GTK+ 2.17.2 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.1

  • GtkInfoBar: A new widget to show a transient ‘message area’ inside a content pane. The API is similar to GtkDialog and supports theming for different message types (warnings, errors, etc)
  • GtkFileChooser:

    • Improve path bar by ellipsizing long names and preventing vertical size changes
    • Backup files are now hidden by default
    • GTK+ remembers the file chooser sorting state now
  • GtkButtonBox: Implements the GtkOrientable interface now.
  • Printing: GTK+ supports printing an application-defined ‘selection’ now, in addition to usual page ranges.
  • Changes that are relevant for theme authors:

    • The new GtkInfoBar widget uses symbolic colors for theming its background color depending on the message type. By default, it uses the same background color as tooltips. This can be turned off with style property.
    • The GTK+ file chooser (as well as nautilus and other users of GIO icon information) can now show different icons for xdg user dirs. The icon names are folder-documents, folder-download, folder-music, folder-pictures, folder-publicshare, folder-templates, folder-videos, with an automatic fallback to the standard folder icon.

27 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GLib 2.21.2 unstable release

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

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.1

  • GIO:

    • g_socket_speaks_ipv4 is a new function to check if a socket can speak IPv4.
    • g_socket_listener_add_address gained a new effective_address out parameter.
    • GIO now returns special icons for XDG user directories, by the name folder-music, folder-documents, etc.
    • GIO gained support for starting/stopping of drives, which can be used in connection with external hard disk enclosures, disk arrays, iSCSI devices, etc. See g_file_start/stop_mountable.
  • GLib:

    • g_reload_user_special_dirs_cache is a new function to force GLib to reload the XDG user directory mapping from disk.

22 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.17.1 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.0:

  • GtkLabel:
    • GtkLabel can show embedded URLs, much like SexyUrlLabel
  • Printing:
    • GTK+ includes a print backend that works with the PAPI printing service.
    • The file and lpr backends can print multiple pages per sheet.
  • Changes that are relevant for theme authors:
    • The URL support in GtkLabel uses the link-color / visited-link-color style properties

19 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.17.0 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.16.x

  • GtkBuilder:
    • Scale marks can now be specified in builder markup
    • GtkAssistant action widgets can be added in builder markup
  • Changes that are relevant for theme authors: GtkEntry now has a ::invisible-char style property that allows themes to set the preferred invisible character
  • Printing: GTK+ supports authentication of users against CUPS servers now.

10 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

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.