Based on patch provided by Juan RP in pkgsrc-users ml.
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.7 to GLib 2.18.0
===================================================
* Win32:
- rework the g_poll() implementation to match poll() semantics more closely
* Bugs fixed:
324234 Using g_io_add_watch_full() to wait for connect() to return...
548278 Async GETs connections are always terminated unexpectedly...
500246 Bug fixes for giowin32
523939 Example program for GValue
550096 GBookmarkFile parser is not forward compatible
550040 Move GString, rand and printf tests to the unit test framework
550104 trivial documentation fix for g_get_home_dir
548988 g_file_replace fails on Windows when the target file exists
550059 Wrong docs for g_emblemed_icon_add_emblem
548800 Missing a g_object_get_type function
550056 Missing documentation for g_emblemed_icon_get_emblems
* Updated translations:
Bulgarian (bg)
Czech (cs)
German (de)
Estonian (et)
Basque (eu)
French (fr)
Hebrew (he)
Hungarian (hu)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Lithuanian (lt)
Maithili (mai)
Dutch (nl)
Swedish (sv)
Thai (th)
Ukrainian (uk)
Vietnamese (vi)
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.6 to GLib 2.17.7
===================================================
* More fixes for 64-bit Windows
* GIO
- Add a vfs implementation for HTTP and HTTPS URIs on Windows
* Bugs fixed:
546329 API docs for g_utf8_normalize() are incorrect
546876 Modify GMarkup parser to accept  .. 
547200 g_utf8_find_next_char() issues
547637 unconditional #include of sys/statfs.h in configure
547337 G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED breaks tests build
547832 gtk+-2.12.11 fails to build - AC_PROG_MMAP too strict
502498 Test framework assertion failures should follow gcc
546371 Improve docs re g_file_monitor
546483 GThemedIcon:use-default-fallbacks is not readable without...
546132 GFileIcon is bindings-unfriendly
542156 zfs mount in home directory shown on nautilus desktop
535124 umask 002 not being applied for new directories...
547080 g_file_copy leaks expected errors
546582 Callbacks from GFileMonitor present a GFile...
547262 Missing link in the docs
* Updated translations:
Arabic (ar)
Catalan (ca)
Spanish (es)
Basque (eu)
Finnish (fi)
Galician (gl)
Hebrew (he)
Marathi (mr)
Norwegian bokmål (nb)
Portugese (pt)
Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR)
Swedish (sv)
Thai (th)
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.4 to GLib 2.17.6
===================================================
* Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
* g_markup_context_get_user_data: New function to access
the user_data outside of callbacks
* GIO
- g_mount_guess_content_type_sync: synchronous version of
g_mount_guess_content_type
- GEmblem: A GIcon implementation that adds emblem-related
metadata to icons
- GEmblemedIcon: A GIcon implementation that can add emblems
to icons
* Bugs fixed:
544088 option_test_LDADD is left in tests/Makefile.am
544465 gmarkup makes it hard to use pre-rolled parsers
545485 Implicit declaration of utime()
545798 "Since: 2.18" mark is missing in g_set_error_literal...
544140 fam-helper 64-bit issue
529694 SELinux context setting support
545157 wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc...
545203 gfile.c: argument is different type
545457 gdmsetup crashed with SIGSEGV in g_unix_mount_guess...
544177 Fix trivial cut and paste error in documentation
545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
541036 Gnumeric crashes when trying to open Desktop...
546079 leak in xdgmime
545395 Language tweak for g_value_set_string* docs
546017 Don't copy attributes when copying a symlink
* Updated translations:
Arabic (ar)
Estonian (et)
Galician (gl)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Norwegian bokmål (nb)
Pashto (ps)
Portugese (pt)
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.3 to GLib 2.17.4
===================================================
* GIO:
- New API to handle content types: g_mount_guess_content_type,
g_content_type_guess_for_tree.
- Export the eject-button signal on the volume monitor class
- New API to enable out-of-process volume monitors:
g_volume_get_activation_root
* GObject:
- New API to handle signals without slots in the class structure:
g_signal_new_class_handler, g_signal_override_class_handler
* Internationalization:
- Add an NC_ macro that is a no-op equivalent of C_
* GMarkup:
- Add two new functions g_markup_parse_context_push,
g_markup_parse_context_pop to support "subparsers"
* Bugs fixed:
541208 Functions to easily install and use signals without...
541507 Ambiguous description of assigned characters in the...
543040 async reading on dummy file will crash on GIO_USE_VFS=local
543560 enable gio-FEN back-end warnings on Solaris will crash...
528317 GRegex does not allow recursion limit
337518 GMarkup: Subparser support
541794 drive-eject-button signal
541793 activation root for volumes
467707 test_iconv_state() in tests/convert-test.c fails on AIX 5.3
428048 2 of 51 tests fail on Solaris
542332 small fix for error message in GMarkup
482413 get_contents_stdio -- overflow and memory corruption
406120 g_ascii_strtod
334234 "printf" format error
536996 Missing noop i18n macro equivalent to C_
540616 mem leak in filechooser button
539229 gobject-query calls itself query
521589 [RFC] gobject documentation should mention Vala
543168 Description of G_SLICE=debug-blocks discourages its use
543220 Case collision on gio-extension-points.html
530759 update the gobject tutorial to the XXI century
535223 gbookmark file inefficiency ...
543504 crash in Epiphany Web Browser: Opening local file
* Updated translation:
German (de)
Estonian (et)
Pashto (ps)
Albanian (sq)
Thai (th)
Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.1 to GLib 2.17.3
===================================================
* PCRE
- fix for CVE-2008-2371
* Bugs fixed:
538119 glib's mainloop leaks a pipe to sub-processes
537635 Corrections and improvements to g_time_val_{to,from}_iso8601
539067 The document g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() says...
535949 annotate g_strip_context and g_dpgettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
539123 annotate g_d[n]gettext with G_GNUC_FORMAT
539074 Cannot get exit status with g_spawn_command_line_sync
316221 G_LOCK warns about breaking strict-aliasing rules
539770 migrate gstrfunc unit tests to gtest
539626 Update docstrings for g_object_freeze_notify and g_object_thaw_notify
538044 unconditional use of LC_MESSAGES
540545 Monotonic time and timer offset
535947 want g_set_error_literal
539999 glibconfig.h: add GLIB_USING_SYSTEM_PRINTF
536252 GFileEnumerator should allow access to the containing GFile
538362 Get Win32 icons back in the file chooser
540802 g_list_prepend doesn't concat lists
540423 unrecoverable error after g_seekable_truncate
538836 make check failure on PPC and ALPHA: pltcheck.sh on g_atomic_pointer_get
539090 g_content_type_from_mime_type() should unalias
540331 g_file_append_to () documentation: can return NULL
534639 add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile
536733 gio build failure on Irix
536160 Add g_file_monitor()
538127 FileChooser broken on win32
531476 /live-g-file/test_traverse_structure test fails on Mac HFS+
538564 gio should have gio-types.h
540047 glib-genmarshal.c: '#include <io.h>' is too before
Updated translations:
Korean (ko)
Occitan (oc)
Overview of 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 functionaliy
* Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
icons for mime types
* New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
* Bugs fixed:
535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
528715 Misprint in the description of the interface g_type_class_add_private
528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect" interface
528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
the interface g_type_register_fundamental
528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
537392 Additional colon in xattr name
536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file systems
528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
translation
502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
338162 Use po/LINGUAS
314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
fallback to $HOME/Desktop if xdg-user-dirs is not in use
498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
gcc 4.0 or newer
536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
* Translation updates:
Arabic (ar)
German (de)
Italian (it)
Norwegian bokmål (nb)
Thai (th)
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.
