GConf Changelog

What's new in GConf 3.2.6

Jan 22, 2013
  • gsettings-schema-convert: Fix conversion of empty lists
  • 671490 - Fix shutdown of gconfd
  • 646663 - Removed unused gconf_get_lock_dir function
  • 674803 - Use XDG config dir for settings storage
  • 685509 - Fix early bailout on OS X
  • 667167 - Fix a user-after-free
  • 682963 - Remove obsolete debian/ dir
  • 686634 - Fix a typo
  • 653809 - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn
  • 646674 - Remove gconf-sanity-check
  • Translation updates

New in GConf 3.2.5 (Mar 19, 2012)

  • fix an obvious memory error from the last release thanks to Ionut Biru; apologies to everyone else

New in GConf 3.2.3 (Nov 3, 2011)

  • fix assert caused by Ross' incompetence (thanks Vincent Untz)

New in GConf 3.2.2 (Oct 27, 2011)

  • Fixes:
  • 661372 - Avoid crash when there is no reply to messages in conf_engine_notify_remove
  • Clean-up ORBit vs DBus logic (Jasper St. Pierre)

New in GConf 3.2.0 (Oct 3, 2011)

  • Translations:
  • da (Flemming Christensen), hu (Gabor Kelemen), eu (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio), de (Mario Blättermann), as (Nilamdyuti Goswami)

New in GConf 3.1.90 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • Fixes:
  • 656262 - Support for conversion files from user specified and XDG data directories (Ryan Lortie)
  • Translations:
  • ug (Abduxukur Abdurixit), ja (Takayoshi Okano), zh_HK zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao), te (Krishnababu K)

New in GConf 3.1.6 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixes on the distcheck fixes
  • 655656 - Use "o" for the D-BUS object path rather than "s" (this changes the internal D-BUS API but for now we have a compatability bit that should avoid too much pain.)
  • Misc:
  • DOAP file!

New in GConf 3.1.4 (Aug 2, 2011)

  • gsettings-data-convert: Call g_type_init()
  • ensure_database: don't free the reply til we've finished with its args
  • build: Filter out generated corba code when building .gir
  • translation updates.

New in GConf 2.32.3 (Apr 29, 2011)

  • Translation updates

New in GConf 2.32.2 (Apr 6, 2011)

  • Bug 644662 - default GConf path includes hard-coded reference to /etc/gconf
  • Bug 638679 - Please make gsettings-data-convert.desktop translatable
  • Many translation updates

New in GConf 2.32.1 (Nov 10, 2010)

  • Features:
  • Allow building against GTK+ 3
  • Fixes:
  • Make gsettings-data-convert deal better with enums and flags
  • Remove an obsolete error message (#631250)

New in GConf 2.31.7 (Aug 4, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • gsettings-data-convert: Realloc the correct amount of memory (Matthew Garrett)
  • configure: disable the defaults service if PolicyKit is not available (Thomas Wood)
  • Update GSettings backend to follow API changes (Frédéric Péters)
  • Translation updates:
  • (gl)

New in GConf 2.31.6 (Jul 12, 2010)

  • Features:
  • gsettings-schema-convert: always add gettext domain (Vincent Untz)
  • gsettings-schema-convert: convert 0/1 to false/true (Vincent)
  • gsettings-schema-convert: convert underscores to dashes (Vincent)
  • gsettings-scheme-convert: convert to xml by default (Vincent)
  • Fixes:
  • gsettings-schema-convert: fix crash when lxml is missing (Vincent)
  • gsettings-schema-convert: don't crash on unknown types (Vincent)
  • gsettings-schema-convert: accept GConf schemas without defaults (Vincent)
  • gsettings-schema-convert: fix --help error (Vincent)

New in GConf 2.31.5 (Jun 29, 2010)

  • Features:
  • Add gsettings-schema-convert (used to be part of GLib) (Ryan Lortie)
  • Fixes:
  • Make the :path in groups optional again (Matthias Clasen)
  • Translations:
  • Latvian

New in GConf 2.31.4 (Jun 19, 2010)

  • Features:
  • Allow external orbit-idl-2 compiler for cross-compiling (Fridrich Štrba)
  • Require GLib >= 2.25.9
  • Fixes:
  • Implement fsync replacement on win32 (Fridrich Štrba)
  • Make gsettings_backend_write consume the variant (Matthias Clasen)
  • Fix build with GLib >= 2.25.9 (Milan Bouchet-Valat)
  • Translations:
  • Galician

New in GConf 2.31.3 (May 25, 2010)

  • Features:
  • Install an autostart file for gsettings-data-convert (Matthias Clasen)
  • Expose the location of the default path file in the pc file (Brian Cameron)
  • Fixes:
  • Update GSettings backend to follow API changes (Ryan Lortie)
  • Respect $datadir (Matthias)
  • Fix annotations for gconf_client_notify_add (Owen Taylor)
  • Support silent build (Christian Persch)
  • Don't print an error on the first run of gsettings-data-convert (Richard Hughes)
  • Translations:
  • Albanian
  • Norwegian bokmål
  • Shavian

New in GConf 2.28.1 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Make the defaults mechanism find the right polkit action (Matthias Clasen)
  • Remove (worse than) useless signal handlers for SEGV, FPE, etc. in gconfd(Ray Strode)
  • Avoid a crash when gconftool-2 can't read the db (Matthias Clasen)
  • Make gconf compile with -DGSEAL_ENABLE (Andre Klapper)
  • Translation updates:
  • (ast, bn,, ca, ca@valencia, cy, en@shaw, eu, gl, lt, nl, ru, vi)