Overview of changes in GLib 2.71.0

• Fix network changes not being signalled from NetworkManager (work by
  Julian Andres Klode) (#2505)

• Fix build when building with --fatal-meson-warnings (work by Eli Schwartz) (!2304)

• 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)

• Various fixes to GWeakRef cleanup (#865, #2390) and toggle refs (#2394) (work by Marco Trevisan)

• Add G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_NO_MATCH_RULE flag for disabling match rules when creating a GDBusProxy (#1109)

• Fix FD remapping in g_spawn_async_with_pipes_and_fds() with certain values of target FDs (#2503, #2506) (work by Michael Catanzaro)

• Make GDBusProxy::g-signal signal detailed with D-Bus signal names (#2536) (work by Aleksandr Mezin)

• Emit launched signal for D-Bus activation of apps with GDesktopAppInfo (!2227) (work by Guido Günther)

• Fix IDs of GDesktopAppInfos which are constructed from a .desktop file in a subdirectory (!2283) (work by Ivalyo Dimitrov)

• Add --interactive option to gdbus call (!2329)

• Add G_SUBPROCESS_FLAGS_SEARCH_PATH_FROM_ENVP to GSubprocess (!2333) (work by Hristo Venev)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #475 Add g_alloca0() and g_newa0()
    
  • #847 g_set_prgname() should be thread-safe
    
  • #865 GWeakRefs not cleared by g_object_run_dispose()
    
  • #1109 [PATCH] GDBusProxy: add G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_NO_MATCH_RULE flag
    
  • #1231 gobject declare macros cause alignment warnings on armhf/armhf/mipsel
    
  • #1331 GArray with 10 million items overflows index arithmetic
    
  • #1735 Get back to a -werror build
    
  • #1781 Sort output of gsettings command-line tool
    
  • #2310 contenttype test leaks xdg-mime internal data
    
  • #2390 GWeakRef's aren't cleared again on finalization (and not fully thread-safe)
    
  • #2394 Toggle refs notification may not handle multiple threads correctly
    
  • #2400 Use-after-free in invoke_set_property_in_idle_cb()
    
  • #2401 GDBus runtime warning from remove_interfaces()
    
  • #2404 GTask: clarify that GTask assumes are running mainloop
    
  • #2426 GSettings delayed apply generates runtime warnings
    
  • #2443 Add Windows 11 support to get_windows_version()
    
  • #2468 GSequence pessimizes itself and slows down
    
  • #2471 g_output_stream_write_all_async prints error when count == 0 and content == NULL
    
  • #2488 Unix password unit test fails on FreeBSD 13
    
  • #2489 Add a (diagnostic) warning for finalized objects with floating refs
    
  • #2490 Upgrade to Unicode Character Database 14.0
    
  • #2496 Wrong parameter type for g_simple_proxy_resolver_set_ignore_hosts
    
  • #2498 GIR: Remove non-existing IOModule methods load, unload
    
  • #2500 Able to export object manager and object on root path, but not other paths
    
  • #2503 gspawn.c may clobber target fds
    
  • #2505 g_network_monitor_nm never updates on connection change (listens for signal on wrong dbus interface)
    
  • #2506 gspawn.c fails to close child_err_report_fd if it is duped to avoid conflation with one of the target_fds
    
  • #2507 Strange behavior of GFileEnumerator with GVfs locations
    
  • #2514 test suite failure in glib/tests/gdatetime.c if German locale de_DE.ISO-8859-1 is available
    
  • #2518 Misleading message when privileged program starts G_BUS_TYPE_SESSION
    
  • #2520 g_datenew functions return NULL on invalid input
    
  • #2523 MacOS generates warnings for g_size_checked_mul()
    
  • #2526 fuzz_uri_parse failure
    
  • #2527 Error storing dictionary with string keys as GSettings on macOS
    
  • #2528 g_dbus_message_new_from_blob goes into infinite loop for certain inputs
    
  • #2529 load_user_special_dirs returns NULL in certain cases
    
  • #2530 g_log_writer_is_journald fails if a Journal Namespace is used
    
  • #2536 GDBusProxy: make g-signal detailed
    
  • #2537 GTestDBus dbus daemon causes child process to hang when using verbose output
    
  • #2541 g_canonicalize_filename should work in linear time complexity
    
  • #2553 Consider not depending on strtoull_l and strtoll_l as much
    
  • !1960 Add g_main_context_new_with_flags() and ownerless polling option
    
  • !1968 gspawn: Implement fd remapping for posix_spawn codepath, and fix file descriptor conflation issues
    
  • !1991 Keyfile parsing performance improvements
    
  • !2029 Updating xdgmime
    
  • !2064 gobject: Cleanup GWeakRef locations on object finalization
    
  • !2114 Coerce type cast to void* because it causes compiler warnings
    
  • !2191 docs: Add .editorconfig file
    
  • !2214 Document potential footgun with GTlsCertificateFlags and deprecate certain usages
    
  • !2223 Better detection of the cleanup attribute.
    