* Bugs fixed:
522292 Gives warnings in glib/gutils.h with GCC in C99 mode
523298 win_iconv can't convert from UTF-8 to GB18030 (or vice versa)
518160 replace two g_strdup_printf calls in GBookmarkFile
523877 gbookmarkfile: avoid using g_string_append_printf() and
other optimizations
525192 100% CPU if run main loop with no IO sources
315437 extern inline -> static inline
524314 g_convert() on Win32 implicitly converts full width
alphanumerics into half width
525732 Error in documentation for g_list_first
525674 A typo in gmarkup.c
448943 g_timeout_add_seconds() problems
525972 UCS-4 not in the new win_iconv implementation
526619 make test-report crash
491554 Update to Unicode 5.1.0
519137 g_slice_dup macro needs cast for 64-bit platform
528752 Win32 build and SSL not working
530457 G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD folder improperly mapped
528667 Typos in testing module documentation
459905 Bug in wcwidth data
534085 g_unichar_iswide_cjk() has a totally wrong table
501651 Update glib/libcharset
519026 G_STMT_START/G_STMT_END test a non-existent preprocessor symbol
534319 GLib's .pc files could use Libs.private
534137 Typo in g_spawn_async_with_pipes doc
517419 gio win32 directory monitor
526796 Wrong order of arguments in g_file_copy's fallback
530196 _g_local_file_has_trash_dir() doesn't handle st_dev == 0
532965 Should not return filesystem::free for certain file systems
525553 fix typo and nitpicking in GArray documentation
526572 Missing * in declaration of parent_class in Object
Destruction section of GObject Reference Manual
528648 Extra >s in Object Construction section
535021 g_param_spec_internal documentation should
describe purpose of nick and blurb
521513 Firefox crash when using file picker
528433 gdesktopappinfo snafu ...
533369 API g_file_info_get_attribute_string () unables to get "...
521045 glib f_fstypename miscellany
521672 compile error
521946 control rate limit on GUnixMountMonitor
522335 Fails to build: glib/gtester.c:276: error: 'ARG_MAX' unde...
523015 Implement sliding window based upload operation
523019 Use new GCC 4 feature
523338 list nfs4 as a nfs mount type
524350 Make glib build without NLS again
524579 g_file_copy reports wrong total on progress callback for ...
524742 A typo in gtestutils.c.
524950 Minor documentation typos.
525866 the user directory should not be considered as a mount to...
526320 should not list mounts that the user doesn't have permiss...
527132 nautilus crash when making ftp connection
532852 CRITICAL **: totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base: assertion `...
534759 Build failure in gio
534764 Typo in error produced by g_file_make_directory
521851 Redudant tests in gunixmounts.c
524344 glib/gthread.h still use G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
525060 glib fails to build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT in CPPFLAGS o...
534177 Invalid description of the interface g_cclosure_marshal_S...
520715 Add GFile method g_file_query_file_type
523039 nautilus can't access to trash/computer/network if gvfs i...
* Updated translations:
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Bulgarian (bg)
Catalan (ca)
Czech (cs)
Greek (el)
Candian English (en_CA)
British English (en_GB)
Spanish (es)
Estonian (et)
Basque (eu)
Galician (gl)
Hebrew (he)
Hungarian (hu)
Japanese (ja)
Lithuanian (lt)
Norwegian bokmål (nb)
Dutch (nl)
Occitan (oc)
Portugese (pt)
Russian (ru)
Slovak (sk)
Albanian (sq)
Swedish (sv)
Turkish (tr)
Vietnamese (vi)
changes:
-update the bundled PCRE from 7.2 to 7.4
-minor bugfixes
-translation updates
pkgsrc changes:
-don't use the bundled PCRE anymore, use pkgsrc's
-try to work around some ld.so lossage on NetBSD (which leads to some
applications - most notably evolution and glade3 - not resolving symbols
in dynamically loaded plugins) another way: use the RTLD_DEFAULT
pseudo-handle when the main module is referred to. This could replace
the previous mechanism, but it needs more investigation and tests, so
I'm leaving both in parallel for now.
PR pkg/36731. Highlights of NEWS follow:
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.7 to GLib 2.14.0
* Last-minute API additions:
- Make g_unichar_combining_class public
- Add goffset type, add G_MAXSSIZE and G_MINSSIZE
* Update PCRE to 7.2
* Bugs fixed:
453998 Make _g_unichar_combining_class() public
462549 gregex.c: variable is declared at middle of block
417068 g_file_test doc inconsistency
* Updated translations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.6 to GLib 2.13.7
* The memory corruption warning from the slice allocator that
occurred when threads were initialized after the slice allocator
has been removed, as the slice allocator now works fine
in this scenario.
