GLib 2.18 is a stable release adding an incremental improvement in functionality over GLib 2.16 while maintaining binary and source compatibility.
glib-2.18.0.tar.bz2
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glib-2.18.0.tar.bz2
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Major new features include:
- Unicode 5.1 support
- Support for the latest version of the shared-mime specification, including icons for mime types and content types for volumes
- Improved internationalization support with g_dgettext(), g_dngettext() and NC_()
- Support for “subparsers” in GMarkup
- Support for emblems on icons
- GIO supports HTTP URIs on Windows
For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the announcements of the 2.17.x development releases: