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Overview of changes in GLib 2.78.0, 2023-09-08
==============================================
* Bugs fixed:
- #3095 Error handling of invalid GKeyFile string escape sequences changed in
GLib 2.77.3 (Philip Withnall)
- !3559 gdb: Workaround optimized out quark_seq_id
- !3561 meson: fix `gnetworking.h` install tag
- !3562 gthread: Annotate g_thread_exit() with G_NORETURN
- !3564 Fix gutils-user-database unit test
Overview of changes in GLib 2.77.3, 2023-08-31
==============================================
* Bugs fixed:
- #2575 GSettings schemas default value translations don't work when using
l10n=time (Michael Catanzaro)
- #3032 gdbus-codegen eats indentation in RST in XML comments (André)
- #3051 g_dbus_connection_export_menu_model() is not thread_safe
- #3061 Possible SEGV (null pointer deref) in distribute_method_call() (Philip
Withnall)
- #3083 `arg_data` in GOptionEntry is not a list (Philip Withnall)
- #3090 Possible SEGV (null pointer deref) in _g_resource_file_new() (Philip
Withnall)
- !3459 glib-unix: Clean up use of O_NONBLOCK
- !3503 interim solution for macOS CI
- !3519 meson: warn if -mms-bitfields is necessary
- !3526 gnetworkaddress: use reentrant getservbyname_r() if available
- !3527 tests: Use g_assert_*() rather than g_assert() in tree tests
- !3528 gio-tool-info: Move translator comments so they’re visible
- !3530 gregex: set default max stack size for PCRE2 JIT compiler to 512KiB
- !3532 tests: Disable use of ptrace() in tests on BSD and macOS
- !3533 ci: Only run pages CI job on scheduled job runs
- !3534 ci: Further fix to pages CI job
- !3535 Use 'meson setup' to configure
- !3538 glib-unix: Accept O_CLOEXEC as well as FD_CLOEXEC in
g_unix_open_pipe()
- !3540 gio: Add gresource.dtd
- !3541 gtestutils: Mention not ignoring SIGCHLD in g_test_trap_subprocess()
docs
- !3542 [th/gchildwatch-fail-message] gmain: improve g_warning() for failure
in g_child_watch_dispatch()
- !3543 [th/use-localtime-r] use localtime_r() in g_log_writer_format_fields()
- !3545 gregex: if JIT stack limit is reached, fall back to interpretive
matching
- !3547 glib/gfileutils.c: use 64 bits for value in get_tmp_file()
- !3550 glib/tests/asyncqueue.c: skip test_async_queue_timed in 2038 or later
- !3553 Generate missing docs for out arguments
- !3555 gkeyfile: Fix overwriting of GError
Overview of changes in GLib 2.77.2, 2023-08-12
==============================================
* Bugs fixed:
- #3071 g_test_trap_subprocess and g_test_subprocess broken in 2.77.1 (Jonas
Ådahl)
- !3432 ci: Don’t run pipeline after merging a MR
- !3520 Fix typos
- !3521 GTree: Handle node counter overflow and return it as an unsigned value
- !3523 gspawn, gdataset: Restore nullable callback functions
Overview of changes in GLib 2.77.1, 2023-07-30
==============================================
* Fix some regressions with `GKeyFile` comment handling (#3047, work by Gaël Bonithon)
* Improve handling of query and fragment components in `file:` URIs (#3050, work by Lukáš Tyrychtr)
* Bugs fixed:
- #473 systemtap probes for gvariant (Allison Karlitskaya)
- #623 g_type_query() doesn't work for dynamic types (Philip Withnall)
- #931 Optimise GPrivate by removing one malloc (Allison Karlitskaya)
- #2929 gio: Failing build due to race generating glib/gversionmacros.h (Eric
van Gyzen)
- #3045 2.77.0: gio pkg-config test has incorrect install location for gio-
querymodules & glib-compile-schemas (Philip Withnall)
- #3047 2.77.0 changes formatting of keyfiles (Gaël Bonithon)
- #3048 Forcing fallback for libintl does not work (Brendan Shanks)
- #3050 g_file_new_for_uri() handles query strings incorrectly ("?") (Lukáš
Tyrychtr)
- #3054 Fedora installer (anaconda) crashes early with glib 2.77.0 due to
"Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked", when it runs `hwclock` and
changes the system time (Thomas Haller, Philip Withnall)
- !3287 Audit and fix incorrect use of (closure) in glib
- !3461 gfileinfo: add file_path methods for language bindings
- !3485 docs: Expand supported platforms documentation a little
- !3494 ci: Manually fetch submodules for style-check CI jobs
- !3495 gdbus-codegen: Error on invalid dbus types
- !3496 garray: Fix typo in doc comment of g_ptr_array_sort[_with_data]()
