2.2.5.2. API Changes for glib
There are a number of API changes for glib between versions.
Version 2.4 to Version 2.12
Some of the differences in glib between version 2.4 and 2.12 (or between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) are:
- GOption (a command line option parser)
- GKeyFile (a key/ini file parser)
- GObject toggle references
- GMappedFile (a map wrapper)
- GSlice (a fast memory allocator)
- GBookmarkFile (a bookmark file parser)
- Base64 encoding support
- Native atomic ops on s390
- Updated Unicode support to 5
- Atomic reference counting for GObject
Version 2.12 to Version 2.22
Some of the differences in glib between version 2.12 and 2.22 (or between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) are:
- GSequence (a list data structure that is implemented as a balanced tree)
- GRegex (a PCRE regex wrapper)
- Support for monotonic clocks
- XDG user dirs support
- GIO (a VFS library to replace gnome-vfs)
- GChecksum (support for hash algorithms such as MD5 and SHA-256)
- GTest (a test framework)
- Support for sockets and network IO in GIO
- GHashTable performance improvements
- GMarkup performance improvements
Documentation for glib, including indexes of new and deprecated APIs, is shipped in the glib2-devel package.
