glib-2.70

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Overview of changes in GLib 2.70.0

• Bugs fixed:
  • Replace FreeBSD 11 with FreeBSD 13

• Translation updates

Overview of changes in GLib 2.69.3

• Bugs fixed:
  • g_settings_schema_key_range_check() misbehaves for int versus bool
  • Compiling anything with GCC <4.6 spews deprecation warnings
  • g_invoke_closure bindings API break.
  • GPowerProfileMonitorPortal does not notice initial power-saver-enabled status
  • doc: Explicitly said, that no null term. is needed
  • Use C.UTF-8 locale on FreeBSD 12
  • Fix conditions in memory-monitor test

• Translation updates

Overview of changes in GLib 2.69.2

• The DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is once more not used if the process is AT_SECURE (setuid/setgid/setcap); this change was previously applied and then reverted because it broke gnome-keyring

• Add g_test_fail_printf(), g_test_skip_printf(), g_test_incomplete_printf() helper functions for printing messages when tests end prematurely

• Add portal implementation of GPowerProfileMonitor

• Bugs fixed:
  • Re-harden DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for AT_SECURE processes in GLib 2.70
  • Document explicitly refcount mgmt of source-object during GAsyncReadyCallbacks
  • Read past the end of buffer in g_win32_package_parser_enum_packages
  • Frequent test failure on FreeBSD: glib/tests/thread-pool.c:197: test_thread_pool_full: 'free_func_called' should be TRUE
  • tests: Add missing wakeup calls to gdbus-names test
  • docs: Mention the stable/unstable support version in README.md
  • Improve documentation of various TLS stuff
  • gtestutils: Add more convenience functions
  • tests: Fix error handling when testing gtestutils
  • gio: Add portal version of GPowerProfileMonitor
  • Docs: Mention that G_VA_COPY() must be followed by va_end()
  • build: Fix implicit declaration of function errors
  • Annotate the GString constructors

• Translation updates

Overview of changes in GLib 2.69.1

• Support categories in desktop notifications (GNotification)

• Add GPowerProfileMonitor for monitoring when to use less power (due to being on battery power, electricity being expensive or high-carbon, etc.)

• Allow static names to be set for GSources to avoid unnecessary string copies

• Bugs fixed:
  • API: need g_module_open() variant with GError
  • win32: GPrivate can leak some objects
  • Add a GTypeFlag for final types
  • safe_fdwalk/safe_closefrom for Solaris 11.3/11.4
  • gio trash doesn't recognize existing trash directory in non-fs-root mount
  • Support categories for notifications
  • g_string_replace() loops 232 times when replacing empty string
  • gio/tests/g-file-info: don't assume million-in-one events don't happen
  • Clarify GValue documentation
  • Update GValue doc: How to use GBoxed with GValue
  • correctly use 3 parameters for close_range
  • gclosure: Fix the invoke() return_value annotation
  • glocalfileinfo: Fix usec/nsec confusion with filetimes on Windows
  • gspawn: Use CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC if available
  • g_boxed_type_register_static, G_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE: added correlating information
  • Fix more warnings
  • glib.supp: Expand match kinds for g_get_language_names() suppressions
  • Add GPowerProfileMonitor
  • Fix some test suite memory leaks
  • mainloop: Add g_source_set_static_name
  • GResource compiler: Prefix static [con|de]strutors with c_name
  • Port internal uses to use g_source_set_static_name()
  • Fix doc stanzas for GDataInputStream properties
  • Fix a Unicode typo
  • Document the stance on ID-based mainloop APIs
  • tests: Add a test for Unicode normalization
  • GWin32RegistryKey / GWin32AppInfo registry watch fixes
  • Adapt documentation to gi-docgen
  • GWin32AppInfo: Fix missing initialization

• Translation updates

Overview of changes in GLib 2.69.0

• Fix a crash in GKeyFile when parsing a file which contains translations using a GKeyFile instance which has loaded another file previously

• Pin GIO DLL in memory on Windows

• Fix building third-party projects against GLib on CentOS 7

• Add g_thread_pool_new_full() API to allow queued GThreadPool data to be freed if the pool is freed early

• Ensure dlerror() is used with locking as it’s not thread-safe in some libc implementations

• Add g_dbus_is_error_name() and g_dbus_is_interface_name() convenience functions

• Drop internal libpcre copy in favour of a subproject from wrapdb

• Add g_prefix_error_literal() helper function

• Add g_bytes_get_region() to get data from a GBytes with range checks

• Add g_object_take_ref() to sink a floating ref

• Optimise grefcount atomic operations

• Fix resolving child GSettings schemas from the parent’s schema source

• Fix g_date_time_format() return value encoding if LC_TIME is not a UTF-8 locale but other locale settings are

