Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.1 to GLib 2.9.2 ================================================= * Memory management: - Add tests for cache colorization [Tim Janik] - Minimize space consumption if small amounts of differently sized slices are allocated, at a small performance cost. [Tim] * Thread support: - Add g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set() [Tim Janik, Sebastian Wilhelmi] - Add g_thread_pool_set_sort_function() to allow sorting the tasks of a threadpool. [Martyn Russell] - Add g_thread_pool_set_idle_time() to allow unused threads to exit after a certain time. [Martyn] * Type system: - introduce a new type GInitiallyUnowned, which has an initial floating reference. [Tim] - Add support for GType parameters. [Matthias] * Main loop: - Add g_main_context_is_owner() to determine if the current thread is the owner of the context. [Michael Meeks] * Provide g_access(), g_chdir(), g_unlink(), g_rmdir() as wrapper functions instead of macros. [Manish Singh] * Documentation improvements [Tim, Matthias, Federico Mena Quintero, Stefan Kasal, Dan Williams] * New and updated translations (en_CA,fi,fr,gl,ml,nb,no,zh_HK,zh_TW) * Bugs fixed: 324179 g_allocator_new() returns pointer to const dummy which Gtk+ 2.8 tries to modify [J. Ali Harlow] 324332 g_option_context_parse() returns false without setting error [Tim-Philipp Müller] 324950 GLIB 2.9.1 testcase errors [Dan Yefimov] 325015 gslice.c: process.h is needed on Windows [Kazuki Iwamoto] 321978 G_DATALIST_GET_FLAGS() macro is not casting datalist to gpointer [Andrew Paprocki] 316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing [Michal Benes, Stanislav Brabec] 325273 Error in documentation for glib_check_version () [Declan Naughton] 325310 g_spawn_sync hangs when catching both stdout and stderr [Tor Lillqvist] 325249 gcc warning when using g_rmdir from [Jani Monoses] 325864 glib/gthreadpool.c:"#define debug(...)" is C99 [Kazuki Iwamoto] 325874 Should say somewhere that source IDs are > 0 [Dan Williams] 325438 a typo (compatability) [Stefan Kasal] 323937 gslice.c in glib 2.9.1 doesn't build on Mac OS X [Bogdan Nicula]