2.79.0
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
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+Overview of changes in GLib 2.79.0, 2023-12-22
+==============================================
+
+ * Port to gi-docgen and drop gtk-doc support — dependencies have changed, and
+ Meson needs `-Ddocumentation` now rather than `-Dgtk_doc` (#3037, work by
+ multiple people)
+
+ * Move libgirepository into glib.git from gobject-introspection.git — but tools
+ like `g-ir-scanner` are currently still in gobject-introspection.git. For the
+ moment, glib.git needs to be built twice, once with `-Dintrospection=false`,
+ then build gobject-introspection.git, then re-build glib.git with
+ `-Dintrospection=true`. This process will evolve throughout the GLib 2.80
+ cycle. The API and ABI of libgirepository has changed, and accordingly its
+ version number has been bumped from 1.0 to 2.0 (note: the version number of
+ `GIRepository-*.gir` has been bumped from 2.0 to 3.0; see !3786). The GIR and
+ typelib file formats have not been changed, and are still at version 1.0.
+ (#3155, work by multiple people)
+
+ * Match behaviour for `GAppInfo` searches has changed (#3082, work by Nelson
+ Benítez León)
+
+ * Rename `GTK_USE_PORTAL` environment variable to `GIO_USE_PORTALS` (#3107,
+ work by Philip Withnall)
+
+ * Bump Meson dependency to 1.2.0 and depend on Python `packaging` module
+ (!3666, !3752)
+
+Bugs fixed:
+ - #596 GApplication in Garbage Collected environments would benefit from a
+ g_application_command_line_exit() to enable remote instances to exit.
+ (Aleksandr Mezin)
+ - #791 Wish: Add a "nodelay" property to GSocket or GTcpConnection (Philip
+ Withnall)
+ - #2810 thread-pool-slow intermittent assertion failure in
+ test_thread_sort_entry_func() (Philip Withnall)
+ - #2824 G_REGEX_OPTIMIZE causes incorrect regex behaviour
+ - #2991 Drop translatable pspec nick/blurbs from properties in GIO (Sophie
+ Herold)
+ - #3082 Investigate prioritising prefix matches on GAppInfo keywords over
+ substring matches on names (Nelson Benítez León)
+ - #3087 glib doesn't cleanly unload on Windows (Luca Bacci)
+ - #3098 Make invalid escape sequences in GKeyFile fatal (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3103 mkenums: Can't parse an enum value with value ',' (Lukáš Tyrychtr)
+ - #3105 NetworkManager 1.44.0 crashes repeatedly with glib 2.78.0 (Philip
+ Withnall)
+ - #3107 Rename GTK_USE_PORTAL to avoid portal services being run with portals
+ force-enabled (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3111 gsubprocess-testprog.c: build error with cygwin (sys/ptrace.h: No such
+ file or directory) (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3112 Update to Unicode 15.1 (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3115 Support for additional strftime formatting capabilities
+ - #3116 gio clears modification time in microseconds when setting with
+ `set_modification_date_time` (Lukáš Tyrychtr)
+ - #3119 Add support for `%Ey` to g_date_time_format() (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3120 Build of glib 2.78.0 ignores -Dlibelf=disabled (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3128 glib-2.78.0 fails at gio/tests/gsubprocess.p/gsubprocess.c.o
+ - #3130 Segfault when creating GIO GPropertyAction without properties
+ - #3134 glib incompatible with Python 3.12 due to distutils usage
+ - #3135 Add GNU/Hurd CI
+ - #3140 Add a flag to not copy modification time when copying files (Khalid
+ Abu Shawarib)
+ - #3144 `g_file_set_contents_full()` doesn't truncate the file (without
+ `G_FILE_SET_CONTENTS_CONSISTENT`) (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3156 check for #ifdef PTRACE_O_EXITKILL will always fail since it isn't a
+ macro (Alessandro Bono)
+ - #3157 gsubprocess build-time test intermittently timing out since 2.78.1
+ (Simon McVittie)
+ - #3158 "CRITICAL" log when using --attributes option for "gio info" (Philip
+ Withnall)
+ - #3159 glib regex test fails JIT compiler tests under musl libc (Pablo Correa
+ Gómez)
+ - #3161 codegen installation is broken
+ - #3168 gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor SIGSEGV in g_content_type_guess_for_tree()
+ due to filename with bad encoding (Ondrej Holy)
+ - #3183 g_dbus_connection_signal_subscribe with flag
+ G_DBUS_SIGNAL_FLAGS_MATCH_ARG0_PATH doesn't work with an arg0 that is an
+ object path (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3185 g_utf8_collate_key() segfaults when passed an invalid length
+ - #3186 [RFE] Increase gio sniff buffer for mime type magic detection to 16K
+ or so (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3187 g_vasprintf crashes when passed invalid UTF-8 (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3191 Crash in __gio_xdg_cache_mime_type_subclass (Philip Withnall)
+ - #3203 Fdo notification fails without AppID (Michael Catanzaro)
+ - !3143 gatomic: Use g(u)intptr where appropriate
+ - !3316 gobject: Separate GWeakRef from GWeakNotify
+ - !3394 gsocketclient: Document delays/timeouts better
+ - !3457 glib-unix: Add convenience API for pipes
+ - !3524 add muslc ci
+ - !3552 gutils: Use international symbol for bits
+ - !3566 Update annotations for GAsyncQueue and GDir
+ - !3567 Update annotations for GHmac
+ - !3568 Update GOptionContext annotations
+ - !3569 Small fixes and cleanups for Vectored Exception Handlers
+ - !3571 Update GStringChunk annotations
+ - !3572 Update GRand annotations
+ - !3573 Update GTimer annotations
+ - !3576 guniprop.c: Avoid creating (temporarily) out-of-bounds pointers
+ - !3577 gthread: introduce g_once_init_{enter,leave}_pointer
+ - !3578 GType: Use guintptr as the underlying storage if larger than gsize
+ - !3579 Fixes for integer cast warnings when targeting CHERI
+ - !3580 Fix test_find_program on FreeBSD
+ - !3581 gthread: Fix optional/nullable annotations for g_once_init_*()
+ - !3582 Buffer needs to be aligned correctly to receive linux_dirent64.
