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2.21.0 18-dec-2009
        - pygmainloop: fix use of PySignal_WakeUpFD API for nested loops
          (Philippe Normad, #481569)
        - Add capabilities to import wrappers from pygi (Simon van der Linden)
        - Move threads_init() function from 'gobject' to 'glib' (Paul)
        - Fix wrong minimum checking in float properties (Paul, #587637)
        - Wrap new API added in GIO 2.22 (Gian Mario)
        - Fix bad name when rebuilding the unix source module (Gian Mario)
        - Add the missing limit constants from glibconfig.h
          (Tomeu Vizoso, #603244)
        - Suppress warnings about format conversion
          (Simon van der Linden, #603355)
        - Properly define Connectable as interface type and not object type
          (Gian Mario)
        - Wrap new API added in GIO-UNIX 2.22 (Gian Mario)
        - Wrap g_find_program_in_path (Gian Mario, #598435)
        - Add pygi-external.h into Makefile SOURCES (Gian Mario)

2.20.0 23-sep-2009
        - Allow to use automake 1.11 (Paolo Borelli)
        - Specify programming language in .devhelp file (Frédéric Péters)
        - Plug reference leak of GSource in pyg_main_loop_init (Paul)
        - Updated uninstalled.pc file (Brian Cameron)

2.19.0 10-aug-2009
        - Add macros to help with Python list to/from GList/GSList conversions.
          (John Finlay)
        - GIO docs practically completed (Gian)
        - GFileInfo.list_attributes should accept None/NULL (Gian)
        - Strip out Windows DLL API macros (John Finlay)
        - Document that many functions got moved gobject -> glib (Paul)
        - Allow h2def.py to work when there are tabs or multiple spaces after
          the struct keyword. (Murray Cumming)
        - Fix build when builddir is not the same as srcdir
          (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
        - Make gio.Emblem constructor new-style (Paul)
        - Cleanup GIO overrides to use Python function/method names (Paul)
        - Make codegen report errors using Python function/method names (Paul)
        - Fix object type in gio.BufferedInputStream_fill_async (Gian)
        - Wrap gio.BufferedInputStream.fill_async (Gian)
        - Add gio.BufferedOutputStream which was forgotten in the types (Gian)
        - Split overrides for gio.MemoryOutputStream (Gian)
        - Wrap gio.memory_input_stream_new_from_data (Gian)
        - Introduces the girepository module from the former PyBank
          (Simon van der Linden)
        - Add API appeared in 2.20 but not marked as such in gio docs (Gian)
        - Wrap gio.FileOutputStream.query_info_async (Gian)
        - Wrap gio.FileInputStream.query_async (Gian)
        - Install executable codegen parts with executing permissions (Paul)
        - Wrap gio.DataInputStream.read_line_async and read_until_async (Paul)
        - Fix gio.OutputStream.splice_async (Paul)
        - Add GIO 2.20 API and update docs (Gian)

2.18.0 24-may-2009
        - Improve gio docs with some more classes (Gian)
        - Wrap gio.OutputStream.splice_async() (Gian)
        - Add Python ver into installed libpyglib name (Emilio Pozuelo Monfort)
        - Wrap gio.OutputStream.flush_async() (Gian)
        - Use 'Requires.private' for libffi in '.pc' files (Josselin Mouette)
        - Add wrapper for gio.FileAttributeMatcher (Gian)
        - Mark relevant glib.IOChannel methods as METH_NOARGS (Paul)
        - Retire hand-written ChangeLog; autocreate from Git history (Paul)
        - Wrap gio.InputStream.skip_async() (Gian)
        - Add in codegen -n --namespace option and the code to remove dll
          API in headers, added documentation (Siavash Safi)
        - Properly mark glib.get_user_special_dir() as a keywords method (Paul)

2.17.0 30-apr-2009
        - Write a good part of the docs for gio (Gian)
        - Wrap g_mount_guess_content_type g_mount_guess_content_type_finish
          g_mount_guess_content_type_sync (Gian, #580802)
        - Swap first two arguments of gio.File.query_info_async (Paul, #580490)
        - Fix a crash in pyg_type_add_interfaces (Paul, #566571)
        - Remove an empty structure, use sizeof(PyObject)
          instead (Paul, #560591)
        - Wrap four g_get_user_*_dir() functions (Paul, #575999)
        - Remove 'ltihooks.py' as using deprecated Python module (Paul)
        - Code maintenance: add .gitignore files (Paul)
        - CellRendererPixbuf stock-size property has wrong type (Paul, #568499)
        - Add a doap file after git migration (Johan Dahlin)
        - missing dep on libffi in pygobject-2.0.pc (Götz Waschk, #550231)
        - g_volume_monitor_tp_new new function, return the singleton object.
          (Paul, #555613)
        - Remove a DeprecationWarning under python 2.6 (James Westby, #573753)
        - several scripts from codegen directory are not distributed
          (Krzesimir Nowak)
        - g_file_copy_async change argument order to keep it consistent with the
          other methods (Gian)
        - memory leak in gio.File.copy_async (Paul Pogonyshev, #578870)
        - g_file_monitor should accept None for cancellable and set the default
          flag to G_FILE_MONITOR_NONE (Gian)
        - pyg_notify_free needs to ensure it has GIL before calling Py_XDECREF
          (Jonathan Matthew)
        - Wrap g_file_set_display_name_async (Gian)
        - Add a semi-private method to return the option context C object from
          an option context wrapper (Tristan Hill)
        - Converting a negative long Python value to a GUINT64 GValue doesn't
          error out as it should (Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro, #577999)
        - Wrap g_file_set_attributes_async and
          g_file_set_attributes_finish (Gian)
        - g_file_query_filesystem_info_async fix a typo (Gian)
        - Wrap g_file_query_filesystem_info_async (Gian)
        - Add missing g_file_query_filesystem_info_async and
          g_file_query_filesystem_info_finish (Gian)
        - Wrap g_file_eject_mountable (Gian)
        - g_file_copy callback cannot be optional (Gian)
        - Swap various kwargs names to reflect the code (Gian)
        - Update the address of the FSF (Tobias Mueller, #577134)
        - Add g_volume_should_automount (Gian)
        - Wrap g_drive_enumerate_identifiers and g_volume_enumerate_identifiers
          (Gian)
        - Add a couple of convinence functions to convert from/to a python list
          and an array of strings (Gian)
        - Allow setting pytype wrapper class (Mark Lee, John Ehresman, #559001)
        - Wrap g_file_enumerator_close_async (Gian Mario Tagliaretti)

2.16.1 22-feb-2009
        - Apply the patch provided by Cygwin Ports maintainer
          (Paul Pogonyshev, #564018)
        - Bad -I ordering can break build, patch from [dmacks netspace org]
          (Gian Mario Tagliaretti, #566737)
        - Fix keyword list to be in sync with positional arguments
          (Paul, #566744)
        - Add a comment explaining why the two for loops for registering
          interfaces (Gustavo Carneiro)
        - Huge cleanup of GIO overrides (Paul, #566706)
        - gtk.Buildable interface method override is not recognized
          (Paul, #566571)
        - Do not escape the ampersand "&" in entity references. Replace some
          unusual entity references in the output with their literal values.
          (Daniel Elstner, #568485)
        - gio.InputStream.read_async can cause memory corruption.
          (Paul, #567792)
        - Inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in pygtk.py (Paul, #569350)
        - Huge fix of memory leaks in GIO (Paul, Paolo Borelli, Gian, #568427)
        - non-async functions don't release python locks before calling
          blocking C functions (Gian, Gustavo, #556250)
        - Change comment to avoid false positives when grep'ing for deprecated
          gtk functions (Andre Klapper)
        - ltihooks.py updating license header from GPL to LGPL
          (James Henstridge)

