Overview of changes in GLib 2.65.0

• Fix memory monitor tests to only be installed if installed-tests are enabled, and to be skipped if GObject-Introspection is too old (!1407)

• Stability improvements for various unit tests

• D-Bus credentials support on macOS (#507)

• MSVC support for the files generated by glib-compile-resource and gdbus-codegen (#1215, !1452)

• Year 2038 fixes involving new API in GBookmarkFile (#1931)

• SOCKS5 proxy authentication fixes (#1986, #1988)

• Support for more than MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS FDs for g_poll() on Windows (#2107)

• Add g_assert_no_errno() test macro for testing POSIX-style functions (!1204)

• Update Unicode Character Database to version 13.0.0 (!1422)

• Support storing interned strings in GValues efficiently, via g_value_set_interned_string() (#2109)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #2 g_filename_from_utf8() should normalize?
  • #176 the behaviour of constructors for GLib data types is not specified if memory allocation fails
  • #480 /gdbus/connection/signals test intermittently fails: assertion failed (count_name_owner_changed == 2): (1 == 2)
  • #507 GDBus credentials don’t work on OS X
  • #602 GLib.Thread not usable from GObject-Introspection
  • #1154 Missing documentation how to set a value in a GArray
  • #1215 MSVC cannot build glib-compile-resource's output resource file
  • #1323 meson, autotools: figure out if mem barrier is needed for arm64 host variant aarch64
  • #1398 gdate: Add error handling for GetDateFormatW calls
  • #1841 Signal handler disconnection race when finalising GCancellableSource
  • #1851 Meson Build Failure on Windows: Undefined Reference to libiconv
  • #1911 Memory leak in g_param_spec_flags and/or g_param_spec_enum
  • #1931 GBookmarkFile API involves time_t
  • #1954 gdbus-server-auth intermittent failure
  • #1957 gdbus-connection test failure on FreeBSD
  • #1986 Socks5 Proxy: Authentication seems broken
  • #1988 Socks5 Proxy: Wrong error returned when using no authentication
  • #2038 Bindings: g_tls_connection_set_database() does not allow None as argument
  • #2051 GUnixOutputStream can block on close()
  • #2057 Call malloc_trim() under memory pressure
  • #2067 Glib uses _Static_assert in C++17 mode
  • #2081 gdbus error messages contains mixed up body and head signatures
  • #2082 AM/PM - specific variation support needed to Hebrew language
  • #2083 Memory monitor tests fail if dbusmock isn't installed
  • #2092 FreeBSD CI timing out in gdbus-connection filter test
  • #2094 Deprecation warnings when compiling with -DGLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=GLIB_VERSION_2_28 -DGLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=GLIB_VERSION_2_28
  • #2106 Duplicated if - else if conditions in gtranslit.c
  • #2107 g_poll() implementation on Windows stall when more than MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS FDs have passed
  • #2109 GValue: Add support for interned string
  • #2124 g_file_info_get_content_type() may return NULL
  • #2132 Valgrind reports "still reachable" after g_thread_pool_new/free
  • #2134 Valgrind reports "still reachable" after g_uuid_string_random().
  • #2135 Valgrind reports "still reachable" after g_key_file_new/free
  • #2136 Valgrind reports "still reachable" after g_option_context_parse
  • !1204 gtestutils: Add a new g_assert_no_errno() test macro
  • !1302 gobject: new g_param_is_valid_property_name() function.
  • !1329 Support nanoseconds in stat timestamps on Windows
  • !1341 MUI capabilities for GWin32RegistryKey
  • !1360 CI: Show execution environment before we start
  • !1395 tests: Move memory_monitor_tests under installed_tests_enabled
  • !1396 macros: Define G_GNUC_FALLTHROUGH for more compilers
  • !1397 tests: Skip MemoryMonitor test if GObject-Introspection is too old
  • !1398 gcontenttype: Fix crash in _get_generic_icon_name()
  • !1402 ci: Update Android Docker image for aarch64 CPU naming change
  • !1405 tests: Disable link-time warning for mem-overflow
  • !1406 Replace fallthrough comments with G_GNUC_FALLTHROUGH
  • !1408 tests: Don't compare strings by pointer