• Set app name in freedesktop.org notifications with GNotification

• Significantly improve retrieval of mount data on Windows

• Add g_file_info_get_(access|creation)_date_time() accessors

• Always apply the remove_dot_segments algorithm to URIs in g_uri_parse(); previously it was only applied to relative URIs

• Rename git master branch to main

• Various macro and version check cleanup

• Add a GTlsConnectionClass.get_negotiated_protocol vfunc so that g_tls_connection_get_negotiated_protocol() can be made thread-safe

• Improve guess about whether a Windows process is a console process

• Add g_steal_fd() function

• Add g_spawn_check_wait_status() and distinguish more carefully between wait status and exit status in the GSpawn API

• Document GLib’s security policy; see ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/SECURITY.md

• Add g_tree_remove_all()

• Simplify exception handling on Windows to eliminate risk of it failing due to prior heap corruption

• Fix handling EOF when reading from SOCKS5 proxy stream

• Unset the registered state of a GApplication after it has shut down

• Support GPattern as a boxed type

• Add g_tls_connection_get_protocol_version() and g_tls_connection_get_ciphersuite_name() to get TLS connection information

• Make TLS private key properties readable in GTlsCertificate

• Fix detection of static libintl when building on macOS

• Add g_strv_builder_addv() and g_strv_builder_add_many() to the GStrvBuilder API

• Add not-valid-before, not-valid-after, subject-name, issuer-name, dns-names, ip-addresses properties to GTlsCertificate

• Add PKCS#11 flags to GTlsPasswordFlags

• Bugs fixed:
  • GThreadPool and the ability to free data waiting to be handled
  • g_match_info_fetch_named not return empty string as expected
  • ref doc doesn't talk about "helper getters" optimization in g_file_info.c
  • dlerror() not thread-safe in all libc, making gmodule-dl.c's fetch_dlerror fail sometimes
  • please consider: #define g_dbus_is_error_name(x) g_dbus_is_interface_name (x)
  • Add documentation example for GArray and g_array_set_clear_func()
  • update to pcre 8.35+
  • [patch] add g_prefix_error_literal()
  • Potentially confusing error message when object doesn't exist
  • gobject: Allow passing %NULL for @data in g_object_remove_toggle_ref
  • drop embedded pcre copy
  • gdbusproxy stops tracking if dbus service restarts
  • GBytes: add range-checked pointer getter
  • GObject: add g_object_take_ref()
  • Optimise gatomicrefcount operations
  • Somewhat misleading documentation of GSourceFuncs
  • g_settings_get_child not compatible with g_settings_schema_source_new_from_directory
  • Add additional unit tests for D-Bus name watching
  • g_date_time_format() does not return UTF-8 if LC_TIME is not UTF8 but other locale settings are UTF-8
  • FreedesktopNotification fails to set app_name
  • SHGetFileInfoW() is not reliable (time-wise)
  • Add g_file_info_get_(access|creation)_date_time()
  • Crash on Windows MSVC build around gio
  • testfilemonitor test leaks ip_watched_file_t struct
  • GIO tests fail to build with clang-cl
  • g_uri_parse doesn't apply the remove_dot_segments algorithm to the path
  • Investigate renaming master git branch to main
  • RUN_FIRST | RUN_CLEANUP signals with a default handler ignore return values from user handlers
  • GLib 2.68.0: gio-querymodules segfaults on Windows
  • g_key_file_load_from_file segfaults on "Key[*]="like lines
  • g_newa() doesn’t check for multiplication overflow
  • g_task_run_in_thread () limits are not clear
  • glocalfile: Add native exfat magic number to filesystem list
  • GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < 2.60 does not warn when using G_GNUC_FALLTHROUGH
  • json-glib does not build with glib 2.68.1
  • Pixman compilation error due to glib
  • Use G_GNUC_CHECK_VERSION to check the GNUC version
  • g_tls_connection_get_negotiated_protocol() is not threadsafe
  • Slow to list device in windows
  • Change spelling of ‘serialise’ to ‘serialize’ in documentation
  • Mention that GNotification requires an installed .desktop file to work
  • Project crashes when executing g_application_mark_busy
  • Devhelp: Glib Reference Manual/Glib Overview/Running Glib Applications formatting issue.
  • certificate: g_tls_certificate_new_from_pem invalid read on non null terminated data
  • GFile: g_file_replace_contents() reports G_IO_ERROR_WRONG_ETAG when saving from a symlink
  • gatomic: atomic functions are called for CV-qualified output variables
  • resources.c:656:test_resource_binary_linked: 'found' should be TRUE
  • gbookmarkfile: Don't crash if we're not visited
  • gspawn-win32: improve guess whether process is console process
  • docs: Expand documentation about D-Bus GUIDs
  • Fix more warnings
  • gversionmacros: Add version macros for GLib 2.70
  • Add g_steal_fd() to API
  • Distinguish more clearly between wait status and exit status
  • glib_typeof: Move definition to its own header
  • docs: Add a policy for handling security issues
  • make g_tree_remove_all public
  • Include glibconfig.h to get the G_OS_UNIX token
  • gpollableinputstream: Add missing annotation
  • goption.c: Simplfy parse_short_option()
  • Some improvements to clang-cl builds
  • introspection: Remove 'caller-allocates' from POD types
  • fuzzing: Add fuzz tests for functions which parse paths
  • tests: Deactivate tls-bindings test suite for windows
  • docs: Fix example program link
  • docs: Replace git.gnome.org with gitlab.gnome.org urls
  • fuzzing: Fix assertion failure in fuzz_paths.c
  • GIO W32: Pin gio DLL
  • gtlspassword: Fix g-i annotation of return for g_tls_password_get_value
  • [th/gdbus-cleanup] two minor cleanup patches for gdbusconnection.c
  • Split g_test_log() messages that contain multiple lines
  • Fix a handful of minor leaks found by Coverity
  • Fix more warnings
  • Re-simplify exception handling on Windows
  • gsocks5proxy: Handle EOF when reading from a stream
  • Fix annotation of count arguments
  • gmacros.h: use G_GNUC_CHECK_VERSION
  • Fix more warnings
  • Implement G_ANALYZER_NORETURN for Coverity
  • Fix more warnings
  • refcount: Clarify when the ref count ends up undefined
  • grefcount: Clarify that the initial reference count is 1
  • gmacros.h: use g_macrohas_attribute() where possible
  • gerror: Clarify docs around message requirements
  • Fix more warnings
  • Fix typo in g_socket_listener_accept_async()'s comment
  • gdbus: document completion after idle action for

