GLib 2.5.5 released [unstable]

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.5.5 is now available for download at:

   ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/

glib-2.5.5.tar.gz       md5sum: a25e8973c8a1c9f1decfad87c8aaa0e7
glib-2.5.5.tar.bz2      md5sum: 726e86411df544b48cbd777530396a92


This is the sixth development release leading up to GLib-2.6.

Notes:

 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
   fairly extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of
   bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be
   used in production.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
   copy of GLib-2.4. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall GLib-2.4.7.

 * GLib-2.6 will be source and binary compatible with
   the GLib-2.4.x series; however, the new API additions
   in GLib-2.5.0 are not yet finalized, so there may
   be incompatibities between this release and the final
   2.6 release.

 * With this release, GLib enters a slush API freeze. There
   are still a few open API issues, but it is likely that
   many of them will be punted to 2.8. The remaining API
   issues for GLib-2.6 can be found with following Bugzilla
   query:

   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?
product=glib&target_milestone=2.6+API
+Freeze&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org


About GLib
==========

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

More information about GLib is available at:

 http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib, can
be found at:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html


Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.4 to GLib 2.5.5
=================================================
* GKeyFile
  - Cleanups, add more error checking [Ray Strode]
  - Fall back to the untranslated string when getting
    locale strings [Mark McLoughlin]
* GOption
  - Document GOption [Matthias Clasen]
  - Better support for rest arguments [Owen Taylor, Matthias]
  - Handle conflicts between groups [Matthias]
* Add g_lstat() to the stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist]
* Add g_filename_display_name() to convert filenames
  in displayable UTF-8 strings  [Alex Larsson, Matthias]
* Win32 bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Hans Breuer, Tor]
* Bug fixes [Christophe Fergeau, Morten Welinder,
  Owen, Kjartan Maraas, Mark]
* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Tor]


A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?
bug_id=156697,156652,156647,156725,156727,156767,156808,157014,156790,157038


November 2, 2004