glib-2.64.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

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

• Translation updates

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

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

• Several other Happy Eyeballs fixes for address resolution

• Various race fixes in 'GDBusConnection' and its unit tests

• Fix a race condition with D-Bus name ownership

• Drop 'gio-launch-desktop' helper application in favour of calling sh directly

• Fix win32 exception handling with C# exceptions

• Fix thread safety of GUnixMountMonitor

• 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

• 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

• Translation updates

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 22805.

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