glib-2.86.1

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Joe Locash]

Overview of changes in GLib 2.86.1, 2025-10-21 ==============================================

• Bugs fixed:
  • #3745 GIRepository: union fields offsets for compiled typelibs all have offset 0xffff (unknown) (Philip Chimento)
  • #3780 gio/tests/socket-listener requires dlsym
  • #3781 GLib.OptionContext's get_help() includes width of invisible options (FeRD (Frank Dana))
  • #3783 [CI] Pipeline on 'main' failed for commit c31c4a52 (Tobias Stoeckmann)
  • #3784 Memory leak related to g_get_home_dir (Michael Catanzaro)
  • #3798 Gio.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri_async crashes with non-existent paths (Philip Withnall)
  • #3803 GNetworkMonitor's netlink backend doesn't notify connectivity change (Philip Withnall)
  • ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/
  • !4755 ghash: Fix entry_is_big for CHERI architecture
  • !4756 ghash: Handle all table sizes in iterator
  • !4760 gbookmarkfile: Escape icon href and mime-type
  • !4773 docs: Add Luca Bacci as a co-maintainer of the Windows code
  • !4775 Update Ukrainian translation
  • !4776 Update Catalan translation
  • !4777 Update Lithuanian translation
  • !4778 tests: Fix clang compilation warnings
  • !4779 gmem: Replace SIZE_OVERFLOWS with g_size_checked_mul
  • !4780 Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
  • !4781 Update eu translation
  • !4782 Update Korean translation
  • !4785 Update Japanese translation
  • !4786 Update Galician translations
  • !4787 Update Hungarian translation
  • !4791 gstrfuncs: Check string length in g_strescape
  • !4800 gutils: Improve load_user_special_dirs' user-dirs.dirs parser
  • !4802 Update Turkish translation
  • !4809 Trivial backport of "gutils: Handle singletons in unlocked functions" to glib-2-86 branch
  • !4814 Backport translation updates to glib-2-86
  • !4821 Backport !4820 “gio/tests: Fix a race condition in /gdbus/connection/flush” to glib-2-86
  • !4828 Backport !4827 “ghostutils: Treat 0x80 (and above) as non-ASCII” to glib-2-86
  • !4834 Backport !4810 and !4819, various fixes to user-dirs.dirs handling in gutils
  • !4836 Backport !4835 “Update Portuguese translation” to glib-2-86
  • !4839 Update Romanian translation
  • !4842 Backport "girnode: Fix computation of union member offsets" to glib-2-86
  • !4848 Update British English translation (2.86)
  • !4865 Backport !4859 “gopenuriportal: Fix a crash when the file can’t be opened” to glib-2-86
  • !4867 Backport !4792 “gtype: Use transfer none for types (un)ref functions” to glib-2-86
  • !4872 Fix macOS and msys2 CI builds on glib-2-86 branch
  • !4873 Backport !4871 “gnetworkmonitorbase: Add missing notify::connectivity signal” to glib-2-86

• Translation updates:
  • Basque (Asier Saratsua Garmendia)
  • Catalan (Jordi Mas)
  • English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan)
  • Esperanto (Kristjan ESPERANTO)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Japanese (Makoto Sakaguchi)
  • Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
  • Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
  • Romanian (Antonio Marin)
  • Serbian (Милош Поповић)
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)

[Joe Locash]

Fixed at cd9efd814d.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed