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2.19.1
======

  Misc
  - Add --search-key argument to gconftool-2 (#406329; Richard Hult)
  - Fix gconftool-2 --help output translation (#432925; Christian Persch)
  - Init GThread (#432923; Christian Persch)
  - Fix strings used for errors about invalid keys (#406251; Christian Persch)
  - Fix build failure with -z defs in LDFLAGS (#409221; Loïc Minier)

  Translation updates:
  Khaled Hosny (ar), unknown (cs), Kenneth Nielsen (da), David Lodge (en_GB),
  Jorge González (es), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ankit Patel (gu),
  Yair Hershkovitz (he), Thierry Randrianiriana (mg), Espen Stefansen (nb),
  Yannig MARCHEGAY (oc), Subhransu Behera (or), Daniel Nylander (sv),
  Felix (ta), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Yang Zhang (zh_CN).


2.18.0.1
========

 Misc
  - Don't fail db sync operations and leave %gconf-tree.xml.new
    files laying around if there wasn't a %gconf-tree.xml to start
    with (Loïc Minier)

2.18.0
======

 Misc
  - Make sure error strings are utf-8 (Christian Persch)
  - don't include xml-entry.h twice (Kjartan Maraas)
  - fix leak in gconf meta info code (Richard Hult, Ray Strode)
  - remove more popt gunk (Chris Wilson, Ray)
  - when installing a batch of schema files, don't abort
    the entire transaction if one fails (Laszlo Peter)
  - don't close already closed file descriptors if fdwalk()
    is available (Padraig O'Briain) 
  - use g_file_test instead of gconf_file_test or
    gconf_file_exists (Paolo Borelli)
  - remove dead code found from coverity scan (Paolo Borelli)
  - retain file permissions on gconf database files when
    syncing a tree to disk (Narayana Pattipati)
  - Add g_return_val_if_fail checks on type inputs for 
    gconf_value_new_from_string (Kjartan Maraas, Ray)

 Translators
  - Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)

2.16.1
======

 Misc
  - Fix error handling in the getters (Matthias Clasen)
  - Fix a leak (Pascal Terjan)
  - Close write end of pipe in parent (Tom Tromey)

 Translators
  - Khaled Hosny (ar)
  - Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó (ca)
  - Priit Laes (et)
  - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
  - Yair Hershkovitz (he)
  - Gabor Kelemen (hu)
  - Luca Ferretti (it)
  - Vladimer Sichinava (ka)
  - Thierry Randrianiriana (mg)
  - The GNOME PL Team (pl)
  - Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Daniel Nylander (sv)
  - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
  - Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (vi)

2.14.0
======

 Misc
  - Improved manual page (Christopher Hanna)
  - Uses the new g_slice API (Benoît Dejean)
  - Got rid of padding members in private structs (Benoît)
  - Speed up the installation of multiple schema files (Josselin Mouette,
    Mark LcLoughlin)

 Fixes
  - Only calls closelog() when it has HAVE_SYSLOG_H (Tor Lillqvist)
  - Fixed a memory leak, bugs #332528 and #334047 (Kjartan Maraas,
    Matthias Clasen)

 Translators
  - Petr Tomeš (cs)
  - Rhys Jones (cy)
  - Ole Laursen (da)
  - Hendrik Richter (de)
  - Kostas Papadimas (el)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Iñaki Larrañaga (eu)
  - Rajesh Ranjan (hi)
  - Gabor Kelemen (hu)
  - Alessio Frusciante (it)
  - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
  - Changwoo Ryu (ko)
  - Gnome PL Team (pl)
  - Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
  - Duarte Loreto (pt)
  - Mişu Moldovan (ro)
  - Leonid Kanter (ru)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Слободан Д. Средојевић (sr)
  - Christian Rose (sv)
  - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
  - Funda Wang (zh_CN)

2.13.5
======

 Features
  - Save translations in separate file with markup backend's "meged" mode (Mark McLoughlin)
  - Switch on "merged" mode for the defaults database (Mark McLoughlin)
  - Make gconf_value_compare() and gconf_entry_equal() public (Jorn Baayen)
  - Lots of new docs (Dinoop Thomas)

 Fixes
  - Remove unused --enable-gconf-source configure option (Mark McLoughlin)
  - Fix parallel build (Thomas Vander Stichele)
  - Make gconf_client_remove_dir() clear the dir's cache (Vincent Untz)
  - Win32 build fix - include DLLs in zipfile package (Tor Lillqvist)
  - Make gconf_value_decode() work with schemas (Nicolas Peninguy)
  - Fix segault unescaping strings (Dan Williams)
  - Remove C99 usage (Jens Granseuer)