  • !2227 gdesktopappinfo: Emit "launched" signal for D-Bus activation too
    
  • !2242 gsettings: Add various missing (nullable) or (not nullable) annotations
    
  • !2244 gutils: Avoid segfault in g_get_user_database_entry
    
  • !2245 gdesktopappinfo: Do not call xterm when it does not exist, inform the caller the launch failed
    
  • !2246 gobject: Document it’s unsafe to call g_object_ref() from GWeakNotify
    
  • !2249 Add version macros for GLib 2.72 and bump version to 2.71.0
    
  • !2251 GString: Bump minimum size
    
  • !2254 Small optimization for g_object_set
    
  • !2255 gobject: Clarify behaviour of adding weak refs during disposal
    
  • !2257 Fix documentation for g_dbus_object_manager_get_object().
    
  • !2260 GWin32AppInfo: Do not assert about successful open'ing of registry keys
    
  • !2261 Provide built DLLs as Gitlab-CI artifacts
    
  • !2266 fix uninitial variable
    
  • !2273 Fix more (Windows) warnings
    
  • !2277 Revert "Don't compile some unused functions in gio/xdgmime/"
    
  • !2283 GDesktopAppInfo: Try to always correctly set id
    
  • !2284 update the proxy-libintl subproject to the latest release
    
  • !2285 fix issues found by svace static code analyzer
    
  • !2286 meson: fix warnings for extract_all_objects function
    
  • !2287 ci: Update CI images to latest stable Debian and Fedora, bump Meson dependency to 0.52
    
  • !2288 Update g_source_remove doc comment: the function doesn't always return TRUE
    
  • !2289 Update g_source_remove documentation for the returned value
    
  • !2290 mkdir path specified by XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
    
  • !2292 Fix cast from pointer to integer of different size warning in gio/gwin32appinfo.c
    
  • !2293 glib-private: Fix MSVC build with AddressSanitizer
    
  • !2294 Fix windows warnings
    
  • !2295 gutf8: Document that out args from g_utf16_to_utf8() are non-negative
    
  • !2303 Fix more windows warnings
    
  • !2305 gio: document GFile API when relative path is absolute
    
  • !2306 gunixmounts: Drop references to pamconsole mount option
    
  • !2308 gthread-win32: Remove an unnecessary volatile qualifier
    
  • !2309 Rename libpcre.wrap to pcre.wrap
    
  • !2310 tests: Fix a typo in a test message in gdatetime.c
    
  • !2311 Fix always true comparison warning in glib/garray.c
    
  • !2319 docs: Fix the GListModel description
    
  • !2323 Fix final warnings in Windows code
    
  • !2324 Fix link to pcre-8.37.tar.bz2
    
  • !2326 Improve some documentation related to GTlsDatabase
    
  • !2328 gutf8: add string length check when ending character offset is -1
    
  • !2329 gdbus: Add --interactive option to gdbus call
    
  • !2332 Changed gendered terms to be gender-neutral
    
  • !2333 gsubprocess: Add G_SUBPROCESS_FLAGS_SEARCH_PATH_FROM_ENVP
    
  • !2336 tests: Drop arbitrary and flaky waits from actions tests
    
  • !2339 ci: Bump Meson version to 0.60.1 on macOS
    
  • !2341 tests: Wait for gdbus-testserver to die when killing it
    
  • !2342 tests: Reformat mkenums.py slightly to make run-black.sh happy
    
  • !2345 gutils: Disable some dead code on macOS
    
  • !2347 Removing tests/asyncqueue-test.c from tests/
    
  • !2348 gio/tests/codegen.py: bump timeout to 100 seconds
    
  • !2349 Annotate g_getenv() and g_environ_getenv() return value as nullable
    
  • !2352 tests: Fix a flaky wait in converter-stream
    
  • !2353 Address some oddities around GResolver::reload
    
  • !2357 ci: Upgrade to clang-format-11 from clang-format-7
    
  • !2360 meson: specify when commands need to succeed in run_command
    
  • !2364 tests: Allow objcopy --help to fail, because it fails on FreeBSD
    
  • !2365 Add vfunc checks in gappinfo.c
    
  • !2368 De-duplicate g_nearest_pow() implementation and add some overflow protections to g_ptr_array_maybe_expand(), g_string_maybe_expand() and g_string_chunk_insert_len()
    
  • !2370 gqsort: Move test to glib/tests/
    
  • !2371 Freeze notification during object destruction
    
  • !2372 docs: Improve GVariant docs
    
  • !2373 glib.supp: Suppress one-time allocation in g_get_home_dir()
    
  • !2376 GSource: move test to glib/tests/
    
  • !2379 Merging tests/bit-test.c into glib/tests/utils.c
    
  • !2381 tests: Test the function forms of gbit*() APIs too
    
  • !2382 gfileutils: Correctly reset start value when canonicalising paths
    
  • !2385 gfileutils: Fix transfer annotation and whitespace issues
    
  • !2386 docs: Add API documentation links to the README
    
  • !2387 docs: Update the README a little
    
  • !2390 Merging tests/child-test.c into glib/tests/spawn-multithreaded.c
    
  • !2391 Removing redundant cxx test tests/cxx-test.cpp
    
  • !2392 Move tests/completion-test.c to glib/tests/completion.c
    
  • !2393 Removing unnecessary test on gdatetime.c
    
  • !2396 fuzzing: Add a fuzz test for parsing DNS records
    
  • !2397 Moving tests/dirname-test.c to glib/tests/fileutils.c
    
  • !2398 fix /list/position test
    

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