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27 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1998</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">2.84.0<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-ed31c07fd03d88c443ffa6320dd3488c0bca8e12-v18_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-ed31c07fd03d88c443ffa6320dd3488c0bca8e12-v18-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137964?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span> / 6 March 2025<span class="noprint">; 12 days ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">6 March 2025</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib.git">gitlab<wbr />.gnome<wbr />.org<wbr />/GNOME<wbr />/glib<wbr />.git</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137964#P1324" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a>, <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">Cross-platform</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">Library</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License" title="GNU Lesser General Public License">LGPLv2.1</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gtk.org/">www<wbr />.gtk<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg/250px-GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg/330px-GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg/500px-GTK%2B_software_architecture.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="288" /></a><figcaption>Simplified software architecture of <a href="/wiki/GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pango" title="Pango">Pango</a>, <a href="/wiki/GDK" title="GDK">GDK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Accessibility_Toolkit" title="Accessibility Toolkit">ATK</a>, <a href="/wiki/GIO_(software)" title="GIO (software)">GIO</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)" title="Cairo (graphics)">Cairo</a> and GLib.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>GLib</b> is a bundle of three (formerly five) low-level system <a href="/wiki/Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">libraries</a> written in <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> and developed mainly by <a href="/wiki/The_GNOME_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="The GNOME Project">GNOME</a>. GLib's code was separated from <a href="/wiki/GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a>, so it can be used by software other than GNOME and has been developed in parallel ever since. </p><p>The name "GLib" originates from the project's start as a GTK C utility library. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GLib&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>GLib provides advanced data structures, such as memory chunks, doubly and singly <a href="/wiki/Linked_list" title="Linked list">linked lists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hash_table" title="Hash table">hash tables</a>, dynamic <a href="/wiki/String_(computer_science)" title="String (computer science)">strings</a> and string utilities, such as a <a href="/wiki/Lexical_analysis" title="Lexical analysis">lexical</a> scanner, string chunks (groups of strings), dynamic <a href="/wiki/Array_data_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Array data structure">arrays</a>, balanced <a href="/wiki/Binary_tree" title="Binary tree">binary trees</a>, <a href="/wiki/K-ary_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="K-ary tree">N-ary trees</a>, quarks (a two-way association of a string and a unique integer identifier), keyed data lists, relations, and <a href="/wiki/Tuple" title="Tuple">tuples</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cache_algorithms" class="mw-redirect" title="Cache algorithms">Caches</a> provide memory management. </p><p>GLib implements functions that provide <a href="/wiki/Thread_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thread (computer science)">threads</a>, thread programming and related facilities such as primitive variable access, <a href="/wiki/Mutual_exclusion" title="Mutual exclusion">mutexes</a>, asynchronous <a href="/wiki/Queue_(data_structure)" class="mw-redirect" title="Queue (data structure)">queues</a>, secure <a href="/wiki/Memory_pool" title="Memory pool">memory pools</a>, <a href="/wiki/Message_passing" title="Message passing">message passing</a> and logging, <a href="/wiki/Hook_function" class="mw-redirect" title="Hook function">hook functions</a> (callback registering) and <a href="/wiki/Timer" title="Timer">timers</a>. GLib also includes message passing facilities such as <a href="/wiki/Endianness" title="Endianness">byte order conversion</a> and I/O channels. </p><p>Some other features of GLib include: </p> <ul><li>standard <a href="/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)" title="Macro (computer science)">macros</a></li> <li>warnings and assertions</li> <li>dynamic loading of <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)" title="Plug-in (computing)">modules</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Components">Components</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GLib&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Components"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The GLib package consisted of five libraries, but they were all merged into one library, since then named simply <i>GLib</i>, and are no longer sustained as standalone libraries. The original libraries were: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GObject" title="GObject">GObject</a>, an object system including the type system GType</li> <li>GLib</li> <li>GModule</li> <li>GThread</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GIO_(software)" title="GIO (software)">GIO</a></li></ul> <p>Of these, three continue to reside in distinct subdirectories of the source tree, and so can be thought of as discrete components: GLib, GObject, and GIO. These can be thought of as a software stack: GObject relies on GLib, and GIO provides higher-level functionality that uses both. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GLib&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>GLib began as part of the <a href="/wiki/GTK%2B" class="mw-redirect" title="GTK+">GTK+</a> project, now named GTK. However, before releasing GTK+ version 2, the project's developers decided to separate code from GTK+ that was not for <a href="/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface">graphical user interfaces</a> (GUIs), thus creating GLib as a separate software bundle. GLib was released as a separate library so other developers, those not using the GUI-related parts of GTK+, could use the non-GUI parts of the library without the overhead of depending on the full GUI library. </p><p>Since GLib is a <a href="/wiki/Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">cross-platform</a> library, applications using it to interface with the <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a> are usually portable across different operating systems without major changes.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Releases">Releases</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GLib&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Releases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Glib is undergoing active development. For a current overview see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/tags">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/NEWS</a>. The table below documents major patch notes from 1998 to 2022. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Release series </th> <th>Initial<br />release date </th> <th>Major enhancements </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="background:light-gray">GLib 1.x </th></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/1.1/">1.1</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">1998-09-12 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/1.2/">1.2</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">1999-02-27 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/1.3/">1.3</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2001-09-25 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="background:light-gray">GLib 2.x </th></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.0/">2.0</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2002-03-08 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.24/">2.24</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2010-03-26 </td> <td>GVariant, GConverted </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.26/">2.26</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2010-09-27 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=GSettings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="GSettings (page does not exist)">GSettings</a>, GDbus, <a href="/wiki/GObject" title="GObject">GObject</a> property bindings (GAtomic for refcounting) </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.30/">2.30</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2011-09-26 </td> <td>Non-unique GApplications, use <code><a href="/wiki/File_descriptor" title="File descriptor">eventfd()</a></code> for mainloop wakeup, GHashTable set optimization, GObject data scalability </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.32/">2.32</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2012-03-24 </td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2011-August/msg00059.html">Plans for GLib 2.32</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.34/">2.34</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2012-09-23 </td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.6/developers-glib.html.en">What's New for Developers in GLib 2.34</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.36/">2.36</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2013-03-25 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.38/">2.38</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2013-09-23 </td> <td>applications launched using <a href="/wiki/D-Bus" title="D-Bus">D-Bus</a> activation<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> GSubprocess, <a href="/wiki/Unicode#Versions" title="Unicode">Unicode 6.3</a> (released September 2013) </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.40/">2.40</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2014-03-24 </td> <td>GNotification, System notification API<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.42/">2.42</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2014-09-22 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.43/">2.43</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2014-10-27 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.44/">2.44</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2015-03-23 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.45/">2.45</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2015-04-30 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.46/">2.46</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2015-09-21 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.47/">2.47</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2015-10-26 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.48/">2.48</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2016-03-22 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.50/">2.50</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2016-09-19 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.52/">2.52</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2017-03-19 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.53/">2.53</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2017-04-25 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.54/">2.54</a> </th> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-01-08 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.55/">2.55</a> </th> <td>2018-02-06 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