GLib

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.Major new features: * GIO: a VFS API, designed to replace GnomeVFS. The GIO implementation in GLib has support for local filesystems. The new, separate gvfs module contains various backend implementations (cifs, FTP, sftp, http, ...) * GChecksum: provides various hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 * GTest: a test framework