2.16.0 04-jan-2009
        - gobject.timeout_add_seconds() not found in docs
          (Paul Pogonyshev, #547119)
        - _wrap_g_output_stream_write_async not adding a reference to the
          buffer passed (Paul, #564102)
        - gio.VolumeMonitor segfaults (Gian Mario Tagliaretti, #555613)
        - Test if `domain' is not-null before using it to avoids segfaults
          (Paul, #561826)
        - g_output_stream_write_all use gsize instead of gssize (Gian)
        - add __repr__ to gio.Drive, gio.Mount and gio.Volume
          (Paul, #530935)
        - Missing AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) (Loïc Minier, #551227)
        - Make codegen not import when corresponding argument types are not
          registered (Paul, #551056)
        - Fix typos breaking compilation (Frederic Peters #551212)
        - GFile load_contents methods chop data at first \0
          (Jonathan Matthew, #551059) 

2.15.4 3-sep-2008
        - Fix typo in GPointer type registration (Loïc Minier,#550463)
        - support G_TYPE_CLOSURE in codegen (Gian)

2.15.3 31-aug-2008
        - Beginning of porting to 3.0. glib & gobject module ported.
        - Wrap g_app_info_* functions (Gian)
        - Wrap gio.FileAttributeInfo (Gian)
        - Wrap g_vfs_get_supported_uri_schemes (Johan, #545846)
        - Wrap g_file_info_get_modification_time (Johan, #545861)
        - Wrap gio.Volume.mount/eject (Johan)
        - Wrap gio.File.move (Johan)
        - Wrap gio.query_writable_namespaces (Gian, #545920)
        - Separate glib & gobject documentation
        - Wrap GFile.append_to_async (Gian, #545959)
        - Wrap GFile.create_async (Gian, #546020)
        - Change return value from 'gboolean' to 'int' and changed semantics
          to Pythonic (Paul, #544946)
        - Wrap GFile.replace_async and query_info_async (Gian, #546046)
        - GIcon and implementations improvements (Paul, #546135)
        - Improve __repr__ and richcompare for gio classes (Paul)
        - Missing Py_INCREFs for some file async methods (Jonathan Matthew, #546734)
        - File.copy progress_callback does not work (Paul, #546591)
        - add File.replace_contents, replace_contents_async, replace_contents_finish.
          (Jonathan Matthew, #547067)
        - Add GFile.query_default_handler (Gian)
        - fix docstring line length (Jonathan Matthew, #547134)
        - improve runtime type wrapper creation (Paul, #547104)
        - make gio.File more Pythonic (Paul, #546120)
        - No TypeError raised when type is None (Paul, #540376)
        - wrap a few memory stream methods (Paul, #547354)
        - wrap gio.DataInputStream.read_line and ...read_until (Paul, #547484)
        - wrap four important asynchronous methods in gio.Drive and gio.Mount
          (Paul, #547495)
        - gio.InputStream.read() looks broken (Paul, #547494)
        - wrap g_content_types_get_registered() (Paul, #547088)
        - cannot create new threads when pygtk is used (Paul, #547633)
        - an unitialized variable in PyGLib (Paul, #549351)
        - Constructor of gtk.TreeView raises TypeError when model is None
          (Paul, #549191)
        - Fix memory problems reported by valgrind due to invalid tp_basicsize in
          PyGPropsDescr_Type. (Gustavo, #549945)

2.15.2 26-jul-2008
        - New module: glib, which contains the parts of the old
          gobject bindings which are in the glib library.
          MainLoop/MainContext/Sources/GOption and a few others has now moved.
        - Add a new installed library libpyglib-2.0, which contains the extension
          API for third-part modules instead of relying on macros which accesses
          struct fields.
        - Add bindings for gio.File.enumerate_children_async,
          gio.FileEnumerator.next_files_async, gio.Mount.mount,
          gio.File.mount_mountable, gio.File.mount_enclosing_volume,
          gio.File.unmount_mountable, gio.File.copy.
        - Add a new api for mapping a GError domain to an exception and register
          an exception for GIOError.
        - Remove leading IO_* prefix for the gio flags and register a quark
          for the domain.
        - Use GSlice in the glib module and bump required version to 2.14.

