Tag: Release

This is a quick followup release to revert a change in 2.19.1 that would have unnecessarily changed the established behavior of g_data_input_stream_read_line().

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This is the second development release leading up to GLib 2.20.

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.0 to GLib 2.19.1

• g_icon_to_string, g_icon_new_for_string: GIcon serialization support
• G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON: new file attribute for preview images
• g_app_info_get_commandline: new function to get the full commandline
• g_mount_shadow, g_mount_unshadow, g_mount_is_shadowed: New
• functions to ‘shadow’ mounts (i.e. hide them from the UI when they already have a different representation, like a bookmark)

42 bugs fixed in this release.

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This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.20.

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.1 to GLib 2.19.0

• Rewrite GHashTable to use open addressing with quadratic probing instead of chaining. This has the potential to reduce memory fragmentation significantly, while being slightly faster due to better locality and no need to call alloc/free functions for nodes. Benchmarks suggest it also uses less memory overall.
• Make g_poll available as public api
• New macros g_assert_error and g_assert_no_error to assert that a GError is set or unset
• g_cancellable_make_pollfd: New method to make a GPollFD for a cancellable
• g_app_info_can_delete, g_app_info_delete, g_app_info_reset_type_associations: New functions to clean up app infos and content types
• When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris when possible, and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris.

33 bugs fixed in this release!

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