Changelog
Versions with an odd minor version are unstable releases (e.g. 1.57.x) while versions with even minor version are stable releases (e.g. 1.58.x). This list is sorted by release date.
For more details see the GIT log: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection
1.80.0 - 2024-03-09
Allow using transfer none with GClosure
Only allow loading GIRepository-2.0
Add marshalling tests for uninitialized and NaN arguments
Check for setuptools when building with Python >= 3.12
Add fallback doc elements for virtual functions
Add doc elements for callback fields
Support static inline declarations in the GIR
Add annotations for sync, async, and async-finish functions in the GIR
Simplify the giscanner module build with Python >= 3.12
Allow passing full shared library paths on Windows
1.79.1 - 2023-12-28
Build fixes
Require Meson ≥ 1.2
Avoid test failures with Python ≥ 3.12
Update the GIR schema, and validate GIR files as part of the test suite
Support (not optional) annotation
Allow ownership transfer of structure types with copy/free functions
1.79.0 - 2023-12-24
Require GLib >= 2.79
Require Python >= 3.8
Simplify libtool use with wrappers
Drop GIO dependency from libgirepository
Do not install the GLib introspection data
1.78.1 - 2023-09-16
Avoid undefined behaviour in the Regress test suite [#458]
1.78.0 - 2023-09-08
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, and GIO
Add GObject as a dependency for the Cairo GIR
Add more tests for GI marshalling
Update regression test suite
Fix build on Windows for paths using ‘' as a separator
Support different prefix for finding GIR data
Add GI_GIR_PATH environment variable for controlling GIR paths
1.76.1 - 2023-03-22
Handle null default values [#457]
Documentation fixes
1.76.0 - 2023-03-13
Documentation fixes
Update the GIR data for GLib
1.75.6 - 2023-02-13
Documentation fixes
Fix build when using GLib as a subproject
Update the GIR data for GLib
1.75.4 - 2023-01-09
Brown-paper bag release to fix the GLib dependency.
1.75.2 - 2023-01-09
Split ‘disguised’ attribute into two separate attributes [#101]
Add copy/free function annotations for plain-old data types [#14]
Include the default value of GObject properties in the GIR data [#4]
Drop wrap files for recursive dependencies
Add more marshalling tests [Marco Trevisan]
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, GModule, and GIO [Sebastian Dröge, Rico Tzschichholz]
1.74.0 - 2022-09-17
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, GModule, and GIO
1.73.1 - 2022-09-03
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, GModule, and GIO
Disable rpath on Windows [Christoph Reiter]
Add llvm/mingw support on Windows [Christoph Reiter]
Fix annotations in libgirepository [Philip Chimento]
Support C99 designated initializers when parsing C declarations [Jan Tojnar]
Add some more types to win32 GIR [Marc-André Lureau]
Let doctool prepend emitting objects in GJS signals [Andy Holmes]
Require a C99 toolchain like GLib
1.73.0 - 2022-07-13
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, GModule, and GIO
scanner: Support pre-processor macros with zero arguments [Philip Withnall]
scanner: Support ISO C varargs in macros [Philip Withnall]
Fix subproject build [Andoni Morales Alastruey]
1.72.0 - 2022-03-18
Add new utility API to libgirepository for bindings implementing an argument cache [Philip Chimento]
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, GModule, and GIO
1.71.0 - 2022-02-14
Create new API for libffi closures [Sergei Trofimovich, Cimbali]
Treat @-prefixed shlib paths as absolute on macOS [Rok Mandeljc]
Add new forever scope [#49]
Build fixes with newer Meson [#414]
Improve regression test suite [Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]
Avoid a segfault when using an invalid GType [Lukas Oberhuber]
Build fixes on Windows when using g-i as a subproject [Andoni Morales Alastruey]
Warn about property name collisions [#386]
Add “strict” warnings to g-ir-scanner
Add the “emitter” annotation for signal emitters
Add a command line option to g-ir-scanner to specify the compiler
Add new convenience API to libgirepository [Philip Chimento]
Build fixes on Windows when using MSVC [Chun-wei Fan]
Documentation fixes [#211, #327]
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, and GIO
1.70.0 - 2021-09-17
Update the GIR data for GLib, GObject, and GIO
1.69.0 - 2021-08-24
Fix build when gobject-introspection is a subproject !266
Make test suite work with cross-related options #227
Fix several leaks found by Coverity !272
Fix enum member c:identifier !264
Add g-ir-doc-tool man page !284
Export warnlib sources as variables !287
Update the GLib annotations !288
Add option to make .gir files installation paths configurable !63
1.68.0 - 2021-03-19
1.67.1 - 2021-03-12
1.66.1 - 2020-10-03
1.66.0 - 2020-09-12
Support the gtk-doc action syntax !203
GITypeInfo storage type utility API !205