2.15.1 15-jul-2008
        - Rename pygtk-codegen-2.0 to pygobject-codegen-2.0 to avoid
          conflicting with PyGTK (Paul Pogonyshev)

2.15.0 15-jul-2008
        - Add GIO bindings (Johan, Mario Tagliaretti, Thomas Leonard)
        - Move codegen from PyGTK (Johan, Paul Pogonyshev, #542821)
        - Add more variables to the .pc files (Damien Carbery, Paul, 
          Dan Winship, #486876)
        - Add pyg_option_group_new to the public API (Johan)
        - Add g_get_application_anme and g_get_progname (Sebastian Rittau)
        - Avoid making wakeups when using Python 2.6 (Johan, Gustavo,
          Adam Olsen, Josselin Mouette, Philippe Normand, Guido Van Rossum)
        - Only link against libffi when found (Ed Catmur, #496006)
        - Improve gobject.property (Tomeu Vizoso, #523352)
        - Improve enum comparision and warnings (Paul, Phil Dumont, #428732)
        - Many gobject.Source improvements (Bryan Silverthorn)
        - Apply some fixes to make pylint happier (Johan, Simon Schampijer,
          #523821)
        - Fix error message in pyg_io_add_watch (Juha Sahkangas)
        - Improve h2def.py (Oliver Crete, Murray Cumming, Lauro Moura)

2.14.0 16-sep-2007
        - Fix a Python 2.6 deprecation warning (Johannes Hölzl, #342948)
        - Wrap g_timeout_add_seconds, when compiling with glib 2.14 (Gustavo)
        - Always fully initialize the PyGObject (Ed Catmur, #466082)
        - Fix compilation in Solaris, again (#339924, Gustavo)
        - Fix check for default value in boolean type (Marco Giusti, #470230)
        - Fix new style properties with subclasses (Johan Dahlin, #470718)
        - Docs generation fixes (John Finlay)

2.13.2 07-jul-2007
        - Fix build on opensolaris (Damien Carbery, #339924)
        - Proxy GOption exceptions from Python to C (Johannes Hölzl, #342948)
        - Support G_TYPE_VALUE boxed args/signals
         (Ed Catmur, Carlos Martin, #351072)
        - pyg_error_exception_check bug fix (Sebastian Granjoux, #449879)
        - Toggle references bug fix (#447271, Gustavo Carneiro)
        - use python-config to get python includes (#448173, Sebastien Bacher)
        - Support GObject properties in new properties API (Gustavo)
        - generate-constants fixes (Muntyan)
        - Allow running autogen.sh from outside $srcdir (Muntyan)

2.13.1 02-may-2007
        - Generic CClosure marshaller using libffi (Johan, #353816)
        - Uninstalled .pc file (Damien Carbery, #385129)
        - Fix leak in GFlags handling (Daniel Berrange, #428726)
        - Use dirname in autogen (Loïc Minier, #409234)
        - Treat None in a GValueArray as pointer/NULL (Ed Catmur, #352209)
        - Toggle reference bug fix in tp_setattro (Gustavo, #434659)
        - Add a simplified helper for creating properties (Johan, Gustavo, #338089)
        - Avoid throwing an exception in GValue converter (James Livingstone,
          Ed Catmur, #374653)
        - Build fix in .pc file (Luca Ferretti, #435132)

2.13.0 23-april-2007
        - Release the GIL in g_object_set_property (Edward Hervey, #395048)
        - Break PyGObject<->GObject reference cycle (Gustavo Carneiro, #320428)
        - use static inline functions for init_pygobject (Gustavo, #419379)
        - Wrap g_set_application_name, g_set_prgname
          (Havoc Pennington, #415853)
        - New pyg_gerror_exception_check API (Gustavo, #425242)
        - New API to get/set multiple properties
          (Gian Mario Tagliaretti, #403212)
        - Misc. bug fixes.

