Vala 0.20.1 - Changelog

What's new in Vala 0.20.1:

April 9th, 2013

· Bug fixes.

What's new in Vala 0.20.0:

March 27th, 2013

· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.19.0:

February 21st, 2013

· Support scope = "async" attribute for parameters.
· Add --api-version option.
· Add atspi-2 bindings.
· Add gstreamer-rtsp-server-1.0 bindings.

What's new in Vala 0.18.1:

November 14th, 2012

· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.18.0:

September 26th, 2012

· Bug fixes.

What's new in Vala 0.17.3:

July 17th, 2012

· Require and target GLib >= 2.18.
· Support async creation methods.
· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.16.0:

March 27th, 2012

· Add udisks2 bindings.
· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.14.2 / 0.15.2:

February 26th, 2012

· Switch poppler-glib bindings to .gir.
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.14.2:

January 31st, 2012

· Add libnl-3.0 bindings.
· Add packagekit-glib2 bindings.
· Add xtst bindings.
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.15.0:

December 6th, 2011

· Manage memory of GQueue elements.
· Switch atk bindings to .gir.
· Switch gdk-pixbuf-2.0 bindings to .gir.
· Switch gdk-3.0 bindings to .gir.
· Add libwnck-3.0 bindings.
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.13.3:

August 23rd, 2011

· Switch pangocairo bindings to .gir.
· Bug fixes.

What's new in Vala 0.11.7:

March 17th, 2011

· Add support for async signal handlers (Frederik Sdun).
· More refactoring in the code generator (Luca Bruno).
· Improvements to the .gir writer (Michal Hruby).
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.10.4:

March 13th, 2011

· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.11.6:

February 15th, 2011

· Add parse and try_parse methods to boolean and numeric types.
· Add clutter-gtk-1.0 bindings.
· Add pixmap-1 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.10.3:

January 24th, 2011

· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.11.4:

January 17th, 2011

· Add index_of, index_of_char, and char_count to string class.
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.11.3:

January 6th, 2011

· Support BusName sender parameter in GDBus servers.
· More refactoring in the code generator.
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.10.2:

December 29th, 2010

· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.11.2:

November 9th, 2010

· Update libnotify bindings to 0.7.0.
· Improvements to the .gir reader.
· Bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.11.1:

October 26th, 2010

· 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.

What's new in Vala 0.9.8:

September 6th, 2010

· 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.

What's new in Vala 0.9.6:

August 18th, 2010

· Drop deprecated support for assigning to construct properties.
· Some refactoring in the code generator.
· Bug fixes in bindings and vapigen.

What's new in Vala 0.9.5:

August 9th, 2010

· 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.

What's new in Vala 0.9.4:

July 27th, 2010

· Append documentation comments to generated C files.
· Skip tags in .gir files.
· Various improvements to the Dova profile.
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.9.3:

July 15th, 2010

· 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.

What's new in Vala 0.9.2:

June 21st, 2010

· 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.

What's new in Vala 0.7.2:

May 8th, 2009

· Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
· Many bug fixes and binding updates.

What's new in Vala 0.5.5:

January 10th, 2009

· Improve syntax of owned property getters.
· Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options.
· Remove --disable-non-null commandline option.
· Many bug fixes.

What's new in Vala 0.5.1:

November 4th, 2008

· This release adds experimental support for yield statements and co-routines, and supports type checks for error domains and error codes.
· D-Bus clients can now pass and receive GValue and GHashTable values.
· Various issues in the .gir reader have been fixed.
· Deprecated support for static classes has been dropped.
· The code generator has been modularized, and many bugs have been fixed.

What's new in Vala 0.4.0:

October 22nd, 2008

· This release adds support for a more flexible object construction scheme, including constructor chain-up.
· Partial support for reading and writing GObject Introspection .gir files has been integrated into the compiler and vapigen.
· The compiler performance has been improved and arrays are now copied where necessary.
· Tracker indexer bindings have been added. GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings have been updated.
· Many bugs have been fixed.