gjs-1.84.1

[Xi Ruoyao]

New minor version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

One test is known to fail: ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/681

[Douglas R. Reno]

1.83.1

Version 1.83.1
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- GJS now supports source maps. If you use build tools such as TypeScript for
  source code transformation, you can ship source map files alongside your built
  JS files and make sure your build tool adds the magic source map comment. You
  will then get the original source locations printed in stack traces and in the
  debugger.

- In the interactive interpreter (gjs-console), command history is now saved
  between runs. You can set the environment variable GJS_REPL_HISTORY to save
  the command history to a custom file, or set it to an empty string to switch
  this feature off.

- The debugger now supports examining private fields.

- Some performance and memory usage improvements around calling GNOME platform
  functions and accessing properties of GNOME platform objects.

- Backwards-incompatible change: Gettext.setlocale() now only affects the locale
  of the current thread. This will not affect your JS code, but it may affect
  your app if you use a C library with worker threads and you relied on being
  able to set the locale in those worker threads from JS.

- Closed bugs and merge requests:

  * Rewrite arguments cache using C++ inheritance [!519, Marco Trevisan, Philip
    Chimento]
  * package: Try to load resource module name if available [!839, Marco
    Trevisan]
  * object, args-cache: Improve performance with properties basic types [!866,
    Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento]
  * Use property accessors and setters directly [#524, !867, Marco Trevisan,
    Philip Chimento]
  * gjs-util: make gjs_setlocale thread-safe [!893, Ray Strode]
  * Support Source Maps [#474, !938, Gary Li]
  * Fix return value of load_contents_async [!956, Sebastian Wiesner]
  * Various maintenance [!957, !961, !967, Philip Chimento]
  * Add history support to REPL [#645, !958, Gary Li]
  * Some prep for type safety refactors [!959, Philip Chimento]
  * Update to latest gobject-introspection-tests [!962, Philip Chimento]
  * Build failure regression for i686 [#669, !963, Philip Chimento]
  * Segfault when using GtkListView and custom widgets [#443, !964, Gary Li]
  * ci: Switch to GNOME GitLab mirror of ci-templates [!965, Bartłomiej
    Piotrowski]
  * Connecting to signal of a GstElement errors with "too much recursion" [#557,
    !966, Gary Li]
  * Update to use GNOME Release Service [!968, Philip Chimento]
  * Enable inspecting symbol properties and private fields in the debugger
    [#455, !969, Gary Li]

1.83.2

Version 1.83.2
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- Closed bugs and merge requests:

  * profiler: only build dynamic string for profiler label if profiling
    [#668, !971, Gary Li]
  * object: Fix missing static_type_name template parameter
    [!974, Philip Chimento]

1.83.4

Version 1.83.4
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- Brown bag release to fix codespell error in NEWS file.

Version 1.83.3
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- The gjs-console REPL is now asynchronous. You can, for example, create a
  window with a button, connect a signal handler, click the button, and the
  signal handler will run when the button is clicked. Previously, the signal
  handler wouldn't run because it was blocked by the console waiting for input.
  This doesn't yet make `await` work in the console, but it is a prerequisite.

- Usually for C APIs that use GValue, GJS transparently substitutes native JS
  values. However, in some cases you need to use the GObject.Value wrapper in
  JS. There is now a new API to construct GObject.Value. Instead of constructing
  an empty Value object, calling `init()` with the type, and then `set_...` to
  fill it, you can now do it in one: `new GObject.Value(String, 'a string')`.
  (The old way still works.)

- Closed bugs and merge requests:
  * interactive interpreter + mainloop [#67, !670, !975, Evan Welsh, Philip
    Chimento]
  * object: Add support for static virtual functions [!802, Marco Trevisan,
    Philip Chimento]
  * "%Id" support in format strings for alternative digits disabled due to error
    in detection at configure/build time [#671, !972, Philip Chimento]
  * null-prototype objects should be pretty-printed less confusingly [#626,
    !973, Gary Li]
  * Missing property with gjs 1.83.2 [#677, !976, Philip Chimento]
  * arg-types-inl: Replace `<T, TAG>` pairs with a single TAG [!977,
    Philip Chimento]
  * Introduce simpler override for GObject.Value [#456, !978, Gary Li]
  * Use Meson 1.4 and full_path() feature [!979, Philip Chimento]
  * Update gobject-introspection-tests [!981, Philip Chimento]

1.83.90

Version 1.83.90
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- Closed bugs and merge requests:
  * Various maintenance [!982, Philip Chimento]
  * Add type checking job [!983, Philip Chimento]
  * Write g-i regression tests for flags and enum values with gaps [#538, !984,
    Gary Li]

1.84.1

Version 1.84.1
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- 1.84.0 was never released due to Freedesktop outage. 1.84.1 is
  identical.

Version 1.84.0
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- Closed bugs and merge requests:
  * tests: Prevent failures when GTK4/DISPLAY is missing [!986, Jan Tojnar]
  * testWarnings: run gc wrapper test only under Gtk4 [!987, Gary Li]

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at ab6e600e852a144240421e80582e91af3d95db49