glib-2.46.0

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Some highlights:

* g_mem_set_vtable has been deprecated; it has not been working for
  quite a while. The recommendation is to use '''valgrind''', or replace
  malloc itself.

* GSettings:
 - New API: g_settings_schema_list_keys
 - Deprecated: g_settings_list_keys

* The GSettings schema compiler, glib-compile-schemas has been changed
  to reject schema xml that has duplicate <summary> or <description>
  elements. Such elements typically occur when translations are merged
  into the schema, with xml:lang attributes. This is not the correct way
  to translate schemas. Instead keep the translations in the .mo file
  and set the gettext-domain attribute on the <schemalist> element.

​http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.46/glib-2.46.0.tar.xz

​http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.46/glib-2.46.0.sha256sum

b1cee83469ae7d80f17c267c37f090414e93960bd62d2b254a5a96fbc5baacb4

​http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.46/glib-2.46.0.news

and from news versions glib-2.45.x (x = 1, 2, ..., 8) at

​http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.45/

Overview of changes in GLib 2.46.0
==================================

* Disable runtime-deprecation warnings

* Fix marshalling of flags on bigendian 64bit architectures

* Translation updates
 Brazilian Portuguese
 Danish
 German
 Latvian
 Russian
 Turkish


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.8
==================================

* utf8 validation and utf8-to-ucs4 conversion are faster

* Small speedups to property change notification

* Various other small optimizations for GQuark, GData

* Bugs fixed:
 • 696426 GParamSpecTypeInfo do not need to be static
 • 735429 Cleanup MSVC Project Files Generation
 • 738504 Optimize UTF-8 decoding by unrolling branches and expressions
 • 742903 Add missing (transfer) annotation to GString
 • 748633 g_set_object order of operations
 • 754431 Fix build of glib/gstrfuncs.c on Windows
 • 754560 gioerror: Add more mappings for WinSock error codes
 • 754582 Glib cannot compile
 • 754601 Make g_strerror work with non-glibc POSIX systems
 • 754636 tests/unicode-encoding test fails for glib 2.45.7 on x86-64
 • 754788 more g_strerror stuff
 • 754831 autocleanups: Add GString type
 • 754924 Improve test coverage of g_utf8_validate() by added known-...
 • 754986 Avoid unnecessary signal emission during draw

* Translation updates:
 Italian
 Kazakh
 Korean
 Lithuanian
 Slovenian
 Swedish


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.7
==================================

* Add G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_IS_VOLATILE for use by non-POSIX-like
  backends (e.g. cloud storage).

* GFileMonitor: Make the inotify backend work with atomic renames again

* GSettings: change notification is again working unconditionally

* GListStore has a sort function now

* Test infrastructure:
 - Tests are now required to have unique names
 - TAP support has been improved
 - A macro for asserting that two memory regions have identical content
   has been added

* Bugs fixed:
 • 708525 A "g_file_query_info" on the file path
   "/sys/kernel/debug/hid"...
 • 742849 inotify: send paired events to both sides
 • 744060 Update GObject tutorial documentation to use
   G_DECLARE_FINAL_T...
 • 747364 Fix GError leak in g_file_query_writable_namespaces()
 • 749492 Support file creation time on FreeBSD and NetBSD
 • 752769 (g_socket_receive_message | g_socket_send_message) performance
 • 753745 glib-genmarshal still needed for cross-compilation
 • 754152 Add g_list_store_sort
 • 754211 Memory leak in g_file_enumerator_iterate ()
 • 754264 GLib 2.44 certificate chain construction fails if the PEM
   incl...
 • 754283 gtestutils: add g_assert_cmpmem()
 • 754284 gtestutils: print the TAP test plan first, not last
 • 754286 misc gtestutils fixes
 • 754307 size of array '_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_3387' is
   neg...


* Translation updates:
 Chinese (Taiwan)
 French
 Galician
 Greek
 Hebrew
 Hungarian
 Indonesian
 Polish
 Portuguese


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.6
==================================

* Fix a test failure and a build failure


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.5
==================================

* GNetworkMonitor now provides information about metered networks

* g_mem_set_vtable has been deprecated; it has not been working for
  quite a while. The recommendation is to use valgrind, or replace
  malloc itself.

