glib-2.86.0 gobject-introspection-1.86.0

[Xi Ruoyao]

New minor versions.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Overview of changes in GLib 2.86.0, 2025-09-05

• Rework how platform-specific introspected GIO APIs have to be imported to fix problems with backwards-compatibility provision for it, by removing duplicate platform-specific symbols from Gio-2.0. Users of platform-specific GIO APIs should be unaffected, as GIRepository will now automatically import GioWin32-2.0 or GioUnix-2.0 when asked to import Gio-2.0. However, projects generating introspection data which depends on types from either of those platform-specific GIRs must make sure they depend on those GIRs explicitly, rather than just transitively depending on them through Gio-2.0

• Fix file existence queries on Solaris, broken due to unexpected flags handling within faccessat()

• Bugs fixed:
  • GDesktopAppInfo API disappeared after girepository-2.0 port
  • g_test_trap_subprocess does not check G_TEST_SUBPROCESS_INHERIT_STDIN
  • gtestutils: Fix a slightly broken example in a doc comment
  • Update Polish translation 250825
  • Update Swedish translation
  • gio: gmemorymonitorpsi: Replace GRegex with g_str_has_prefix()
  • girepository: Add an assertion to help scan-build
  • glocalfile: Disable faccessat()-based query_exists on Solaris
  • gmessages: Fix win32_keep_fatal_message regression
  • docs: Fix typos
  • Update Chinese translation
  • Update Georgian translation
  • po: Update Persian translation.

• Translation updates

gobject-introspection-1.86.0 - 2025-09-13

• giscanner: Added ability to add wrapper script arguments
• g-ir-tools: Support reading @rspfiles for arguments
• Update gobject-introspection-tests
• giscanner: support alignof expressions
• dumper: Fix introspection binaries missing rpaths for uninstalled ELF shlibs
• meson: Fix fs.copyfile semantics breaking GIR build with Ninja 1.12+
• giscanner: Deduplicate arguments and use response files for MSVC
• scanner: Prefer some getters over others
• girepository: Initialize the async functions parameters

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

b3df25b026 Update to bind-9.20.13.
0d4f041ada Update to glib-2.86.0 and gobject-introspection-1.86.0.

[Douglas R. Reno]

When working with packages provided by GNOME sometimes, we still have to deal with occasional odd minor versions :)

glib

2.85.0

Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.0, 2025-05-20
 * Preserve mode for existing file when creating a temporary file for atomic
   updates with g_file_set_contents() (dconf#76, work by Wesley Hershberger)

 * Fix race conditions between g_main_context_unref() and g_source_*() methods
   (#803, work by Matthew Waters)

 * Allow file handles inside nested containers when using the `gdbus call`
   command (#3624, work by Julian Sparber)

 * Fix DNS resolution of local addresses in offline mode (#3641, work by
   Patrick Griffis)

 * Various performance improvements to GObject locking (various MRs by
   Thomas Haller)

 * Prefer matches occurring earlier in the string when searching
   `GDesktopAppInfo`s, improving search for apps in gnome-shell (!4369, work by
   Fina Wilke)

 * Fix thread safety of `GClosure` flags (!4575, !4577, work by Sam James and
   Philip Withnall)