Meson: Fix build as subproject !214
Fixing XDG_DATA_DIRS logic !215
libgirepository: Add a couple missing nullable annotations !217 !225
dumper: Fix missing symbols in LTO case or with overridden symbol visibility settings !216
Remove old autoconf fallback code for the python tools !221
meson: Rename option gi_cross_use_{host -> prebuilt}_gi mr:211
meson: Don’t override finding executables when using pre-built tools. !212
meson: gir: add a dependency for g-ir-compiler for building .girs !228
meson: Use pkgconfig generator !207
Fix gi-dump-types.c to build on Windows !218
giscanner: parse block comments for members and fields !230
Add the notion of standalone doc sections !226
giscanner: Add support for using clang-cl !234
giscanner: Fix section matching for documentation !237
1.64.1 - 2020-04-05
Replace calls to deprecated xml.etree.cElementTree removed in Python 3.9 !202 (Stephen Gallagher)
gimarshallingtests: Use g_assert_cmpfloat_with_epsilon. Fixes tests on some architectures !200 (Iain Lane)
1.64.0 - 2020-03-07
Update glib annotations (Rico Tzschichholz)
Fix regress scanner tests for non-gcc/clang compilers !197 (Chun-wei Fan)
Document how to update glib GIR !199 (Bastien Nocera)
1.63.2 - 2020-01-17
Update glib annotations (Rico Tzschichholz)
Add GMemoryMonitor to glib annotations !193 (Bastien Nocera)
Fix build reproducibility !192 (Joshua Watt)
Drop deprecated xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.getchildren() calls !194 (Miro Hrončok)
Support Python 3.8.x+ on Windows !195 (Chun-wei Fan)
Cross compile support !64 (Alexander Kanavin)
meson: Visual Studio builds: Use -utf-8 where available !196 (Chun-wei Fan)
1.63.1 - 2019-11-24
Update glib annotations (Rico Tzschichholz)
build: require meson 0.50.1
build: use proper dylib versioning on macOS !177 (Tom Schoonjans)
scanner: Support array arguments with static keyword !176 (Emmanuele Bassi)
Fix non-libtool code being run with no nob-libtool dependencies !179 (Alistair Buxton)
meson: change “cairo” from a boolean to a feature option !180
meson: change “doctool” from a boolean to a feature option !181
Fix a memory leak in g_irepository_get_object_gtype_interfaces() !182 (Philip Chimento)
ccompiler.py: Fix macro defines with quotes on MSVC !183 (Chun-wei Fan)
tests: Actually test libregress by specifying the LD_LIBRARY_PATH !174 (Corentin Noël)
examples: Make self contained and add build system integration examples !189
autotools: Make INTROSPECTION_GIRDIR/INTROSPECTION_TYPELIBDIR respect prefix/datadir/libdir !190
girepository: Also store GType cache misses !191 (Carlos Garnacho)
docs: Document GI_CROSS_LAUNCHER envvar !175 (Emmanuele Bassi)
1.62.0 - 2019-09-09
No changes since 1.61.2
1.61.2 - 2019-08-17
dumper: Use the distutils linker !170 (David Demelier)
structinfo: Fix offset in find_method() !171 (Florian Müllner)
tests: Don’t include “config.h” in installed files !172 (Philip Chimento)
meson: Make meson.override_find_program working on more complex use cases !173 (Thibault Saunier)
1.61.1 - 2019-08-07
Drop autotools build system !143
meson: require 0.49.2
Update glib annotations (Rico Tzschichholz)
Add documentation to the RelaxNG schema !139 (David Bellot)
Unused variable fixes !147 (Philip Chimento)
cachestore: handle cache getting deleted while loading it !148
Visual Studio builds: Use msvc_recommended_pragmas.h from GLib !150 (Chun-wei Fan)
Add Vulkan gir !155 (Matthew Waters)
Make g_irepository_get_object_gtype_interfaces actually work !157 (Philip Chimento)
gimarshallingtests: Add a marshalling test case for GPtrArrays and GArrays of structures !160 (Stéphane Seng)
scanner: parse and expose function macros !159 (Mathieu Duponchelle)
meson: use pkg-config directly for libffi cflags and libs !162 (Aaron Boxer)
meson: Fix wrong dependency type check for gio-unix #166 (Brook Milligan)
regress: Add regression test for signal with GError param !169 (Philip Chimento)
1.60.2 - 2019-06-15
docwriter: Fix Exception message attribute !146 (Philip Chimento)
meson: fix default cairo DLL name on Windows
scanner: Fix error on Windows in case source files are on different drives
gi-test: Fix gir file tests with MSVC !151 (Chun-wei Fan)
MSVC.README.rst: Update VS 2008/x64 build notes !152 (Chun-wei Fan)
giscanner/scannerlexer.l: Include io.h on Windows (Chun-wei Fan)
build: Force-include msvc_recommended_pragmas.h on Visual Studio !152 (Chun-wei Fan)
Update glib annotations (2.60.4)
1.60.1 - 2019-04-07
Update glib annotations (glib-2-60)
shlibs: fall back to basename on macOS for relative paths #222
meson: always pass –quiet to g-ir-scanner
docs: include ‘–c-include’ in g-ir-scanner man page #275
tests: Fix compatibility with Python 3.5 #274 (Tomasz Miąsko)
1.60.0 - 2019-03-10
NOTE: This is the last release supporting autotools. Please try building with meson instead and report any problems. This does not affect projects using autotools + g-i, only the build of g-i itself.
