Fedora 9 Update: glib2-2.16.6-2.fc9

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-9287
2008-11-06 02:55:35
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Name        : glib2
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.16.6
Release     : 2.fc9
URL         : http://www.gtk.org
Summary     : A library of handy utility functions
Description :
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis
for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure
handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime
functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an
object system.

This package provides version 2 of GLib.

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Update Information:

The current glib2 build in F9 is using a slow, mutex-based implementation of
atomic operations on i386. This update changes  it back to using the fast
assembler implementations.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Oct 27 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.6-2
- Use asm implementation for atomic ops on x86
* Fri Sep 12 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.6-1
- Update to 2.16.6
* Sat Jul 19 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.5-1
- Update to 2.16.5
* Tue Jul  1 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.4-1
- Update to 2.16.4
* Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.3-7
- Fix a directory ownership oversight (#449885)
* Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.3-6
- Fix a race in class initialization that causes assertion 
  failures and crashes
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #468581 - glib2 compiled with super-slow, semantically dubious atomic operations for no reason
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468581
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update glib2' at the command line.
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