GLib 2.29.4

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GLib 2.29.4 is now available for download at:

  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.29/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.29/

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glib-2.29.4.tar.gz
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glib-2.29.4.tar.bz2

The is another development snapshot of the 2.29 series.


Overview of changes from GLib 2.29.2 to 2.29.4
==============================================

* GDBus:
 - Includes several new types to support modeling D-Bus
   objects and interfaces more fully, and also introduces
   an 'object manager' pattern:
   GDBusInterface, GDBusObject, GDBusObjectManager
   These interfaces have client-side implementations:
   GDBusProxy, GDBusObjectProxy, GDBusObjectManagerClient
   And server-side implementations:
   GDBusInterfaceSkeleton, GDBusObjectSkeleton, GDBusObjectManagerServer
 - The new gdbus-codegen utility uses these new classes
   to generate C code and documentation from D-Bus interface
   descriptions in XML

* GTest:
 - There is now a g_test_fail() function to mark
   tests as failed

* GDesktopAppInfo
 - Now has a binding-friendly filename property
 - Other new API to more fully expose desktop file contents:
   g_desktop_app_info_get_categories(),
   g_desktop_app_info_get_generic_name()

* GHashTable:
 - Several optimizations to reduce space consumption of
   large hash tables, in particular tables that are used
   to store sets.

* Unix-specific APIs:
  GLib now installs a separate header, glib-unix.h, that is
  meant to collect Unix-specific APIs. For now, it contains
  g_unix_open_pipe(), g_unix_set_fd_non_blocking() for dealing
  with pipes and fds, as well as APIs to create mainloop
  sources which can trigger callbacks on certain Unix
  signals (SIGTERM, SIGHUP, SIGINT).

* Bugs fixed:
 631379 GDBus nonce-tcp test failing
 632631 GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion...
 635694 gdbus aborting due to unauthorized socket in DBUS_...
 637561 Crash when using G_DBUS_SERVER_FLAGS_RUN_IN_THREAD
 642935 g_date_time_format() prints wrong value for %z...
 643134 g_dbus_message_copy
 644941 glib-unix: New Unix-specific API
 646013 g_hash_table_remove_all_nodes optimization
 646309 glib cannot be cross-compilled for mingw32
 646435 GTimeZone doesn't seem to be thread-safe
 646957 GIO chained calls don't work with a thread default context
 647594 README link to mailing list is broken
 647602 Cannot connect to remote message bus via TCP
 647746 The GSocketService documentation is incomplete.
 647826 API: gtester: Add g_test_fail()
 647903 GDesktopAppInfo: Add g_desktop_app_info_get_categories()
 648416 g_app_info_create_from_commandline ignores SUPPORTS_...
 648423 Support G_DEBUG=trap-warnings
 648425 GDesktopAppInfo: Add "filename" property for bindings
 648966 Update g_unichar_iswide and g_unichar_iswide_cjk

* Updated translations
 Norwegian bokmål
 Spanish
 Turkish
 Uighur


Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release:
Ryan Lortie
Colin Walters
David Zeuthen
Kean Johnston
Simon McVittie
Michael Kuhn
Benjamin Otte
Dan Winship
Thomas Hindoe Paboel Andersen
Chun-wei Fan
Michael Terry
Christian Persch
Murray Cumming
Maciej Piechotka
David Schleef
Shaun McCance
Alexander Larsson
Behdad Esfahbod
Morten Welinder
Ray Strode


May 4, 2011
Matthias Clasen