gir: Update glib annotations !142 !141 (Andrea Azzarone)
1.59.5 - 2019-03-04
gir: Include C header in cairo gir file !138 (Tomasz Miąsko)
ccompiler: restore customize_compiler() setup for macOS. #268
gir: skip glib-enumtypes.h for GObject-2.0 !140
1.59.4 - 2019-02-04
tests: Add functions using flat struct arrays. !130 (Tomasz Miąsko)
Clean shebangs out of non-executable scripts and drop exec perm from xmlwriter.py. !131 (Dominique Leuenberger)
maintransformer: parse deprecation annotations for section blocks. #213 !132
repository: g_irepository_get_object_gtype_interfaces. !30 (Colin Walters, Philip Chimento)
message: handle fatal errors even if warnings are disabled. #229 !126
maintransformer: Don’t warn on (optional) annotations on (inout) !135 (Guido Günther)
girepository: Fix a possible use-after-free if g_mapped_file_new() fails and fix possible leak of transitive dependency names. !136 (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
1.59.3 - 2019-01-08
meson: use underscore as a separator in build options (gtk-doc -> gtk_doc etc) !129
website: add cppgir C++ binding !124 (Mark Nauwelaerts)
scanner: Merge specifiers and qualifiers when merging basic types. Fixes “unsigned char” being wrongly parsed as “unsigned” etc. !125 (Tomasz Miąsko)
meson: warn that not all tests will be run if building without cairo/doctool
scanner: rework source root directory guessing code to not depend on the build directory
scanner: Remove incorrect c:type generated for array of synthesized unions !127 (Tomasz Miąsko)
scanner: Flatten multi-dimensional arrays fields !128 (Tomasz Miąsko)
1.59.2 - 2019-01-04
Everything included in 1.58.3
meson: Various fixes and all tests have been ported (0.47+ is required now) !114 !110 etc. (Tomasz Miąsko, Emmanuele Bassi, Christoph Reiter)
scanner: Save preprocessor input and output files with
save-temps
!107 (Tomasz Miąsko)automake: Use the wildcard function where needed !100 (William Hua)
build: extend
PYTHONPATH
instead of replacing it !101Add a
--version
option to g-ir-compiler and g-ir-generate #55 !106tests: various test improvements !111 !117 !119 (Tomasz Miąsko)
ccompiler: don’t use Python compiler flags #150 !118 !120 (Tomasz Miąsko, Christoph Reiter)
parser: Do not bail out when parsing GIR files without doc positions !121 (Emmanuele Bassi)
gimarshallingtests: Remove declarations of nonexistent functions !123 (Philip Chimento)
1.58.3 - 2018-12-30
docwriter: Support python-markdown 3.x #250
scanner: Define grefcount and gatomicrefcount as aliases to gint #254 (Tomasz Miąsko)
scanner: make using bool without stdbool include work again #247
gir: Update glib annotations for glib 2.58.2
1.59.1 - 2018-12-16
Everything included in 1.58.2
build: Drop Python 2 support, require Python 3.4+ !69
build: Add option to make .gir files installation paths configurable !63 (Kai Kang)
build: Skip gobject/gvaluecollector.h when constructing GObject GIR !20 (Tomasz Miąsko)
build: Port various tests to work with meson !92 !94 !95 (Tomasz Miąsko)
regress: Add test for write-only property !67 (Philip Chimento)
regress: Implement interface and override properties !59 (Philip Chimento)
writer: Include documentation and symbol position in source files !75 (Thibault Saunier)
giscanner: Print relative filename paths when warning !74 (Jonas Ådahl)
giscanner: Define grefcount and gatomicrefcount as aliases to gint !76 (Tomasz Miąsko)
giscanner: Allow empty declarations. Fixes warnings with mingw headers. #216 !89 (Christoph Reiter)
giscanner: Replace linked lists with arrays in source scanner !90 (Tomasz Miąsko)
