Version 2.16.1 of GLib
Release Notes: GIO, a VFS API designed to replace GnomeVFS, was added. Local filesystems are supported by default, and the separate gvfs module supports various backend implementations. The GObject class initialization was made thread-safe. The GTest test framework and the GChecksum hash algorithm collection were added. GHash now has iterators. GMarkup, GKeyFile, GAsyncQueue, and GError were enhanced. The included PCRE was updated to 7.6. Many bugs were fixed. Several portability fixes were made. Translations were updated.
Other releases
Release Notes: This stable release finalizes the changes from the 2.35 development series. Signal handlers connected with g_signal_connect_object() are now automatically disconnected on target object destruction. GIO now has kqueue support for GFileMonitor (BSDs and Mac OS). UNIX signal sources now allow watching SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. In g_get_home_dir(), the $HOME variable is no longer ignored, and taken into consideration in favor of GECOS entries. GUnixFdSource was added as a new method to add file descriptors to the main loop. Further new APIs were added. Many bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: Various bugs were fixed. The old codepage ABI (Windows only) was dropped.
Release Notes: Type modules are now never unloaded. GSimpleProxyResolver was added. Other minor enhancements and fixes were made.
Release Notes: GUnixFdSource was added as a new method to add file descriptors to the main loop. g_source_set_ready_time() was added for allowing to mark a source to become ready at a specified monotonic time. The internal visibility handling of GLib was reworked. Many bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: New APIs g_get_num_processors() and g_application_command_line_get_stdin() have been added. More timezone offset formats can now be parsed. GParamSpec constructors have been made introspectable. Adding interfaces after class_init is now disallowed. Minor bugs have been fixed.
