Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1 ================================================= * Memory management - The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik] - g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod] - Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen] * Data structures - Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim] * Thread support - Support for Solaris threads has been removed [Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki] - g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked variants [Martyn Russell] * GObject: - The concept of a floating initial reference has been moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim] * Win32 changes: - Make g_rename() replace existing files [Tor Lillqvist] * Misc new API: - G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64 constants [Andrew Paprocki] - G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the compiler to emit a warning if the value returned by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson] - GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an extra user data argument [Martyn Russell] - g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim] * $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter] * Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad, Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki, Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec, Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman] * Documentation - Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias] - The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim] - Other improvements [Morten Welinder] * Bugs fixed: 321984,322133,322520,321972,323052,322568,136971,321318,321530,322956,145466,319535,321229,323178,323047,323291,323273