+ - !3589 gconstructor.h: Ensure [c|d]tor prototypes are present for MSVC
+ (Chun-wei Fan)
+ - !3590 gtestutils.h: Fix warning with -Wsign-conversion caused by
+ g_assert_cmpint
+ - !3591 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 1)
+ - !3594 Fix gutils-user-database test on macOS
+ - !3595 gobject: cache flags needed for g_type_create_instance()
+ - !3596 Add value annotation to G_TYPE_FUNDAMENTAL_MAX
+ - !3597 Expand security policy to cover previous stable branch
+ - !3598 Document NULL pointer pitfall in toolchain requirements
+ - !3601 meson: Fix Windows build with PCRE2 as sibling subproject
+ - !3603 Add GBytes variants for GSocket receive methods
+ - !3605 build: Post-release version bump
+ - !3607 Make sure the `GTask` is freed on a graceful disconnect
+ - !3610 gdesktopappinfo: Do not search Comment field
+ - !3611 tests/constructor: Fix "unknown pragma ignored" warning on clang
+ - !3612 Update GStrv annotations
+ - !3613 tests: Fix gdatetime test on non-UTC systems
+ - !3620 gmain: avoid a GList traversal when removing source
+ - !3621 wakeup: do single read when using eventfd()
+ - !3623 Windows: Compile with the UNICODE / _UNICODE macros
+ - !3624 wakeup: Fix g_wakeup_acknowledge if signal comes in
+ - !3627 Add Hurd code owners
+ - !3628 glib-unix: Use full path to gstdio.h include
+ - !3629 glib/tests/meson.build: remove identical build targets
+ - !3630 glib-compile-resources: ensure alignment is at least sizeof(void *)
+ - !3632 Stop using enums in bitfields
+ - !3633 Use g_task_return in task threads
+ - !3634 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 2)
+ - !3635 Fix warnings with Clang on Windows and enable --Werror in CI
+ - !3636 Generate introspection data
+ - !3637 gstrvbuilder: Add g_strv_builder_take
+ - !3638 Cleanup and add content to glib debugging using gdb scripts
+ - !3640 GIO/tests: skip test_resources_binary on MIPS platforms
+ - !3641 build: Simplify MIPS test check
+ - !3645 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 3)
+ - !3646 ci: Update from clang-format-11 to clang-format-14
+ - !3647 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 4)
+ - !3652 GApplicationCommandLine: add print[err]_literal()
+ - !3654 gdatetime: Fix minor leaks from strup/strdown calls
+ - !3655 gdatetime: Fix incorrect alt-digits being used after changing locale
+ - !3656 gmodule-dl: Use RTLD_DEFAULT on FreeBSD too
+ - !3660 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 5)
+ - !3661 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 6)
+ - !3662 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 7)
+ - !3663 gdbusconnection: don't cache G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED errors
+ - !3664 gmain: optimize "context->sources" hash table to use as set
+ - !3665 ci: Remove .build-linux from Hurd CI scheduled job
+ - !3666 build: Bump Meson dependency to 1.2.0
+ - !3667 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 8)
+ - !3668 Socket & readiness fixes
+ - !3671 gio/tests: Add test generated txt as the resources test dependency
+ - !3672 glib-private: Check for LSAN support at runtime when controlling it
+ - !3674 gtask: Add g_task_return_prefixed_error()
+ - !3677 Make GQuark register intentional leaks
+ - !3678 gsignalgroup: Avoid function call with side effect in g_return_* macro
+ - !3679 gmessages: fix dropping irrelevant log domains
+ - !3682 tests: Fix dependency of test.gresource on test-generated.txt
+ - !3683 glib: Disable dynamic asan loading on macOS
+ - !3687 fix: about libproc.h and PROC_PIDLISTFD_SIZE
+ - !3688 build: Fix the inclusion paths for GIR files in gi-docgen
+ - !3689 meson: Add missing dependencies for utility files for gdbus-codegen
+ - !3690 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 9)
+ - !3695 gvalue: add "steal_string"
+ - !3699 [th/prgname] use atomic pointers for g_prgname/g_application_name and
+ add g_set_prgname_once()
+ - !3701 tests: Fix gio-tool.py test on macOS
+ - !3702 glib.supp: Suppress the global_mime_dirs allocations
+ - !3703 Port GIRepository to GTypeInstance and add introspection
+ - !3704 girepository: Rename symbols to the GI namespace
+ - !3707 girepository: Ignore set-but-not-used warnings with G_DISABLE_ASSERT
+ - !3708 Fix various leaks in cmph-bdz-test and gutils
+ - !3709 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 10)
+ - !3710 gmessages: introduce g_log_writer_default_set_debug_domains()
+ - !3711 ghmac: Add a boxed type for GHmac and fix introspection build
+ accordingly
+ - !3712 Switch to using gi-docgen for docs (batch 11)
+ - !3713 gfileutils: Fix g_file_get_contents() silent under-read of large files
+ when off_t is wider than size_t
+ - !3714 xdgmime: Handle buggy type definitions with circular inheritance
+ - !3715 goption: Fix a typo
+ - !3716 tests: Improve build of cmph tests in girepository
+ - !3717 tests: provide reason for disabling convert test under musl
+ - !3721 gtestutils: Add g_test_trap_subprocess_with_envp() for testing envs
+ - !3722 gdir, gstrvbuilder: Add refcounting support and a boxed type
+ - !3723 gwin32: Un-hide symbols when building GIR
+ - !3726 tests: Fix fileutils build on FreeBSD and macOS
+ - !3731 tests: Fix string test failure on BSDs
+ - !3732 gspawn: Stop spewing debug messages
+ - !3733 ci: Make the Alpine CI name more consistent
+ - !3734 gdatetime: Disable ERA support on platforms which don’t support this
+ - !3735 ci: Fix printing info message at end of run-style-check-diff.sh
+ - !3736 build: Rename -Dgtk_doc option to -Ddocumentation and fix some
+ g-ir-scanner warnings
+ - !3739 Documentation only: Added clarification about GWeakNotify and removed
+ ambiguous text
+ - !3741 hash: Explicitly annotate key in iter_next as nullable
+ - !3743 ci: Install correct version of Meson on Alpine CI image
+ - !3745 tests: Assert there no errors first in gdbus-test-codegen
+ - !3751 Fix generated RST anchors for methods, signals and properties
+ - !3752 build: Make packaging module required
+ - !3753 gobject_gdb.py: Do not break bt on optimized build
+ - !3755 tests: Use textwrap.dedent to indent expected strings pleasingly
+ - !3757 ci: Re-add explicit Meson version to Alpine CI image
+ - !3758 docs: Add a section on version checking macros
+ - !3760 girepository: Various API cleanups
+ - !3761 gerror: Fix an old allow-none annotation
+ - !3762 [th/notify-queue] some optimization around
+ g_object_freeze_notify()/g_object_thaw_notify()
+ - !3763 girepository: Drop libgio dependency from gdump.c
+ - !3764 gsignal: fix reference to signals documentation page
+ - !3765 gapplication: Fix minor typo in docs
+ - !3767 girepository: Port documentation to gi-docgen and update
+ - !3768 ci: Build docs artifacts for deployment to docs.gtk.org
+ - !3770 GDateTime: Add usec precision API for unix time
+ - !3771 gtask: Add g_task_return_new_error_literal()
+ - !3772 gobject: Make GLib-2.0 gir build depend on GObject dependency
+ - !3773 girepository: Return enumerated versions and search paths as a GStrv
+ - !3776 glocalvfs: Remove unnecessary and buggy code
+ - !3777 Fix detecting size_t size when `-Wmissing-prototypes` is in CFLAGS
+ - !3779 gtypemodule: Add assertions in finalize()
+ - !3782 docs: fix a typo
+ - !3786 girepository: Re-number GIR file from 2.0 to 3.0
+ - !3787 docs: Install the gi-docgen docs
+
+* Translation updates:
+ - Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
+ - Chinese (China) (Boyuan Yang)
+ - Czech (Daniel Rusek)
+ - Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
+ - French (Alexandre Franke)
+ - Italian (Milo Casagrande)
+ - Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
+ - Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
+ - Romanian (Florentina Mușat)
+ - Russian (Artur S0)
+ - Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
+ - Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
+ - Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
+ - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)
+
+
Overview of changes in GLib 2.78.0, 2023-09-08
==============================================
