Overview of changes in GLib 2.60.5

• Fix implicit use of the GKeyfileSettingsBackend (#1822)

• Fix opening a URI using the ‘Open URI’ portal (!968)

• Bugs fixed:

  • !910 Backport !909 “D-Bus auth mechanism improvements” to glib-2-60
  • !949 Backport !945 “Avoid overrunning stack at the end of the varargs.” to glib-2-60
  • !956 Backport !954 “Fix the ISO 15924 code for Manichaean” to glib-2-60
  • !958 gthread: fix minor errno problem in GCond
  • !969 Backport !968 ”Fix typo in request handle” to glib-2-60
  • !977 Backport !974 “Ensure that the keyfile settings backend exists” to glib-2-60

Overview of changes in GLib 2.60.4

• Fixes to improved network status detection with NetworkManager (#1788)

• Leak fixes to some glib-genmarshal generated code (#1793)

• Further fixes to the Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) implementation (!865)

• File system permissions fix to clamp down permissions in a small time window when copying files (CVE-2019-12450, !876)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1755 Please revert #535 gmacros: Try to use the standard func first in G_STRFUNC
  • #1788 GNetworkMonitor claims I am offline
  • #1792 glib-genmarshal generated valist marshal does not respect static scope for some types
  • #1793 glib-genmarshal generates wrong code for va marshaler for VARIANT type
  • #1795 Fix mingw32 CI on older branches
  • !865 gnetworkaddress: fix "happy eyeballs" logic
  • !878 Backport !876 “gfile: Limit access to files when copying” to glib-2-60

Overview of changes in GLib 2.61.1

• g_unichar_isxdigit() and g_unichar_xdigit_value() now handle full-width characters (U+FF21–U+FF26 and U+FF41–U+FF46) (#58)

• Deprecate gtester utility and its test reporting format and enable TAP output by default instead — the --tap option to tests is now a no-op (#1441, #1619)

• Add g_test_summary() to allow test authors to programmatically summarise what each unit test in a test suite does (#1450)

• Upgrade to Unicode Character Database v12.1 (#1713, !822)

• More IPv6 Happy Eyeballs fixes to GNetworkAddress and GSocketClient (#1747, #1771, #1774)

• Fix valgrind and gdb support for the new GHashTable changes (#1749, #1780)

• Fix GTask wait times growing faster than the number of task threads (#1683)

• Change GApplication to ignore -psn_* arguments on the macOS command line, as they are irrelevant (#1784)

• Add g_autoqueue() helper macros, similar to g_autolist() (!474)

• Add pre-allocated link helpers for GList and GQueue:

  • g_list_insert_before_link()
  • g_queue_insert_before_link()
  • g_queue_insert_after_link()

• Improve network availability detection with NetworkManager to treat lower levels of connectivity as having reduced availability (!781)

• Add g_clear_signal_handler() to allow disconnecting from a GObject signal and clearing the signal handler ID to zero in a single call (!819)

• Add g_autoptr() support for GRWLock (!825)

• Define G_OS_UNIX, not G_OS_WIN32, when GLib is built agains Cygwin (!862)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #29 GScanner: should explicitly document modifiable fields (value, next_value, ...)
  • #58 g_unichar_isxdigit() and g_unichar_xdigit_value() should deal with full-width a-fA-F
  • #106 Boxed types should be documented better
  • #135 g_unichar_totitle(0) returns 0x00001F88 instead of 0
  • #429 g_format_size() is broken on Windows
  • #1441 Deprecate gtester
  • #1450 Add API for tests to describe what they're checking
  • #1619 GTest should have a way to default to TAP
  • #1683 GTask: task_wait_time is increased constantly when the number of running thread is greather than 10
  • #1713 Upgrade to Unicode Character Database v12
  • #1739 meson build failure libdl
  • #1747 Critical in g_socket_client_async_connect_complete
  • #1749 New GHashTable implementation confuses valgrind
  • #1753 Remove memory leaks from gio/test/resolver.c
  • #1755 Please revert #535 gmacros: Try to use the standard func first in G_STRFUNC
  • #1759 test_month_names: assertion failed
  • #1760 Document for g_resolver_lookup_records why it returns a list of list of gchar*.
  • #1763 tests: -p runs tests in the reverse of the specified order
  • #1768 g_strlcat(): Possible buffer overflow in implementation
  • #1771 GNetworkAddressAddressEnumerator unsafely modifies cache in GNetworkAddress
  • #1774 Leaks in gsocketclient.c connection code
  • #1776 glib/date test fails
  • #1780 GDB pretty-printer for GHashTable no longer works
  • #1782 Error in documentation for cross-compile.
  • #1784 MacOS adds a -psn_X_XXXXXX parameter to the command line
  • !474 Add g_autoqueue
  • !476 Add pre-allocated link helpers for GList and GQueue
  • !556 gtestutils: Make --tap compatible with -p and --GTestSkipCount
  • !732 gsocket: Clarify in docs that flags arguments can be platform specific
  • !766 W32: swap special g_get_prgname() for platform_get_argv0()
  • !774 Only build tests if certain conditions are met.
  • !780 Add copyright and licensing terms to test report generator
  • !781 gnetworkmonitornm: Fix network available detection
  • !782 build: Fix check for RTLD_NEXT
  • !785 Remove monitor test
  • !787 build: Remove */.gitignore files
  • !791 glib/gconstructor.h: Include stdlib.h for MSVC builds
  • !792 general: Remove a few unhelpful references to ‘master’
  • !795 gdesktopappinfo: Add support for MATE and Xfce4 terminals
  • !802 gio: tests, don't check for libdl on OpenBSD
  • !806 Get to 100% coverage on GQueue tests
  • !808 Update the Docker images used for CI
  • !809 Modified version of !784 — Adding tests cases for a better coverage of glib/tests/strfuncs.c
  • !813 gappinfo: Add precondition checks to GAppLaunchContext env methods
  • !814 gschema.dtd: Add target attribute to alias
  • !819 Clear signal handler
  • !820 ci: Keep JUnit report script working on Debian stable
  • !821 Various minor cleanups to autoptrs
  • !822 glib: Update Unicode Character Database to version 12.1.0
  • !825 Add autoptr support for GRWLock
  • !831 build: (Long time after) post-release version bump
  • !835 Fix typo in German translation
  • !836 Document the best practices for binding GInitiallyUnowned
  • !862 build: define G_OS_UNIX, not G_OS_WIN32 under cygwin

