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@@ -1,3 +1,253 @@ +Overview of changes in GLib 2.77.0, 2023-07-06 +============================================== + +* Fix `GSocketClient` connecting to a proxy if the port is not specified + (#2832, work by Michael Catanzaro) + +* Support using `copy_file_range()` in `g_file_copy()`, if available (#2863, + work by Philip Withnall) + +* Improve handling of comments above groups in key files (#2927, + work by Gaël Bonithon) + +* Re-upgrade missing attribute debugs to criticals in `GFileInfo` (#2951, + work by Philip Withnall) + +* Do not redefine NULL on C++ (#2973, work by Marco Trevisan) + +* Make `g_signal_handlers_block_matched()` work for `G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID` + (#2980, work by Przemyslaw Gorszkowski) + +* Fixes to support building with bionic libc better (#3008, work by Øyvind Kolås) + +* Fix potential stack overflow in gspawn on macOS if open file limit is very + high (#3024, work by Dario Saccavino) + +* Fix support for `--force-fallback-for libpcre` in meson configuration (#3025, + work by Marius Kintel) + +* Generate specific marshallers in `gdbus-codegen` (#3028, work by Marco Trevisan) + +* Fix build failure on Android with `statx()` support (#3039, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Improve locking performance of `GSignal` (!2824, work by Marco Trevisan) + +* Improve locking performance of `g_main_context_iterate()` (!3235, work by + Marco Trevisan) + +* Add an inline definition of `g_free()` to automatically use `g_free_sized()` + if available (!3252, work by Marco Trevisan) + +* Fix race with `waitpid()` and `GChildWatchSource` (!3353, work by Thomas Haller) + +* Add `glib_valgrind_suppressions` variable to glib pkg-config file (!3361, work + by Marco Trevisan) + +* Fix build on macOS SDK 10.11 (!3385, work by Peter Williams) + +* Switch to using a separate thread pool and support timeouts in + `GThreadedResolver` (!3397, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Track pending `GTask`s if `G_ENABLE_DEBUG` is defined (!3404, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Support GSignal fast path and more marshallers in `gobject_gdb.py` (!3437, + work by Nelson Ben) + +* Disable the macOS CI because it’s too unreliable — if you rely on GLib working + on macOS, please get in touch and do something to help! (!3463, decision taken + by Philip Withnall) + +* Bugs fixed: + - #65 glib-mkenums: parse_trigraph() chokes on quoted commas (Emmanuel Fleury) + - #95 GMarkupParser documentation completion (David King) + - #98 g_get_current_dir SIGSEGV on long path (Philip Withnall) + - #104 Invocation of the interface "g_key_file_remove_comment" does not remove + comment in specific case (Gaël Bonithon) + - #116 Document UTF-8 behaviour and requirements throughout GLib (Philip + Withnall) + - #252 Disagreement between runtime and docs on whether interfaces are + "classed" (Philip Withnall) + - #322 gdbus-example-proxy-subclass.c is not complete. (Colin Walters) + - #799 GAppInfoMonitor documentation deficiencies (Philip Withnall) + - #1264 Use-after-free under + send_message_with_reply_cleanup():gdbusconnection.c:1792 (Philip Withnall) + - #2289 Document clearly that libgio is not guaranteed to be safe to use in + setuid processes (Philip Withnall) + - #2307 mainloop test leaks a GMainLoop object (Philip Withnall) + - #2829 "glib-compile-resources --dependency-file=DEPFILE" creates wrong set + of dependencies (Michael Catanzaro) + - #2832 GSocketClient cannot proxy connect unless default port is explicitly + specified in proxy URL (Michael Catanzaro) + - #2855 gio/tests/socket-client.c name is too confusing because it does not + use GSocketClient (Mike Salmela) + - #2861 Check for __kernel_long_t when enabling futex() + - #2863 Use copy_file_range() whenever possible in g_file_copy (Philip + Withnall) + - #2864 Documentation mentions non-existing function `g_value_free` (Philip + Withnall) + - #2879 Job #2498619 failed: gio/tests/socket.c:1654:test_reuse_tcp: assertion + failed (error == (g-io-error-quark, 33)): error is NULL (Philip Withnall) + - #2927 GKeyFile: Inconsistent behavior of comment writing above a group (Gaël + Bonithon) + - #2939 mkenums.py test fails on FreeBSD (Philip Withnall) + - #2951 Re-upgrade missing attribute debugs to criticals in GFileInfo (Philip + Withnall) + - #2952 Not