GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
Recent releases


Changes: GMappedFile is now refcounted. In Mainloop it is now possible to set per-thread default contexts. GIO was enhanced. Several bugs were fixed.


Changes: Several minor bugs were fixed. Translations were updated.


Changes: New functions and return values were added to GIO. GIO also gained support for starting/stopping of drives, which can be used in connection with external hard disk enclosures, disk arrays, iSCSI devices, etc. Many bugs were fixed.


Changes: A locking issue in g_main_context_iterate() was resolved. Two potential crashes were fixed. A few other minor bugs were fixed.


Changes: Support for network IO was added to GIO, including a low-level socket API and a high-level API for network connections and services. Support was added for read-write access with GIOStream and its subclasses. GMount gained a pre-unmount signal. Many bugs were fixed.