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.60.3

• Various fixes to small key/value support in GHashTable (#1749, #1780)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1747 Critical in g_socket_client_async_connect_complete
  • #1749 New GHashTable implementation confuses valgrind
  • #1759 test_month_names: assertion failed
  • #1771 GNetworkAddressAddressEnumerator unsafely modifies cache in GNetworkAddress
  • #1774 Leaks in gsocketclient.c connection code
  • #1776 glib/date test fails
  • #1780 GDB pretty-printer for GHashTable no longer works
  • !815 Merge branch 'wip/tingping/socketclient-cancel-2' into 'master'
  • !816 Backport !814 “gschema.dtd: Add target attribute to alias” to glib-2-60
  • !826 Backport !824 “gsocketclient: Fix a leak in the connection code” to glib-2-60
  • !829 Backport !828 “build: Fix a typo in the test whether _NL_ABALTMON_n is supported” to glib-2-60
  • !834 Backport !823 "gnetworkaddress: Fix parallel enumerations interfering with eachother" to glib-2-60
  • !838 Backport !835 “Fix typo in German translation” to glib-2-60
  • !841 Backport !839 “tests: Update month name check for Greek locale” to glib-2-60
  • !844 Backport !840 “ghash: Disable small-arrays under valgrind” to glib-2-60
  • !846 Backport !845 “Fixing g_format_size_full() on Windows-x64” to glib-2-60
  • !855 Backport !848 (more GHashTable fixes) to glib-2-60
  • !858 Backport !852 “Update gdb pretty-printer for GHashTable” to glib-2-60

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.60.2

• Fix crash when displaying notifications on macOS (!786)

• Improve network status detection with NetworkManager (!781)

• Bugs fixed:

  • !790 glib/gconstructor.h: Include stdlib.h for MSVC builds
  • !793 Backport !786: “cocoanotificationbackend: do not release readonly property” to glib-2-60
  • !803 Backport !781 “gnetworkmonitornm: Fix network available detection” to glib-2-60

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.61.0

• Changes to iconv configure options, including the default iconv implementation on macOS — distributors may need to check their configure scripts (#1557)

• Build fixes when building GLib with G_DISABLE_ASSERT defined (#1708)

• Fix documentation for gdbus-tool wait to use correct units (#1737)

• Improvements to symlink handling on Windows (!269)

• Add exception handling for crashes on Windows (!582)

• Set G_WITH_CYGWIN again when GLib is built on Cygwin (this was a regression from the autotools build) (!736)

• Use GCocoaNotificationBackend by default on macOS, rather than GGtkNotificationBackend (!745)

• Use Windows symbol visibility when GLib is built on Cygwin, as PE binaries are subject to W32 visibility mechanics — this affects the definition of _GLIB_EXTERN (!752)

• Add coloured output support to gdbus introspect (!761)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #682 docs: advise not to use non-literal strings as qdata keys
  • #1177 gparted crashes due to g_quark_from_static_string used in global initialization
  • #1258 the buffer written to by g_input_stream_read is not marked as an out parameter
  • #1557 By default glib tries to use libc instead of native iconv on OSX
  • #1566 Meld Windows shows error on startup "There was a problem starting c:\Program"
  • #1614 GIO tests fail on FreeBSD CI with: Unexpected error from C library during 'pthread_mutex_lock': Invalid argument
  • #1708 Building GLib with G_DISABLE_ASSERT fails
  • #1709 GResource generation test incompatible with stable LLVM on Linux
  • #1710 Crash in g_cancellable_cancel
  • #1712 gdbus-proxy test is flaky
  • #1724 unconditional check in fuzzing/meson.build
  • #1725 gosxappinfo.h is not installed on macOS
  • #1727 Cannot use trash folder with an NFS mount using automount / autofs
  • #1728 GSocket does not support ENOTSOCK
  • #1732 Win32: lookup_by_name_async segfaults for not available domains
  • #1737 gdbus-tool wait command timeout argument incorrect unit reference
  • !67 glib: update internal gnulib from upstream
  • !269 Win32 symlink code refactoring
  • !493 tests: Check that cancelling g_file_replace don't overwrite existing file
  • !582 Basic W32 exception handling for glib
  • !680 Fix warnings glib
  • !690 Fix thread safety issues
  • !694 gvariant-parser: Fix pattern coalesce of M and *
  • !706 Fix data races in task test and gmenumodel test
  • !709 Bump release version for 2.62 series
  • !710 socket: Fix annotation for flags in g_socket_receive_message
  • !712 gwin32: Fix comment for g_win32_veh_handler
  • !716 Various minor documentation fixes
  • !717 Improve formatting of GCC attribute documentation
  • !718 GSocketClient - Free last error if a connection attempt fails and on retry the...
  • !719 Handle an UNKNOWN NetworkManager connectivity as NONE
  • !721 codegen: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  • !723 Provide examples for GNUC attribute macros
  • !724 meson: do a build-time check for strlcpy before attempting runtime check
  • !728 gsocket: Remove (type) annotation from flags arguments
  • !730 Improve gdbus-address parsing tests
  • !735 docs: Use the right g_autoptr function when using an auxiliary function
  • !736 Set G_WITH_CYGWIN again
  • !737 gresolver: Don’t use gai_strerror() on Windows, as it isn’t threadsafe
  • !741 Fix use-after-free triggered by gnome-session-binary
  • !745 gcocoanotificationbackend: give more priority than the gtk one
  • !749 gio: Add missing autocleanup definition for GSettingsSchema{Key,Source}
  • !750 Check for RTLD_NEXT
  • !752 Use W32 visibility for Cygwin
  • !754 Check for /proc/self/cmdline
  • !757 Fix gnulib build on older Visual Studio builds
  • !760 Properly ensure the cocoa notification backend type
  • !761 RFC: gdbus-tool: Add --color option for introspect
  • !762 gutils: Add (nullable) annotation to g_get_prgname()
  • !765 gslice: Use a convenience macro
  • !769 ci: Generate a cover report for the test suite
  • !772 tests: Check that option-argv0 test succeeds on Linux
  • !776 tests: Only run --external-data test on GNU ld/objcopy
  • !779 Fix 2.62 documentation symbols

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.60.1

• Fix documentation for gdbus-tool wait to use correct units

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1709 GResource generation test incompatible with stable LLVM on Linux
  • #1725 gosxappinfo.h is not installed on macOS
  • #1737 gdbus-tool wait command timeout argument incorrect unit reference
  • !711 socket: Fix annotation for flags in g_socket_receive_message
  • !722 Backport codegen: Fix use of uninitialised variable from !721 to glib-2-60
  • !727 Backport !719 “Handle an UNKNOWN NetworkManager connectivity as NONE” to glib-2-60
  • !729 Backport !728 “gsocket: Remove (type) annotation from flags arguments” to glib-2-60
  • !758 gdbusaddress, win32: backport using cwd for running rundll32
  • !775 meson: Hotfix for iconv detection on macOS

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.60.0

• Further fixes to the Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) implementation (#1653, #1679, #1693)

• Add support for the XDG trash portal (#1676, !276)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1653 gsocketclient-slow test is flaky
  • #1658 keyfile settings backend: Consider tightening permissions
  • #1668 Fill in CODE-OWNERS file
  • #1675 glib-compile-resources: c_name generation issue
  • #1676 Trash portal tries to open files as read-only but D-Bus API documents against that
  • #1679 socket-service test is flaky
  • #1693 Happy Eyeballs failure in gsocketclient-slow test
  • #1697 gthreadresolver: do_lookup_records does res_ninit with an uninitialized state
  • #1698 g_base64_encode(NULL, 0) causes critical warnings
  • !276 Support the trash portal
  • !639 gvariant-parser: Fix error handling when type coalescing fails
  • !666 Socket fixes to W32 test suite
  • !674 Update gvdb submodule
  • !676 Initialize a variable
  • !677 gerror: Add a missing precondition assertion in documentation
  • !686 gio: Also support modules built with MSVC
  • !688 gsocketclient: Fix critical on cancellation
  • !689 glib-compile-resources: Fix a minor leak
  • !691 gtask: Separate GTask fields memory locations to avoid data races
  • !692 glib.supp: Add more variations of existing suppressions
  • !696 Move closures refcount test to gobject/tests/
  • !698 gthreadedresolver: Remove unused thread pool
  • !699 tests: Fix closure-refcount to preserve old semantics
  • !702 Rename gobjectenumtypes.[ch] to glib-enumtypes.[ch]
  • !703 Clean up gmarshal.[ch]

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.59.3

• Fix support for g_get_user_special_dir() on macOS, including support for the Downloads directory (#1048)

• Ensure that cancelling a GTask cannot cause its callback to be called synchronously (in the same call chain as the original *_async() call) (#1608)

• Further fixes to the Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) implementation (#1644, #1680)

• Various fixes for installation of installed tests (thanks to Iain Lane) (!649, !651)

• Various fixes for tests when run on Windows (thanks to LRN) (!665, !667)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #535 gmacros: Try to use the standard func first in G_STRFUNC
  • #875 gio-gvfs on Windows: Don't mishandle other non-native URIs in gwinhttpvfs.c
  • #1048 "Desktop" shortcut appears twice in file chooser sidebar on OSX
  • #1608 Cancellation might not be asynchronous under certain circumstances
  • #1644 network-address test failure in CI: IPv6 Broken (g-io-error-quark, 24)
  • #1680 Regression: g_socket_client_connect_to_host_async() sometimes gets "Connection refused" when connecting to localhost
  • #1686 gdbus-peer test is sometimes timing out
  • !613 Use win32 io channel on windows for the protocol test
  • !634 Win32: gio/gsocket.c: Set WSAEWOULDBLOCK on G_POLLABLE_RETURN_WOULD_BLOCK
  • !638 gvariant-parser: Fix parsing of G_MININT* values in GVariant text format
  • !640 tests: Tag socket-service test as ‘flaky’
  • !641 Minor typo fixes to GSpawn documentation
  • !645 gsocketlistener: Fix multiple returns of GTask when accepting sockets
  • !647 gsocketclient: Ensure task is always returned on cancel
  • !648 gio/tests/task: Run the worker indefinitely until it's cancelled
  • !649 gio tests: Install test1.overlay file when building installed tests
  • !650 gstring: fully document semantics of @len for g_string_insert_len
  • !651 tests: Install the slow-connect-preload.so library and use it
  • !667 GSubprocess fixes for W32 test suite
  • !668 tests: Mark gdbus-peer test as flaky
  • !669 GWin32VolumeMonitor: Sort the volumes correctly
  • !670 gpollableoutputstream: Fix the description of the interface
  • !672 Fix some tests when running as root

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.59.2

• Fix check on GDBusMessage size when reading it. (#1642)

• Add async GIO API: g_file_query_default_handler_async(), g_app_info_launch_uris_async() (#1249, #1347)

• Fix some bugs in the Happy Eyeballs implementation. (#1646, #1649)

• Install a new generated header with enum types for Unicode enums. (!481)

• Support the XDG trash portal. (!276)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1224 TSAN patches
  • #1249 xdg-open/gnome-open doesn't work if service isn't started
  • #1347 g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri_async is not really async
  • #1376 gmarkup: Optimize g_markup_escape_text()
  • #1642 minor mismatch between error and code in g_dbus_message_bytes_needed
  • #1646 Criticals in g_socket_client_enumerator_callback()
  • #1649 Critical in g_socket_client_connected_callback
  • #1673 G_MININT constants broken in g-i
  • !276 Support the trash portal
  • !481 Define enum types for Unicode enums
  • !585 gio: do not pass O_PATH file descriptors to portal APIs
  • !593 Don't fail trash test if ~/.local doesn't exist or mount points can't be determined (master)
  • !609 Make g_app_info_launch_uris_async() really asynchronous
  • !619 gvariant: Fix a mistake in docs
  • !622 Fixing warnings
  • !626 gdbus: Avoid printing null strings
  • !627 gsocketclient: Fix criticals
  • !629 Various memory leak cleanups to GSettings tests (subset)
  • !630 docs: Ignore more version macros

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.59.1

• Autotools support is gone. (!580)

• g_format_size() now uses a no-break space to separate digits and units; translations will need to be updated accordingly. (#1625)

• New g_queue_clear_full() API. (#1464)

• Fix argument quoting on win32 when spawning subprocesses. (!419)

• Allow polling more than 64 handles on win32 using g_poll(). (#1071)

• Tag various tests as ‘flaky’. These are no longer run routinely on our upstream CI machines, and downstream packagers may want to not run them (or not treat those test failures as package build failures) on their test machines either. They are in the flaky test suite. (!579)

• Add overlay support to g_resources_get_info(). (#1445)

• Support defaults and locks in the keyfile GSettings backend. This will be used for flatpaks. (!450)

• Accept unquoted strings in the keyfile GSettings backend to simplify things for sysadmins. (!603)

• Update our contribution guidelines (CONTRIBUTING.md). (!590)

• Add writev() and writev_all() APIs to GOutputStream and GPollableOutputStream, and provide implementations of them for many subclasses. (#1431)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #424 Add 'proxy' debugging support
  • #1055 Provide alignment macros
  • #1071 Eliminate MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS limitation in g_poll() on Windows
  • #1445 g_resources_get_info doesn't respect resource overlays
  • #1464 Add g_queue_clear_full() API
  • #1500 GListStore needs double checking on some warnings
  • #1623 xdg-open: file with colon results in “The specified location is not supported”
  • #1625 Unbreakable space needed when showing size of folder/file
  • #1636 GTask getters don’t return TRUE/FALSE after bitfield changes
  • #1637 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in g_clear_pointer
  • #1639 GListStore implementation of g_list_model_get_item() returns wrong results on integer overflow
  • #1655 gvariant-parser warnings
  • #1663 G_MININT32 triggers compiler warning C4146 with Visual C++
  • #1666 G_DEFINE_DYNAMIC_TYPE_EXTENDED causes warnings with -Wcast-function-type
  • !319 giomodule: Print the type of each default GIO module
  • !333 Add writev() API to GOutputStream and GPollableOutputStream
  • !419 gspawn, win32: qouted args - escape end backslash
  • !450 Settings portal
  • !512 gtype: Clarify type of GInterfaceInitFunc
  • !516 gthread: Add g_private_set_alloc0() convenience API
  • !535 win32 gpoll: overcome the 64 handles limit
  • !545 goption: Fix an annotation on g_option_context_parse_strv()
  • !560 docs: Fix dconf GSETTINGS_BACKEND name in gio overview
  • !564 gtype: Document type for iface_default_init() function
  • !568 Add separate definitions of g_assert_[non]null() for C++
  • !571 docs: Add note on how to check a gboolean condition
  • !575 gio: Update bad cert error in accept-certificate and GTlsError docs
  • !579 Temporarily disable flaky tests
  • !580 Drop autotools support
  • !583 gmacros: MSVC supports the noreturn function attribute
  • !587 Remove unused .pc.in files
  • !588 MSVC: Move dirent implementation to glib/dirent/
  • !590 Update contribution documentation
  • !591 gfileinfo: Fix annotation for g_file_info_set_attribute_stringv
  • !592 Remove leftover build/ directory
  • !595 gtestutils: pass open file descriptors to subprocess
  • !597 tests: Tag gsocketclient-slow test as ‘flaky’
  • !598 gdbus-proxy test fails with GLib-GIO:ERROR:glib/gio/tests/gdbus-proxy.c:832:fail_test: code should not be reached
  • !599 gdtlsconnection: do not return on a void method
  • !601 gio: Support "help" in extension point env vars
  • !602 Update POTFILES.in
  • !603 keyfile settings: Accept unquoted strings
  • !608 build: Add -Wno-pedantic flag to compiler arguments
  • !611 gnetworkaddress: fix use-after-free for network address
  • !612 gdir: shutup a warning when building with msvc
  • !615 Fix a couple of wrong compiler warnings

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.58.3

• Fix GVariant tests on i686 (#1626)

• Fix crashes caused by filtering of mounts (#1645)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1626 2.58.2 GVariant test failure on i686
  • #1637 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in g_clear_pointer
  • #1645 2.58.2 introduces libgio segfaults
  • !558 Backport Suppress -Wint-in-bool-context warning with G_DEFINE_INTERFACE and g++ to glib-2-58
  • !577 Don't fail trash test if ~/.local doesn't exist or mount points can't be determined
  • !578 gunixmounts: Fix segfaults caused by new filter of mounts

Overview of changes in GLib 2.59.0

• This will be the last development release with autotools support. As our Meson support has been around since 2.56.x, and was used to release tarballs in 2.58.x, the next development release (2.59.1) will drop autotools as used to build GLib. The macros installed for other packages to use will remain.

• Add G_TEST_OPTION_ISOLATE_DIRS to redirect XDG_*_HOME to a temporary directory for each unit test. (#538)

• Support Property.EmitsChangedSignal annotations in gdbus-codegen. (#542)

• Add g_assert_cmpvariant() API for unit tests. (#1191)

• Hide bind mounts from GIO mount listings. (#1271)

• Automatically realign data passed to g_variant_new_from_bytes() or g_variant_new_from_data() if it is not correctly aligned. This prevents misaligned accesses on architectures which don’t support them. Callers should still aim to correctly align data to get higher performance. (#1342)

• Support ld -b binary (on platforms which support it; i.e. Linux) to provide large pre-compiled GResource resources with a fast compilation time. (#1489)

• Unconditionally install GLib m4 macros, so that projects which depend on GLib and which still build using autotools can continue to build even once GLib has ported entirely to Meson. (#1520)

• Various fixes to the Meson build.

• Drop Python 2 support and require Python 3.4+. See discussion on https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2018-July/msg00004.html. (!196)

• GHashTable performance and memory improvements for common cases. See https://hpjansson.org/blag/2018/07/24/a-hash-table-re-hash/. (!208)

• Add flags that allow a GApplication to signal and replace a currently running other instance of the same GApplication. This will be used for app upgrades with flatpak. (!250)

• Autostart xdg-desktop-portal when using the network monitor and proxy monitor portal backends. (!317)

• Add a g_task_set_name() API to allow GTasks to be described; useful for debugging. (!384)

• Enable FreeBSD CI on every commit for upstream GLib. (!387)

• Various GVariant, GMarkup and GDBus fuzzing fixes, including buffer overflow fixes. (!411)

• Various fixes to eliminate thread races, found by thread sanitizer (tsan).

• Deprecate TLS/DTLS rehandshaking, as it has been removed from the protocol in TLS 1.3. (!478)

• Support reading arguments from a file with glib-mkenums, which is useful for long argument lists due to having deeply nested build directories, on systems with a low limit on the command line length. (!489)

• Make g_environ_*() case-insensitive on Windows, as the environment itself is case-insensitive on Windows. (!500)

• Add Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) support to GTlsConnection and GDtlsConnection, so that higher layer protocols can be negotiated when setting up a TLS connection, without additional round trips and latency. This is needed for eventual HTTP/2 support. (!520)

• Add support for TPM keys in PEM files when loading TLS certificates. (!522)

• Add a GRecMutexLocker auto-pointer wrapper for GRecMutex. (!528)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #107 The "g_key_file_get_comment" interface returns comment with unexpected new line symbol at the end
  • #179 g_object_unref assert in debug code
  • #277 'destroy_data' in g_cclosure_new is registered as finalize notifier instread invalidate.
  • #538 Add helpers to redirect XDG_*_HOME to a temp dir for unit tests
  • #542 gdbus-codegen does not honor "Property.EmitsChangedSignal" annotations
  • #656 check for -Werror=format-security broken
  • #734 Provide a way to instantiate a GDBusProxy-derived class from a GDBusConnection and a object path without blocking
  • #827 gmain: Clarify that g_source_set_callback() is safe on attached sources
  • #1055 Provide alignment macros
  • #1119 GVolumeMonitor: Results don't reflect current state but state when application was launched
  • #1191 add g_assert_equal_variants
  • #1261 Add option to leave in gschema empty
  • #1271 fstab binds appear as mounts (x-gvfs-hide is being ignored)
  • #1310 gdbusproxy: make g-name-owner property useful with unique names
  • #1313 Meson: Rework the config.h generation
  • #1342 Automatically realign data passed to g_variant_new_from_bytes() or g_variant_new_from_data()
  • #1343 g_date_set_parse: Parses "September" in Polish incorrectly
  • #1362 Incorrect documentation about GSettings child add/remove notifications
  • #1452 GFileInfo: unable to retrieve correct modification time of links and mounted volumes on Windows
  • #1471 Incorporate oss-fuzz fuzz targets into GLib
  • #1489 Use ld -b binary to speed up GResource generation for linking
  • #1498 distcheck fails in distclean
  • #1506 error: redefinition of typedef 'GKqueueFileMonitor'
  • #1509 test_timeval_to_iso8601_overflow: 'out' should be NULL
  • #1513 GIcon regression?
  • #1514 gio/appinfo test sometimes fails in CI
  • #1518 /network-monitor/create-in-thread fails in (LXC) containers on glib-2-56
  • #1520 Change conditions for installing m4 macros
  • #1522 Trash not working on NTFS folder accessed from symlink
  • #1523 GIO NetworkMonitor doesn't reflect the current network state
  • #1525 GTask allows (buggy) application code to cause callback to be called twice, without warning
  • #1527 Meson doesn't install data for installed-tests
  • #1528 Meson tests are hard to debug in an autobuilder environment
  • #1530 tests/mainloop-test appears to be flaky
  • #1535 meson: installed-test metadata not run in TAP mode
  • #1536 meson: spurious dependencies on convenience libraries in .pc files
  • #1537 meson: absolute paths to ${builddir} included in gtk-doc HTML
  • #1538 meson: G_HAVE_GROWING_STACK defined differently
  • #1539 meson: Some files are unnecessarily installed executable
  • #1541 meson: timeloop-closure test not installed
  • #1542 meson: /usr/lib/glib2.0/installed-tests/glib/gdbus-peer: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbus-example-objectmanager.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  • #1544 meson: gtester-report #! not replaced with ${PYTHON}
  • #1546 Cross-compilation fails in 2.58
  • #1556 build: Too long file path issue with meson on Windows
  • #1562 GDate test suite fails with latest glibc
  • #1570 ghash.c:694:27: left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
  • #1572 Flags validation fails
  • #1575 g_date_time_format() should have format attribute
  • #1576 Fails to build with Meson on Debian armel (armv5te EABI softfloat little-endian)
  • #1580 glib-compile-resources using strings breaks building e.g. GTK+ on MS Visual C, which limits strings to 65535 chars
  • #1581 Memory used for reference counted data might be misaligned.
  • #1588 Moving a bookmark item to the same URI causes a crash
  • #1589 g_log_writer_is_journald memoizes a single result, even though it accepts a parameter
  • #1590 tests: g-file-info-filesystem-readonly fails if run more than once with fuse & bindfs installed
  • #1594 Return value of g_dbus_connection_get_unique_name not annotated as nullable
  • #1600 g_timeout_source_new_seconds overflows when given interval > (G_MAXUINT / 1000)
  • #1601 appinfo test fix is defective
  • #1605 g_date_time_format fails when used with non ASCII format string on POSIX locale
  • #1615 gdbus-codegen not generating nullable annotation
  • !196 [RFC] build: Drop Python 2 support and require Python 3.4+
  • !200 Add a new GTlsError to indicate protocol downgrade attacks
  • !208 GHashTable improvements
  • !219 glocalfilemonitor: Fallback to poll file monitor for NFS
  • !238 W32 GFileInfo improvements
  • !250 Application replace
  • !264 glib-compile-resources: encode data as string
  • !268 build: simplify alloca checks. See #1313
  • !272 dtrace: Add missing const attributes to types in glib_probes.d
  • !273 gtlsbackend: add support for setting the default TLS database
  • !277 Use "command -v" instead of "which"
  • !282 meson: Add macOS libtool versioning for ABI compatibility
  • !286 gspawn: Fix build on systems without O_CLOEXEC
  • !287 glib-compile-resources: Fix generated code compiling with C++ compilers
  • !289 tests: Add more tests to finish branch coverage of GHashTable
  • !290 build: fix installation dir of glib-gettextize
  • !292 Remove all ChangeLog files
  • !293 Document new volume class loop
  • !294 portal network monitor: Always emit changed signal on changed
  • !295 meson: fix typo
  • !296 Add G_GNUC_FALLTHROUGH for attribute(fallthrough))
  • !297 build: Drop AC_C_CONST from configure.ac
  • !302 Document that GTimeVal is subject to the year 2038 problem on 32-bit systems
  • !303 liststore: Simplify code
  • !304 Add more GListStore/GListModel tests
  • !309 codegen: Change pointer casting to remove type-punning warnings
  • !312 Enable GIO tests on Windows
  • !316 gdbus: Improve error when well-known name is unowned
  • !317 Autostart xdg-desktop-portal if needed
  • !322 gnetworkmonitornm: Set a GError properly on an error handling path
  • !332 gmarkup: Make the documentation even more explicit about untrusted input
  • !334 gio: automake: Add libgmodule dependency
  • !338 gcharset: fix leaking g_get_language_names_with_category
  • !339 Add g_desktop_app_info_get_string_list(); fix g_key_file_free()
  • !340 tests: Mark two more tests as slow
  • !345 Fix build failure on systems without POSIX spawn
  • !347 Use Meson 0.48.0 for CI
  • !348 Documentation tweaks for g_array_free
  • !353 Meson: Do not run tests/refcount with --tap
  • !354 Fix spelling mistakes detected by Debian's Lintian tool
  • !358 Autotools: Move libmount from Libs.private to Requires.private
  • !360 CI: Test static build on installed glib
  • !363 Tests: Mark printf wrappers with G_GNUC_PRINTF
  • !364 ci: Enable FreeBSD CI
  • !366 gunixmounts: Mark mounts as system internal instead of filtering out
  • !372 gmacros: Fix G_[UN]LIKELY to not mask -Wparentheses
  • !374 gthreadpool: Include prgname in thread name
  • !375 m4macros: Allow information from pkg-config to be overridden
  • !376 gthread: Clarify priority handling in GRWLock
  • !379 Ignore g_return_*if_fail() branches in lcov coverage report
  • !381 Add UTF-8 communication tests for GSubprocess
  • !384 gtask: Add a g_task_set_name() method
  • !387 ci: Enable FreeBSD CI in the official repository
  • !396 m4: Fix AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 macro
  • !400 grefcount: add missing gatomic.h
  • !403 build-sys: Pass CFLAGS to $(DTRACE)
  • !405 ci/msys2: fix path to the lcov config file
  • !406 meson: Mark 1bit-emufutex test as slow
  • !407 meson: Increase test timeouts
  • !410 gfileutils: Add examples to g_path_get_dirname() documentation
  • !411 Various GVariant, GMarkup and GDBus fuzzing fixes
  • !412 Enable compile time check of g_date_time_format() format
  • !413 Add support for g_auto(s)list to G_DECLARE'd types
  • !414 gio, tests: ensure objectmanager sources are generated
  • !415 gseekable: fix 'attmepting' typo
  • !416 gdbus-peer: Make sure to not include objectmanager-gen.c source
  • !417 Fix ^*ay handling in g_variant_iter_loop()
  • !418 Meson: Cleanup a FIXME now that we have dict addition
  • !420 gdbus-codegen: add autocleanup for FooObject
  • !422 GMarkup buffer overflow fixes for error handling, round 2
  • !423 gutils: Check whether getauxval function exists
  • !424 ci: Fix Docker image version
  • !425 gdate: Reinitialize using_twodigit_years and locale_era_adjust.
  • !435 gdatetime: Fix formatting of time zones offsets in range -01:00 to +00:00
  • !436 valgrind: Add glib_init()-related suppressions
  • !440 Fix minor memory leaks in tests
  • !443 tests: Avoid multithreaded use of g_test_rand_int_range
  • !444 gvarianttypeinfo: Consistently use atomics to access ref_count
  • !446 gmain: Fix data races in GUnixSignalWatchSource and GChildWatchSource
  • !451 closures test: Avoid timeout on ARM64 CPUs
  • !452 Atomic reference count in GVariant, ContainerInfo and GDBus introspection
  • !453 tests: Fix some data races in tests
  • !454 gdbusproxy: make g-name-owner property useful with unique names
  • !458 glib-compile-resources: Fix size allocation for compressed streams
  • !460 gatomicrefcount: Make g_atomic_ref_count_init non-atomic
  • !461 Meson: Fix build error in gdbus-example-objectmanager
  • !462 meson: add aarch64 memory barrier handling
  • !463 gio, tests: fix leak of dbus connection.
  • !467 Update documentation of g_tls_connection_handshake() again
  • !469 docs: add index of new symbols for gio > 2.52
  • !470 docs: Clarify return/error behaviour of D-Bus signal subscriptions
  • !472 gdbusmessage: Gracefully handle message signatures with invalid types
  • !477 gthread: Remove unsynchronized access to g_once_init_list from assertion
  • !478 Deprecate TLS rehandshaking
  • !480 docs: add a missing semicolon
  • !482 Check for 'z' library before fallbacking to subproject
  • !483 meson: Turn selinux into a meson feature and make it auto by default
  • !484 Meson: Add 'nls' option to disable translation
  • !485 gdbus-codegen: Tag interfaces and properties so annotated with G_PARAM_DEPRECATED
  • !486 Check for zlib header
  • !489 glib-mkenums: Support reading @rspfiles for arguments
  • !490 gspawn: Fix g_spawn deadlock in a multi-threaded program on Linux
  • !491 Meson: Add missing include_directories when using glib as subproject
  • !492 g_value_get_variant: return value is transfer-none not transfer-full
  • !494 Resolve "Follow-up from "gunixmounts: Stop considering cifs/nfs as system file systems""
  • !500 genviron: make g_environ_* case-insensitive on Windows
  • !504 tests: Unset LANGUAGE when running gdatetime tests
  • !505 Support isolating directories for unit tests
  • !508 ci: Install additional locales used during tests
  • !510 Add new Linux Testing project version number to configure script
  • !511 gvariant: Fix error handling for parsing Unicode escapes
  • !514 fix gdbus-codegen --interface-info-{header,body}
  • !515 binding: Clarify the use of g_object_unref() to remove a binding
  • !517 Meson: Fix deprecation warning with upcoming 0.49.0 release
  • !518 Meson: Fix declare_dependency() calls
  • !520 GTlsConnection: add ALPN support
  • !521 tests: Rename macro to avoid conflict with encoding prefix
  • !522 gtlscertificate: Add support for TPM keys in PEM files
  • !524 gdatetime: Fix typo in the comment
  • !528 Add GRecMutexLocker
  • !530 tests: Minor improvements to mkenums.py and taptestrunner.py used by it
  • !534 gtlscertificate: Fix bug in PEM private key parser
  • !536 Various minor docs fixes
  • !541 gtimezone: Fallback to /etc/timezone on Gentoo
  • !546 spawn: add shebang line to script
  • !547 Do not check for NULL when calling free()
  • !549 Improve documentation of g_assert_error()
  • !551 Revert "tests: Fix GOptionContext leak in GSubprocess tests"
  • !554 Only subscribe to owner-changed signals on message bus connections
  • !555 Suppress -Wint-in-bool-context warning with G_DEFINE_INTERFACE and g++

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.56.4

• Various buffer overflow fixes in GMarkup/GVariant/GDBus (#1582)

• Bug fixes:

  • #1588 Moving a bookmark item to the same URI causes a crash
  • #1582 Backport GMarkup/GVariant/GDBus fixes to glib-2-58 and glib-2-56

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.58.2

• Fix calling gdbus-codegen with --interface-info-{header,body} (!527)

• Fix parsing month names in certain locales with g_date_set_parse() (#1343)

• Fix ^*ay handling in g_variant_iter_loop() (!437)

• Various buffer overflow fixes in GMarkup/GVariant/GDBus (#1582)

• A huge number of fixes to the Meson build

• Prevent bind mounts being advertised as mounts (#1271)

• Fix cross-compilation of 2.58.x releases with autotools (#1546)

• Bugs fixed:

  • !527 fix gdbus-codegen --interface-info-{header,body}
  • #1605 g_date_time_format fails when used with non ASCII format string on POSIX locale
  • !544 gtimezone: Fallback to /etc/timezone on Gentoo
  • #945 g_spawn_* functions break POSIX requirements and deadlock the child process under certain conditions
  • #1014 g_spawn family does not appear to be safe in multi-threaded programs
  • !542 gtlscertificate: Fix bug in PEM private key parser
  • #1343 g_date_set_parse: Parses "September" in Polish incorrectly
  • !471 meson: pin the libffi wrap file to the last release supporting meson 0.47
  • !430 gdate: Reinitialize using_twodigit_years and locale_era_adjust.
  • !437 Fix ^*ay handling in g_variant_iter_loop()
  • #1337 /GDateTime/strftime test fails with TZ=Africa/Monrovia
  • #1588 Moving a bookmark item to the same URI causes a crash
  • !462 meson: add aarch64 memory barrier handling
  • #1582 Backport GMarkup/GVariant/GDBus fixes to glib-2-58 and glib-2-56
  • !428 gdbus-codegen: add autocleanup for FooObject
  • #1576 Fails to build with Meson on Debian armel (armv5te EABI softfloat little-endian)
  • !407 meson: Increase test timeouts
  • #1572 Flags validation fails
  • #1522 Trash not working on NTFS folder accessed from symlink
  • #1562 GDate test suite fails with latest glibc
  • !367 Add g_desktop_app_info_get_string_list(); fix g_key_file_free()
  • !416 gdbus-peer: Make sure to not include objectmanager-gen.c source
  • !414 gio, tests: ensure objectmanager sources are generated
  • !409 A couple of minor glib-2-58 backports
    • !400 grefcount: add missing gatomic.h
    • !403 build-sys: Pass CFLAGS to $(DTRACE)
  • #1543 Backport recent Meson/pkg-config/test fixes to glib-2-58
  • #1271 fstab binds appear as mounts (x-gvfs-hide is being ignored)
  • #1546 Cross-compilation fails in 2.58
  • #1536 meson: spurious dependencies on convenience libraries in .pc files
  • #1544 meson: gtester-report #! not replaced with ${PYTHON}
  • #1528 Meson tests are hard to debug in an autobuilder environment
  • #1539 meson: Some files are unnecessarily installed executable
  • #1527 Meson doesn't install data for installed-tests
  • !406 meson: Mark 1bit-emufutex test as slow
  • !334 gio: automake: Add libgmodule dependency
  • !238 W32 GFileInfo improvements (partially)
  • !312 Enable GIO tests on Windows
  • #1520 Change conditions for installing m4 macros
  • #656 check for -Werror=format-security broken
  • #1313 Meson: Rework the config.h generation
  • !346 ci: Use a docker image for stable branch

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.58.1

• Fix to a regression in listing GIcon fallbacks (#1513)

• Changes to pkg-config paths to helper programs when building with autotools: paths are now absolute with reference to the .pc file’s ${prefix} (#1521)

• Fix installation path of glib-gettextize helper on Meson (!290)

• Fix autostarting xdg-desktop-portal (!321, a backport of !317)

• Various fixes to the network monitor (#1518, !294)

• Various compilation fixes on macOS (generally older versions and older compilers)

• Bugs fixed:

  • !318 codegen: Change pointer casting to remove type-punning warnings
  • #1513 GIcon regression?
  • #1521 pkg-config files differ between Autotools and Meson build
  • !321 Backport “Autostart xdg-desktop-portal if needed” to glib-2-58
  • #1518 /network-monitor/create-in-thread fails in (LXC) containers on glib-2-56
  • #1509 test_timeval_to_iso8601_overflow: 'out' should be NULL
  • !288 Backport command -v vs which changes to glib-2-58
  • !298 GLib 2.58 backports of various small patches
    • !295 meson: fix typo
    • !294 portal network monitor: Always emit changed signal on changed
    • !290 build: fix installation dir of glib-gettextize
    • #1488 ‘O_CLOEXEC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    • #1506 error: redefinition of typedef 'GKqueueFileMonitor'

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.56.3

• The documentation for G_GNUC_MALLOC has changed to be more restrictive to avoid miscompilations; you should check whether any uses of it in your code are appropriate

• Fix cancellation of g_subprocess_communicate_async() calls

• Bug fixes:

  • #1518 /network-monitor/create-in-thread fails in (LXC) containers on glib-2-56
  • #1461 GBookmarkFile: nullptr access in current_element
  • #1462 GBookmarkFile: heap-buffer-overflow in g_utf8_get_char
  • !278 Backport g_subprocess_communicate() cancellation fixes from !266 to glib-2-56
  • #1465 Many uses of G_GNUC_MALLOC are incorrect
  • #1472 Test for BROKEN_IP_MREQ_SOURCE_STRUCT is broken on Windows / Mingw
  • !259 Fix persistent CI failure on glib-2-56

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.58.0

• Tarball built with ninja dist, so if you want to build this release with autotools (which is supported), you will need to re-run autogen.sh. This release, and all micro releases in the 2.58.x series, support being built with Meson or autotools. See: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2018-June/msg00012.html
• Fix cancellation of g_subprocess_communicate_async() calls. See !266.
• Drop support for the __int64 type, which further breaks compilation on old MSVC versions (before VS2013). See #1313.
• Expose GSettings schema directory in gio-2.0.pc as schemasdir. See !274.
• Support v3 of the xdg-desktop-portal network monitor API. See !265, !279.
• Fix G_MODULE_SUFFIX on macOS when GLib is built with Meson — it should be so rather than dylib. Projects that use Meson and the g_module_build_path() API such as glib-networking should pass name_suffix: to shared_module() to ensure that plugins continue to be called libfoo.so on macOS. See !280.

Bugs fixed:

• !280 meson: Always set G_MODULE_SUFFIX to so on macOS
• !266 subprocess: Fix communicate_cancelled signature
• !279 Revert "Add a gnet utility" (see !265)
• !265 Network monitor again
• !274 gio: Provide schemas directory information in pkg-config file
• !239 gvariant: Fix more bounds checking in GVariant text format parser
• !195 garray: add overflow checks before expanding array
• #1497 g_strdup_printf warns on invalid format specifier with G_GUINT64_FORMAT on Win32
• !270 autotools: remove support for the __int64 type. See #1313
• !267 ci: Add an autotools job

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