- !3499 strfuncs: Add missing ownership annotations for returned string
vectors
- !3504 Revert "build/gmodule-2.0.pc: Move compiler flags from Libs to Cflags"
- !3505 meson: help gobject-introspection locate source and build dirs
- !3509 build-sys: drop -mms-bitfields GCC flag
- !3510 testutils: Use prctl PR_SET_DUMPABLE to silence core dumps on Linux
- !3514 Revert "build-sys: drop -mms-bitfields GCC flag"
- !3515 gnetworkmonitor: Expand guidelines for metered data use
- !3517 tests: Add some more tests for g_type_query()
- !3518 m4macros: drop unused m4 files
Overview of changes in GLib 2.77.0, 2023-07-06
==============================================
* Fix `GSocketClient` connecting to a proxy if the port is not specified
(#2832, work by Michael Catanzaro)
* Support using `copy_file_range()` in `g_file_copy()`, if available (#2863,
work by Philip Withnall)
* Improve handling of comments above groups in key files (#2927,
work by Gaël Bonithon)
* Re-upgrade missing attribute debugs to criticals in `GFileInfo` (#2951,
work by Philip Withnall)
* Do not redefine NULL on C++ (#2973, work by Marco Trevisan)
* Make `g_signal_handlers_block_matched()` work for `G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID`
(#2980, work by Przemyslaw Gorszkowski)
* Fixes to support building with bionic libc better (#3008, work by Øyvind Kolås)
* Fix potential stack overflow in gspawn on macOS if open file limit is very
high (#3024, work by Dario Saccavino)
* Fix support for `--force-fallback-for libpcre` in meson configuration (#3025,
work by Marius Kintel)
* Generate specific marshallers in `gdbus-codegen` (#3028, work by Marco Trevisan)
* Fix build failure on Android with `statx()` support (#3039, work by Philip Withnall)
* Improve locking performance of `GSignal` (!2824, work by Marco Trevisan)
* Improve locking performance of `g_main_context_iterate()` (!3235, work by
Marco Trevisan)
* Add an inline definition of `g_free()` to automatically use `g_free_sized()`
if available (!3252, work by Marco Trevisan)
* Fix race with `waitpid()` and `GChildWatchSource` (!3353, work by Thomas Haller)
* Add `glib_valgrind_suppressions` variable to glib pkg-config file (!3361, work
by Marco Trevisan)
* Fix build on macOS SDK 10.11 (!3385, work by Peter Williams)
* Switch to using a separate thread pool and support timeouts in
`GThreadedResolver` (!3397, work by Philip Withnall)
* Track pending `GTask`s if `G_ENABLE_DEBUG` is defined (!3404, work by Philip Withnall)
* Support GSignal fast path and more marshallers in `gobject_gdb.py` (!3437,
work by Nelson Ben)
* Disable the macOS CI because it’s too unreliable — if you rely on GLib working
on macOS, please get in touch and do something to help! (!3463, decision taken
by Philip Withnall)
* Bugs fixed:
- #65 glib-mkenums: parse_trigraph() chokes on quoted commas (Emmanuel Fleury)
- #95 GMarkupParser documentation completion (David King)
- #98 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path (Philip Withnall)
- #104 Invocation of the interface "g_key_file_remove_comment" does not remove
comment in specific case (Gaël Bonithon)
- #116 Document UTF-8 behaviour and requirements throughout GLib (Philip
Withnall)
- #252 Disagreement between runtime and docs on whether interfaces are
"classed" (Philip Withnall)
- #322 gdbus-example-proxy-subclass.c is not complete. (Colin Walters)
- #799 GAppInfoMonitor documentation deficiencies (Philip Withnall)
- #1264 Use-after-free under
send_message_with_reply_cleanup():gdbusconnection.c:1792 (Philip Withnall)
- #2289 Document clearly that libgio is not guaranteed to be safe to use in
setuid processes (Philip Withnall)
- #2307 mainloop test leaks a GMainLoop object (Philip Withnall)
- #2829 "glib-compile-resources --dependency-file=DEPFILE" creates wrong set
of dependencies (Michael Catanzaro)
- #2832 GSocketClient cannot proxy connect unless default port is explicitly
specified in proxy URL (Michael Catanzaro)
- #2855 gio/tests/socket-client.c name is too confusing because it does not
use GSocketClient (Mike Salmela)
- #2861 Check for __kernel_long_t when enabling futex()
- #2863 Use copy_file_range() whenever possible in g_file_copy (Philip
Withnall)
- #2864 Documentation mentions non-existing function `g_value_free` (Philip
