glib-2.62.0

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[Xi Ruoyao]

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

• Translation updates:
  • Friulian
  • Portuguese (Brazil)

Overview of changes in GLib 2.61.3

• Support setting thread name on BSD systems (#1761)

• Install previously-uninstalled headers for public GNativeSocketAddress object (#1854)

• Very initial support for Windows apps (UWP) (!1057)

• Add various new valgrind suppressions to glib.supp (#1879, !1075)

• Bugs fixed:
  • #83 Optimisation for g_nearest_pow() in garray.c
  • #512 GSignal: accumulator function not called to accumulate G_SIGNAL_RUN_CLEANUP object handler return values
  • #873 allow NULL arguments to parse_strv
  • #905 Patches from static analysis run on 2.40
  • #1057 goption: add sanity check to input parameters
  • #1309 GSettings object stops emitting "changed" signal on g_settings_reset after call to g_settings_delay
  • #1620 GDBus criticals from GVfs with GLib master
  • #1761 Setting thread-name on BSD systems
  • #1803 GDK_SCALE=X is not respected when using "gio open"
  • #1819 Invalid characters in Open Location dialog crashes GIMP
  • #1852 Regression: g_mkdir_with_parents() returns 0 on failure
  • #1854 glib/gio: GNativeSocketAddress headers not installed.
  • #1860 g_clear_handle_id does not trigger GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED warning
  • #1863 Potential invalid writes on g_utf8_strreverse
  • #1867 A couple of en_GBisms
  • #1870 GSettingsBackend watches not thread-safe
  • #1879 Incomplete valgrind suppressions - 16 KiB leak reported by valgrind from loading libglib-2.0.so
  • #1880 glib/gbacktrace.c: If dup2 happened to return -1, don't call dup2 with same value
  • #1881 GIO_USE_VOLUME_MONITOR and GIO_USE_FILE_MONITOR do not work as documented
  • !1002 Remove mentions of mailing lists from the documentation
  • !1011 gapplication: Fix a leaking GRemoteActionGroup member
  • !1015 Post-release version bump
  • !1016 gnetworkmonitornm fixups
  • !1017 Improve ISO 8601 parsing by GDateTime
  • !1023 g_object_get_property: Improve documentation for use of G_VALUE_INIT
  • !1026 gutf8: Assert that written memory stays in bounds
  • !1027 gfileutils: Fix error propagation for other than ENOENT
  • !1031 meson: build gnulib if printf isn't good enough
  • !1032 meson: small printf check cleanups
  • !1033 win32: don't assume the format specifier for the stdlib printf/scanf like functions
  • !1034 glib/tests/fileutils: Add a reproducer for #1852
  • !1036 cond test: Don't make assumptions about struct sigaction member order
  • !1037 Meson: Override glib-compile-resources/schemas
  • !1044 Relax use of g_test_bug() to not require g_test_bug_base() to be called first
  • !1049 minor typos in the documentation
  • !1050 tests: Fix a pragma warning on FreeBSD
  • !1054 gerror: Add a docs paragraph about not displaying errors verbatim in UI
  • !1057 Some (probably) easy uwp patches
  • !1059 Update win32 readme, add myself to codeowners
  • !1066 libffi.wrap: Meson port has moved to FDO gitlab
  • !1068 gsubprocesslauncher.c: fix documentation
  • !1071 meson: Move libdl_dep to the top level
  • !1074 Adjust README formatting
  • !1075 glib.supp: add suppression for g_type_class_ref()

• Translation updates:
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  • English (United Kingdom)
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Overview of changes in GLib 2.61.2

• Add various new array functions (#236, #269, #373)
  • g_array_copy()
  • g_ptr_array_copy()
  • g_ptr_array_extend()
  • g_ptr_array_extend_and_steal()
  • g_array_binary_search()

• Add g_assert_finalize_object() helper function for writing tests (#488)

• Rework how D-Bus connections are closed/unreffed when g_test_dbus_down() is called. Tests which leak a GDBusConnection may now time out and abort, rather than silently leaking. (#787)

• Add a deprecation macro for GLib macros, and use it; third-party uses of long-deprecated GLib macros may now start causing warnings. (#1060)

• Deprecate GTime and GTimeVal, and various functions which use them. Use GDateTime and guint64 UNIX timestamps instead. (#1438)

• Stop using G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED to allow disabling deprecation warnings; third-party code should now be using GLIB_VERSION_{MIN_REQUIRED, MAX_ALLOWED} to control symbol usage (!871)

• Improve support for running ninja test when GLib is built statically (#1648)

• Improve GNetworkMonitor detection of offline states (#1788)

• Fix build failure on macOS related to missing _g_content_type_get_mime_dirs function (#1791)

• Add various installed utilities’ paths to gio-2.0.pc (#1796)

• Fix keyfile GSettings backend and portal (especially relevant to any version of GLib included in a flatpak runtime) (#1822, !985)

• More IPv6 ‘Happy Eyeballs’ fixes in GNetworkAddress (!865)

• Fix CVE-2019-12450, wide permissions of files when copying using GIO (!876)

• Bump the Meson dependency from 0.48.0 to 0.49.2; we won’t depend on anything higher than this for a while, as Debian 10 ships 0.49 (!924)

• Various test fixes for Windows (!930, !931)

• Initial support for Universal Windows Platform (UWP): certification, and use of packaged libraries (!951)

• Add experimental clang-cl support on Windows, allowing g_autoptr() support on Windows (!979)

• Bugs fixed:
  • #77 G_STDIO_NO_WRAP_ON_UNIX wraps
  • #236 Add a function to copy an array
  • #269 Additional convenience functions for g_ptr_array
  • #373 GArray could use a binary search function
  • #436 running tests leaves lots of coredumps
  • #453 find-enclosing-mount docs confusing
  • #488 Add g_object_assert_last_unref() helper macro to detect object leaks in tests
  • #590 A reader lock can be obtained even if a writer is already waiting for a lock
  • #638 g_atexit is defined when not declared
  • #737 Initialize GValue in g_object_get_property()
  • #787 gtestdbus: Properly close server connections
  • #804 gdbusproxy prefixes unstripped error
  • #870 Fix and enhance GDatetime for Windows
  • #872 ucs4 functions have wrong return transfer
  • #887 gdusmessage.c mishandles bounds of GDBusMessageType and related enums
  • #894 gvalue: Avoid expensive checks where possible
  • #940 Docs for g_socket_listener_set_backlog are not very helpful
  • #943 G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE docs not helpful
  • #1018 Allow guid key in dbus addresses
  • #1060 Add deprecation macro for macros
  • #1169 Tools can display gibberish messages from translations
  • #1270 g_get_charset always returns 8-bit codepage on Windows, crippling UTF-8 output
  • #1438 Deprecate GTimeVal- and GTime-based APIs
  • #1635 g_socket_join_multicast_group iface parameter fails on win32/64
  • #1648 2.58.2: Assorted asserts fail in Arch Linux when built statically
  • #1729 g_content_type_guess segfaults when passed an empty data buffer on Mac OS
  • #1788 GNetworkMonitor claims I am offline
  • #1790 documentation on g_file_info_get_attribute_as_string
  • #1791 _g_content_type_get_mime_dirs missing from libgio-2.0.0.dylib on MacOS
  • #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
  • #1794 API Proposal: g_timer_is_active
  • #1796 Add gio-querymodules variable to pkg-config file
  • #1797 glib/tests/win32 test failing on 64-bit Visual Studio builds
  • #1798 /contenttype/tree reliably fails on FreeBSD since !863
  • #1807 g_dbus_server_new_sync() documentation references nonexistent function
  • #1808 Stopping a GDBusServer should clean up Unix socket paths (if not abstract) and nonce-tcp nonce files
  • #1811 Introspection info for g_unichar_compose's 3rd arg should be OUT
  • #1822 keyfile gsettings backend not loading
  • #1823 Documentation for disabling selinux is incorrect
  • #1825 GKeyFileSettingsBackend created without filename construct property and unchecked assertion
  • #1828 Small typo in gio manpage
  • #1837 Specify for each (optional) parameter, whether it is OUT or INOUT
  • #1838 Reword documentation for G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE
  • #1847 Setting GLIB_VERSION_{MIN_REQUIRED, MAX_ALLOWED} to before 2.56 triggers warnings
  • !533 docs: Document pitfall of deprecation pragmas
  • !563 ci: Add scan-build job in a new ‘analysis’ pipeline stage
  • !678 glib-compile-schemas: Improve translatable strings
  • !817 gdate: Officially mark GTime as deprecated
