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Vala 0.11.3
=========== * Support BusName sender parameter in GDBus servers. * More refactoring in the code generator. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.11.2 =========== * Update libnotify bindings to 0.7.0. * Improvements to the .gir reader. * Bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.11.1 =========== * Require and target GLib >= 2.16. * Guard access to out parameters to allow null arguments. * Add support for local constants. * Support file descriptor passing with GDBus. * Support cached property values in GDBus clients. * Support Cancellable parameter in GDBus clients. * Support no-reply methods in GDBus clients and servers. * More refactoring in the code generator. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.11.0 =========== * Use byte indices for strings. * Use uint8[] for binary data in bindings. * Add support for parallel compilation. * Improve compiler performance. * More refactoring in the code generator. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.10.0 =========== * Port GIR parser and writer to GIR version 1.2. * Update GLib bindings to 2.26 branch. * Bug fixes. Vala 0.9.8 ========== * Add --fatal-warnings commandline option. * Deprecate string.len () in favor of string.length. * Deprecate use of D-Bus GLib in favor of GDBus. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.9.7 ========== * Fix regression introduced by codegen refactoring. Vala 0.9.6 ========== * Drop deprecated support for assigning to construct properties. * Some refactoring in the code generator. * Bug fixes in bindings and vapigen. Vala 0.9.5 ========== * Add version suffix to support parallel installation. * Define VALA_X_Y according to compiler version. * Enable version header by default. * Add vala.m4 with VALA_CHECK_PACKAGES macro. * Add gedit-2.20 bindings (Andrea Del Signore). * Add tokyocabinet bindings (Evan Nemerson). * Various improvements to the Dova profile. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.9.4 ========== * Append documentation comments to generated C files. * Skip <doc> tags in .gir files. * Various improvements to the Dova profile. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.9.3 ========== * Support newlines in double quoted string literals. * Add experimental support for main blocks. * Add experimental vala tool to compile and run code. * Initial support for generic delegates. * Support using GClosure for delegate parameters. * Support GBoxed-based memory management. * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer. * Various improvements to the Dova profile. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.9.2 ========== * Initial support for GDBus-based clients and servers. * Support implicit and explicit GVariant casts. * Add support for [Deprecated] attribute. * Add GenericArray as alternative binding to GPtrArray. * Add gdk-pixbuf-3.0, gdk-3.0, gdk-x11-3.0, and gtk+-3.0 bindings. * Updates to the GLib bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.9.1 ========== * Support constants in enums. * Deprecate +=/-= syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers. * Add experimental support for Dova profile. * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken). * Add clutter-gst-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil). * Add gdu and gdu-gtk bindings. * Add libesmtp bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Add mx-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson). * Add orc-0.4 bindings (Fabian Deutsch). * Add rest-extras-0.6 bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Updates to the GLib, GStreamer, Linux, SQLite, and other bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.8.0 ========== * Infer type arguments when calling generic methods. * Support `in' operator for arrays. * Add experimental support for regular expression literals. * Add experimental support for chained relational expressions. * Add va_list support. * Add clutter-gtk-0.10 bindings (Gordon Allott). * Add gdl-1.0 bindings (Nicolas Joseph). * Add gstreamer-app-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge). * Add gstreamer-cdda-0.10 bindings (Sebastian Dröge). * Add gudev-1.0 bindings (Jim Nelson). * Add libgda-report-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris). * Add libgvc (graphviz) bindings (Martin Olsson). * Add purple bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.10 =========== * Support coalescing operator ??. * Support to_string and bitwise complement with enums. * Return handler id when connecting signal handlers. * Support struct comparison. * Support constructor chaining in structs. * Enforce protected member restrictions. * Improve performance of flow analysis. * Support automatic line continuations in Genie. * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer. * Add --enable-mem-profiler commandline option. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.9 ========== * Support array and string slicing. * Add --symbols commandline option. * Add avahi-gobject bindings (Sebastian Noack). * Add ccss-1 bindings (Ali Sabil). * Add libarchive bindings (Julian Andres Klode). * Add libmagic bindings (Jens Georg). * Add readline bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen). * Add twitter-glib-1.0 bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.8 ========== * Support constructor chain up to GObject using Object (...). * Add syntax for string templates. * Support (!) non-null casts. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.7 ========== * Support `using' directives inside namespaces. * Use const only for immutable structs. * Support string marshalling for enums in D-Bus (Didier Ptitjes). * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken). * Add libgda-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris). * Many bug fixes for closures and async methods. Vala 0.7.6 ========== * Add support for closures. * Improve support for asynchronous methods. * Support async methods in D-Bus servers. * Add clutter-1.0 bindings (Rob Taylor). * Add GVariant, GSettings, and dconf bindings (Ryan Lortie). * Add linux, libnl-1, and libasound bindings (Michael 'Mickey' Lauer). * Add gnutls bindings (Jiří Zárevúcky). * Add librest bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.5 ========== * Add support for static properties. * Add support for delegate properties. * Support virtual default handler for signals. * Add limited support for derived compact classes. * Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal). * Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson). * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.4 ========== * Add support for array properties. * Support implicit and explicit GValue casts. * Add initial support for generic methods. * Add postgres bindings. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.3 ========== * Add initial support for POSIX profile. * Add --vapi and --gir commandline options. * Add initial x11, xcb, and cairo-xcb bindings. * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.2 ========== * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes). * Many bug fixes and binding updates. Vala 0.7.1 ========== * Introduce new syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers. * Add experimental support for fixed-length arrays. * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken). * Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.7.0 ========== * Do not generate header files unless requested by the -H commandline option. This requires changes in the build system of Vala projects. * Support conditional compilation. Vala 0.6.0 ========== * Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes). * Add librsvg-2.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson). * Add Maemo libosso bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen). * Add V4L2 bindings (Matías De la Puente). * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.7 ========== * Support signals in static D-Bus clients. * Various improvements to asynchronous method support (Ryan Lortie). * Report unused internal methods. * Extend POSIX bindings. * Add FUSE bindings (John Carr). * Add libdaemon bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen). * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.6 ========== * Do not require libgee for custom indexer access. * Add Log.FILE, Log.LINE, and Log.METHOD constants. * Various improvements to the .gir reader. * Add Lua bindings (pancake and Phil Housley). * Add MySQL bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen). * Add partial POSIX bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.5 ========== * Improve syntax of owned property getters. * Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options. * Remove --disable-non-null commandline option. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.4 ========== * Support array initializers as expressions. * Support += to efficiently append elements to arrays. * Calculate length for null-terminated arrays. * Support initializers for multi-dimensional arrays. * Add `owned' keyword to replace `#'. * Various fixes in coroutine support. * Support boxed structs as GObject properties. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.3 ========== * Rewrite D-Bus server support to directly use libdbus. * Register structs as boxed types. * Improve error reporting on invalid code. * Support private class fields and class destructors. * Add partial raptor and rasqal bindings. * Drop vala-gen-project, moved to vtg. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.2 ========== * Report uninitialized local variables. * Report unused fields, methods, and local variables. * Fix error handling in complex statements. * Improve support for generic types. * Support parameter arrays in bindings. * Do not require libgee for foreach statements. * Support enums in D-Bus clients and servers. * Support structs in hash tables in D-Bus servers. * Experimental static D-Bus client support. * Add --dump-tree commandline option to write code tree to file. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.5.1 ========== * Support type checks for error domains and error codes. * Experimental support for yield statements and coroutines. * Support GValue and GHashTable in D-Bus clients. * Various improvements to the .gir reader. * Drop deprecated support for static classes. * Modularize code generator. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.4.0 ========== * Support more flexible constructors. * Partial support for reading and writing .gir files. * Improve compiler performance. * Copy arrays where necessary. * Basic support for static properties. * Partial support for struct holding object references. * Add tracker indexer bindings (Roberto Majadas) * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.3.5 ========== * Notify on property changes by default (Jared Moore) * Add unique-1.0 bindings (Phil Housley) * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.3.4 ========== * Various improvements to D-Bus client and service support. * Basic support for detailed signals. * Check types of printf arguments. * Support `in' operator for Gee.Collection and Gee.Map (Jamie McCracken) * Add libgsf-1 bindings (Michael Lawrence) * Add loudmouth-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil) * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.3.3 ========== * Support overriding default method handlers of signals. * Support dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects. * Experimental support for nullable value types. * Improve support for classes not deriving from GLib.Object. * Support """verbatim strings""". * Add parser for Genie (Jamie McCracken) * Experimental support for arrays of arrays. * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley) * Improvements to D-Bus support (Ali Sabil, Philip Van Hoof, Yu Feng) * Add libepc-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil) * Add libtiff bindings (Christian Meyer) * Updates to the GStreamer bindings (Ali Sabil and Jaap A. Haitsma) * Many bug fixes and performance improvements. Vala 0.3.2 ========== * Add support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods. * Various improvements to methods in D-Bus services. * Add support for properties and signals in D-Bus services (Yu Feng) * Add Time API to GLib bindings. * Documentation improvements (Phil Housley) * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.3.1 ========== * Enable non-null types by default. * Add --disable-non-null commandline option. * New handwritten parser. * Support virtual methods in interfaces. * Add `dynamic' type modifier for D-Bus client support. * Add experimental support for writing D-Bus services. * Don't require `new' operator for structs. * Warn when using deprecated syntax. * Add libsexy bindings (Evan Nemerson) * Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.2.0 ========== * Support nested namespaces. * Support static constructors. * Register enums with GType (Marc-André Lureau) * Small syntax change for default values of properties. * Add --verbose commandline option (Daniel Silverstone) * Improve pointer support. * Add GNOME Keyring bindings (Andrea Del Signore) * Add SDL bindings (Levi Bard) * Add libftdi bindings (Evan Nemerson) * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and SQLite bindings. * Many bug fixes all over the place. Vala 0.1.7 ========== * Support private property accessors. * Support default values for properties. * Improve support for array length and delegate target parameters. * Improve delegate and signal handler support. * Introduce new syntax to declare errordomains. * Improve exception support. * Report errors for missing return statements. * Report warnings for unreachable code. * Improve support for generic types. * Support pointer member access and pointer element access. * Support pointer arithmetic. * Add --quiet commandline option (Emmanuele Bassi) * Add WebKit bindings. * Add JSON-GLib bindings (Ali Sabil) * Add goocanvas bindings (Roberto Majadas) * Add hildon-fm-2 bindings (Levi Bard) * Add taglib bindings (Andreas Brauchli) * Add libusb bindings (Evan Nemerson) * Add bzip2 bindings (Maciej Piechotka) * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and libsoup bindings. * Fixes for Windows. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.1.6 ========== * Add support for instance delegates. * Support conditional method compilation. * Add support for nested generic types. * Add size_t and ssize_t. * Use non-null types by default with --enable-non-null option. * Limited support for nullable types. * Add basic support for method pre- and postconditions. * Improve pointer support. * Always enable memory management. * Add libgnome-menu bindings (Roberto Majadas) * Add liboobs-1 bindings (Roberto Majadas) * Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, SQLite, and libxml2 bindings. * Small documentation improvements. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.1.5 ========== * Add Vala Project Generator. * Support `in` operator for enums. * Support typeof for generic type parameters. * Replace gidlgen by vala-gen-introspect with a real C parser. * Update all bindings to use vala-gen-introspect. * Fix many gcc warnings. * Fix build with Cygwin and MinGW (Yaakov Selkowitz). * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.1.4 ========== * Use .vapi as file extension for bindings. * Add Vala Reference Manual. * Add support for object initializers. * Emit #line directives in debug mode. * Add --basedir option. * Support creation methods in structs. * Add support for [Notify] attribute for properties. * Add experimental support for registering new fundamental classed types. * Improve support for non-GObject classes. * Improve error reporting. * Add vapicheck to verify generated bindings (Mathias Hasselmann). * Drop xml_pp dependency (Alberto Ruiz). * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.1.3 ========== * Convert reference-type structs to classes for a more consistent type system. * Support `as` operator (Mathias Hasselmann). * Improve array support. * Experimental D-Bus client support. * Add GConf bindings. * Add libgnome and libgnomeui bindings. * Add Glade bindings. * Add libnotify bindings (Nicolas Christener, Roland Hostettler). * Add GnomeVFS bindings. * Add GtkSourceView bindings. * Add Panel Applet bindings. * Add GNOME Desktop Library bindings. * Add libsoup bindings. * Add libwnck bindings. * Add GtkMozEmbed bindings (Alberto Ruiz). * Add Poppler bindings (Alberto Ruiz). * Add Enchant bindings (Mathias Hasselmann). * Add Hildon bindings (Marcelo Lira). * Add SQLite bindings. * Add curses bindings (Ed Schouten). * Build system fixes (Nicolas Trangez). * Add manual pages for gidlgen and vapigen (Kumar Appaiah). * Many bug fixes all over the place. Vala 0.1.2 ========== * Use and support libgee collection library (internal copy for now). * Performance improvements. * Improve support for generic types. * Many memory management fixes. * Add support for inner classes. * Add --cc and -X commandline options to control the C compiler. * Use GSlice for reference-type structs. * Add experimental GStreamer bindings. Vala 0.1.1 ========== * Support simple exception handling. * Improve array and string support. * Support multi-dimensional arrays. * Add --thread commandline option. * Improve bindings. * Bug fixes. Vala 0.1.0 ========== * Add commandline options for running the C compiler and linker. * Use # modifier for reference transfer in method parameters. * Replace callback keyword by delegate. * Improve and update GLib and GTK+ bindings. * Add experimental GVFS binding. * C89/MSVC portability fixes (Hans Breuer). * Refactor code generator. * Add experimental bindings generator. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.0.9 ========== * Add support for defining new generic classes. * Improve array support. * Memory management fixes. * Improve abstract property support. * Add basic support for flags types. * Improve GLib binding. * Add VTE binding. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.0.8 ========== * Add support for overridden properties. * Support properties and signals in interfaces. * Improve interface runtime suport. * Verify that classes implement all abstract and interface methods. * Basic compile-time support for generic types. * Default to strong references for return values and local variables. * Improve signal support. * Add support for pointers. * Improve support for numeric types. * Support writing GTypeModule-based plug-ins. * Improve manual memory management support. * Improve GTK+ bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.0.7 ========== * New object construction syntax. * Interface implementations don't have to specify override anymore. * Improve interface support. Vala 0.0.6 ========== * Improve interface support. * Support do loops. * Improve array support. * Improve enum support. * Add automated testing infrastructure. * Fixes for prefix and postfix operators. * Add more types to GLib bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.0.5 ========== * Support base access. * Support typeof expressions. * Improve array support. * Fix possible memory leak in foreach statements. * Fix many warnings during C compilation. * Improve GTK+ bindings. Vala 0.0.4 ========== * Support + operator in strings. * Support unicode character literals. * Add implicit conversions for numeric types. * Improve interface support. * Improve array support. * Support arbitrary signal parameters. * Add threading support. * Support lock statements. * Many improvements to the GTK+ bindings. Vala 0.0.3 ========== * Interface fixes. * Support namespace constants. * Support switch statements. * Array creation support. * Provide complete but experimental bindings for GTK+ 2.10 and Cairo 1.2. * Add implicit array length parameter. * Follow package dependencies. * Support hexadecimal and octal integer literals and hexadecimal escape sequences. * Install libvala as shared library. Vala 0.0.2 ========== * Support named construction methods. * Basic interface support. * Improve error handling. * Many bug fixes. Vala 0.0.1 ========== * Initial release. |