GTK+ 2.16.0 stable release

GTK+ 2.16 adds new functionality while maintaining source and binary compatibility with GTK+ 2.14. Highlights of new features and improvements in GTK+ 2.16 are:

Noteworthy new APIs

  • GtkOrientable is a new interface implemented by all widgets that have horizontal and vertical variants
  • GtkActivatable is a new interface that must be implemented by widgets that are used as action proxies

Changes in GtkEntry

  • GtkEntry can show icons at either side of the entry, which can be made clickable, drag sources, etc.
  • GtkEntry can show progress information behind the text.
  • GTK+ picks the best available placeholder character for password entries unless one is explicitly set.
  • GTK+ displays a Caps Lock warning in password entries.
  • Input methods can now be selected per-widget with the “im-module” property.

Changes in GtkScale

  • GtkScale can now display annotated marks for certain values.

Changes in GtkStatusIcon

  • GTK+ uses an extension of the tray icon specification to negotiate RGBA support. This is also supported by the GNOME panel.
  • GtkStatusIcon now supports scroll events, middle clicks and rich tooltips if the platform allows it.

Changes in file chooser

  • The file chooser can optionally show file sizes.
  • Volumes are mounted when necessary.
  • GTK+ remembers the file chooser’s window size across invocations.
  • Non-local uris can be entered in the location entry.

Changes in printing support

  • Page rendering can be deferred to a thread.

Internationalization support

  • Keyboard shortcut handling has been changed, to help with a longstanding complaint about the way in which GTK+ handles multiple keyboard layouts. GTK+ now only uses keys from groups other than the current group if they are not present in the current group.

GDK changes

  • GdkKeymap emits a state-changed signal when the Caps Lock state changes.
  • There is a predefined type for blank cursors, GDK_BLANK_CURSOR.

For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the
announcements for the 2.15.x development releases:

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GLib 2.20 stable release

GLib 2.20 is a stable release adding an incremental improvement in functionality over GLib 2.18 while maintaining binary and source compatibility.

Major new features include:

  • Optimizations of GHashTable and GMarkup
  • Support for in-place decoding of base64 strings
  • When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris whe possible, and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris. This can be turned off using the X-GIO-NoFuse desktop file key.
  • GIO has a concept of ‘shadowed’ mounts

For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the announcements of the 2.19.x development releases:

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.