4.20.1 (2025-03-23)
======
- autotools-build: Search for xdt-gen-visibility also in the working 
tree
- meson-build: Bump meson min version
- build: Automate copyright year management
- Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0
- docs: Ignore visibility header and align build systems
- build: Remove libxfce4util-config.h from GI
- xfce-i18n: Use g_strlcpy instead of falling back to it
- meson-build: Add missing check for varargs.h
- xfce-rc: Fix C locale handling
- meson-build: Use SPDX license expression
- meson-build: Update debug/optimization flag management
- build: Use VERSION_FULL intead of VERSION or PACKAGE_VERSION
- meson-build: Let pkg.generate() fill in required libs
- meson-build: Use relative path in gtk-doc
- meson-build: Check for libintl only if required
- meson-build: Remove duplicated CFLAGS
- meson-build: Gobject introspection cleanup
- Fix namespace for GObject introspection in meson build too
- Fix namespace for GObject introspection
- Removed extra ';' in header files.
- build: Remove unused check for XDT_CHECK_ABI
- build: Add missing update of --enable-visibility flag
- docs: Don't run gtkdoc-check
- build: Bump xdt required version
- docs: Remove generated types from repository
- Add libxfce4util/meson.build to Makefile.am EXTRA_DIST
- Translation Updates:
  Romanian

4.20.0 (2024-12-15)
======

- Translation Updates:
  Polish

4.19.5 (2024-12-01)
======
- Bump Xfce overall version to 4.20pre2
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Call xfce_kiosk's parent finalizer to prevent leaks
- Translation Updates:
  Amharic, Telugu

4.19.4 (2024-11-01)
======
- bump Xfce overall version to 4.20pre1
- Remove local ABI check
- Add meson build
- Migrate to xdt-gen-visibility and xdt-check-abi
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.20
- Apply .clang-format file
- Add missing includes of libxfce4util-alias.h
- clang-format: Add file
- xfce-rc: Fix support for the LANGUAGE environment variable
- scan-build: Add false positive file
- build: Use AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
- session-management: Try to create D-BUS proxy synchronously
- session-management: Always set an error when returning FALSE
- fileutils: Fix MD5 hash in xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path()
- Translation Updates:
  Asturian, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Persian (Iran)

4.19.3 (2024-02-05)
======
- Update copyright year
- Search for bind_textdomain_codeset in libintl too
- xfce-rc: Add support for the LANGUAGE environment variable
- session-management: Fix name watching management

4.19.2 (2023-05-11)
======
- Allow disabling polkit interactivity in session management (Fixes #21)
- consolekit: Complete implementation
- consolekit: Use Reboot and PowerOff ConsoleKit2 methods
- consolekit: Name methods according to the specification
- systemd: Complete implementation
- systemd: Name methods according to the specification

4.19.1 (2023-05-07)
======
- Add XfceConsolekit and XfceSystemd
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Add missing config.h includes
- Improve checksum calculation (#17)

4.19.0 (2023-04-17)
======
- Update copyright year also in kiosk-query
- build: Use m4_defined min versions and cleanup
- build: Switch from intltool to gettext
- xfce-rc: Document the fact that delimiter escaping is not supported
- xfce-rc: Properly write translated entries when available
- Update bug report address
- docs: Properly enable GI docs
- Handle remaining escape sequences
- Fix desktop entry value escaping
- Translation Updates:
  French, Greek

4.18.0 (2022-12-15)
======
- build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.18

4.17.4 (2022-11-30)
======
- bump copyright to 2022
- docs: Fix return value of xfce_str_replace()

4.17.3 (2022-10-31)
======
- Update COPYING (!27)
- Bump GObject Introspection minim version to 1.66 (xfconf#8)
- docs: Add missing index of deprecated symbols
- docs: Fix broken links
- docs: Fix "unused declarations" warning
- docs: Update `.gitignore`
- Remove limit on the size of configuration file line (!29)
- Fix documentation of 'xfce_str_is_empty'
- Clean the build system and use the new XDT_VERSION_INIT (!9)
- Silence `-Wanalyzer-null-dereference` warnings
- doc: Fix typo in `xfce_*_append_quoted()`
- xfce-miscutils: Fix `deadcode.DeadStores` warning from `scan-build`
- i18n: Make sure to set locale according to environment (!26)
- Translation Updates:
  Azerbaijani, Chinese (China), Georgian, Greek

4.17.2
======
- Memo for future devs: Deprecate xfce_str_replace()
- Fix document generation error
- Remove duplicate xfce_str_is_empty ()
- Move xfce_append_quoted () to xfce-string
- Remove invalid custom ngettext() macro
- Fix some GObject introspection warnings
- Add missing G_BEGIN_DECLS and G_END_DECLS
- Translation Updates:
  Catalan, Galician, Italian

4.17.1
======
- Create new function xfce_create_shared_thumbnail_path
(Required for shared thumbnail support in thunar and tumbler)
- usage of g_file_peek_path requires glib 2.56

4.17.0
======
- Add xfce_unescape_desktop_entry_value
- xfce-gio-extensions - management of gvfs trusted attribute
- libxfce4util needs to be first character Capital
- Partially revert "Fix (some) GObject introspection warnings"
- Fix (some) GObject introspection warnings
- Revamp the documentation to uniformize accross components
- Translation Updates:
  Belarusian, Estonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish

4.16.0
======
- Prepare for 4.16 final release
- Properly handle URI schemes other than "file"


4.15.6
======
- Update configure.ac.in syntax
- Namespace of the gir needs capital first letter
- Bump GLib (and gio, gthread, etc) minimum to 2.50.0
- Remove typedef already defined by G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE macro
  (Fixes #4)


4.15.5
======
- Bump Xfce version to 4.16pre2
- Add README.md to EXTRA_DIST


4.15.4
======
- Create README.md
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Armenian, Hebrew, Slovak, Uyghur

4.15.3
======
- Version bump in preparation of 4.16pre1


4.15.2
======
- Complete the field codes expansion


4.15.1
======
- Add field codes expansion and related utilities (code moved from garcon)
- docs: Show the "Miscellaneous Utilities" section
- Add basic GitLab pipeline
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Belarusian, Hindi, Italian,
  Spanish, Uzbek

4.15.0
======
- Bump the Xfce version to 4.15
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Galician, Spanish

4.14.0
======

- Bump the xfce version to 4.14

4.13.5
======

- Translation Updates:
  Armenian, Norwegian Bokmål

4.13.4
======
- Bump the Xfce version to 4.14pre2
- Translation Updates: Danish, Galician

4.13.3
======
[Please note that this is a development release.]
- Add support for rc files as symlinks (bug #14698)
- Fix GObject Introspection language bindings (bug #14766)
- Fix compiler error -Wcast-function-type (GCC 8)
- Bump minimum glib version
- Fix compilation warnings ""defined" may not be portable"
- Translation Updates: Arabic, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian,
  Kazakh, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Romanian, Slovak, Serbian, Uighur, Ukrainian

4.13.2
======
[Please note that this is a development release.]
- Add VAPIGEN for vala binding generation.
- Fix make distcheck build
- Better documentation processing (migrate away from sgml templates)
- Allow language-specific keys before language-neutral ones (some applications names were not
  localized in applications menu) (bug #13979)
- Translation updates: Arabic, Asturian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German,
  Greek, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish,
  French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh,
  Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk,
  Occitan (post 1500), Panjabi (Punjabi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian,
  Sinhala, Slovak, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu
  (Pakistan), Uzbek, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan)

4.13.1
======
[Please note that this is a development release.]
- Fix a minor typo: ment → meant
- Fix some autotools warnings, default debug to yes
- Fix duplicate DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
- Improve gobject-introspection annotations

4.13.0
======
[Please note that this is a development release.]
- Fix abicheck to handle ppc64 architecture
- Add support for GOBJECT-INTROSPECTION Bug #12159
- Translation updates: ast bg ca da gl he hr lt sv

4.12.1
======
- Set xfce_version_string to 4.12 (oops!).

4.12.0
======
- Update libtool version to reflect dropped symbols (bug #10737)
- Translation updates: ast, bg, de, es, fr, hr, nb, pl, ro, ru

4.11.0
======
- Autotools updates.
- Don't use freed rc file to avoid crash (bug #9026).
- Remove unused or unrequired API functions: xfce_strjoin,
  xfce_gethostname, xfce_putenv, xfce_setenv, xfce_unsetenv.
- Translation updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Welsh, Dzongkha, English
  (Australia), Georgian, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch (Flemish),
  Occitan (post 1500), Slovenian, Serbian, Thai, Tagalog (Philippines),
  Uyghur, Chinese (Hong Kong).

4.10.0
======
- Translation updates: Romanian, Chinese (China).

4.9.1
=====
- Bump glib to 2.24.
- Translation updates: German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese.

4.9.0
=====
- Make licenses static. You can only use
  xfce_get_license_text(...).
- Remove unused .h files.
- Remove xfce_strip_context(), use g_strip_context().
- Remove XfceDesktopEntry.
- Don't generate enum types.
- Only link against glib.
- Set version string to 4.10.
- Remove spec file and rpm build.
- Missing fallback for AC_RUN_IF_ELSE() when cross-compiling (bug #8166).
- Fix XfceRc group parsing with brackets in name (bug #8150).
- Reduce XfceRc structure size from from 216 to 176 bytes.
- Use some macros and drop unneeded strlen's in XfceRc.
- Use GSList in xfce-resource.
- Bump verinfo to 6:0:0.
- Translation updates (ar, et, eu, is, ko, lt, nl, nn, pt, ru,
  sk, zh_CN, zh_TW).

4.8.2
=====
- Change the version string to 4.8.
- Fixed incorrect assertion in xfce_strjoin (bug #7122).
- Fix "empty declaration" compiler warnings.
- Update FSF address and add missing licenses.
- Fix undef in libxfce4util.h header.
- Remove the internal slice allocator macros.
- Use chain to free slice instead of a loop.
- Translation updates (ko, ru, sk, zh_CN, nl).

4.8.1
=====
- Set xfce_version_string to 4.8.0.

4.8.0
=====
- Translation updates: Arabic, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Turkish.

4.7.5
=====
- Fix ABI check on ppc (bug #7004).
- Translation updates (en_BG).

4.7.4
=====
- Fix wrong capitalization of Xfce.
- Fix stdarg.h include (bug #6897).
- Translation updates (pt).

4.7.3
=====
- Explicitly link to gobject for the gtkdocs.
- Expand tilde in more situations in xfce_expand_variables().
- Remove encoding key from comment.
- Translation updates (he, kk, de, zh_TW, el, gl, pt).

4.7.2
=====
- Optimize xfce_rc_read_bool_entry().
- Optimize strcmp in xfce-rc-simple.
- Fix broken translations in applications using libxfce4util (bug #5842).
- Deprecate XfceDesktopEntry.
- Translation updates (ru, cs, lv, fi, eu, de, bn, de, uk, si, kk,
  pa, gl, zh_TW, sk, ug, fr, id, it).

4.7.1
=====
- Remove po/LINGUAS file so it does not override the languages defined
  in the configure file.

4.7.0
=====
- Build ChangeLog during make dist.
- Silent the build.
- Fix some compiler warnings.
- Use new xdt macros, xfce-dev-tools 4.7.2 is required.
- Various build changes for GIT.
- Misc other small changes.
- Translation updates (ca, zh_CN, es, da, gl, pa, ru, sq, lv, sk,
  kk, hu, ast, ur_PK, ur, tl_PH).

