Category: Unstable

GLib 2.21.0 unstable release

This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.22.

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.20.x

  • GIO
    • New helper functions g_cancellable_connect/disconnect to avoid race conditions when connecting to the “cancelled” signal on GCancellable.
    • New types and methods for dealing with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (and UNIX domain socket addresses under UNIX). This does not include code for actual socket I/O.
    • GResolver provides asynchronous and cancellable APIs for resolving hostnames, reverse lookup of IP addresses and resolving SRV records.
  • Glib now provides hash and comparison functions for int64 and double types, suitable for use with GHashTable.
  • GArray, GPtrArray and GByteArray can be ref counted now, and have boxed types.

14 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.15.5 unstable release

Yet another development release leading up to GTK+ 2.16.

Changes from GTK+ 2.15.4:

  • GtkAction: Rename gtk_activatable_reset to gtk_activatable_sync_action_properties to make it easier to bind
  • GDK: The DirectFB backend has been restored to basic function
  • GDK: The RANDR support in the X11 backend has been made more robust
  • Changes that are relevant for theme authors: GtkEntry now has a ::progress-border property and use fg/bg[SELECTED] for drawing progress

    • 32 bugs fixed in this release!
    See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GLib 2.19.10 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GLib 2.20.

Changes from GLib 2.19.8

  • GMarkup: Considerable speedup
  • GIO: Add G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION flag to allow replacing the destination of a copying operation as if it did not exit before.
  • GIO: Be more careful when classifying files as desktop files
  • GIO: Support desktop file key X-GIO-NoFuse which disables the use of fuse pathnames for %u and %U arguments

    • 16 bugs fixed in this release!

    See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.15.4 unstable release

This is another development release leading up to GTK+ 2.16.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.15.3

  • GtkAction: More compatibility fixes to make PolicyKit-gnome work
  • GtkFileChooserButton: Don’t emit file-set when the dialog is canceled. But emit it when a file is received via DND
  • GDK: Use Xrandr 1.3 for tracking monitor information, if available

    • 13 bugs fixed in this release!

    Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.15.3 unstable release

This is the third development release leading up to GTK+ 2.16.
8 bugs fixed in this release!

  • General:
    • Keyboard shortcut handling has been changed, to help with a longstanding complaint about the way GTK+ handles multiple layouts. GTK+ now only uses keys from groups other than the current group if they are not present in the current group. Feedback on this change is appreciated.

Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GLib 2.19.6 unstable release

This is the sixth development release leading up to GLib 2.20.
7 bugs fixed in this release!

  • General
    • New format macro to print goffset data: G_OFFSET_FORMAT
  • GIO:
    • Add a GFilter{Input,Output}Stream::close-base-stream properties which determine whether the base stream will be closed when the filter stream is finalized.
    • g_data_input_stream_read_line and …_read_until have asynchronous variants now.

Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.15.2 unstable release

This is the second development release leading up to GTK+ 2.16.
4 bugs fixed in this release!

  • GtkAction:
    • Make toolitems pick up icon names from actions
    • Draw proxies of radio actions properly
    • Make menu proxies of recent actions work
    • Avoid accidental activations when changing actions on proxies
    • Make derived button classes work as proxies
  • Input methods
    • Avoid an assertion due to early use of input methods
  • GtkScale
    • Avoid a segfault in the marker drawing code
  • GtkImageMenuItem
    • Add a property to override the show-menu-images setting

Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.15.1 unstable release

This is the first development release leading up to GTK+ 2.16.
35 bugs fixed in this release!

  • GtkFileChooser:
    • Remember the file chooser’s size across invocations
    • Handle uris that are entered in the entry
    • Improve autocompletion, in particular for uris
  • GtkEntry:
    • New property “im-module” for selecting input methods per-widget
    • New icon-related API got renamed for consistency
    • Added properties and setters for icon tooltips
  • GtkTextView:
    • New property “im-module” for selecting input methods per-widget
    • New signal “paste-done” to allow better handling of async pasting
  • GtkScale:
    • New api to add annotated marks: gtk_scale_add_mark.
  • GtkAction:
    • Rework the way actions and proxies interact, to make the interaction less ad hoc, more extensible, and better suited for support in GUI builders like glade. To be used as a proxy, a widget must now implement the GtkActivatable interface, and GtkActivatable implementations are responsible for syncing their appearance with the action and for activating the action. All the widgets that are commonly used as proxies implement GtkActivatable now. This is a big change, and it is not unlikely to break some current users of GtkAction, so feedback about problems caused by this is appreciated.
    • Add a “gicon” property to specify the icon with a GIcon
  • GDK:
    • On X11, GDK now caches cursors to avoid cursor theming overhead
    • New cursor type for blank cursors: GDK_BLANK_CURSOR
  • New deprecations:
    • gtk_scale_Button_get_orientation()
    • gtk_scale_button_set_orientation()
    • gtk_action_connect_proxy()
    • gtk_action_disconnect_proxy()
    • gtk_widget_get_action()
    • gtk_action_block_activate_from()
    • gtk_action_unblock_activate_from()
    • direct access to “gtk-action” object data
  • Changes that are relevant for translators:
    • Navigation and Media stock labels have separate message contexts now
    • The caps lock warning string has been changed

Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.