Overview of changes in GLib 2.69.1

• Support categories in desktop notifications (GNotification)
  (work by Guido Günther) (#2446)

• Add GPowerProfileMonitor for monitoring when to use less power (due to being
  on battery power, electricity being expensive or high-carbon, etc.)
  (work by Patrick Griffis, Bastien Nocera) (#2444)

• Allow static names to be set for GSources to avoid unnecessary string copies
  (work by Matthias Clasen) (!2196)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #203 API: need g_module_open() variant with GError
    
  • #2058 win32: GPrivate can leak some objects
    
  • #2321 Add a GTypeFlag for final types
    
  • #2429 safe_fdwalk/safe_closefrom for Solaris 11.3/11.4
    
  • #2439 gio trash doesn't recognize existing trash directory in non-fs-root mount
    
  • #2446 Support categories for notifications
    
  • #2452 g_string_replace() loops 2**32 times when replacing empty string
    
  • !2177 gio/tests/g-file-info: don't assume million-in-one events don't happen
    
  • !2178 Clarify GValue documentation
    
  • !2179 Update GValue doc: How to use GBoxed with GValue
    
  • !2180 correctly use 3 parameters for close_range
    
  • !2181 gclosure: Fix the invoke() return_value annotation
    
  • !2182 glocalfileinfo: Fix usec/nsec confusion with filetimes on Windows
    
  • !2184 gspawn: Use CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC if available
    
  • !2188 g_boxed_type_register_static, G_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE: added correlating information
    
  • !2192 Fix more warnings
    
  • !2193 glib.supp: Expand match kinds for g_get_language_names() suppressions
    
  • !2194 Add GPowerProfileMonitor
    
  • !2195 Fix some test suite memory leaks
    
  • !2196 mainloop: Add g_source_set_static_name
    
  • !2197 GResource compiler: Prefix static [con|de]strutors with c_name
    
  • !2198 Port internal uses to use g_source_set_static_name()
    
  • !2200 Fix doc stanzas for GDataInputStream properties
    
  • !2201 Fix a Unicode typo
    
  • !2202 Document the stance on ID-based mainloop APIs
    
  • !2204 tests: Add a test for Unicode normalization
    
  • !2205 GWin32RegistryKey / GWin32AppInfo registry watch fixes
    
  • !2206 Adapt documentation to gi-docgen
    
  • !2210 GWin32AppInfo: Fix missing initialization
    

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