4.6.1
======
- Updated translations: Abel Martín (es), Masato Hashimoto (ja),
  Leandro Regueiro (gl), Alan Pepelko (sl), Piotr Sokół (po), Mișu Moldovan (ro)

4.6.0
======
- Add missing C++ wrappers in header files (patch by Jens Luedicke).
- Updated translations: Carles Muñoz Gorriz (ca), Enrico Tröger (de),
  Jeff Bailes (en_GB), Abel Martín (es), Jari Rahkonen (fi),
  Maximilian Schleiss (fr), Leandro Regueiro (gl), Andhika Padmawan (id),
  Masato Hashimoto (ja), Terje Uriansrud (nb_NO), Szymon Kałasz (pl),
  Og Maciel (pt_BR), Nuno Miguel (pt_PT), Daniel Nylander (sv),
  Gokmen Gorgen and Samed Beyribey (tr), Dimitri Nikitin (uk),
  Chris K. Zhang (zh_CN)

4.5.99.1
========
- Updated translations: Per Kongstad (da), Michal Várady (cs),
  Masato Hashimoto  (ja), Daniel Nylander (sv)

4.5.93
======
- Updated translations: Og Maciel (pt_BR), Abel Martin (es),
  Maxamilian Schleiss (fr), Daniel Nylander (sv), Masato Hashimoto (jp)

4.5.92
======
- Updated translations: Jari Rahkonen (fi), Abel Martin (es)
- Increment library version to avoid having a 4.6 library version older then
  the one in 4.4.
- Place G_GNUC_INTERNAL before function declaration for Sun Studio
  compatibility (bug #4580)


4.5.91
======
- Fix typo in i18n code (check for '/' in lang doesnt make sense)
- Updated translations: Og Maciel (pt_BR), Abel Martín (es)

4.5.90
======
- Do not use GMemChunk for XfceRc due to memory leaks (Bug #2427).
- Fix buglet when deleting XfceRc groups.
- Fix invalid use of g_slice_free1() in XfceRc (Bug #2854).
- Add support for function names in debug messages on Solaris (Bug #3090).
- New util functions for setting up POSIX signal handling using pipe(),
  GIOChannel and the glib main loop.
- Strip trailing slashes to avoid directories appearing multiple times in
  resource lookup functions.
- Updated translations: Maximilian Schleiss (fr), Besnik Bleta (sq),
  Mohamed Magdy (ar), Jeff Bailes (en_GB), Nuno Miguel (pt_PT), Daichi
  Kawahata (ja), Terje Uriansrud (nb_NO), Tegegne Tefera (am), Rihards
  Priedītis (lv), Muhammad Ali Makki (ur), Rashan Anushka (si), Leandro
  Regueiro (gl), Khaled Hosny (ar), Peter Vois (et),

4.4.0
=====
- Updated translations: Szymon Kałasz (pl)
- New translations: Geraint Rowlands (cy), Jovan Naumovski (mk)


4.3.99.2
========
- Updated translations: Pau Rul-lan Ferragut (ca), Maximilian Schleiss (fr)
- New translations: Michal Várady (cs), Tenzin Dendup (dz),
  ByungHyun Choi (ko), Stephan Arts (nl)


4.3.99.1
========
- Enable compilation with compilers other than gcc (Bug #1851).
- Updated translations: Fabian Nowak (de)
- New translations: Leandro Regueiro (gl), Dimitri Gogelia (ka)


4.1.6
=====
- Added LIBXFCE4UTIL_*_VERSION macros.


4.1.5
=====
- Added XDG Base Directory Implementation (version 0.6) and updated
  documentation.
- Small fixes to make gcc happy and first steps with Intel C compiler
  on FreeBSD.


4.1.4
=====
- Several bugfixes
- Added --with-broken-putenv=[auto/no/yes] to configure to make
  libxfce4util cross-compilable again.


4.1.3
=====
- Code cleanups (Yes, consistency is important)
- Switched to gtk-doc, cause of doxygen being unable to handle
  GObject's
- Mark some functions as DEPRECATED.


4.1.1
=====
- added xfce_setenv(), xfce_putenv()
- Started doxygen documentation of the code


4.1.0
=====
- Added xfce_textdomain(package, localedir, encoding) to avoid
  problems with gettext binding in the future.