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2.7.3
=====

 Features

  - Switch on "subtree-in-a-file" at certain points in the tree (Mark)
      o See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00424.html
  - Add --unload to gconftool which complements --load (Julio M. Merino Vidal, Mark)
  - Add --sysgconfsubdir configure argument (Julio M. Merino Vidal)
  - Make gconfd reload all databases on SIGHUP (Josselin Mouette)

 Fixes

  - Fix gconfd segfault from freeing the default database twice (Mark)
  - Warn in docs to call g_type_init() before using GConfCient (Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi)
  - Don't create a dir during docs build if not needed (Julio M. Merino Vidal)
  - Encode non-ascii GConf keys using a more compact encoding (Mariano Suárez-Alvare)
  - 64-bit fix (Joe Marcus Clarke)
  - Plug a leak (Kjartan Maraas)

2.7.1
=====

 Features:

  - Add a --ignore-schema-defaults argument for use with gconftool-2 --dump (Mark)
  - Add API to construct databases from arbitrary stacks of sources (Mark)
  - Allow backends to notify the daemon of changes (Cyrille Moureaux, Mark)
  - Add vtable size mismatch detection (Mark)

 Fixes:

  - Fix accidental use of a C99ism (Morten Welinder)
  - Fix random crashes when unsetting keys (Richard Hult)
  - Fix .gconfd/saved_state growing to a huge size (Gustavo Giráldez)
 
 Translators:

  - Gisela Carbonell (ca)
  - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
  - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
  - Gareth Owen (en_GB)
  - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
  - Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza (eu)
  - Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
  - Nirav, Ankit, Ankur, Atit, Bhavin, Kartik, Khushbu, Sweta. (gu)
  - helgi (is)
  - Alessio Frusciante (it)
  - Kjartan Maraas (no)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Данило Шеган (sr)
  - Yuri Syrota (uk)
  - Funda Wang (zh_CN)

2.6.1
===

 Fixes:

 - add a --enable-gtk=yes/no/auto configure arg (Julio Merino, Mark)
 - fix basic example app to not crash (Elijah Newren)
 - don't try and create a dir if it already exists (Ryan Lovett, Mark)
 - only ever create the $(HOME)/.gconfd/ dir in the daemon (Colin Walters)
 - add quotes around AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 (Frédéric L. W. Meunier)
 - handle <entry> with only <schema_name> correctly in --load (Mark)
 - fix the order in which local-defaults.path gets included (Mark)
 - fix minor inefficiency when not printing debugging messages (Mark)

 Translators:

 - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
 - Robert Sedak (hr)
 - Samúel Jón Gunnarsson (is)
 - Alessio Frusciante (it)
 - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
 - Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
 - Gurkan Aslan (tr)

2.5.1
===

 Thanks to lots of people for contributions to this release. 

 The primary change in this release is switching over to a new backend
 for loading the XML config files, which should be faster and use far
 less memory. However, the change is high-risk, report any problems.

2.4.0
===

 Thanks to Muktha Narayan, Christophe Fergeau, Frederic Crozat, 
 Jeffrey Stedfast, Mark McLoughlin, Dafydd Harries, Ross Golder,
 Greg Hudson for contributions to this release.

 - print usage message when no options passed to gconftool 
 - API docs updates
 - fix UTF-8 handling for command line output
 - fix reliability of writing out XML
 - ensure recursive unsets get synced
 - fix flag value that was "0"
 - fix recursive preloading
 - fix a memleak
 - fix some gconftool messages/segfaults

2.3.3
===

 Thanks to James Cape, Rodrigo Moya, Michael Meeks, Ross Burton, 
 Mark McLoughlin for contributions to this release.

 - new gconf_client_notify() API to fake a notification
 - fixes to gconftool --dump feature
 - implement schema uninstallation in gconftool so packages
   can avoid leaving junk
 - fix build issues with linc-free ORBit
 - new gconf_client_recursive_unset API
 - fix gcc 3.3 strict aliasing warnings

2.3.2
===

 Thanks to Masahiro Sakai, Muktha Narayan, Brian Cameron, Ross Burton, 
 Jeff Franks for fixes in this release.

 - fix build on Cygwin
 - don't complain about missing saved_state in syslog
 - improve gconf-sanity-check error text
 - added --get-type, --get-list-size and --get-list-element
 - exported gconf_entry_copy
 - cleaned up headers for C++
 - added missing GCONF_CLIENT_GET_CLASS
 - hackaround fix for 2.3.1 lockfile breakage

===
GConf 1.2.0 released June 11 2002.