  • !851 gsettings: Document that lists are returned in no defined order
  • !853 gobject: Fix apostrophe usage in a few small bits of documentation
  • !859 gobject: Add a g_assert_finalize_object() macro
  • !863 gunicollate/cygwin: Don't use STDC_ISO_10646 for wchar_t related checks
  • !865 gnetworkaddress: fix "happy eyeballs" logic
  • !867 Post-release version bump
  • !871 Drop G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
  • !873 Use atomic reference counting for GSource
  • !874 Clamp number of vectors to IOV_MAX / UIO_MAXIOV for GOutputStream writev()...
  • !875 CI/msys2: disable coverage reporting, lcov doesn't support gcc9 yet
  • !876 CVE-2019-12450: gfile: Limit access to files when copying
  • !877 gio: specify proper c_marshaller and va_marshallers
  • !883 tests: Fix small race in GSubprocess tests
  • !884 garcbox.c: Fix typo atomit => atomic
  • !885 goption: Clarify G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME documentation
  • !889 Include <sys/filio.h> for FIONREAD
  • !901 gmain: Clarify that g_source_destroy() doesn’t drop a reference
  • !904 Add glib-genmarshal tests and fix some valist marshaller bugs
  • !906 property action: Add state hints
  • !908 Improve testfilemonitor test repeatability and debuggability
  • !909 D-Bus auth mechanism improvements
  • !914 ci: Run scan-build in a different build directory
  • !915 docs: fix typo on arrays examples in gvariant-text
  • !917 docs: Fix name of IRC channel in CONTRIBUTING.md
  • !919 glib/tests/refcount.c: Fix tests on non-GCC-isque compilers
  • !920 gmacros: Only use deprecated attributes on enumerators with GCC ≥ 6.5
  • !923 Check if compiler symbols are defined before using them
  • !924 Bump the required version of Meson
  • !930 glib/tests/convert.c: Skip tests that aren't meaningful for Windows
  • !931 glib/tests/fileutils.c: Fix stdio Wrapper Test on Windows
  • !934 build: Increase the slow test timeout to 180s
  • !935 Ignore */pycache/* directories
  • !937 Fix module tests on Visual Studio builds
  • !939 gstdio: minor cleanups
  • !941 list model: Expand items-changed docs
  • !944 gutils: Don't limit the length of the host name to 99
  • !945 Avoid overrunning stack at the end of the varargs.
  • !947 gobject/tests/signals.c: Fix tests on Windows
  • !948 GObject: Fix mkenums.py and genmarshal.py tests on Windows
  • !950 ci: Enable CI on FreeBSD 12
  • !951 Preliminary patches for Universal Windows Platform support
  • !952 gio: Make minor docs improvements
  • !953 g_utf8_normalize: Doc comment return missing nullable annotation
  • !954 Fix the ISO 15924 code for Manichaean
  • !955 gmacros: Use _Static_assert when C11 is available
  • !958 gthread: fix minor errno problem in GCond
  • !961 gmain: Fix g_main_context_prepare priority annotation
  • !962 gmacros: Use _Static_assert only for non-expr static assert
  • !964 gmacros.h: Use static_assert on MSVC if possible
  • !968 Fix typo in request handle
  • !970 gdatetime: Unset LC_ALL for the test as well
  • !971 docs.c: Forward link from g_auto* → G_DEFINE_AUTO*
  • !973 doc: fix typo in gio/gresource.c
  • !979 Experimental clang-cl support
  • !980 gmacros.h: Add better support for clang-cl
  • !981 gio: fix typo in g_settings_reset documentation
  • !982 Various doc fixes
  • !985 Keyfile portal fixes
  • !987 gio/tests: Remove code and comments referring to libtool
  • !991 fix atomic detection on older gcc versions
  • !992 docs: Add example to g_test_summary() documentation
  • !994 gio: Fix minor docs mistakes
  • !996 Small array test fixes
  • !997 gdbusaddress: Add missing transfer annotation
  • !1007 Resubmission of !832 “Try to create the complete path right away and fall back”
  • !1009 gapplication: remove inactivity_timeout source on finalize

• Translation updates:
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  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Spanish

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

• Translation updates:
  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • German
  • Indonesian
  • Spanish

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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[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 22116.