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General Information
===================
-This is GLib version 2.16.1. GLib is the low-level core
+This is GLib version 2.17.0. GLib is the low-level core
library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It
provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and
interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads,
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ Installation
See the file 'INSTALL'
+Notes about GLib 2.18
+=====================
+
+* The recommended way of using GLib has always been to only include the
+ toplevel headers glib.h, glib-object.h and gio.h. GLib enforces this by
+ generating an error when individual headers are directly included.
+ To help with the transition, the enforcement is not turned on by
+ default for GLib headers (it is turned on for GObject and GIO).
+ To turn it on, define the preprocessor symbol G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
+
Notes about GLib 2.16
=====================
@@ -31,7 +41,6 @@ Notes about GLib 2.16
and libselinux for extended attribute and SELinux support. Use
--disable-xattr and --disable-selinux to build without these.
-
Notes about GLib 2.10
=====================