clear that GPollableInputStream methods are undefined if + can_poll() returns FALSE (Philip Withnall) + - #2953 Missing docs for GOption (commandline parser) (Sam Thursfield) + - #2958 nbd server fails with glib 2.76.0 + - #2960 GDebugControllerDBus wrong default in documentation (Philip Withnall) + - #2963 Probably wrong information regarding G_PLATFORM_WIN32 in + README.win32.md + - #2965 test_measure fails with coreutils 9.2 (Joan Bruguera) + - #2966 Multiple Definition Error When Generating gio/tests/test5.gresource + (Dan Yeaw) + - #2969 user docs: GLib.DateTime.format: broken highlighting (Philip Withnall) + - #2972 GtkFileLauncher: generated paths not recognized on Win32 (Luca Bacci) + - #2973 Build failed due to NULL pointer redefinition in C++ (Marco Trevisan + (Treviño)) + - #2980 g_signal_handlers_block_matched does not work for G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID + (Przemyslaw Gorszkowski) + - #2982 Build randomly fails with: 'gmodule/gmodule-visibility.h' file not + found (Marco Trevisan (Treviño)) + - #2993 g_dbus_interface_skeleton_get_vtable misses transfer annotation and is + not introspectable + - #2997 g_assert_cmpuint() should display positive, not negative values (Eric + Blake) + - #3003 glib-compile-schemas failed on directory name with no Latin symbols + (Daniyar Tleulin) + - #3007 GOptionContext group headings missing colon at the end (Philip + Withnall) + - #3008 Adaptations for building with bionic libc under termux (Øyvind Kolås) + - #3020 Races in gio/tests/portal-support-snap* tests + - #3024 Possible stack overflow in gspawn on MacOS + - #3025 libpcre and libintl cannot be chosen to use the builtins + - #3027 action exporter fails in the presence of actions with maybe parameter + types (Matthias Clasen) + - #3028 gdbus-codegen should generate marshallers (Marco Trevisan (Treviño)) + - #3030 Document GListModel requiring unique instance pointers from + GListModelInterface.get_item (Christian Hergert) + - #3034 futex based g_mutex_lock sometimes splatters errno with EAGAIN on + contended locks + - #3039 Build failure due to statx fields with NDK r25.c (Philip Withnall) + - #3040 gtester in custom_target() run against system rather than built + libglib during build + - !2824 gsignal: Reduce lock/unlock pairs and ensure we always work on valid + signal nodes + - !3146 Make GVariant/GHash opaque types compatible with CHERI + - !3235 gmain: Avoid some lock/unlock dance during g_main_context_iterate + - !3252 gmem: Add an inline definition of g_free() to automatically use + g_free_sized() + - !3289 Work around an UCRT issue with _wspawn() functions taking an envp + block + - !3306 gregistrysettingsbackend: Allow a different root key path + - !3308 doc: Workaround missing API index + - !3314 gmain: More explicitly document g_main_context_release() prereqs + - !3326 unicode: add tests for g_utf8_normalize() and empty strings + - !3333 build: Drop old .gitignore files from test directories + - !3335 meson: allow -Dlibelf=enabled without pkg-config + - !3337 gio-tool-info: Fix a duplicate attribute name in the UI + - !3340 meson: Move msvc_recommended_pragmas.h to a subdirectory + - !3341 g_utf8_normalize: don't read past the end of the buffer + - !3342 Add fuzzing harness for g_utf8_normalize() + - !3344 tools: Drop check-abis.sh script + - !3345 docs: Drop section about default branch renaming from README.md + - !3347 gsocket/inotify/gwakeup: Use SOCK_NONBLOCK and O_NONBLOCK to avoid + fcntl() syscalls where possible + - !3351 tests: Update Unicode normalisation tests from Unicode 15 + - !3352 meson: Fix detection of a system-provided proxy-libintl + - !3353 [th/child-watch-waitpid] fix race with waitpid() and child watcher + sources + - !3356 build/gmodule-2.0.pc: Move compiler flags from Libs to Cflags + - !3357 Make clang++ happier when using G_STATIC_ASSERT + - !3361 meson: Add glib_valgrind_suppressions variable to glib pkg-config file + - !3365 gwin32: Avoid use of function call with side effect in g_return_* + macro + - !3366 Add init macros for refcounting types + - !3367 actiongroup: Add a compiler warning + - !3371 Explicitly mark size parameter as (in) + - !3377 gsignal: Clarify documentation for GSignalMatchType matching + - !3378 build: Post-release version bump + - !3381 gtimer: Avoid doing anything on g_usleep (0) + - !3382 gsocket: Explicitly mark size parameter as (in) + - !3383 add g_timeout_add_seconds_once + - !3384 Test g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched for G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID match + - !3385 gio: fix build on older macOS SDKs + - !3388 appmonitor: Skip the test under OSX + - !3389 glib/tests/[rec-]mutex: Allow each thread to work + - !3390 Fix error format in gio/gunixconnection.c (part 2) + - !3392 gvariant: Fix doc for g_variant_new_object_path + - !3393 Fix small issues in docs + - !3395 gtask: Document that g_task_run_in_thread() uses a shared resource + - !3396 glib-unix: Improve documentation for g_unix_fd_source_new() + - !3397 gthreadedresolver: Switch to using a separate thread pool and support + timeouts + - !3398 Avoid having g_futex_simple() inadvertently modify errno + - !3399 meson: wrap html documentation generation with gtk_doc option + - !3400 restore error messages in gunixconnection while maintaining older + compiler support + - !3401 ci: Disable the Coverity CI job + - !3404 gtask: Track pending GTasks if G_ENABLE_DEBUG is defined + - !3405 gthreadedresolver: Remove some incorrect assertions + - !3406 gthreadpool: Clarify that item_free_func is not normally called + - !3407 gregistrysettingsbackend: Remove translatable pspec nick/blurb + - !3408 docs: Update/Drop txt documents from docs directory + - !3409 docs: Don’t ignore gunixfdlist.h when building docs on Windows + - !3410 tests: Add descriptions to environment tests + - !3416 gtestutils: Fix section marker in documentation + - !3418 docs: Add lb90 as a Windows maintainer + - !3419 docs: Update various broken/redirected links and fix list formatting + - !3420 gtestutils: print timing information per test case in TAP output + - !3421 glib/tests/fileutils:fix asserts when running as root + - !3422 Check for linux/netlink.h buildability + - !3423 gstring: add g_string_new_take + - !3425 gwin32networkmonitor: Fix returning address of local variable + - !3426 gdataset, gobject: Use atomic compare and exchange full to set + pointers + - !3429 Rename GTK+ to GTK (mostly comments and documentation) + - !3430 gobject_gdb.py: fix regression caused by bfbe7127d5 + - !3431 gfile: Ensure loff_t is defined on FreeBSD + - !3435 Ignore g_task_print_alive_task() when introspecting GIO + - !3437 gobject_gdb.py: support gsignal fastpath and detect more marshallers + - !3438 gio: Check cancellable iterating local file enumerator + - !3439 gstring: Add `Since` marker to `g_string_new_take()` + - !3440 gutf8: Add a g_utf8_truncate_middle() function + - !3441 Allow proper introspection of GTypeValueTable + - !3442 gio: Add g_file_new_build_filenamev + - !3448 meson: try iconv in libintl lookup + - !3449 docs: Move README.win32.md to the docs folder and update + CONTRIBUTING.md + - !3450 gactionmap: Add g_action_map_remove_action_entries() + - !3453 docs: Use the type name as the section name for GKeyFile + - !3455 gfileinfo: add (type filename) annotation to symlink_target functions + - !3456 gmain: Document that g_steal_fd() preserves errno + - !3458 gstdio: Improve documentation of some functions as async-signal safe + - !3462 tests: Reduce thread and iteration count on CI for /thread/rec-mutex3 + - !3463 ci: Disable the macOS CI + - !3465 gobject_gdb.py: adapt to recent gsignal changes + - !3466 resolver: Add space in documentations + - !3470 pcre subproject fixes: Allow fallback & static build + - !3471 gio-tool-mount: Add option to show progress when unmounting + - !3472 tests: Fix an intermittent timing error with testing g_usleep(0) + - !3477 gdbus-codegen: Fix some minor typos in the documentation + - !3484 docs: Fix a typo in the backports policy + - !3486 docs: Document issue and merge request triaging and review guidelines + - !3488 codegen: Use g_signal_emit to emit signals + - !3489 guniprop: fix param direction in g_unichar_get_mirror_char(), for + introspection + - !3490 gobject/tests: Fix running on 32-bit Windows + +* Translation updates: + - Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov) + - Chinese (China) (Boyuan Yang) + - English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan) + - Galician (Fran Dieguez) + - Portuguese (Brazil) (Leônidas Araújo) + - Slovak (Dušan Kazik) + - Swedish (Anders Jonsson) + - Turkish (Sabri Ünal) + + Overview of changes in GLib 2.76.1, 2023-03-22 ============================================== |