======================================== NEWS: at-spi-1.6.2 ======================================== What's new in at-spi-1.6.2: * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes) * bugfixes for #160862, #152147. * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test. (Padraig O'Briain) ======================================== NEWS: glib-2.6.0 ======================================== Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.x to GLib 2.6.0 ================================================= * Major new APIs - GOption, a commandline option parser - GKeyFile, a parser/editor for the .ini like files - Functions to support the XDG basedir specification - Wrappers for common POSIX pathname functions to handle filename encodings consistently. On Windows, these use UTF-8. * Miscellaneous new functions - g_filename_display_name() converts filenames in displayable UTF-8 strings - g_uri_list_extract_uris() splits uri lists - g_date_get_iso8601_week_of_year() gets ISO 8601 week numbers - g_log_set_default_handler() installs an alternate default log handler - g_get_language_names() obtains a list of applicable locale names - g_strv_length() calculates the length of NULL-terminated string arrays - g_win32_get_windows_version() determines the Windows version - G_GNUC_INTERNAL marks functions as non-exported - glib_check_version() checks the GLib version at runtime - g_debug() completes the family of logging functions * Performance improvements - Optimize g_utf8_validate() - Optimize g_markup_parse_context_parse() - Reduce signal connection complexity from O(n) to O(1) - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols - Reduce code size by removing literal strings from g_return_if_fail() * Other changes - On Windows, GLib functions that take file name arguments now require those to be in UTF-8. Functions that return file names return UTF-8. - Use higher precision for mathematical constants - Don't convert to/from UTF-8 in g_filename_to_uri/g_filename_from_uri - Support ll as printf format modifier for long long on all platforms - Clean up the ABI and enforce the list of exported symbols - Add a .pc file for using gmodule in libraries - Require ngettext Overview of Changes from GLib 2.5.7 to GLib 2.6.0 ================================================= * GOption: Don't list help options if group-specific options have been requested [Glynn Foster] * Make g_get_language_names() track locale changes [Christian Persch] * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist] * Bug fixes [Philippe Blain, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi] * New and updated translations (da,es,ja,lt,zh_CN) Bugs fixed: 159530,100697,160271,160645,157255 ======================================== NEWS: gnome-vfs-2.9.2 ======================================== gnome-vfs 2.9.2 * Features: + Deprecate parts of GnomeVFSMimeApplication structure + AIX support + Better mime detection + New HAL support for volumes/drives * Bugs fixed: + Fix memory leak + Detect mime data changed in mime monitor + Fix EOF problem in sftp method ======================================== NEWS: gtk+-2.6.0 ======================================== Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.4.x to GTK+ 2.6.0 ================================================= * New widgets - GtkIconView - GtkAboutDialog - GtkCellView - GtkFileChooserButton - GtkMenuToolButton * New cell renderers - GtkCellRendererCombo - GtkCellRendererProgress * Changes in GtkFileChooser - Many tweaks to keynav and other behaviour * Changes in GtkTreeView - Hover selection - Hover expand - Separators - Insensitive rows - Typeahead * Changes in GtkComboBox - Allow trees in combo boxes - Hover selection - Hover expand - Separators - Insensitive rows - Scrolling * Changes in GtkLabel - Rotated text - Ellipsisation - Dnd from selectable labels - Selectable labels in the focus chain - Obey the Pango backspace-deletes-character attribute * Changes in GtkTextView - Rotated text - Obey the Pango backspace-deletes-character attribute * Changes in Clipboard/Selection/DND handling - Selection ownerchip change notification - API to handle text, image and file targets - Support text/plain target - Support clipboard persistency - Support xdnd v5 - Reduce clipboard timeout to 30 seconds * Theming - Follow icon theme specification for directory locations - Themed window icons - Themed images in GtkImage - Allow themes to displace focus rectangles on click - Various new stock icons * Window Manager interaction - Support do-not-focus-on-map hint - Support _NET_WM_USER_TIME * gdk-pixbuf: - License information for image loaders - Disable loaders - Simple rotation - Make threadsafe * Performance improvements - Increase chunk size for incremental selection transfers - Get rid of many PLT entries - Icon theme caching - Sync counter mechanism to speed up resizes - Reimplement GtkListStore on top of a splay tree - Fix algorithmic problems in GtkUIManager * Win32-specific changes - Integrate IME input method module - Integrate ms-windows (Wimp) theme engine * Other changes - API for HIG-conform dialogs - API for stock-like buttons - New init API based on GOption - Setting for alternative button order - Setting for modules to load - Integrate pixbuf theme engine - Change notebook tabs with the scroll wheel - Ellipsisation in GtkCellRendererText, GtkProgressBar, GtkStatusbar - Clean up abi and enforce list of exported symbols Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.5.6 to GTK+ 2.6.0 ================================================= * GtkListStore - Emit rows_reordered if the list is reordered [Matthias Clasen] - Add functions to allow inserting rows with values [Matthias] * GtkTextView - Add function which allow to determine the character at a position [Padraig O'Briain, Matthias] * GtkFileChooser - Center select row during typeahead [Federico Mena Quintero] - Reset filters when necessary [Carlos Garnacho Parro] * GtkMenu - Make mnemonics without Alt work in menubars [Owen Taylor] - Scroll wheel scrolling [Matthias] * GtkLabel - Add a max-width-chars property to specify the maximal width of a label in characters [Christian Persch] * GtkIconView - Arrange items in a grid [Matthias] - Convert hardcoded spacing constants into properties [Matthias] * GtkCellRendererText - Add ::width-chars property [James M. Cape] * Win32 - Implement keynav for the color picker [Hans Breuer] - Use GLib stdio wrappers [Tor Lillqvist] * Bug fixes [Kazuki IWAMOTO, Damon Chaplin, Matthias, Christian, Michael Natterer, Jonathan Blandford, Manish Singh, John Finlay, Robert Ögren, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez, Marco Pesenti Gritti, Tommi Komulainen, R. McFarland, Jorn Baayen, Dennis Cranston] * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Jay Camp, Paolo Borelli, David Lodge] * New and improved translations (bg,nb,no,nso,pt_BR,zh_CN) ======================================== NEWS: libgnomeprint-2.8.2 ======================================== libgnomeprint 2.8.2 Dom & Hans * Clean up win32 build Jody * Use 'b' with fopen just to be safe http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160185 * Set the use theme flag correctly on subsequent previews * Check for existence of transport before offering it * Don't center the preview by default ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================== UPDATED: libgnomeprintui-2.8.2 ======================================== libgnomeprintui was updated without a NEWS entry. ======================================== NEWS: pango-1.8.0 ======================================== Overview of changes between 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 =========================================== * Add Sinhala support to the Indic module [Anuradha Ratnaweera] * Add Tibetan module [G Karunakar, Pema Geyleg] * Support pixel sizes for fonts [Chris Lahey] * Add pango_layout_get_font_description() [Morten Welinder] * Add PANGO_WEIGHT_SEMIBOLD [Lars Clausen] * Report underline metrics on Win32 [Tor] * Handle GLib-2.6.0 win32 filename encoding changes [Tor Lillqvist, Robert Ögren] * Fix crash when drawing long strings * Misc fixes [Matthias Clasen, Dan Winship]