  • !1409 gdummytlsconnection: Add missing overrides for ALPN properties
  • !1413 gapplication: Fix a minor typo in the documentation
  • !1414 gstrutils: Set locale explicitly for search-utils test
  • !1415 meson: Don't use assert in test code
  • !1418 ginetaddress, ginetsocketaddress: Add missing (nullable) annotations
  • !1422 glib: Update Unicode Character Database to version 13.0.0
  • !1423 gobject: Clarify assertion failure on ref-after-finalize
  • !1424 docs: Fix configuration with gtk_doc=true and installed_tests=false
  • !1425 gdbusconnection: GDBusSignalCallback can have a NULL sender_name
  • !1426 gunidecomp: Update and reformat Unicode version support history
  • !1427 gicon: Clarify GVariant refcounting in docs
  • !1428 Add missing 'extern' to the dllexport version of GLIB_VAR/GOBJECT_VAR
  • !1429 Fix arch detection ifdefs in glib/valgrind.h
  • !1430 Use __builtin_trap() on Clang on any platform
  • !1431 glib-unix.c: fix heap corruption in g_unix_get_passwd_entry
  • !1432 docs: Mention new gio tool options
  • !1433 meson: Fix buildtype usage
  • !1434 gdbusconnection: Clarify nullability of SignalInstance.sender
  • !1436 glib: Update internal copy of valgrind.h from Valgrind 3.15 release
  • !1437 gmarkup tests: tab character escape/unescape
  • !1439 Don't misdetect stpcpy on windows platforms on clang
  • !1440 Silence clang errors about -Wformat-nonliteral due to missing intermediate attributes
  • !1441 Meson: Override every dependency glib provides
  • !1442 gfile: Fallback to fast-content-type if content-type is not set
  • !1443 gio: use TAPTestRunner in the memory monitor tests
  • !1444 Meson: Add glib-checks and glib-asserts options
  • !1452 Make symbols generated by gdbus-codegen exportable on Visual Studio-style builds
  • !1455 gdesktopappinfo: Note that search results are not filtered
  • !1456 GCredentials documentation fixes
  • !1458 meson: Exclude gosxutils.m when building for iOS
  • !1459 meson: Fix the gnulib checks for isnan* functions
  • !1460 glib: Sync the local modification to glib/valgrind.h to what was upstreamed
  • !1462 gvariant-core: Add a note about memory safety of children
  • !1463 gdesktopappinfo: Add several nullable annotation to GAppInfo getters
  • !1464 Update Fedora CI
  • !1466 CI: Switch to new Windows runners
  • !1469 goption: Treat an empty option context parameter string as NULL
  • !1475 Improve documentation of g_tls_database_verify_chain()
  • !1476 tests: Fix remaining race in gdbus-connection filter test
  • !1479 Improve documentation of client connection validation flags
  • !1480 CI: Make sure we use meson 0.49.2 in MSYS2
  • !1481 array: fix corrupt state of GPtrArray after g_ptr_array_extend_and_steal()
  • !1482 [th/g-ptr-array-variable-cleanups] minor cleanup of variables for GPtrArray
  • !1487 glib: annotate static inline functions with G_AVAILABLE-type macros
  • !1488 Rebuild Fedora CI image
  • !1491 gdatetime: update annotations
  • !1492 glib-mkenums: allow optional 'since' tag
  • !1493 meson: Remove stray ] in O_DIRECTORY check
  • !1496 Fix GLIB_UNAVAILABLE_STATIC_INLINE declaration
  • !1498 array: add internal ptr_array_new() helper for creating GPtrArray
  • !1503 docs: Add indexes for symbols added in 2.66
  • !1505 gobject: Handle runtime checks as such
  • !1506 tests: Speed up the cancellable test
  • !1508 tests: Speed up the file test and make it more reliable
  • !1512 Various fixes when building for iOS
  • !1513 Initialize the visited time of a new GBookmarkFile
  • !1515 meson: check for stpcpy using cc.links()
  • !1516 gthreadedsocketservice: Mark source_object of run signal as nullable
  • !1517 GWin32RegistryKey: Move assertions
  • !1518 strfuncs: Use a GPtrArray in strsplit()
  • !1522 meson: Fix gnulib printf checks
  • !1524 meson: Fix gnulib build where isnan*() is needed
  • !1525 Normalize C source files to end with exactly one newline
  • !1528 gtlsconnection: Improve documentation of peer-certificate[-errors]
  • !1530 tree: Fix various typos and outdated terminology
  • !1531 gvariant: Fix documentation for g_variant_get_string() to match reality
  • !1532 win32: spelling fix
  • !1535 glib.supp improvements

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.64.3

• Stability improvements for various unit tests

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1954 gdbus-server-auth intermittent failure
  • #2094 Deprecation warnings when compiling with -DGLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=GLIB_VERSION_2_28 -DGLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=GLIB_VERSION_2_28
  • !1470 Backport !1440 -Wformat-nonliteral fixes to glib-2-64
  • !1471 Backport !1448 memory monitor test dependency fixes to glib-2-64
  • !1473 CI: Switch to new Windows runners (2.64)
  • !1478 Backport !1477 D-Bus keyring handling fixes to glib-2-64
  • !1483 Backport !1481 “array: fix corrupt state of GPtrArray after g_ptr_array_extend_and_steal()” to glib-2-64
  • !1484 Backport !1480 “CI: Make sure we use meson 0.49.2 in MSYS2” to glib-2-64
  • !1486 Backport !1472 “gthread: ignore deprecated declarations in static inline functions” to glib-2-64
  • !1495 Backport !1493 “meson: Remove stray ], in O_DIRECTORY check” to glib-2-64
  • !1501 Backport !1439 “Fix stpcpy() detection“ to glib-2-64

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.64.2

• Bugs fixed:

  • #2067 Glib uses _Static_assert in C++17 mode
  • #2081 gdbus error messages contains mixed up body and head signatures
  • !1421 Backport !1420 “gmacros.h: avoid using _Static_assert in C++17 mode” to glib-2-64
  • !1438 Backport various patches to glib-2-64
    • !1424 docs: Fix configuration with gtk_doc=true and installed_tests=false
    • !1428 Add missing 'extern' to the dllexport version of GLIB_VAR/GOBJECT_VAR
    • !1429 Fix arch detection ifdefs in glib/valgrind.h
    • !1431 glib-unix.c: fix heap corruption in g_unix_get_passwd_entry
    • !1432 docs: Mention new gio tool options
    • !1435 gdbusmessage: Fix swapped signatures in error messages
  • !1447 Backport !1442 “gfile: Fallback to fast-content-type if content-type is not set” to glib-2-64

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.6

• This is expected to be the final release in the 2.62.x stable series; maintenance effort will shift to the newer 2.64.x stable series now

• Fix SOCKS5 username/password authentication (#1986)

• Exception handling fixes on Windows (!1373)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1986 Socks5 Proxy: Authentication seems broken
  • #1988 Socks5 Proxy: Wrong error returned when using no authentication
  • #2049 Crash in g_array_copy
  • !1378 Backport !1373 win32 exception fixes to glib-2-62
  • !1380 Backport !1254 “giomodule: gio modules are no longer installed in bindir on MSVC” to glib-2-62
  • !1393 Backport !1390 “garray: Fix copying an array with reserved elements” to glib-2-62
  • !1394 Backport part of !1375 “tests: Skip g-file-info-filesystem-readonly test if bindfs fails” to glib-2-62
  • !1411 Backport SOCKS5 fixes to glib-2-62

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• Fix memory monitor tests to only be installed if installed-tests are enabled, and to be skipped if GObject-Introspection is too old (!1407)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1986 Socks5 Proxy: Authentication seems broken
  • #1988 Socks5 Proxy: Wrong error returned when using no authentication
  • !1407 Backport various patches from master to glib-2-64
  • !1412 Backport SOCKS5 fixes to glib-2-64

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.64.0

• Use posix_spawn() to speed up launching test D-Bus instances (!1388)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1783 Document using glib-mkenums with meson
  • #2049 Crash in g_array_copy
  • !1384 Some minor clang warning fixes
  • !1386 docs: Document generated headers caveats for genmarshal
  • !1387 ci: Correctly propagate exit status in run-style-check-diff.sh
  • !1388 gtestdbus: Use posix_spawn() to spawn dbus-daemon
  • !1389 Update GError docs to use G_DEFINE_QUARK

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.6

• Fix potential relative read when calling g_printerr(), which could lead to a denial of service from a setuid-root process being used to block access to the TTY for another user (#1919)

• Fix SOCKS proxy resolver sometimes not being used when resolving addresses via Happy Eyeballs (CVE-2020-6750) (#1989)

• Several other Happy Eyeballs fixes for address resolution (#1871, #1872, #1902)

• Various race fixes in GDBusConnection and its unit tests (#1515)

• Fix a race condition with D-Bus name ownership (#1517)

• Drop gio-launch-desktop helper application in favour of calling sh directly (#1633)

• Fix win32 exception handling with C# exceptions (#2025)

• Fix thread safety of GUnixMountMonitor (#2030)

• Additional fixes to new thread pool attribute behaviour from GLib 2.63.4 to check if sched_setattr() is allowed by system policies before depending on it (#2039, !1356)

• Fix memory leaks and corruption when freeing GSources while freeing a GMainContext (!1353)

• Drop inappropriate installation of object manager example documentation (!1359)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #938 gdbus call -a doesn't support message bus connections
  • #1515 gio/gdbus-threading test sometimes fails in CI
  • #1517 g_bus_own_name does not always call name_lost_handler when _REPLACE and _ALLOW_REPLACEMENT are set
  • #1633 should not install gio-launch-desktop into PATH
  • #1919 read from relative path in g_printerr() in 2.58.3
  • #1995 Tracker issue for Happy Eyeballs regressions
  • #2002 g_io_channel_read_line does not honour the line_term symbols set
  • #2025 W32 exception handling misbehaves when C# exceptions are thrown when running inside the Visual Studio debugger
  • #2030 Random nautilus test suite failures involving GUnixMountMonitor
  • #2039 sched_setattr() still can cause EPERM through natural causes
  • #2043 Low memory monitor test failed in CI
  • #2044 GApplication docs suggest invalid GVariant type
  • !1185 gtimezone: Tidy up UTC timezone creation
  • !1281 ci: Update Docker packages
  • !1283 gmodule: change _g_module_close to only take a handle.
  • !1298 tests: Speed up the GIO actions test
  • !1299 gapplication: Fix a minor typo in the documentation
  • !1339 gsocketclient: Refactor g_socket_client_connect_async()
  • !1353 GMainContext - Fix memory leaks and memory corruption when freeing sources while freeing a context
  • !1354 GThreadPool - Add test for !1340
  • !1355 glist: Add docs examples of how to combine with g_steal_pointer()
  • !1356 GThread - Check if sched_setattr is allowed by the system policies before depending on it
  • !1359 docs: Don’t install object manager example separately
  • !1363 Make tests pass if we are euid != 0 with capabilities
  • !1366 Fix oss-fuzz coverage link
  • !1372 gobject: Fix strict aliasing warnings with g_set_object()
  • !1376 gitlab-ci: 64-bit ARM is aarch64, not arm64
  • !1381 ghash: Document the iteration order over a hash table is not defined
  • !1382 tests: Bump the refcount timeout in gdbus-threading
  • !1383 ci: Enable parallelisation when running installed tests

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.5

• Fix potential relative read when calling g_printerr(), which could lead to a denial of service from a setuid-root process being used to block access to the TTY for another user (#1919)

• Fix SOCKS proxy resolver sometimes not being used when resolving addresses via Happy Eyeballs (CVE-2020-6750) (#1989)

• Several other Happy Eyeballs fixes for address resolution (#1871, #1872, #1902)

• Fix parsing of full Julian day range from $TZ environment variable (#1999)

• Several race condition/crash fixes (!1353, !1357)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1919 read from relative path in g_printerr() in 2.58.3
  • #1995 Tracker issue for Happy Eyeballs regressions
  • #1999 GTimeZone fails to accept full Julian day range when parsing the direct $TZ string format
  • !1323 Backport !1314 “gtimezone: fix parsing of Julian day in POSIX TZ format” to glib-2-62
  • !1331 Backport !1330 “W32: Correctly set st_ino when doing private stat()” to glib-2-62
  • !1352 Backport !1351 “glib.supp: update g-threaded-resolver-getaddrinfo-config” to glib-2-62
  • !1361 Backport !1353 GMainContext source reference fixes to glib-2-62
  • !1365 Refactor g_socket_client_connect_async()
  • !1370 Backport !1369 “build: Rework path construction to reliably add prefix” to glib-2-62
  • !1371 Backport !1357 “gunixmounts: Make GUnixMountMonitor thread-safe” to glib-2-62

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.5

• Fix behaviour of g_file_move() fallback code to not follow symlinks (#986)

• Rename --glib-min-version argument of gdbus-codegen to --glib-min-required (this is not an API break as --glib-min-version was added earlier in the 2.63 cycle) (#1993)

• Add gtk-doc checks to CI and fix a number of documentation issues (thanks to Xavier Claessens) (!978)

• Add G_SIZEOF_MEMBER() macro (!1333)

• Add a debug message if g_setenv() or g_unsetenv() are used after any threads have been spawned — this will be upgraded to a warning in future (!1337, #715)

• Skip memory monitor tests if xdg-desktop-portal or dbusmock are not available (!1296, !1338)

• Change the libmount configure option from a boolean to a Meson feature (!1344)

• Do not return target-uri from g_file_peek_path() when called on trash/recent files (!1346)

• Drop new TLS certificate API for PKCS #11 backed certificates, as the implementation is not ready yet (this is not an API break as the API was added earlier in the 2.63 cycle) (!1347)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #986 g_file_move: remove G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS section
  • #1551 CI: Add checks for TODO in MRs
  • #1925 Large number of routes installed into kernel cause high cpu usage
  • #1993 Rename gdbus-codegen --glib-min-version argument to --glib-min-required and add --glib-max-allowed
  • #2012 spawn_thread_queue not initialised in GThreadPool
  • #2020 g_network_monitor_base_add_network() improperly unrefs GInetAddressMask
  • !978 Various fixes to make gtkdoc-check pass on glib
  • !1018 docs: tag enclose 'all' and 'help' values
  • !1170 Avoid C++20 deprecated assignment to volatile
  • !1296 tests: Skip GMemoryMonitor tests if the dbusmock template is not available
  • !1307 Remove global declaration of GMemoryMonitor
  • !1322 gmain: Mark G_SOURCE_FUNC as available in 2.58
  • !1333 Add and use G_SIZEOF_MEMBER() macro
  • !1337 genviron: Message if g_setenv()/g_unsetenv() are used after threads spawned
  • !1338 tests: Skip GMemoryMonitor tests if xdg-desktop-portal is not available
  • !1344 meson: libmount autodectection
  • !1345 gio-tool-info: Print unix mount information where available
  • !1346 gfile: Do not return target-uri from g_file_peek_path()
  • !1347 Revert "gtlscertificate: Add support for PKCS #11 backed certificates"
  • !1348 ghash: Clarify that g_hash_table_add() always consumes the key
  • !1349 doc: Clarify that _locker_new() does not actually allocate memory
  • !1351 glib.supp: update g-threaded-resolver-getaddrinfo-config

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.4

• Fix various race conditions on signal emission in GDBus (#604, #978, #1232)

• Change thread pools so that thread attributes (in particular, priority) are inherited from the thread which created the GThreadPool initially, rather than from the thread which is pushing a new job into the pool (#1834, #2007)

• Expand support for running Windows apps with g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri() using rundll32 on Windows (#1932)

• Support multiple directories in GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR environment variable (#1998)

• Support full Julian day range in TZ environment variable (#1999)

• Apply recursion depth limits to variants in D-Bus messages (!1201)

• Support adding call flags and timeouts to method calls generated by gdbus-codegen through the new --glib-min-version option (!1286)

• Fully deprecate TLS rehandshakes; they are now ignored due to TLS protocol changes (!1305)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #198 g_fopen and friends: should also state how to close a stream
  • #604 GDBus name watching dispatch is buggy/excessively-complicated
  • #833 g_object_set: document the need to cast varargs
  • #978 SIGSEGV in on_name_lost_or_acquired
  • #1232 Insufficient thread safety around GDBusObjectManagerClient
  • #1416 Re-add macOS CI
  • #1834 Unwanted priority/etc inheritance with GThreadPool and GThread and the POSIX implementation
  • #1932 Windows: Gio.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri seems not to work for local files/folders
  • #1983 glib:gio / dbus-appinfo test fails: GLib-GIO:ERROR:../../../../Projects/glib/gio/tests/dbus-appinfo.c:326:on_flatpak_open: 'g_file_equal (files[0], f)' should be TRUE
  • #1997 Base64 encoding with "break_lines" claims to wrap at 72 characters but seems to wrap at 76
  • #1998 support multiple directories in GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
  • #1999 GTimeZone fails to accept full Julian day range when parsing the direct $TZ string format
  • #2007 Thread scheduler attributes fail under valgrind
  • !388 ci: Avoid downloading subprojects for each job
  • !1111 gio: test that launch_uris() exports files with the document portal when launching a flatpak
  • !1201 gdbusmessage: Limit recursion of variants in D-Bus messages
  • !1279 tests: Fix an error message set by foo_set_property()
  • !1286 gdbus-codegen: Add a GDBusCallFlags arg to method calls
  • !1291 gio-tool-list: Add an option to print display names
  • !1294 GMemoryMonitor docs fixes
  • !1295 gio: Fix socket test
  • !1301 GThread - Inherit parent thread priority by default for new Win32 threads
  • !1303 gvariant-core: Don't pass NULL second argument to memcpy
  • !1305 Fully deprecate TLS rehandshakes
  • !1308 gsocketclient: run timeout source on the task's main context
  • !1309 Fix crash in gutils when application is prevented access to passwd file
  • !1317 gfdonotificationbackend: remove notifications when bus name vanishes
  • !1320 subprojects: Temporarily avoid using wrapdb while it’s down
  • !1324 ci: Add some documentation to the style check CI test
  • !1325 Check for SYS_sched_getattr before using it unconditionally
  • !1330 W32: Correctly set st_ino when doing private stat()
  • !1334 gthread: Ensure GThreadSchedulerSettings is always defined

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.4

• Apply recursion depth limits to variants in D-Bus messages (!1290)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1938 GDateTime doesn't support leap seconds
  • !1240 Backport !1233 “gdatetime: Handle leap seconds in ISO8601 dates” to glib-2-62
  • !1257 Backport !1232 “kqueue: Do not return early from _kqsub_cancel” to glib-2-62
  • !1266 Backport !1265 “build: don't check for protected visibility” to glib-2-62
  • !1276 Backport !1274 “trash portal: Don't follow symlinks” to glib-2-62
  • !1290 Backport !1201 “gdbusmessage: Limit recursion of variants in D-Bus messages” to glib-2-62

Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.3

• Add a --glib-min-version argument to gdbus-codegen which controls breaks in the API of generated code (#1726)

• Add g_clear_list() API to clear GLists to NULL (#1943)

• Add a GMemoryMonitor API to be notified of memory pressure situations using the low-memory-monitor project (!1005)

• Add support for dispose functions for GSource implementations (!1175)

• Tighten up validation of GObject signal and property names, allowing performance improvements (!1224)

• Fix installation path of GIO modules on MSVC to be the bindir (!1254)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #650 g_signal_lookup gives too many warnings
  • #1011 GListStore, easily find if the item is already inserted
  • #1130 gdbus-codegen: Add an option to strictly generate markdown in source comments
  • #1687 glocalvfs.c uses non-thread-safe getpwnam()
  • #1726 Warn when method/signal uses type 'h' but lacks GDBus.C.UnixFD annotation
  • #1935 Assert in _kqsub_free seems to be too strict
  • #1943 Consider g_clear_list()
  • #1947 Documentation clarification for g_uuid_string_random()
  • #1953 Documentation for g_type_init() and others missing from online gtk-doc documentation
  • #1961 A typo in the comment of g_settings_schema_get_path: threfore -> therefore
  • !1005 gio: Add GMemoryMonitor to monitor for low-memory
  • !1172 gptrarray: Add an example to the g_ptr_array_steal() docs
  • !1175 Implement a dispose function for GSource
  • !1223 Add additional valgrind suppressions
  • !1224 Signal name handling improvements
  • !1230 ci: Run installed-tests on Fedora
  • !1235 Add sudo to Fedora docker image
  • !1239 tests: Run "timeout tests" sequentially
  • !1248 ci: Update all Debian CI runners to use v5 of the Dockerfile
  • !1249 gio-tool-mount: Allow mounting by the given UUID
  • !1252 ci: Fix running all jobs on merge requests
  • !1253 gthread: Fix "zero as null pointer" warning
  • !1254 giomodule: gio modules are no longer installed in bindir on MSVC
  • !1255 ci: Build Docker images rather than OCI images if using podman
  • !1256 gdate: Add autoptr support
  • !1258 Minor CI fixups
  • !1261 gtk-doc: Ensure we have recent enough version
  • !1262 tests: Add tests for the gdbus-codegen executable
  • !1265 build: don't check for protected visibility
  • !1267 Revert "doc: Workaround gtkdoc-scan bug leading to undocumented symbols"
  • !1268 ci: Work-around successful installed tests having no logs
  • !1269 gvariant: Add guard to g_variant_get()
  • !1271 tests: Enable GDBus debug for a number of unreliable tests
  • !1274 trash portal: Don't follow symlinks
  • !1275 Small doc correction
  • !1277 Various gtk-doc improvements
  • !1278 Update installed tests CI
  • !1280 clang-format-diff: Output diff for multiple files, not just one
  • !1282 Revert "Revert "docs: remove GDBusObjectManager example""
  • !1284 Update POTFILES.in 191212
  • !1287 atomic/tests: test g_atomic_pointer_compare_and_exchange() with const pointers
  • !1289 gtype: Define auto-cleanup functions for Module class

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.2

• Use lldb rather than gdb on macOS for debugging (#1004)

• Switch the atomic builtins from __sync_fetch_*() to the slightly more modern __atomic_*() (#1750)

• Fix calculation of gsize width on various platforms (including OpenBSD) (#1777)

• Fix undefined behaviour causing brokenness in g_utf8_find_prev_char() when compiling with GCC ≥ 8 (#1917)

• Revert UNIX mode changes in G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID_UNIX_MODE which broke OSTree (#1934)

• Slightly improve performance for signal emissions when no handlers are connected (!1083)

• Add g_task_return_value() and g_task_propagate_value() APIs to allow GTask to be used from language bindings more easily (!1216)

• Fix a file monitoring crash on kqueue-based systems (BSD) (!1221)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1004 [PATCH] Make gbacktrace use lldb on Mac OS X
  • #1552 CI: Add code style checks
  • #1750 Switch from _sync_fetch() to _atomic() in glib/gatomic.h
  • #1777 gsize: improper typedef on (at least) OpenBSD
  • #1895 Regression: glib does not compile on centos 6: "objcopy: unrecognized option '--add-symbol'"
  • #1917 Test utf8-pointer fails with static build, LTO, optimisations, and new GCC
  • #1930 glib/tests/bookmarkfile.c:385:test_modify: assertion failed: (stamp == now)
  • #1934 ostree tests broken since bfdc5fc4: File '/tmp/test-tmp-libostree_test-basic-user.sh.test-QB4SA0/diff-test2' is not empty
  • #1938 GDateTime doesn't support leap seconds
  • #1940 atomics test fails on FreeBSD CI since !1123
  • !1039 Improve documentation for footgun function g_tls_client_connection_copy_session_state()
  • !1083 Use the GObject hole on 64bit arches for some flags to improve performance
  • !1202 CI updates after !1177
  • !1208 gutils: Slightly improve docs formatting for g_get_os_info()
  • !1209 Make ld executable configurable
  • !1210 gdbus-server-auth test: Include gcredentialsprivate.h
  • !1213 gsocket: Improve diagnostics on bind() failure
  • !1214 gvariant, gbytes: Avoid memcmp (NULL, ., 0) or memcmp (., NULL, 0)
  • !1216 Make GTask more binding-friendly
  • !1218 gdb: Fix GHashTable pretty printer off-by-one error
  • !1220 gparam: fix memory leak in g_param_value_defaults()
  • !1221 Add NOTE_REVOKE to the list of the monitoring events
  • !1225 gtlsconnection: clarify handshake() documentation
  • !1227 Deprecate old GTlsConnection functionality even harder!
  • !1231 Fix build on old libc that does not define _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX
  • !1238 gstrfuncs: use gsize type internally for strv functions
  • !1242 gfileinfo: Clarify the documentation for G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_MODE
  • !1243 docs: Fix "occurred" typos in API documentation

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.3

• Use poll() in g_spawn_sync() rather than select(), which is subject to FD limits (#954)

• Fix undefined behaviour with g_utf8_find_prev_char() (#1917)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #954 The g_spawn_sync() function uses select() which has limitations
  • #1318 rare failure in gdbus-peer test: invalid uninstantiatable type '(null)' in cast to 'GDBusServer'
  • #1897 glib 2.62.0 fails test 'test_writev_no_vectors' wih gcc7
  • #1903 use-after-free in mimeapps test causes intermittent segfault during testing
  • #1916 objcopy not used from cross-compilation file in GIO tests
  • #1917 Test utf8-pointer fails with static build, LTO, optimisations, and new GCC
  • !1174 Backport !1164 “use-after-free fix in mimeapps test” to glib-2-62
  • !1184 Backport !1173 “gvariant: Limit recursion in g_variant_parse()” to glib-2-62
  • !1194 Backport !1176, !1183, !1188, !1191 to glib-2-62
  • !1203 Backport !1192, !1193, !1197 Fixes for gdbus-peer tests to glib-2-62
  • !1207 Backport !1206 “goption: Relax assertion to avoid being broken by kdeinit5” to glib-2-62
  • !1215 [2.62] gdbus-peer: Specifically listen on 127.0.0.1
  • !1219 Backport !1218 “gdb: Fix GHashTable pretty printer off-by-one error”
  • !1222 Backport !1221 “Add NOTE_REVOKE to the list of the monitoring events” to glib-2-62
  • !1228 Backport !1199 “gunicode: Fix UB in gutf8.c and utf8-pointer test” to glib-2-62

Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.1

• Several usability improvements to command line gio tool (!1153)

• Add g_array_steal(), g_ptr_array_steal() and g_byte_array_steal() APIs (#285)

• Add g_get_os_info() API (!1063, !1160)

• Add g_warning_once() API (!1028)

• Always resolve localhost to loopback address in GResolver (!616)

• Add GMainContextPusher API (!983)

• Limit recursion in g_variant_parse() (!1173)

• Fix crash in g_spawn() with high FD numbers due to use of select() rather than poll() (#954)

• Allow passing empty GValues to g_param_value_set_default() (!1186)

• Escape header guards generated by gdbus-codegen better (#1379)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #285 [PATCH] add array steal and memdup functions
  • #954 The g_spawn_sync() function uses select() which has limitations
  • #1318 rare failure in gdbus-peer test: invalid uninstantiatable type '(null)' in cast to 'GDBusServer'
  • #1379 gdbus-codegen generates invalid header guards when build directory contains a + character
  • #1622 NULL pointer derefs on g_vasprintf() failure
  • #1813 g_option_context_add_main_entries() is missing array annotation for entries parameter
  • #1831 No reply on private socket due to auth problem
  • #1836 gobject.c uses undefined annotation “(not optional)”
  • #1858 docs/reference/gobject/tut_gobject.xml: object properties example uses deprecated API
  • #1877 g_cancellable_source_new annotated with 'skip'
  • #1896 Use after free when calling g_dbus_connection_flush_sync() in a dedicated thread
  • #1897 glib 2.62.0 fails test 'test_writev_no_vectors' wih gcc7
  • #1903 use-after-free in mimeapps test causes intermittent segfault during testing
  • #1906 test_os_info fails on FreeBSD
  • #1916 objcopy not used from cross-compilation file in GIO tests
  • #1923 Recent Versions of GLib Break Dolphin File-Manager's Thumbnailing when Using 'gtk2' Style
  • !616 Always resolve localhost to loopback address
  • !983 gmain: Add GMainContextPusher convenience API
  • !1014 tests: Add a test for g_assert_finalize_object()
  • !1028 gmessages: Add g_warning_once()
  • !1035 Switching from C gnu89 to C gnu99 standard
  • !1063 gutils: Add g_get_os_info()
  • !1082 gdatetime: Document RFC 3339 extensions when parsing ISO 8601
  • !1105 syscall flood on every time*() function call
  • !1120 Update documentation with FreeBSD build instructions
  • !1135 gmain: use atomic operation instead of GMutex to access g_main_context_default()
  • !1146 Solaris build fixes
  • !1147 gmodule: fix typo in doc comment
  • !1148 gio/gfileinfo: fix parameter references
  • !1149 gio/gfile: fix parameter reference for value_p
  • !1150 gio/gfile: fix parameter references to @contents
  • !1151 gio/gfile: fix typo in doc comment
  • !1152 gwinhttpvfs: Handle g_get_prgname() returning NULL
  • !1153 Several gio-tool bash completion fixes and improvements
  • !1155 Strict-aliasing fixes to new atomic built-ins
  • !1157 Fix various compiler warnings on Android
  • !1160 Add Windows support to g_get_os_info()
  • !1161 hash: Remove an assertion from the hot path
  • !1163 gcharset: Expand the documentation for g_get_locale_variants()
  • !1165 Use uname as a fallback to get OS info
  • !1167 Fix some minor leaks in testfilemonitor
  • !1168 Fix gdatetime tests on toolbox
  • !1171 Revert "gdbus-codegen: emit GUnixFDLists if an arg has type 'h'"
  • !1173 gvariant: Limit recursion in g_variant_parse()
  • !1177 ci: Add libdbus development files to CI Docker images
  • !1179 Improve GPtrArray doc-comments
  • !1180 array: Avoid use of memcpy(dest, NULL, 0)
  • !1181 gmain: Clarify thread safety of some common GSource functions
  • !1182 gio: Fix typo in URL
  • !1186 Allow using an empty GValue with g_param_value_set_default()
  • !1189 gparamspecs: Fix type class leaks on error handling paths
  • !1197 Fix GDBus test failures on non-Linux (in particular FreeBSD)
  • !1200 Minor fixes from a scan-build run

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.2

• Bugs fixed:
  • #1896 Use after free when calling g_dbus_connection_flush_sync() in a dedicated thread
  • !1154 Backport !1152 “gwinhttpvfs: Handle g_get_prgname() returning NULL” to glib-2-62
  • !1156 Backport !1146 Solaris fixes to glib-2-62

Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.0

• Add g_fsync() API (#35)

• Fix regression in g_file_copy() when passing G_FILE_COPY_TARGET_DEFAULT_PERMS flag; the destination permissions would be private rather than following the process’ umask (!1142)

• Several GDateTime parsing fixes (!1127)

• Always build the tests if installed-tests are enabled, so that the tests can actually be installed (!1141)

• Rework atomic function implementations to use memory barrier in the correct place (when compiler intrinsics aren’t providing the atomics), and fix signedness issues (#1449, #1565)

• Use the OS’ fdwalk() function (if safe) to speed up g_spawn_*() on BSD (#1638)

• Remove the macOS dyld GModule implementation in favour of dl instead (!1093)

• Bump Python requirement to ≥ 3.5, which we implicitly relied on anyway through our Meson dependency (!1132)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #35 add g_fsync to API
  • #174 g_file_copy always preserves permissions, even if G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA flag is not set
  • #259 docs: fix a misunderstanding in g_type_add_interface_*
  • #767 g_signal_lookup fails if class is not referenced
  • #1052 g_io_write_chars calls abort when given a null byte as input
  • #1449 glib fallback atomic int/ptr get/set have memory barrier in wrong place
  • #1565 Signedness of atomic operations
  • #1638 g_spawn_*() is extremely slow under certain circumstances
  • #1809 Provide API for working with PKCS11 backed certificates
  • #1843 TSAN false positive with g_atomic_pointer_get/g_atomic_pointer_set under Clang
  • #1865 g_variant_get_data_as_bytes fails after serializing a variant
  • #1875 Segfault and Overflow in __gio_xdg_cache_mime_type_subclass() with Wps-Office installed
  • #1887 glib 2.62.0 breaks loading dylibs as modules
  • #1888 2.62: docs build on Windows broken
  • #1897 glib 2.62.0 fails test 'test_writev_no_vectors' wih gcc7
  • !1020 docs: Remove priv pointers from the tutorial example
  • !1062 gtype: mark the inline functions in G_DECLARE_*_TYPE() as UNUSED
  • !1080 tests: Fix skipping mkdir-with-parents-permission test
  • !1088 Various small scan-build fixes
  • !1090 giochannel: Clarify type of GSource callback in documentation
  • !1093 gmodule: remove macOS dyld implementation
  • !1095 Define G_IOV_MAX to 512 on macOS/iOS
  • !1099 gmem: clarify that g_malloc always uses the system allocator
  • !1109 doc: fix typo in gio/gsettings.c
  • !1110 gio: Add missing "gio remove" option to bash completion script
  • !1112 Add version macros for GLib 2.64
  • !1115 gdatetime: Fix error handling in g_date_time_new_ordinal()
  • !1116 gmarkup: Add a limit on the number of attributes in an element
  • !1119 Annotate the return value of various utility functions
  • !1124 docs: Fix typo in GConverter{Input,Output}Stream section titles
  • !1125 gdatetime: Fix error handling in g_date_time_new_week()
  • !1126 fileinfo: Mention that usec mtimes are set
  • !1129 gdate: Fix tautological comparison warnings on Android
  • !1130 Improve GLIB_DEPRECATED_MACRO_FOR output
  • !1131 gio/gfileinfo: fix param reference in doc comment
  • !1132 build: Bump Python requirement to ≥ 3.5
  • !1137 gregistrysettings: bump key name length to 2048
  • !1138 Always build tests if we enabled installed-tests
  • !1139 g_file_info_get_modification_date_time: Calculate in integer domain

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.1

• Fix regression in g_file_copy() when passing G_FILE_COPY_TARGET_DEFAULT_PERMS flag; the destination permissions would be private rather than following the process’ umask (!1142)

• Several GDateTime parsing fixes (!1127)

• Always build the tests if installed-tests are enabled, so that the tests can actually be installed (!1141)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #174 g_file_copy always preserves permissions, even if G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA flag is not set
  • #1865 g_variant_get_data_as_bytes fails after serializing a variant
  • #1875 Segfault and Overflow in __gio_xdg_cache_mime_type_subclass() with Wps-Office installed
  • #1887 glib 2.62.0 breaks loading dylibs as modules
  • #1888 2.62: docs build on Windows broken
  • !1021 docs: Remove priv pointers from the tutorial example
  • !1094 Backport to 2.62: gmodule: use dl implementation on macOS
  • !1101 Backport !1092 “Fix doc build on Windows” to glib-2-62
  • !1102 Backport !1080 “tests: Fix skipping mkdir-with-parents-permission test” to glib-2-62
  • !1103 Backport !1085 “xdgmime: Prevent infinite loops from badly-formed MIME registrations” to glib-2-62
  • !1127 Backport !1125 and !1115 GDateTime parsing fixes to glib-2-62
  • !1128 Backport !1043 “gvariant: Handle empty serialisations in get_child_value()” to glib-2-62
  • !1140 [2.62] g_file_info_get_modification_date_time: Calculate in integer domain
  • !1141 [2.62] Always build tests if we enabled installed-tests
  • !1142 Backport !1134 Fix for file copy permissions to glib-2-62

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Overview of changes in GLib 2.62.0

• Fix new GFileInfo APIs to work when G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_MODIFIED_USEC was not queried (!1087)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #487 Add valgrind test runs to CI
  • !1084 garray: Fix reference to GLIB_SIZEOF_INT
  • !1086 glib.supp: make gobject_init() calloc also of the possible kind
  • !1087 fileinfo: ignore USEC if not available

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