g_dbus_connection_signal_unsubscribe()

• Add nullable annotations in GUnixMountEntry
• g_string_replace(): Fix documentation of 'limit' parameter
• docs: Fix formatting of code block
• Improve handling of FILENAME_MAX
• application: Unset the registered state after shutting down
• Fix more warnings
• gpattern: Register as Boxed type and support introspection for it
• gmacros: missing check if STDC_VERSION is defined
• gdbus-tool: Actually use argv[0] basename as program name
• gstring: Cleanup documentation of g_string_replace
• Fix more warnings
• gdtlsconnection: Fix a check for a vfunc being implemented
• tls: add functions to get protocol version and ciphersuite name
• gthreadedresolver: don't ignore flags in lookup_by_name_with_flags
• guuid: fix shift operation to parse hex string in uuid_parse_string()
• Fix more warnings
• gcredentials.h: Fix comment typo
• gtlscertificate: make private key properties readable
• Fix more warnings
• docs: Standardize spelling of serializ*
• Fix more warnings (clang)
• grefcount: Optimise g_atomic_ref_count_dec
• gmacros.h: G_NORETURN: remove useless checks
• tests: Add missing return value check in string test
• Fix more warnings
• tests: Drop use of g_test_bug_base()
• tests: Use a temporary file in the bookmarkfile tests
• Fix more warnings
• glib spawn-singlethread test only if F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC is defined
• meson: Fix detection of static libintl on macOS
• gstrvbuilder: add addv and add_many to the API
• tls: expose cert details on GTlsCertificate
• Fix more warnings
• gdbusobjectmanagerclient: Call GetManagedObjects async
• gdbus: Add various missing (nullable) or (not nullable) annotations
• gtlspassword: Add flags signifying PIN type for PKCS#11
• gutils: ensure g_find_program_in_path() return an absolute path
• Revert "tests: Deactivate tls-bindings test suite for windows"
• gdbus, win32: Fix accidental dllexport in static builds
• tls: expose SAN details on GTlsCertificate
• compiling.xml: Don't recommend backticks
• pcre: Drop internal libpcre copy
• gunixmounts: Document NULL return value for g_unix_mount_for()
• tests: A few small improvements to GBytes tests
• docs: Fix annotations for optional arguments
• glocalfilemonitor: Avoid a deadlock on finalization
• testgdate: fix -Wmisleading-indentation warning
• gtlscertificate: Add more annotations to new properties
• g_value_set_string description: clarified (unified), that v_string is a copy.
• gasyncqueue: Add missing (nullable) annotation to free function
• data-to-c.py: generate new-line at the end of the file

• Translation updates

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 642e43dd8c052f9bdc3d8fb8dfdc94163bd99ad3

Package updates.
    Update to glib-networking-2.70.0.
    Update to glib-2.70.0.