Withnall)
- #2879 Job #2498619 failed: gio/tests/socket.c:1654:test_reuse_tcp: assertion
failed (error == (g-io-error-quark, 33)): error is NULL (Philip Withnall)
- #2927 GKeyFile: Inconsistent behavior of comment writing above a group (Gaël
Bonithon)
- #2939 mkenums.py test fails on FreeBSD (Philip Withnall)
- #2951 Re-upgrade missing attribute debugs to criticals in GFileInfo (Philip
Withnall)
- #2952 Not clear that GPollableInputStream methods are undefined if
can_poll() returns FALSE (Philip Withnall)
- #2953 Missing docs for GOption (commandline parser) (Sam Thursfield)
- #2958 nbd server fails with glib 2.76.0
- #2960 GDebugControllerDBus wrong default in documentation (Philip Withnall)
- #2963 Probably wrong information regarding G_PLATFORM_WIN32 in
README.win32.md
- #2965 test_measure fails with coreutils 9.2 (Joan Bruguera)
- #2966 Multiple Definition Error When Generating gio/tests/test5.gresource
(Dan Yeaw)
- #2969 user docs: GLib.DateTime.format: broken highlighting (Philip Withnall)
- #2972 GtkFileLauncher: generated paths not recognized on Win32 (Luca Bacci)
- #2973 Build failed due to NULL pointer redefinition in C++ (Marco Trevisan
(Treviño))
- #2980 g_signal_handlers_block_matched does not work for G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID
(Przemyslaw Gorszkowski)
- #2982 Build randomly fails with: 'gmodule/gmodule-visibility.h' file not
found (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
- #2993 g_dbus_interface_skeleton_get_vtable misses transfer annotation and is
not introspectable
- #2997 g_assert_cmpuint() should display positive, not negative values (Eric
Blake)
- #3003 glib-compile-schemas failed on directory name with no Latin symbols
(Daniyar Tleulin)
- #3007 GOptionContext group headings missing colon at the end (Philip
Withnall)
- #3008 Adaptations for building with bionic libc under termux (Øyvind Kolås)
- #3020 Races in gio/tests/portal-support-snap* tests
- #3024 Possible stack overflow in gspawn on MacOS
- #3025 libpcre and libintl cannot be chosen to use the builtins
- #3027 action exporter fails in the presence of actions with maybe parameter
types (Matthias Clasen)
- #3028 gdbus-codegen should generate marshallers (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
- #3030 Document GListModel requiring unique instance pointers from
GListModelInterface.get_item (Christian Hergert)
- #3034 futex based g_mutex_lock sometimes splatters errno with EAGAIN on
contended locks
- #3039 Build failure due to statx fields with NDK r25.c (Philip Withnall)
- #3040 gtester in custom_target() run against system rather than built
libglib during build
- !2824 gsignal: Reduce lock/unlock pairs and ensure we always work on valid
signal nodes
- !3146 Make GVariant/GHash opaque types compatible with CHERI
- !3235 gmain: Avoid some lock/unlock dance during g_main_context_iterate
- !3252 gmem: Add an inline definition of g_free() to automatically use
g_free_sized()
- !3289 Work around an UCRT issue with _wspawn() functions taking an envp
block
- !3306 gregistrysettingsbackend: Allow a different root key path
- !3308 doc: Workaround missing API index
- !3314 gmain: More explicitly document g_main_context_release() prereqs
- !3326 unicode: add tests for g_utf8_normalize() and empty strings
- !3333 build: Drop old .gitignore files from test directories
- !3335 meson: allow -Dlibelf=enabled without pkg-config
- !3337 gio-tool-info: Fix a duplicate attribute name in the UI
- !3340 meson: Move msvc_recommended_pragmas.h to a subdirectory
- !3341 g_utf8_normalize: don't read past the end of the buffer
- !3342 Add fuzzing harness for g_utf8_normalize()
- !3344 tools: Drop check-abis.sh script
- !3345 docs: Drop section about default branch renaming from README.md
- !3347 gsocket/inotify/gwakeup: Use SOCK_NONBLOCK and O_NONBLOCK to avoid
fcntl() syscalls where possible
- !3351 tests: Update Unicode normalisation tests from Unicode 15
- !3352 meson: Fix detection of a system-provided proxy-libintl
- !3353 [th/child-watch-waitpid] fix race with waitpid() and child watcher
sources
- !3356 build/gmodule-2.0.pc: Move compiler flags from Libs to Cflags
- !3357 Make clang++ happier when using G_STATIC_ASSERT
- !3361 meson: Add glib_valgrind_suppressions variable to glib pkg-config file
- !3365 gwin32: Avoid use of function call with side effect in g_return_*
macro
- !3366 Add init macros for refcounting types
- !3367 actiongroup: Add a compiler warning
- !3371 Explicitly mark size parameter as (in)
- !3377 gsignal: Clarify documentation for GSignalMatchType matching
- !3378 build: Post-release version bump
- !3381 gtimer: Avoid doing anything on g_usleep (0)
- !3382 gsocket: Explicitly mark size parameter as (in)
- !3383 add g_timeout_add_seconds_once
- !3384 Test g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched for G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID match
- !3385 gio: fix build on older macOS SDKs
- !3388 appmonitor: Skip the test under OSX
- !3389 glib/tests/[rec-]mutex: Allow each thread to work
- !3390 Fix error format in gio/gunixconnection.c (part 2)
- !3392 gvariant: Fix doc for g_variant_new_object_path
- !3393 Fix small issues in docs
- !3395 gtask: Document that g_task_run_in_thread() uses a shared resource
- !3396 glib-unix: Improve documentation for g_unix_fd_source_new()
- !3397 gthreadedresolver: Switch to using a separate thread pool and support
timeouts
- !3398 Avoid having g_futex_simple() inadvertently modify errno
- !3399 meson: wrap html documentation generation with gtk_doc option
- !3400 restore error messages in gunixconnection while maintaining older
compiler support
- !3401 ci: Disable the Coverity CI job
- !3404 gtask: Track pending GTasks if G_ENABLE_DEBUG is defined
- !3405 gthreadedresolver: Remove some incorrect assertions
- !3406 gthreadpool: Clarify that item_free_func is not normally called
- !3407 gregistrysettingsbackend: Remove translatable pspec nick/blurb
- !3408 docs: Update/Drop txt documents from docs directory
- !3409 docs: Don’t ignore gunixfdlist.h when building docs on Windows
- !3410 tests: Add descriptions to environment tests
- !3416 gtestutils: Fix section marker in documentation
- !3418 docs: Add lb90 as a Windows maintainer
- !3419 docs: Update various broken/redirected links and fix list formatting
- !3420 gtestutils: print timing information per test case in TAP output
- !3421 glib/tests/fileutils:fix asserts when running as root
- !3422 Check for linux/netlink.h buildability
- !3423 gstring: add g_string_new_take
- !3425 gwin32networkmonitor: Fix returning address of local variable
- !3426 gdataset, gobject: Use atomic compare and exchange full to set
pointers
- !3429 Rename GTK+ to GTK (mostly comments and documentation)
- !3430 gobject_gdb.py: fix regression caused by bfbe7127d5
- !3431 gfile: Ensure loff_t is defined on FreeBSD
- !3435 Ignore g_task_print_alive_task() when introspecting GIO
- !3437 gobject_gdb.py: support gsignal fastpath and detect more marshallers
- !3438 gio: Check cancellable iterating local file enumerator
- !3439 gstring: Add `Since` marker to `g_string_new_take()`
- !3440 gutf8: Add a g_utf8_truncate_middle() function
- !3441 Allow proper introspection of GTypeValueTable
- !3442 gio: Add g_file_new_build_filenamev
- !3448 meson: try iconv in libintl lookup
- !3449 docs: Move README.win32.md to the docs folder and update
CONTRIBUTING.md
- !3450 gactionmap: Add g_action_map_remove_action_entries()
- !3453 docs: Use the type name as the section name for GKeyFile
- !3455 gfileinfo: add (type filename) annotation to symlink_target functions
- !3456 gmain: Document that g_steal_fd() preserves errno
- !3458 gstdio: Improve documentation of some functions as async-signal safe
- !3462 tests: Reduce thread and iteration count on CI for /thread/rec-mutex3
- !3463 ci: Disable the macOS CI
- !3465 gobject_gdb.py: adapt to recent gsignal changes
- !3466 resolver: Add space in documentations
- !3470 pcre subproject fixes: Allow fallback & static build
- !3471 gio-tool-mount: Add option to show progress when unmounting
- !3472 tests: Fix an intermittent timing error with testing g_usleep(0)
- !3477 gdbus-codegen: Fix some minor typos in the documentation
- !3484 docs: Fix a typo in the backports policy
- !3486 docs: Document issue and merge request triaging and review guidelines
- !3488 codegen: Use g_signal_emit to emit signals
- !3489 guniprop: fix param direction in g_unichar_get_mirror_char(), for
introspection
- !3490 gobject/tests: Fix running on 32-bit Windows- Loading branch information
