glib2-2.90.0

[Xi Ruoyao]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Overview of changes in GLib 2.90.0, 2026-09-09

• Bugs fixed:
  • G_DEFINE_TYPE parent_class variable trips clang 23's -Wunused-but-set- global
  • -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings from GDBusActionGroup when building 2.89.4 with clang
  • fix: handle long filenames in trash by truncating from front
  • Update Norwegian Bokmål translation
  • Update Polish translation
  • Update Czech translation
  • Update Hebrew translation
  • tests: allocate an adequate alternate signal stack
  • Update Turkish translation
  • Update French translation
  • Update Uighur translation
  • Update Korean translation
  • Update Russian translation
  • Update Serbian translation
  • Update Hungarian translation
  • Update Danish translation
  • gtestutils: Mark a TLS variable as not really a leak
  • goutputstream: Fix an unused-variable warning with G_DISABLE_ASSERT

Overview of changes in GLib 2.89.4, 2026-08-23

• Improve support for nanosecond source timeouts
• Fix installed service file containing build path
• Support clicking notification icons on Windows
• Improve stream splice performance by increasing buffer size

• Bugs fixed

• Potentially enable gbitlock USE_ASM_GOTO with clang9+ ?
• 1bit-emufutex test fails under ASAN / TSAN
• TSan data race in gobject / binding test
• filenamecompleter test fails on Hurd
• (CVE-2026-16118) (#YWH-PGM9867-233) Heap Overflow on GLib through _xdg_mime_magic_parse_magic_line() in gio/xdgmime/xdgmimemagic.c via Incorrect Byte-Swap Pointer Arithmetic on MIME magic content in user- writable XDG data location
• GDesktopAppInfo should validate desktop file path snippets
• gio/tests/services: Installed service file contains build path after
• glib:monotonic-time-ns/similar random failures on riscv64
• mainloop test fails with test_timeouts_ns() assertion failure
• documentportal test fails on Hurd as g_unix_fd_query_path() is not supported
• ‘TLS callback not invoked’ error on msys2-clang64 CI job
• pollable test fails on FreeBSD
• tests/monotonic-time: test_similar is racy under scheduling jitter
• Test timeout: core+mutter/backends/native - mutter:thread
• gnotification-win32: Handling notification icon click
• gnotification-backend: Setting application as a GObject property
• docs: Update path to information about installing GLib
• Minor test and GKeyFile fixes
• docs: Fix gio gi-docgen docs_url
• build: fix grab-gio-dll-paths.py invocation in case glib is a subproject
• Update Czech translation
• Update Georgian translation
• glocalfile: Honour x-gvfs-trash/x-gvfs-notrash from fstab mount points
• Update Ukrainian translation
• Update Chinese (China) translation
• Update Slovenian translation
• Update Georgian translation
• Update Ukrainian translation
• ci: Add a ubsan job
• Update Chinese (China) translation
• Update Romanian translation
• Update Persian translation
• Update Occitan translation
• Update Basque translation
• Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Update Catalan translation
• Update Galician translation
• Update Lithuanian translation
• Update Hebrew translation
• fix a potentially quadratic-time regex to be linear.
• Fix utils-isolated test failure when running as root
• Update Belarusian translation
• localfileinfo: Fix swapped selinux context symlink logic
• Update Bulgarian translation
• build: Some test dependencies fixes
• Handle some thread sanitizer races
• gbsearcharray: Fix a -Wsign-conversion warning in G_BSEARCH_UPPER_POWER2
• mkenums: remove use of deprecated os.path.commonprefix()
• docs: Remove Jonathan Matthew as a co-maintainer
• Update Kazakh translation
• gio/outputstream: increase splice buffer size
• Update Occitan translation
• Update Swedish translation

[Bruce Dubbs]

Advisory sa-13.1-020 has been issued.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits:

08babb865f Update to glib-2.90.0.
c5c05b5218 Update to gtk4-4.24.0.