* New functions g_once_init_enter() and g_once_init_leave() make
it easier to write threadsafe one-time initialization functions
* Bugs fixed:
454473 Simple XML Subset Parser terminates on invalid XML
445813 g_module_open error, add file name
453796 errno gets clobbered by g_filename_display_name
341988 don't use "-c" with msgfmt in Makefile.in.in
447048 Please produce slightly more output during long tests
454785 GModule documentation lists same block of code twice.
454786 GModule documentation lists same paragraph twice.
383155 small docs quirks in gobject/closure API documentation
65041 _get_type() functions aren't thread safe
* Updated translations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.5 to GLib 2.13.6
* Reintroduce a GType typedef whose removal in 2.13.5
caused trouble for C++ bindings
* Bugs fixed:
450216 docs not explicit enough about g_free()
451459 g_type_register_static_simple calls g_type_register_static
* Updated translations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.4 to GLib 2.13.5
* xdg-user-dirs support:
- the Desktop directory is guaranteed to be defined
- user-dirs.dirs is no longer reloaded on changes
* Slice allocator:
- new api to duplicate slices
* Regular expression support:
- GRegex is a boxed type now
* Bugs fixed:
44793 make check failing in trunk
354522 Small problem with PLT hiding 6 symbols
363986 glib 2.12.4 does not compile with SGI IDO cc
443869 g_type_class_add_private doesn't warn when adding 0-sized...
446859 Legitimately return 0 for g_quark_from_string(NULL)
447534 Small typo in g_timeout_add_seconds() doc
447583 GStaticRWLock
447935 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path
448260 CLAMP has surprising result if low > high
57693 g_string_vprintf()
442029 add g_slice_dup()
445065 Add GRegex boxed type
448819 Add full version of g_timeout_add_seconds()
* Updated translations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.3 to GLib 2.13.4
* Bugs fixed:
444121 g_get_user_special_dir deadlocks
444161 invalid UTF8 in key name shows up as valgrind error in g_...
444130 g_option_context_get_help() is broken when there's a desc...
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.2 to GLib 2.13.3
* GKeyFile:
- Added defines for easier handling of desktop files
* Unicode support:
- Update g_unichar_iswide_cjk for Unicode 5.0
* Regular expression support:
- GRegex structs can now be ref-counted
- Some new functions for dealing with incremental
replacement have been added
- The GRegexEvalCallback signature has been changed
* g_get_user_special_dir() has been added to support
xdg-user-dirs
* Bugs fixed:
419376 Functions using named subpatterns behave inconsistently w...
434358 g_regex_fetch_named() and g_regex_fetch_named_pos() are b...
423708 typo in the README.win32 file see patch below
339225 Add new defines for easier handling of .desktop files
442265 API additions/changes for GRegex
432651 Add a glib-ish xdg_user_dir_lookup
* Updated translations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.1 to GLib 2.13.2
* Unicode support:
- Add g_unichar_ismark()
* GOption:
- Allow to use callbacks for remaining args
* Updated translations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.13.0 to GLib 2.13.1
* GRegex:
- Portability fixes
- Split into immutable GRegex and GMatchInfo
- Add g_regex_get_max_backref() and g_regex_get_capture_count()
to obtain information about the compiled regex
* GKeyFile:
- Fix roundtrip problems
- Add g_key_file_load_from_dirs()
* Unicode support:
- Fix corner cases in case conversion routines
* GOption:
- Add a function to get the formatted help string
* GHash:
- Add new functions g_hash_table_get_keys() and
g_hash_table_get_values() to retrieve the keys and
values in list form
* Updated transations
Overview of Changes from GLib 2.12 to GLib 2.13.0
* Add GSequence, a list that is implemented using
a balanced binary tree.
* Add GRegex, an implementation of Perl regular expressions,
based on PCRE.
* Use Posix monotonic clocks instead of gettimeofday()
for GTimer when available.
* Support static initialization of GQeues with G_QUEUE_INIT,
g_queue_init() and g_queue_clear().
* Add g_string_chunk_clear() for clearing a
GStringChunk.
* Add g_unichar_get_script() to obtain Unicode
script information.
* Add g_unichar_iszerowidth() to obtain information
about zero-width characters.
* Add G_GNUC_MAY_ALIAS which wraps the gcc may_alias
type attribute.
* G_GNUC_INTERNAL has a working definition for the
Sun Studio compiler. This requires the macro to
be positioned before the function declaration.
* The slice allocator can produce detailed debugging
information with G_SLICE=debug-blocks.
* Modules support G_DEBUG flags resident-modules and
bind-now-modules.
* Add G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE() to make it easier
to define types in modules.
* Bug fixes: too many to list them in detail here.
* New and updated translations
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