* Bugs fixed:
 • 656325 Make GDBusInterfaceVTable binding friendly
 • 741779 Documentation tweaks addressing real-world API misuses
 • 741822 Fails to build with VS 2015
 • 742386 gdbusconnection: Don't g_printerr() when exiting
 • 743018 gobject: Add more cross-links between documentation pages
 • 750282 Add g_network_monitor_get_network_metered() to get if the
   connection...
 • 751358 GFileMonitor doesn't react to "mv some-file watched-file"
 • 751592 Stop using GMemVtable
 • 751598 Stop 'handle-local-options' propagation when callback reports
   an err...
 • 751610 g_str_hash produces collisions with strings of length 2
 • 751751 Wrong docs of g_async_queue_remove
 • 752210 gdbus command crashes with SIGSEGV
 • 752656 gdbusconnection: Fix signal subscription documentation
 • 752767 Fix typo in g_hash_table_replace() documentation
 • 753278 gdbus: Don't use g_assert_no_error() GDBusObjectManagerServer
 • 753285 g_menu_item_set_icon fails if called with NULL icon

* Translation updates:
 Catalan
 Czech
 French
 Indonesian
 Lithuanian
 Norwegian bokmål
 Slovak
 Spanish
 Thai
 Turkish


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.4
==================================

* Bugs fixed:
 • 727829 win32: glibconfig.h.win32 updates
 • 741901 Clang cannot know that g_error don't return
 • 746339 GSocket kills process when fd is not a socket
 • 747676 gio/tests/socket fails: test_fd_roundtrip
 • 748610 Some tests fail with non-English locales
 • 749911 g_inet_address_to_string broken on XP/2003
 • 749912 g_inet_address_new_from_string broken on XP/2003
 • 750625 Should dismiss Software Updates Available notification
   after...
 • 750807 G_BREAKPOINT doesn't work as intended on Darwin
 • 751160 gtask does unnecessary work
 • 751672 -Wduplicate-decl-specifier in glib/tests/keyfile.c
 • 751731 GFile/DirectoryMonitor emit move events with other_file=NULL
 • 751737 gio/tests/appmonitor test fails in 2.45.3
 • 751798 Wrong enum type used in some test-cases
 • 752089 make gsocketservice::active a property
 • 752293 small cleanup: use list_free_full

* Translation updates:
 Greek
 Hebrew
 Portuguese


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.3
==================================

* Improve performance of g_signal_handler_disconnect for signals
  with many handlers

* GDBus has gained a new call flag to allow interactive authorization

* GSettings:
 - New API: g_settings_schema_list_keys
 - Deprecated: g_settings_list_keys

* OS X:
 - Implement GNotification
 - Bump the OS X requirement to 10.9

* Windows:
 - Add registry reading API
 - Reimplement GAppInfo using registry information

* Bugs fixed:
 • 666831 Support URI opening on W32
 • 728489 property action with inverted boolean state
 • 730168 Incorrect annotation on g_action_group_get_action_state_type
   return...
 • 733325 Several regex tests fail with pcre3 8.35
 • 734888 GLib has no helper functions to work with W32 Registry
 • 737009 signal handler lookup doesn't scale
 • 738185 Misleading language about "file name encoding" in the docs on
   g_env...
 • 738504 Optimize UTF-8 decoding by unrolling branches and expressions
 • 739122 glib not handling -1 return ("no limit") from sysconf
   (_SC_THREAD_S...
 • 739424 gnome-shell crashes when files are added, deleted, or modified
   in $...
 • 739616 DBus; Add new call flag to allow interactive authorization
 • 740308 Add g_settings_schema_list_keys() method
 • 740516 RFE: please provide an introspectible version of
   g_log_set_handler
 • 741788 Document GSettings build system integration
 • 745013 GBinding not thread safe
 • 747146 Implement GNotification on OSX
 • 747941 try XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus before falling back to X11 autolaunch
   (dbus...
 • 748727 Filechooser dialog shows no icons for directories on W32
 • 749693 GActionGroupExporter: flush queue on requests
 • 750203 GNetworkMonitorNetlink hangs in user namespace
 • 750322 gapplication: Make sure --help output is translated
 • 750344 GTlsInteractionClass is missing from doc
 • 750369 Various GBinding cleanups
 • 750386 Race condition in g_io_condition_get_type
 • 750399 Typo "equilalent" in glib documentation's
   glib-Error-Reporting.html...
 • 750573 GTlsDatabaseClass is not documented
 • 750918 genmarshal: silence register storage class warnings
 • 751122 gsocket: avoid unnecessary g_socket_cond_wait() in
   _send_messages()
 • 479730 The "g_key_file_set_comment" interface prepends '#' character
   to...

