+Release notes
+=============
+
+* GTK+ 2.6 supports clipboard persistency. To make use of this feature,
+ a clipboard manager following the specification at
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/clipboard-manager-spec
+ must be running. A sample implementation of such a clipboard manager
+ is available at
+ http://people.imendio.com/andersca/archives/clipboard-manager-0.3.tar.gz
+ Applications can use the function gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence()
+ to find out if clipboard persistence is available.
+
+* Notification on clipboard ownership changes via GdkOwnerChange events
+ requires the XFIXES X extension. Applications can use the function
+ gdk_display_supports_selection_notification() to find out if ownerchip
+ change notification is available.
+
+* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the freedesktop.org icon theme
+ specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environtment variable may be
+ necessary if your icons aren't installed in the default location
+ /usr/share/icons.
+
+* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 can make use of mmap()able cache files
+ to avoid a lot of disk searching overhead. GTK+ includes a utility named
+ gtk-update-icon-cache to generate these cache files. For further details,
+ see the gtk-update-icon-cache man page or the GTK+ documentation.
+
+* To reduce code size and improve efficiency, GTK+, when compiled
+ with the GNU toolchain, has separate internal and external entry
+ points for exported functions. The internal names, which begin with
+ IA__, may be seen when debugging a GTK+ program.
+
+* The following functions have been deprecated in GTK+ 2.6:
+ gdk_pango_context_set_colormap
+ gtk_cell_renderer_editing_canceled
+
+* The new GtkFileChooser widget emphasizes simplicity and thus does
+ not provide a navigation entry by default when opening files.
+ Experienced command line users will likely want to make heavy use of
+ the location dialog brought up by the Control-L key shortcut.
+
+* The GTK+ libraries use an '_' prefix to indicate private symbols that
+ must not be used by applications. On some platforms, symbols beginning
+ with prefixes such as _gtk, _gdk, and _pango will be exported
+ from the library, on others not. In no case can applications
+ use these private symbols. In addition to that, GTK+ 2.6 makes several
+ symbols private which were not in any installed header files and
+ were never intended to be exported.
+
+* The gdk_pixbuf_xlib library included in the contrib/ directory
+ and the framebuffer GDK backend included in the gdk/linux-fb directory
+ of GTK+ are provided on an as-is basis and have not been tested at all.
+ No guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
+ compatibility are provided.
+
+* On Unix, the assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on
+ the filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
+ the GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation
+ depends on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.
+
+ If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then you
+ may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:
+
+ G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale
+ export G_FILENAME_ENCODING
+
+ (Earlier versions of GLib 2.x required a different environment variable
+ setting; G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 to achieve the same effect; this
+ is still supported, but G_FILENAME_ENCODING is preferred.)
+ Best integration of GTK+ 2.6 with the environment is achieved by
+ using a UTF-8 locale.
+
+ On Windows, filenames passed to GTK+ should always be in UTF-8, as
+ in GLib 2.6. This is different than in previous versions of GTK+
+ where the system codepage was used. As in GLib, for DLL ABI
+ stability, applications built against previous versions of GTK+ will
+ use entry points providing the old semantics.
+
+ When compiling against GTK+ 2.6, applications intended to be
+ portable to Windows must take the UTF-8 file name encoding into
+ consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
+ names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.
+