 Translators
  - Ales Nyakhaychyk (be)
  - Alexander Shopov (bg)
  - Jordi Mallach (ca)
  - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
  - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
  - Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
  - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
  - Ankit Patel (gu)
  - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
  - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
  - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
  - Tino Meinen (nl)
  - Åsmund Skjæveland (nn)
  - Kjartan Maraas (no)
  - Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
  - Marcel Telka (sk)
  - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
  - Clytie Siddall (vi)
  - Abel Cheung (zh_HK)
  - Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)

2.12.1
======

 Fixes
  - Code cleanups (Kjartan Maraas)
  - Open GModules with G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY (Kjartan Maraas)
  - Fix change notification with multiple sources (Alexander Larsson)
  - Allow space in config source names on windows (Tor Lillqvist)
  - Read xml files in larger chunks (Mark McLoughlin)
  - Simplify the handling of --enable-schemas-install (Stepan Kasal)
  - Win32 Fixes (Tor Lillqvist)

 Translators

  - Alexander Shopov (bg)
  - Samia Niamatullah (bn)
  - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
  - Martin Willemoes Hansen (da)
  - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
  - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza (eu)
  - Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
  - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
  - Ankit Patel (gu)
  - Yair Hershkovitz (he)
  - Erdal Ronahi (ku)
  - Tino Meinen (nl)
  - Mişu Moldovan (ro)
  - Marcel Telka (sk)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Christian Rose (sv)
  - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
  - Clytie Siddall (vi)
  - Funda Wang (zh_CN)

2.12.0
======

 Misc

  - Fix issue with Win32 zipfile (Tor Lillqvist)

 Translators

  - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
  - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
  - Ankit Patel (gu)
  - Gabor Kelemen (hu)
  - Mohammad DAMT (id)
  - Alessio Frusciante (it)
  - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
  - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
  - Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
  - Leonid Kanter (ru)
  - Данило Шеган (sr)
  - Baris Cicek (tr)
  - Clytie Siddall (vi)
  - Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)

2.11.91
=======

 Misc

  - Fix typos in some error messages (Adam Weinberger)

 Translators

  - Alexander Shopov (bg)
  - Jordi Mallach (ca)
  - Rhys Jones (cy)
  - Hendrik Richter (de)
  - Kostas Papadimas (el)
  - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
  - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
  - Gabor Kelemen (hu)
  - Changwoo Ryu (ko)
  - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
  - Sameer Rajbhandari (ne)
  - Tino Meinen (nl)
  - Kjartan Maraas (no)
  - Gnome PL Team (pl)
  - Duarte Loreto (pt)
  - Mişu Moldovan (ro)
  - Marcel Telka (sk)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
  - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
  - Funda Wang (zh_CN)

2.11.90
=======

 Fixes

  - More work on Win32 support (Tor Lillqvist)
  - Fix gconfd not shutting down when not in use (Mark)
  - Plug some memory leaks (Aivars Kalvans)
  - Use G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED in some APIs (Marcus Meissner)
  - Fix build breakage (Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro)
  - Improve performance by reducing no. of g_string_append_c() calls (Aivars Kalvans)

 Translators

  - Rostislav Raykov (bg)
  - Jordi Mallach (ca)
  - Martin Willemoes Hansen (da)
  - Hendrik Richter (de)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza (eu)
  - Hamed Malek (fa)
  - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
  - Ankit Patel (gu)
  - Yair Hershkovitz (he)
  - Mohammad DAMT (id)
  - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
  - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
  - Kjartan Maraas (nb, no)
  - Duarte Loreto (pt)
  - Marcel Telka (sk)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Данило Шеган (sr)
  - Christian Rose (sv)
  - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
  - Funda Wang (zh_CN)
  - Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)

2.11.1
======

 Features

  - Port to Windows (Tor Lillqvist)
  - Backend for retrieving Evolution data sources from LDAP (Mark)

 Fixes

  - Fix crasher with gconf-editor (Josselin Mouette, Mark)
  - Generate GType for GConfUnsetFlags (Mark, Gustavo Carneiro)
  - Fix --enable-schemas-install error message (Stepan Kasal)
  - Fix build failure when building from CVS (Mark)

 Translators

  - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
  - Dafydd Harries (cy)
  - Kostas Papadimas (el)
  - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
  - David Lodge (en_GB)
  - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza (eu)
  - Elnaz Sarbar (fa)
  - Gabor Kelemen (hu)
  - Steve Murphy (rw)
  - Marcel Telka (sk)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)

2.10.0
======

 Translators

  - Ivar Smolin (et)
  - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
  - Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
  - Mişu Moldovan (ro)
  - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
  - Canonical Ltd (xh)

2.9.90
======

 Fixes

  - Fix daemon reloading causing listeners to break (Mark)
  - Fixes problem where a path file which only includes another path
    file wouldn't work (Mark)
  - Fix double free with gconf_client_clear_cache() (Mark)
  - Add pre-condition to gconf_value_validate (Vincent Untz)

 Translators

  - Rostislav Raykov (bg)
  - Priit Laes (et)
  - Pauli Virtanen (fi)
  - Marcel Telka (sk)

2.9.2
=====

 Fixes

  - Make all_entries() get the schema name when the value is set (Fernando Herrera)
  - Look up value in the C locale even if its found in the current locale (Fernando Herrera)
  - Add title/name to the API documentation (Jonathan Blandford)

 Translators

  - Changwoo Ryu (ko)

2.8.1
=====

 Fixes

  - If the toplevel directory of a source isn't writable,
    then mark the whole source as readonly (Mark)
  - Plug various leaks (Kjartan)

 Translators

  - Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
  - Alessio Frusciante (it)
  - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
  - Li-Jen Hsin (zh_TW)

2.8.0.1
=======

 Fixes

  - Use automake 1.7 (Mark)
  - Always ship the API docs html in the tarball (Mark)

2.8.0
=====

 Translators

  - Ayman Hourieh (ar)
  - Kenan Hadžiavdić (bs)
  - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
  - Dafydd Harries (cy)
  - Kostas Papadimas (el)
  - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
  - Alessio Frusciante (it)
  - Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)
  - Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
  - Mişu Moldovan (ro)
  - Gurkan Aslan (tr)

2.7.92
======

 Fixes

  - Fix crash caused by dropping the default database early (Mark)
  - Fix issue with SIGHUP causing listeners to be dropped (Josselin Mouette)
  - Only install the global schema default in the C locale (Mark)
  - Don't crash if there's no schema for the locale (Mark)

 Translators

  - Jordi Mallach (ca)
  - Laszlo Dvornik (hu)
  - Pawan Chitrakar (ne)
  - Tino Meinen (nl)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)
  - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)

2.7.91.1
========

 Features

  - Switch off the "subtree-in-a-file" thing again (Mark)
      See: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-August/msg00393.html

 Translators

  - Kenan Hadžiavdić (bs)
  - Martin Willemoes Hansen (da)
  - Pauli Virtanen (fi)
  - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
  - Laurent Dhima (sq)

2.7.91
======

 Fixes

   - Fix a bunch of coding errors (Kjartan Maraas)
   - Always install schemas with the correct permissions (Mark)
   - Fix various strings to use better terminology (Danilo Šegan)

 Translators

   - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
   - Christian Neumair (de)
   - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
   - David Lodge (en_GB)
   - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
   - Pauli Virtanen (fi)
   - Ankit Patel (gu)
   - Changwoo Ryu (ko)
   - Sanlig Badral (mn)
   - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
   - Åsmund Skjæveland (nn)
   - Kjartan Maraas (no)
   - Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
   - Gnome PL Team (pl)
   - Duarte Loreto (pt)
   - Dmitry G. Mastrukov (ru)
   - Laurent Dhima (sq)
   - Данило Шеган (sr)
   - Christian Rose (sv)
   - Funda Wang (zh_CN)

2.7.90
======

  Fixes

   - Remove unused internal function (Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela)
   - Bring docs up to date with GObject (rather than GtkObject) usage (Kai Willadsen)

  Translators

   - Rostislav Raykov (bg)
   - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
   - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
   - Ravishankar Shrivastava (hi)
   - Laszlo Dvornik (hu)
   - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
   - Changwoo Ryu (ko)
   - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
   - Sanlig Badral (mn)
   - Tino Meinen (nl)
   - Kjartan Maraas (no)
   - Gnome PL Team (pl)
   - Duarte Loreto (pt)
   - Laurent Dhima (sq)
   - Christian Rose (sv)
   - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)

2.7.3.1
=======

  Fixes

   - Make --makefile-install-rule worky again (Mark)
   - Remove an outdated comment from the path file (Fernando Herrera)

  Translators

   - Alexander Shopov (bg)
   - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
   - Gareth Owen (en_GB)
   - Laurent Dhima (sq)

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.