2.12.3 18-november-2006
       - distutils build fixes (Cedric)
       - documentation updates (John)
       - gobject.handler_block_by_func and friends now accept methods 
         (Johan, Dima, #375589)
       - avoid truncating of gparamspec (Yevgen Muntyan, #353943)
       - set __module__ on gobject derived types (Johan, 
         Osmo Salomaa, #376099)
       - Ensure exceptions are raised on errors in gobject.OptionGroup
         (Johan, Laszlo Pandy, #364576

2.12.2 3-october-2006
       - Make PyGObject 64-bit safe for Python 2.5 (Gustavo)
       - All headers are now LGPL and not GPL (Johan)
       - Remove a couple of GCC warnings (Gustavo)
       - Revive distutils support (Cedric Gustin)
       - Emission hook reference count bugfix (Gustavo)
       - MSVC/ANSI C compilation fix (John Ehresman)
       - Bump Ctrl-C timeout handler from 100ms to 1000 (Johan)

2.12.1 4-september-2006
       - Corrected version check (Sebastian Dröge, #354364)

2.12.0 4-september-2006
      - Install the html files even when using --disable-docs (#353159, Johan,
        Matthias Clasen)

2.11.4 27-august-2006
      - Include pre-generated html docs in the tarball  (Johan)
      - Fix bug in do_set_property called from constructor (Gustavo, #353039)
      - Fix type registration involving interfaces with signals and/or
        properties (Gustavo)

2.11.3 21-august-2006
      - Documentation updates (John)
      - Documentation build fixes (Johan, John, Gian Mario Tagliaretti)
      - PyGObject can now be compiled using a C++ compiler (Murray Cumming)
      - Type registration bug fix (Gustavo)

2.11.2 8-august-2006
      - Add fixxref.py from PyGTK (Johan)
      - Fix parallel build (#350225, Ed Catmur)

2.11.1 4-august-2006
      - Add John Finlay's reference manual (Johan, John)
      - Fix GOption mem leak (Gustavo)
      - Infrastructure for lazy type registration (Johan)
      - Enum/Flags fixes (Gustavo, John)
      - Eliminate some GCC warnings (Johan)

2.11.0 12-july-2006
      - Add GOption support (#163645, Johannes Hölzl)
      - GObject metaclass converted to Python code (Gustavo)
      - Register GType constants from Python-land (Johan)
      - Distutils updates (John Ehresman, Cedric Gustin)
      - Add support for signal emission hooks (#154845, Johan)
      - g_spawn_close_pid support (Gustavo)
      - Add new APIs do add or disable log redirections (Muntyan, #323786)
      - "sub-sub-type" bug fixed (Gustavo)
      - Coverity report code fixes (Johan)
      - Support retrieving signal and property info from interfaces (Finlay)
      - Support parameters of type G_TYPE_GSTRING in signals (Gustavo)
      - Wrap a few g_filename_* APIs (Gustavo)

2.10.1 11-april-2006
      - uint64 property bug fix (Andy Wingo)
      - Hard code path to 2.0 (Gustavo)
      - Allow only tuples and lists in strv to value (Gustavo)
      - Include dsextras.py in the dist (Johan)

2.10.0 13-march-2006
      - enum/leak fix (Michael Smith)

2.9.0 16-january-2006
      - Signal accumulator support (Gustavo)
      - GObject doc string generation improvements (Gustavo)
      - Discover GInterfaces in runtime (Gustavo)
      - Warn if return value in iowatch callback is not bool (Gustavo)
      - Convert string arrays properly (Christopher Aillon)

2.8.0 9-january-2006
      - Initial release, split of from PyGTK.
      - Updates for Python 2.5's richcompare (Manish Yosh)
      - PyFlags bug fixes (Gustavo)
      - Fix leak in pygobject_new_with_interfaces (Johan)
      - Undeprecate gobject.type_register (Johan)