* Bugs fixed:
  - GNOME/dconf#76 dconf update can set incorrect permissions to dconf system db
    (Wesley Hershberger)
  - #490 Not clearly documented behavior of g_key_file_set_comment function.
    (marklkram)
  - #803 g_main_context_unref() versus g_source_*() race (Matthew Waters)
  - #1002 GObject doesn't support removing a weak reference in a GWeakNotify for
    the same object
  - #1250 gsocketlistener: Fix IPv4 listen() error-handling resulting in use-
    after-free
  - #2377 Document that `g_socket_address_get_native_size()` can return `-1` on
    errors
  - #2544 Consider `g_log_always_fatal` for aborting in
    `g_log_structured_array()` (sid)
  - #3405 Enable -Wconversion warnings by default (progress towards this, but it
    is not complete)
  - #3616 docs: Broken link in GioActionEntry (Philip Withnall)
  - #3617 Add generalised version of g_date_get_monday_week_of_year() (Philip
    Withnall)
  - #3624 `gdbus call` should look for file handles inside nested containers
    (Julian Sparber)
  - #3630 2.84.0 build failure on Linux: ../gio/gnetworkmonitornetlink.c:47:10:
    fatal error: netlink/netlink_route.h: No such file or directory (Philip
    Withnall)
  - #3634 test failure with gobject-introspection 1.83.4: warning: element
    doc:format from state 3 is unknown, ignoring (Philip Withnall)
  - #3636 gio/trash does not handle special characters well
  - #3641 GResolver: Local DNS resolution failure in offline mode (Patrick
    Griffis)
  - #3642 `g_cancellable_connect()` documentation incorrect (Marco Trevisan
    (Treviño))
  - #3643 g_cancellable_connect(): is it safe to unref cancellable from
    callback? (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
  - #3649 Crash with some registry key values in GWin32AppInfo (Philip Withnall)
  - #3656 Set SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER when logging to journald (Axel Karjalainen)
  - #3657 girepository: Wrong typelib path on Windows
  - #3663 Cannot use GZlibCompressor in GTK testsuite (Benjamin Otte)
  - #3684 UAF in GSignalGroup weak notify callbacks (Thomas Haller)
  - #3686 docs.gtk.org doesn't mention that GSourceFuncs.finalize may be NULL
    (BZZZZ)
  - #3693 Random failures in debian-i386-stable
  - !4185 [th/gobject-no-object-locks-pt1-notify] use
    `g_datalist_id_update_atomic()` instead of OPTIONAL_BIT_LOCK_NOTIFY
  - !4247 mappedfile: Avoid some allocations
  - !4369 gdesktopappinfo: Prefer matches that occur earlier in the match string
  - !4387 Fix various -Wshorten-64-to-32 warnings
  - !4484 Memory sanitizer fixes
  - !4489 gobject: Be consistent in using atomic logic to handle the
    GParamSpecPool
  - !4520 [th/gdataset-cleanup] minor cleanups of gdataset
  - !4536 [th/gobj-closure-array-atomic] use g_datalist_id_update_atomic() for
    array of closure watches
  - !4541 gsettings: Port docs to gi-docgen format, add missing annotations and
    make various improvements
  - !4544 tests: Don't install runner scripts without installed_tests
  - !4545 Update French translation
  - !4547 Update Catalan translation
  - !4548 Update Turkish translation
  - !4551 Updated Danish translation
  - !4552 Update Persian translation
  - !4553 docs: Document GSignalFlags members added after 2.0
  - !4554 Update Indonesian translation
  - !4555 tests: Add a test for g_object_freeze_notify() being called too often
  - !4557 gfileinfo: Slightly expand docs for
    g_file_info_get_attribute_as_string()
  - !4558 gi: Dynamically set doc-format
  - !4561 tests: Various fixes to create temporary files in /tmp rather than the
    build directory
  - !4562 gdbusnameowning: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
  - !4563 giounix-private: Fix macro for checking for epoll_create1()
  - !4565 Fix LGPL in header
  - !4567 gutils: make documentation of g_set_prgname() clearer
  - !4568 docs: Add some detail
  - !4569 Update Romanian translation
  - !4570 gspawn-win32: Fix potential integer overflows in argv handling
  - !4571 gvarianttype: Improve docs on type validation
  - !4575 gclosure: fix ATOMIC_CHANGE_FIELD to read vint atomically
  - !4577 gclosure: Allow full set of closure flags to be queried atomically
  - !4578 [th/bit-lock-and-set] bitlock: add g_bit_lock_and_get() and
    g_bit_unlock_and_set() API
  - !4579 tests: Add missing unistd.h include to scannerapi.c
  - !4581 [th/gobj-no-weak-ref-lock] drop OPTIONAL_BIT_LOCK_WEAK_REFS object
    lock for `g_object_weak_{ref,unref}()`
  - !4583 thread: fix Linux detection
  - !4585 gfile: Expand documentation around file info for inaccessible files
  - !4586 [th/gobj-doc-weakref] clear #GWeakRef earlier in
    g_object_run_dispose() and reword docs about #GWeakRef
  - !4588 gstring: carefully handle gssize parameters
  - !4590 Various -Wsign-conversion warning fixes
  - !4591 gthreadedresolver: fix crash in loopback interface check
  - !4592 gstring: Make len_unsigned unsigned
  - !4594 Enable -Wsign-conversion for girepository, gthread, gmodule
  - !4596 docs: Mention how to run the test suite in CONTRIBUTING.md
  - !4598 gtlsconnection: Fix annotation
  - !4599 Mark pointer as (type gpointer)
  - !4601 garray: Fix annotations
  - !4602 docs: fix typo glong: ULONG_MAX -> LONG_MAX
  - !4603 Fix GNetworkMonitorNetlink operation under a FreeBSD jail with shared
    network stack
  - !4604 cocoa: add support for GBytesIcon in notification backend
  - !4605 gparamspecs: Use standard min/max constants rather than literals
  - !4606 gobject, girepository: Fix several -Wsign-conversion warnings on macOS
  - !4609 Update Portuguese translation
  - !4610 Update Ukrainian translation
  - !4613 Update macOS job for new CI runner
  - !4615 shell: Handle empty comment gracefully
  - !4619 gslist: Improve documentation for append / prepend / insert methods
  - !4620 glocalfile: Disable faccessat()-based query_exists on Android
  - !4621 gallocator: mark as deprecated
  - !4627 [th/gsignalgroup-dispose] gsignalgroup: make GSignalGroup.dispose() a
    bit more reentrant
  - !4628 [th/gdataset-fix-zero-key] fix and cleanup related to using a zero
    GQuark for keys in GData
  - !4631 Update German translation
  - !4632 win32: Only print one OS version
  - !4633 gzlibcompressor: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
  - !4638 docs: Fix formatting of definition lists

