Overview of changes in GLib 2.70.2

• Fix use of the default log writer with journald namespaces (diagnosis by Ilya Basin) (#2530)

• Fix hang in dbus-daemon under GTestDBus when G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all is set (work by Marco Trevisan) (#2537)

• Speed up g_canonicalize_filename() to avoid pathogenic cases with .. (work by Sebastian Wilhelmi) (#2541)

• Fix URI for pcre subproject as it’s moved upstream (work by Albert Astals Cid) (!2324)

• Fix storing GSettings dictionaries on macOS (work by Maurice) (#2527)

• Speed up ‘remove dot segments’ algorithm in GUri to avoid pathogenic cases with .. (work by Sebastian Wilhelmi) (#2526)

• Fix infinite loops in D-Bus message parsing for truncated inputs (work by Sebastian Wilhelmi) (#2528)

• Improve correctness of version information returned by g_get_os_info() for Windows 10/Server 2019+ (work by Chun-wei Fan) (#2443)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #2400 Use-after-free in invoke_set_property_in_idle_cb()
    
  • #2426 GSettings delayed apply generates runtime warnings
    
  • #2528 g_dbus_message_new_from_blob goes into infinite loop for certain inputs
    
  • #2530 g_log_writer_is_journald fails if a Journal Namespace is used
    
  • #2537 GTestDBus dbus daemon causes child process to hang when using verbose output
    
  • #2541 g_canonicalize_filename should work in linear time complexity
    
  • !2312 Backport !2265 “gdbusconnection: Fix race between method calls and object unregistration” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2313 Backport !2260 “GWin32AppInfo: Remove assertion on the opened registry key” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2314 Backport !2308 “gthread-win32: Remove an unnecessary volatile qualifier” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2316 Backport !2309 “Rename libpcre.wrap to pcre.wrap” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2320 Backport !2161 “gdelayedsettingsbackend: Fix applying after calling g_settings_reset()” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2335 Backport !2324 “Fix link to pcre-8.37.tar.bz2” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2337 Backport !2325 “Fix GSettings dict error macOS” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2340 Backport !2338 “gmessages: Support namespaced journals” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2344 Backport !2327 “guri: Improve performance of remove_dot_segments() algorithm” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2356 Backport !2355 “gdbusmessage: Add more bounds checking when parsing D-Bus messages” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2359 gutils.c: Improve g_get_os_info() for Windows 10/Server 2019+
    
  • !2361 Backport !2354 “gtestdbus: Print the dbus address on a specific FD intead of stdout” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2363 Backport !2360 “meson: specify when commands need to succeed in run_command” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2366 Backport !2364 “tests: Allow objcopy --help to fail, because it fails on FreeBSD” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2375 Backport !2374 “gfileutils: Improve performance of g_canonicalize_filename()” to glib-2-70
    
  • !2383 Backport !2382 “gfileutils: Correctly reset start value when canonicalising paths” to glib-2-70
    

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