* Translation updates:
 Hungarian
 Spanish


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.2
==================================

* Improve error reporting in glib-compile-schemas.

* Add introspection annotations to GListStore.

* Bugs fixed:
 • 696749 win32 : failed to compile because of careless mistake in the
   code
 • 723394 const parameter to GtkPopover gtk_popover_set_pointing_to
 • 724113 gdbus-connection-loss test can fail on slow machines
 • 725981 tap-driver.sh: internal error getting exit status
 • 733325 Several regex tests fail with pcre3 8.35
 • 744895 Unknown or unsupported transport
   'this-should-not-be-used-and-will...
 • 747882 gtype: Bump allowed number of children
 • 748534 gtest: if a subprocess assertion fails, print its stdout and
   stderr
 • 748612 de_DE locale used in option-context test is not supported by
   FreeBSD
 • 748614 Double unref in g_socket_listener_add_inet_port
 • 748834 glocalfilemonitor: Emit notification on rate limit change
 • 749079 gdbus-peer test: TCP tests can fail with ECONNRESET due to a
   race...
 • 749080 gdatetime test: fails if close to rollover between seconds
 • 749180 gnetworkaddress: add return type annotation to parse methods
 • 749352 g_binding_unbind() fails when source is also the target
 • 749353 GBinding does not connect to the detailed notify signal

* Translation updates:
 Catalan
 French
 Slovak
 Thai


Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.1
==================================

* The GSettings schema compiler, glib-compile-schemas has been changed
  to reject schema xml that has duplicate <summary> or <description>
  elements. Such elements typically occur when translations are merged
  into the schema, with xml:lang attributes. This is not the correct way
  to translate schemas. Instead keep the translations in the .mo file
  and set the gettext-domain attribute on the <schemalist> element.

* The file monitoring infrastructure has been rewritten, and all
  backends have seen major improvements.

  The inotify backend is reporting events with less delay (no event will
  be delayed more than 10ms) and wakeups due to file monitoring have
  been significantly reduced. A CHANGES_DONE event will also be sent
  when new files appear.

  The poll implementation is now using the thread default main context.

  The fam implmentation is now running in the worker thread.

  The fen implementation has been removed, since it was unmaintained.

* The GSettings schema compiler, glib-compile-schemas, is more strict
  about rejecting schemas with xml:lang style merged translations.
  Schema translations should be done by specifying the gettext domain in
  the xml, and keeping the translations in gettext. To avoid breaking
  already-installed schemas, this change is only taking effect when you
  use the --strict option.

* The hardcoded 10-thread limit of GTask's thread pool has been removed,
  since it was prone to causing deadlocks. The thread pool is now
  allowed to grow dynamically and will shrink back over time.

* GSimpleAsyncResult has been deprecated in favor of GTask.

* The algorithm used by GAppInfo to find default handlers for mime types
  has been tweaked to prefer apps that handle the specific subtype over
  default handlers for a generic supertype.

* Bug fixes:
 • 627285 inotify file monitor hardwired delay
 • 631597 Segmentation fault in append_escaped_text
 • 661767 merge/improve various bits of run-in-thread functionality
 • 687223 cleverer GThreadPool management
 • 711547 win32: silence some build warnings
 • 719966 glib: Add missing (nullable) and (optional) annotations
 • 726447 Possibly an error in text string
 • 728663 W32: wrong stat struct is used when built with MinGW-w64
 • 728669 W32: GLocalFile can't measure size of files larger than
   2^32...

[Pierre Labastie]

Fixed at r16515