* Translation updates:

2.85.1

Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.1, 2025-06-13
==============================================

* Re-add the option of a singleton to `GIRepository` (#3664, work by
  Christian Hergert)

* Add support for the `e` flag (O_CLOEXEC) to `g_fopen()` (!4564, work by
  Luca Bacci and Philip Withnall)

* Make the `sysprof` Meson option yield when using GLib as a subproject (!4659,
  work by Matthias Clasen)

* Use the Meson built-in `localedir` option (!4661, work by
  Kleis Auke Wolthuizen)

* Bugs fixed:
  - #1665 g_file_trash() should return PERMISSION_DENIED if files can't be
    deleted (Ignacy Kuchciński)
  - #3664 Lack of g_irepository_get_default() equivalent makes cross-library
    integration extremely difficult (Christian Hergert)
  - #3698 Misleading autogenerated hints in the documentation of
    g_async_queue_pop() (Alicia Boya García)
  - !4560 glib/gnulib/printf.c: Sync with gnulib
  - !4564 gstdio: Add support for the `e` flag (O_CLOEXEC) to g_fopen()
  - !4637 Rework Windows implementation of g_getenv()
  - !4641 [th/gobj-drop-bit-lock] gobject: drop object_bit_lock() functions
  - !4642 [th/gobj-empty-notify-queue] gobject: optimize notify-queue handling
    for a single freeze
  - !4643 GRegex: apply monospace typeface in description
  - !4644 gio: add annotations on parameters of 'g_file_monitor_emit_event' and
    of 'g_vfs_get_file_for_path'
  - !4645 gregex: Clarify docs for end_pos
  - !4646 GRegex: update class description
  - !4649 GAsyncQueue: assert non-null data in push_sorted()
  - !4650 tests: Add atomics to asyncqueue test global variables
  - !4651 Meson: Add libglib_static dependency for use in tests
  - !4652 gobject: clarify in documentation that g_value_set_boxed copies
  - !4654 Fix buffer overflow in string-test
  - !4655 gstring: Fix overflow check when expanding the string
  - !4657 docs: Stop hiding the Unix-like APIs which are in Gio-2.0.gir
  - !4658 gmarkup: make documentation more discoverable
  - !4659 Make the sysprof feature yield
  - !4661 meson: Use the appropriate localedir option

2.85.2

Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.2, 2025-07-21
==============================================

* New Linux PSI based backend for `GMemoryMonitor` as an option to use instead
  of the existing Low Memory Monitor daemon backend (!4481, work by Kate Hsuan)

* Bugs fixed:
  - #1443 Deadlock between g_module_open() and dlopen() when called from a
    constructor
  - #2848 Doc: clarification request regarding g_match_info_fetch_pos return
    value (Mark Lautman)
  - #3712 Crash in g_thread_pool_new_full
  - #3713 call g_file_enumerator_close in g_file_enumerator_finalize is not safe
    (fbrouille)
  - #3716 (CVE-2025-7039) (#YWH-PGM9867-104) Buffer Under-read on GLib through
    glib/gfileutils.c via get_tmp_file() (Michael Catanzaro)
  - #3721 GFile leak in g_local_file_set_display_name during error handling
    (Philip Withnall, Michael Catanzaro)
  - #3725 Deadlock on source_destroy_lock inside g_main_context_unref() and
    g_source_destroy() (with child sources) (Matthew Waters)
  - #3726 GApplication sometimes fails to call before_emit (Matthias Clasen)
  - !4481 gio: gmemorymonitorpsi: Replace GMemoryMonitor backend with kernel PSI
    event
  - !4665 gio: enums: Fix GBusNameOwnerFlags's annotation
  - !4667 Incorrect output parameter handling in closure helper of
    g_settings_bind_with_mapping_closures
  - !4669 Add missing `(array zero-terminated=1)` annotations
  - !4676 Fix IPv6 scope-id from DNS responses being lost
  - !4680 gbacktrace: Correctly wait for children on Unix
  - !4681 (CVE-2025-6052) gstring: Improve
    g_string_expand/g_string_append_len_inline checks
  - !4682 gio-tool-launch: fix %k field code expansion
  - !4683 gio-tool-launch: Fix mismatched curly quotes in translatable strings
  - !4684 garray: Support unallocated zero terminated arrays
  - !4685 garray: Use g_array_elt_len/pos where appropriate
  - !4687 gstring: Fix g_string_append_vprintf overflow
  - !4690 garray: Fix out of boundary write in g_ptr_array_copy
  - !4692 tests: Fix a minor leak in array-test
  - !4693 tests: Loosen string comparison assertion in gio-tool.py
  - !4694 tests: Do not always skip array overflow checks
  - !4695 garray: Add more element_size > 0 checks
  - !4698 garray: Avoid exponential growth in g_array_copy
  - !4699 garray: Set capacity in terminated take functions
  - !4700 gfileutils: Fix OOB read in g_build_path(name)_va
  - !4701 gbacktrace: Fix OOB write in stack_trace
  - !4702 gio/filenamecompleter: Fix leaks
  - !4703 application: NULL check for options
  - !4704 tests: Add a regression test for GApplication command line handling