girepository: Various docs cleanups and fixes !96 !97 #66 (Tomasz Miąsko, Christoph Reiter, Jasper St. Pierre)
girepository: Don’t abort when calling g_base_info_get_name() on a GITypeInfo #96 !99 (Christoph Reiter)
girepository: Add version macros and functions #200 !98 (Christoph Reiter)
1.58.2 - 2018-12-09
meson: Fix random build errors (mostly MSVC) !88 (Tomasz Miąsko)
scanner: Fix parsing of __typeof__ that is part of a cast expression !78 (Tomasz Miąsko)
scanner: Ignore __pragma keyword used by MSVC !87 (Tomasz Miąsko)
1.58.1 - 2018-11-17
meson: Install warnlib !62 (Jan Tojnar)
scanner: Parse __typeof__ and discard it !71 (Jan Alexander Steffens)
meson: add back /usr/bin/env to the python-cmd #237 !70 (Håvard Graff)
Fix non libtool build !72 (Olivier Crête)
1.58.0 - 2018-08-31
• Changes:
- Update annotations imported from GLib, and require GLib 2.58
- Ensure that G-I builds on macOS
- Add a --version argument to the Python-based tools
- Allow selecting the output format for g-ir-doc-tool
- Drop the Visual Studio templates
- Use Sphinx to generate the user documentation; gtk-doc is still
required for the girepository-1.0 C API reference
- Support all _Float* C types from ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015
- The autotools build now uses autoconf-archive
- g-ir-doc-tool: Add DevDocs formatting for GJS (--format=devdocs)
This adds a dependency on the Python markdown package
• Issues resolved on gitlab.gnome.org:
- #139 - make check fails for gobject-introspection 1.44.0 on
OS X 10.10.4
- #184 - Default element-type not set for GByteArray object
properties
- #189 - c:type missing pointer/array information in GIR for
C array parameters
- #134 - Allow multiple output formats
- #218 - gtk2 hits unreachable code after enable -Wswitch-default
- #113 - Memory leaks in GI regress and marshalling tests property
setters
• Bugs resolved on bugzilla.gnome.org:
- #702788 - The girepository DLL is acquiring pointers incorrectly
on Windows/x64
• Contributors:
Tomasz Miąsko, Emmanuele Bassi, Rico Tzschichholz, Chun-wei Fan,
Philip Chimento, Tom Schoonjans, Christoph Reiter, Ray Donnelly,
Marcus Calhoun-Lopez, Florian Müllner, Evan Welsh, Mathieu Duponchelle
1.56 - 2018-03-13
• Changes:
- Add _Float128 to the base C types
- Update annotations imported from GLib, and require GLib 2.56
• Issues resolved on gitlab.gnome.org:
- #173 - Fails to parse flag-constants
- #175 - writer: Include documentation and symbol position in
source files
- #120 - adding subdir-objects to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
- #190 - const qualifier dropped from c:type on (type filename)
parameters
- #188 - giscanner: don't print "suppressed N warnings" if --quiet
was specified
• Bugs resolved on bugzilla.gnome.org:
- #764791 - gitypelib.c: increase #define MAX_NAME_LEN from 200 to 255
- #756921 - g-ir-scanner does not recognize _Thread_local
- #791991 - Broken shared-library value in gir files on *BSD when
builddir includes the name of the library
- #791902 - Building using non-libtool (e.g., meson) on MinGW
- #629667 - MY_ENUM_VALUE = <constant> only works for last member
- #699354 - g-ir-compiler man page for --shared-library incorrectly
says "lib" and ".so" should be removed
- #761985 - os.name can be wrong in some context
- #699328 - GI_TYPELIB_PATH is undocumented
• Contributors:
Ting-Wei Lan, Leslie Giles, Rico Tzschichholz, Christoph Reiter,
Nicola Fontana, Tomasz Miąsko, Emmanuele Bassi, Philip Chimento,
Karl-Philipp Richter
Note
For older releases, see the Git log