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Support runtime font configuration changes
Use GIO for mime information
Use GIO directly for the file chooser, do not load filesystem implementation modules. This change causes some regressions on Win32, which will be addressed by improved Win32 support in GIO.
GTK+ no longer uses translations when the application is not translated to the current locale

20 bugs fixed in this release!

GLib 2.17.2 unstable release

This is the second development release leading up to GLib 2.18.

glib-2.17.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: 2df8550a229771859a791f20c56a47a8
glib-2.17.2.tar.gz md5sum: 34ed2b4c91edac39a0bc7aea9d4491fe

Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1

New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers for corresponding gettext functions with added functionality
Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including icons for mime types
New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()

28 bugs fixed in this release!

GTK+ 2.13.2 unstable release

This is the third development release leading up to GTK+ 2.14.

gtk+-2.13.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: 2db81ad8485e84d7a3c297fcfdf173bb
gtk+-2.13.2.tar.gz md5sum: 57b57fa871734b7e727ebf4a65d7df83

Changes from GTK+ 2.13.1 to 2.13.2

Fix an oversight in the header cleanup that went into 2.13.1, which removed gtkmarshal.h from the set of headers pulled in by gtk.h
Add a function to retrieve the XID of a status icon, to allow notification bubbles to follow the icon

8 bugs fixed in this release.

GTK+ 2.13.1 unstable release

GTK+ 2.13.1 is now available for download. This is the second development release leading up to GTK+ 2.14.

gtk+-2.13.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: 16f57400a352aadda4b19f95aed14d0c
gtk+-2.13.1.tar.gz md5sum: 19875a16e2b1db06ac4d0e9744f0c3a4

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.13.0 to 2.13.1

Add GtkMountOperation, a subclass of GMountOperation that can show password dialogs when mounting volumes

Add GDI+-based pixbuf loaders for bmp, emf, gif, ico, jpeg, tiff, wmf

Add support for pixmap redirection, new api includes the gtk_widget_get_snapshot() function and the GtkWidget::damage-event signal and the lower-level gdk_window_redirect_to_drawable() and gdk_window_remove_redirection() functions

Add gtk_show_uri(), a replacement for gnome_vfs_url_show() and gnome_url_show()

Add a “changed” signal to GtkCellRendererCombo

Sync keysyms and compose sequences with recent X.org

– supports custom stock icons
– supports Pango attributes in labels

– uses GIO to monitor .recently-used.xbel
– limits the growth of .recently-used.xbel with a gtk-recent-files-max-age setting

Filechooser autocompletion has been reworked

The cups print backend displays printer status information

On OS X, accelerators are displayed using Unicode characters, matching the native behaviour

GtkIconTheme and GtkImage support GIcon

Bugs fixed: too many to list here. For the complete list, go to

can be found here

GLib 2.17.0 unstable release

GLib 2.17.0 is now available for download. This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.18.

http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.17/

glib-2.17.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 03da0783697df2db187c76d1534b3d93
glib-2.17.0.tar.gz md5sum: b86660c1b7fa481f6b21bfba2e3ba2eb

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.16.x to GLib 2.17.0

Update to Unicode 5.1
Update included libcharset to the one shipped with libiconv 0.12
Update included PCRE to 7.7
Enforce that only toplevel headers are directly included. This is turned on by default for GObject and GIO. To turn it on for GLib, define G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
Fix library version of GIO. GLib 2.16 shipped with libgio-2.0.so.0.0.0
On Solaris, use FEN for file monitoring in GIO
Use the GIO_EXTRA_MODULES environment variable to find additional GIO modules
G_GNUC_ALLOC_SIZE: New macro that wraps the gcc alloc_size function attribute
g_checksum_reset: New function to reset the state of a GChecksum
g_unix_mount_monitor_set_rate_limit: New function to limit the rate at which events are reported
g_file_query_file_type: New utility function to query the type of a file
g_memory_output_stream_get_data_size: New function to obtain the size of the written data.

Bug fixes:

GNOME bug #522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
GNOME bug #523298 win_iconv can’t convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
GNOME bug #518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
GNOME bug #523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and other optimizations
GNOME bug #525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
GNOME bug #315437 extern inline -> static inline
GNOME bug #524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width alphanumerics into half width
GNOME bug #525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
GNOME bug #525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
GNOME bug #448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
GNOME bug #525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
GNOME bug #526619 make test-report crash
GNOME bug #491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
GNOME bug #519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
GNOME bug #528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
GNOME bug #530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
GNOME bug #528667 Typos in testing module documentation
GNOME bug #459905 Bug in wcwidth data
GNOME bug #534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
GNOME bug #501651 Update glib/libcharset
GNOME bug #519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
GNOME bug #534319 GLib’s .pc files could use Libs.private
GNOME bug #534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
GNOME bug #517419 gio win32 directory monitor
GNOME bug #526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy’s fallback
GNOME bug #530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn’t handle st_dev == 0
GNOME bug #532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
GNOME bug #525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
GNOME bug #526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
GNOME bug #528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
GNOME bug #535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should describe purpose of nick and blurb
GNOME bug #521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
GNOME bug #528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu …
GNOME bug #533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get “…
GNOME bug #521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
GNOME bug #521672 compile error
GNOME bug #521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
GNOME bug #522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: ‘ARG_MAX’ unde…
GNOME bug #523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
GNOME bug #523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
GNOME bug #523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
GNOME bug #524350 Make glib build without NLS again
GNOME bug #524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for …
GNOME bug #524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
GNOME bug #524950 Minor documentation typos.
GNOME bug #525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to…
GNOME bug #526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn’t have permiss…
GNOME bug #527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
GNOME bug #532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `…
GNOME bug #534759 Build failure in gio
GNOME bug #534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
GNOME bug #521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
GNOME bug #524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
GNOME bug #525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o…
GNOME bug #534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S…
GNOME bug #520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
GNOME bug #523039 nautilus can’t access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i…

New GTK+ tutorials

Jan Bodnar has published a tutorial for people interested in starting out with GTK+, describing the most common widgets you need to know when you write an application.
You can also find the link in the tutorials section on the GTK+ website together with other GTK+ tutorials.
Jan has also published a tutorial on Cairo that’s worth checking out.

Pango 1.21.0 unstable release

This is the first development release in yet another exciting cycle in Pango development, leading to Pango-1.22.0, which will be released just in time for GNOME-2.24.
pango-1.21.0.tar.bz2 md5: f0959c4b9b058ba9e4d13fc9086b7e7d
pango-1.21.0.tar.gz md5: ade9bf7e089c09e38c58f91fe084835d

Overview of changes between 1.20.0 and 1.20.1:

Update to Unicode Character Databse 5.1.0. This adds new entries to the PangoScript enum. Requires glib >= 2.16.3 for the update Unicode data there, but not bumping the requirement in a stable point release.
Try making our OS X stuff compile with latest cairo 1.5.x snapshots that renamed cairo-atsui to cairo-quartz-font, as well as older versions.
Minor bug fixes.

Notes:

This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production.
Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of Pango. If you have problems, you’ll need to reinstall Pango-1.20.x
Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

More info on Pango can be found on pango.org

Pango 1.20.0 stable release

This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.18, while maintaining source and binary compatibility.
The most notable new feature in this release is the addition of the pango_layout_set_height() API. See the NEWS file for an extensive list of improvements.
pango-1.20.0.tar.bz2 md5: f0959c4b9b058ba9e4d13fc9086b7e7d
pango-1.20.0.tar.gz md5: ade9bf7e089c09e38c58f91fe084835d

More info on Pango can be found on pango.org