2.85.3

Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.3, 2025-08-08
==============================================

* Fix encoding of output from `g_print()` and `g_printerr()` when locale is set
  to `.utf8` on Windows (#3341, work by Luca Bacci)

* Bugs fixed:
  - #3341 `g_print` and `g_printerr` will cause encoding errors on Windows when
    locale is set to `.utf8` (Luca Bacci)
  - #3739 Crash in accept_ready() of GThreadedSocketService Under High Load
    (Philip Withnall)
  - #3740 Documentation of g_win32_error_message  does not contain information
    about the behaviour when FormatMessageW failed (Philip Withnall)
  - #3755 AIX: Unwanted symbol needs to be removed for AIX platform: getpwnam_r,
    getpwuid_r (Parth Patel)
  - !4706 gthreadpool: Clean up when g_thread_pool_new fails
  - !4707 tests: Skip slow mainloop test on valgrind
  - !4708 gfilenamecompleter: Fix g_object_unref() of undefined value
  - !4709 tests: Connect to GMemoryMonitor signals earlier
  - !4712 tests/thread-pool: Add a thread-pool fail test
  - !4713 Fix test error for GMemoryMonitor
  - !4715 gdbuserror: Reformat docs to fully use gi-docgen and match style guide
  - !4722 tests: Add missing unistd.h header to thread-pool test
  - !4723 tests: Add a missing poll condition to socket-listener test
  - !4724 garray: Pass errors through GByteArray functions
  - !4725 garray: Add checks to g_ptr_array_extend_and_steal
  - !4726 Add a basic GFilenameCompleter test
  - !4728 gbitlock: Fix documentation issues
  - !4729 [RFC] Tests: do not set a timeout in Python tests
  - !4730 gstrfuncs: Always treat G_MININT64 in g_ascii_strtoll
  - !4731 glocalfile: Disable faccessat()-based query_exists on OpenBSD
  - !4733 gvalue: Reformat docs to fully use gi-docgen and match style guide
  - !4734 gspawn: Improve docstring for g_spawn_async()

2.85.4

Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.4, 2025-08-22
==============================================

* Follow symlink (instead of overwriting it) when updating `mimeapps.list`
  (#3579, work by Rafael Girão)

* Bugs fixed:
  - #3579 mimeapps.list is overwritten if it is a symlink (Rafael Girão)
  - #3724 Crash in g_hash_table_add after 252645135 elements (Tobias Stoeckmann)
  - #3743 g_utf8_validate out parameter has wrong type (two)
  - #3751 meta: clang-format refers to a broken link (Rafael Girão)
  - #3758 Out-of-bounds read in GMemoryMonitorPoll (Philip Withnall)
  - #3760 Stack overflow when recursing within g_log_structured() with
    `G_LOG_FLAG_RECURSION` (Tobias Stoeckmann)
  - #3761 Regression in g_printf() - can no longer output formatted values
    containing NUL bytes (Luca Bacci)
  - #3766 Update sl.po (Slovenian) (Martin)
  - !4714 gmain: Reformat docs to fully use gi-docgen and match style guide
  - !4720 Disable GMemoryMonitorPsi on Solaris
  - !4727 garray: Improve and migrate documentation to gi-docgen
  - !4735 build: Fix stp files for development versions
  - !4736 systemtap: Use correct formatters/types
  - !4738 docs: Add Thomas Haller as a co-maintainer of GObject
  - !4739 Annotate ref/unref functions as transfer full
  - !4740 gstrfuncs: Check parameter validity
  - !4742 garray: Fix g_array_binary_search description
  - !4743 Update Russian translation
  - !4744 tests/gio: skip Unix socket-mock tests on Windows
  - !4747 tests/printf: Use proper compare helper for unsigned types
  - !4748 gconstructor: Add attribute used for TLS callback pointer

* Translation updates:

[Douglas R. Reno]

Note that the security issue fixed above was fixed in a point release of glib-2.84 that we already had in the book previously