
+  - glib-2.0: Add GLib.[S]List.is_empty() convenience methods for non-null
+  - glib-2.0: Add new symbols from 2.68
+  - glib-2.0: Bind assert_cmp* functions [#395]
+  - glib-2.0: Improve type of OptionEntry.flags field
+  - glib-2.0: Make PtrArray a subclass of GenericArray
+  - gobject-2.0: Add new symbols from 2.68
+  - gstreamer-1.0: Set CCode.type_id of MiniObject to G_TYPE_BOXED [#1133]
+  - gstreamer: Update from 1.19.0+ git master
+  - gtk+-2.0,javascriptcoregtk-4.0: Wrong usage of CCode.type_cname attribute
+  - gtk+-3.0,gtk4: Fix some delegate return values and parameters
+  - gtk4: Update to 4.1.0+2712f536
+  - posix: Add POSIX, GNU and BSD Regex APIs
+  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.31.1
+
 Vala 0.50.3
 ===========
  * Various improvements and bug fixes: