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@@ -1,3 +1,238 @@ +Overview of changes in GLib 2.81.0, 2024-06-28 +============================================== + +* Add a strong recommendation to build with a toolchain that supports C11; this + will become a hard requirement in future stable release cycles (!4082, work by + Emmanuele Bassi) + +* Fix CVE-2024-34397: GDBus signal subscriptions for well-known names are + vulnerable to unicast spoofing (#3268, work by Simon McVittie, reported by + Alicia Boya García) + +* Fix a regression with IBus caused by the fix for CVE-2024-34397 (#3353, + work by Simon McVittie) + +* Fix Devhelp documentation indexes (#3287, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Fix installation directory of the GVariant specification (#3351, work by + Michael Catanzaro) + +* Change `dtrace` and `systemtap` Meson options to auto-enabled features, and + change default for `sysprof` from `disabled` to `auto` (#3354, work by Michael + Catanzaro) + +* Change how Python is found at configure time and in script shebangs + (#3301, #3331, work by multiple people) + +* Make various libgirepository APIs return reproducible results by defining an + order over namespaces (#3303, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Ignore `SIGPIPE` for the entire parent process when creating a `GSubprocess` + (#3310, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Use alternate signal stack to receive signals if the process provides one + (!3983, #3314, #3315, #3337, work by Marco Trevisan, Pablo Correa Gomez, + Philip Withnall) + +* Allow multiple parameters for D-Bus activation of app actions (#3333, work by + Philip Withnall, Julian Sparber) + +* Fix out-of-bounds access when reading >4GiB files (#3397, work by + Benjamin Otte, Philip Withnall) + +* Use `ppoll()` rather than `poll()` where possible for more precise timeouts + (!3958, work by Christian Hergert) + +* Port various parts of the documentation to gi-docgen format (#3250, work by + Sudhanshu Tiwari, Philip Withnall) + +* Fix `futex_time64()` use on Android ≤ 10 (!3987, work by Amyspark) + +* Various improvements to bash completion for GLib utilities (!3989, !4012, + !4013, work by Ville Skyttä, Philip Withnall) + +* Bugs fixed: + - GNOME/tracker-miners#315 3.7.0 - GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 09:27:12.186: Error + creating IO channel for /proc/self/mountinfo: Invalid argument (g-io-error- + quark, 13) (Ondrej Holy) + - GNOME/gobject-introspection#509 Gio Typelib error on method call: + 'gi.repository.Gio' object has no attribute 'content_type_get_icon' + (Biswapriyo Nath) + - #564 create introspection-friendly version of g_settings_bind_with_mapping + (Philip Chimento) + - #1767 Fix scan-build reports and gate CI pipeline success on scan-build + success (Philip Withnall) + - #2896 Links to docs for glib-compile-resources are broken (Emmanuele Bassi) + - #3184 g_socket_client_connect_to_host_async leaks memory when target host + doesn't respond to ARP (Philip Withnall) + - #3254 Property deprecation warning can be issued in cases when deprecated + property isn't used (Philip Withnall) + - #3268 CVE-2024-34397: GDBus signal subscriptions for well-known names are + vulnerable to unicast spoofing (Simon McVittie) + - #3286 g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len, g_strstr_len return ownership note is + incorrect (Philip Withnall) + - #3287 Devhelp does not show indexes for GLib, GIO, or GObject (Philip + Withnall) + - #3289 readlink -f fails in CI on macOS (Simon McVittie) + - #3290 Cleanup after G_TEST_OPTION_ISOLATE_DIRS follows symlinks (Will + Thompson) + - #3301 consider glib development binaries usable without external python + modules + - #3303 gi_repository_find_by_gtype is nondeterministic (Philip Withnall) + - #3310 Race condition in `g_subprocess_communicate()` with + `G_SUBPROCESS_FLAGS_STDIN_PIPE` (Philip Withnall) + - #3313 GBookmarkFile documentation links to non-existant page (Philip + Withnall) + - #3314 unix test fails on macOS due to alternate signal stack changes + - #3317 test failures during glib bootstrap + - #3326 Switch TRUE and FALSE to C99 constants (Emmanuele Bassi) + - #3333 Gio.Application: Takes only first parameter when activating an action + via D-Bus Activation (Julian Sparber) + - #3337 unix test fails under valgrind due to alternate stack changes (Marco + Trevisan (Treviño)) + - #3342 Crash in gdbus schedule_callbacks() due to missing NULL check before + g_str_equal() (Philip Withnall) + - #3351 GVariant specification installed in wrong directory (Michael + Catanzaro) + - #3353 Fixing CVE-2024-34397 caused regressions for ibus (Simon McVittie) + - #3354 Reconsider default values for certain build options + - #3355 GIBaseInfo/GIBaseInfoStack bitfield definition doesn't match on + 16-bit-aligned-pointer systems + - #3361 Documentation for i18n is limited, i18n macros not available + (Emmanuele Bassi) + - #3363 Factor out untranslatable parts of translatable error messages + - #3366 Crash in error path of g_dbus_connection_export_menu_model() (Philip + Withnall) + - #3369 Remove links to dead developer-old.gnome.org (Philip Withnall) + - #3372 G_LIKELY doesn’t appear in gi-docgen documentation (Emmanuele Bassi) + - #3394 GLib unit tests fail on macOS runner due to localhost being out of + addresses (Philip Withnall) + - #3397 g_file_load_contents reads large (>4GiB) files past end of array due + to gsize to guint truncation + - #3401 Random failures to build glib 2.80.3 (Philip Withnall) + - #3402 g_output_stream_write fails assertion if buffer is NULL and count is 0 + (Gary Li) + - !3697 GLocalFile: support trashing long file name + - !3939 Add g_file_copy_async_with_closures() and + g_file_move_async_with_closures() + - !3952 Add unref-to-strv to GStrvBuilder + - !3954 [th/performance] add script for combining performance results + - !3958 Use ppoll() when possible for more precise timeouts + - !3959 [th/gobject-toggle-refs-check] Fix critical warning for toggle + notifications in g_object_ref()/g_object_unref() + - !3962 meson: Fix a needless recompilation of some gdbus tests + - !3966 girparser: Don't assume sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(void *) + - !3967 girparser: Allow time_t, off_t, etc. to appear in GIR XML + - !3969 Ported the first few documentation comments in `gio/gaction.c` to gi- + docgen + - !3970 girparser: Make sizes in integer_aliases more obviously correct + - !3972 girparser: Adjust signedness() macro + - !3973 glib/gvariant: fix compile error with GCC 14.0.1 + - !3974 tests: Mark several additional tests as can_fail on GNU Hurd + - !3975 build: Post-release version bump + - !3977 tests: Remove unnecessary subprocess from dataset tests + - !3978 gio: Fix docs links to description of I/O priority + - !3979 Don't assume CPU_ISSET will return 0 or 1 + - !3983 gmain: Use alternate signal stack if the application provides one + - !3984 Fix a typo + - !3985 gio: Change ‘unrecognised’ to ‘unrecognized’ in various user-visible + places + - !3986 Port the remaining documentation comments in `gio/gaction.c` to GI- + Docgen + - !3987 glib/gthread-posix: Block futex_time64 usage on Android API level < 30 + - !3988 Introspection: Fix running g-ir-scanner 1.80.x+ on Windows + - !3989 completion: make gsettings work in nounset mode + - !3990 docs: spelling and grammar fixes + - !3993 Convert __BIONIC__ usages that check for Android to __ANDROID__ + - !3994 glib/gthread-posix: Fix missing saved_errno variable in Android's + g_futex_simple + - !3996 docs: Fix g_object_connect()'s docblock + - !4000 Revert "gmain: Use alternate signal stack if the application provides + one" + - !4002 Ports the documentation comments in gio/gactiongroup.c to GI-Docgen + - !4003 Remove unused cmph files + - !4005 Fix various bugs found by scan-build and refresh scan-build config in + CI + - !4008 docs: Update Code of Conduct URI + - !4011 docs: Minor GVariant fixes + - !4012 tests: Enable shellcheck for bash completion scripts + - !4013 completion: Invoke the command being completed + - !4014 Add a few more missing license and copyright headers to files + - !4016 gunicode.h: fix warning with -Wcast-qual for define g_utf8_next_char() + - !4017 docs(gio/overview): Restore missing heading + - !4020 girepository/introspection: correctly install .gir files into custom + locations + - !4022 gfileinfo: Fixed broken link to gio/file-attributes.html + - !4023 Fix various implicit conversions from size_t to smaller types + - !4024 gdatetime: Fix string type used to initialise array + - !4031 gdocumentportal: Handle EROFS and similar errors more gracefully + - !4034 link with -latomic when needed + - !4035 Add g_converter_convert_bytes + - !4045 gapplication: Fix a small leak on an error handling path + - !4051 gdbusconnection: Fix test signal subscription ordering + - !4057 gdbusmessage: Clean the cached arg0 when setting the message body + - !4058 Tests: Build fixes when running `meson test` without previous builds + - !4059 tests: Fix various memory leaks and valgrind / ASAN errors + - !4063 gdbusconnection: Fix a misleading comment + - !4064 girepository/build: Actually use our compiler to generate GLib + typelibs and fix parser leaks + - !4066 Fix several GCC 14 warnings to please msys2-mingw32 CI + - !4067 Remove unused struct + - !4068 docs: Fix string-utils paragraph heading + - !4069 gdbus: Make more use of symbolic constants for various aspects of the + D-Bus protocol + - !4075 ci: Update Fedora CI image to Fedora 39 + - !4078 tests: Fix clang compilation failure due to unrecognised option in + pragma + - !4081 gpattern: Port the docs to gi-docgen syntax + - !4082 docs: Update toolchain requirement to C11 + - !4083 gobject: fix broken links to parameters and signals naming rules + - !4084 docs: Improve g_strescape & g_strcompress descriptions + - !4087 ci: Disable systemtap on musl CI build + - !4088 girepository: add support for relocations + - !4089 Revert "Alias TRUE and FALSE to C99's true and false" + - !4091 build: Use C89 for the standard version check + - !4092 docs: Improve conversion-macros formatting and add + GTYPE_TO_POINTER/GPOINTER_TO_TYPE + - !4093 gmem.c: Update g_clear_pointer() documentation + - !4094 tests: Fix compilation failure on macOS due to missing include + - !4095 Improve handling of standard types' signedness + - !4097 docs: Fix docs reference to main-loop + - !4098 Dump pointer types in the introspection blob + - !4099 gfile: Fix finish-func annotations + - !4100 docs: Mention XDG_DATA_HOME in glib-compile-schemas manual + - !4101 gio/g-i: Mark Application:action-group property as deprecated + - !4102 tests: Add basic tests for gdump.c in libgirepository + - !4108 build: Rename meson_options.txt to meson.options + - !4114 glocalfileinfo: A few fixes on win32 + - !4115 tests: Use g_assert_*() rather than g_assert() in notification tests + - !4117 tests: Improve 4GB file loading test to work on i386 + - !4120 gtestutils: Free test_data when freeing a test case + - !4121 gmacros: Avoid casting functions + +* Translation updates: + - Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez) + - Czech (Daniel Rusek) + - Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen) + - French (Vincent Chatelain) + - Galician (Fran Dieguez) + - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava) + - German (Christian Kirbach) + - Hungarian (Balázs Úr) + - Indonesian (Andika Triwidada) + - Italian (Milo Casagrande) + - Kabyle (Rachida SACI, Athmane MOKRAOUI) + - Korean (Changwoo Ryu) + - Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs) + - Persian (Danial Behzadi) + - Polish (Piotr Drąg) + - Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho) + - Portuguese (Brazil) (Juliano de Souza Camargo, Leônidas Araújo) + - Slovenian (Martin) + - Turkish (Sabri Ünal) + - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan) + + Overview of changes in GLib 2.80.0, 2024-03-07 ============================================== |