From 2f4f39095fd924bd34dd0147ef7be6499abfacd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Clasen Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:17:35 +0000 Subject: 2.10.0 --- README | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 6642417c2..5240adeba 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ General Information =================== -This is GLib version 2.9.6. GLib is the low-level core +This is GLib version 2.10.0. 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, @@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ Notes about GLib 2.10 'make check' will also fail on systems where the C compiler does not support ELF visibility attributes. +* The GMemChunk API has been deprecated in favour of a new 'slice + allocator'. See the g_slice documentation for more details. + +* A new type, GInitiallyUnowned, has been introduced, which is + intended to serve as a common implementation of the 'floating reference' + concept that is e.g. used by GtkObject. Note that changing the + inheritance hierarchy of a type can cause problems for language + bindings and other code which needs to work closely with the type + system. Therefore, switching to GInitiallyUnowned should be done + carefully. g_object_compat_control() has been added to GLib 2.8.5 + to help with the transition. + Notes about GLib 2.6.0 ====================== -- cgit v1.2.3