glib-2.58.2

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

News

• 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

  * Translation updates:
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   Brazilian Portuguese
   Czech
   Friulian
   German
   Indonesian
   Italian
   Lithuanian
   Occitan
   Polish
   Turkish
   Slovak
   Slovenian
   Spanish
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Security fixes for two CVEs originally introduced for glib-2.56.2. More details to come.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 20888.