Overview of changes in GLib 2.71.1

• Basic support for static builds on Windows (work by Loïc Le Page,
  Marc-André Lureau, with contributions from Xavier Claessens, Nirbheek Chauhan,
  Charlie Barto, Luca Bacci, Amos Wenger) (#692, #2585, !2442)

• Add GDebugController and a D-Bus implementation which exposes whether
  debug output is enabled in a process using the org.gtk.Debugging D-Bus
  interface (work by Philip Withnall) (#1190)

• Support for AF_UNIX sockets on Windows 10 (and later) (work by Marc-André Lureau) (#2487)

• Several important fixes to GDBus message and GVariant parsing of invalid data (work by Sebastian Wilhelmi) (#2557, #2572)

• Fix potential data loss due to missing fsync when saving files on btrfs (work by Sebastian Keller) (!2425)

• Fix potential buffer overflows in garray.c for very large GArrays and GPtrArrays (work by Tobias Stoeckmann) (#2578)

• Fix FDs in gspawn not being closed and causing process hangs if close_range() fails unexpectedly (work by Dan Nicholson) (#2580)

• Fix g_find_program_in_path() not returning an absolute path if $PATH is relative (work by Christoph Niethammer) (#2586)

• Add support for loading PKCS#12 encrypted files in GTlsCertificate (work by Patrick Griffis) (!2239)

• A number of improvements to unit tests (work by Emmanuel Fleury, Charlie Barto) (!2399, !2400, !2402, !2403, !2428, !2431, !2432, !2434)

• Support LOCAL_PEERPID on macOS, giving partial support for PIDs in
  GCredentials on that platform (work by Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) (!2362)

• Add g_get_user_state_dir() to support XDG_STATE_HOME (work by Sophie Herold) (!2395)

• Add g_hash_table_new_similar() to copy a hash table and its hash/equal functions without its data (work by Jonas Ådahl) (!2405)

• Support D-Bus client authentication with EXTERNAL on Windows (work by Marc-André Lureau) (!2429)

• Add a reStructuredText documentation generator to gdbus-codegen (work by Emmanuele Bassi) (!2448)

• Add a Windows implementation of GMemoryMonitor (work by Marc-André Lureau) (!2452)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #692 meta: Fix static build on Windows
    
  • #1190 gapplication: Add an org.gtk.Debugging interface
    
  • #2487 Add support for native unix domain sockets on WIN32 to GLib.Socket and related classes
    
  • #2550 possible GDateTime issue with localtime on Illumos/Solaris
    
  • #2557 Arrays of zero-element tuples with non-zero length lead to infinite loops in g_dbus_message_new_from_blob
    
  • #2559 2.71.0: compile and link time warnings
    
  • #2560 Link error xdgmime.c: unresolved external symbol S_ISREG when building with VS2022
    
  • #2564 Hangul Jamo Extended-B should be 0-width
    
  • #2565 Build glib-2.71.0 failed in Windows using MSYS2-MINGW64
    
  • #2571 Cross build error "undefined reference to `_g_binary_test1_resource_data'" when building tests for Windows on openSUSE Leap
    
  • #2572 Check for GVariant recursion depth before recursing
    
  • #2578 buffer overflows in garray.c
    
  • #2579 Outdated paths in INSTALL.in
    
  • #2580 gspawn doesn't set CLOEXEC if close_range fails unexpectedly
    
  • #2582 glib 2.71.0 muslc - build error missing sentinel in function call
    
  • #2585 Static link issue on Windows due to resource files being linked in twice
    
  • #2586 g_find_program_in_path not returning an absolute path
    
  • !2239 gtlscertificate: Add ability to load PKCS#12 encrypted files
    
  • !2362 credentials: support the local peerpid on macos
    
  • !2384 meson: Fix linking with static library in Windows
    
  • !2395 utils: Add XDG_STATE_HOME support
    
  • !2399 Move tests/env-test.c into glib/tests/environment.c
    
  • !2400 Prevent gtest tests from popping up dialog boxes
    
  • !2402 Improving glib/tests/environment.c
    
  • !2403 Improve test coverage of glib/tests/asyncqueue.c
    
  • !2405 ghash: Add g_hash_table_new_similar
    
  • !2407 tests: Fix environment test on FreeBSD
    
  • !2411 annotate g_content_type_guess parameter as filename
    
  • !2412 paramspec: fix unref annotation
    
  • !2413 Use meson dependency to link against apple framework
    
  • !2414 docs: Improve docs for gdbusutils.c
    
  • !2417 gtestutils: Fix minor typos in the g_test_get_filename() docs
    
  • !2423 Make clear in doc that signals are emitted synchroniously
    
  • !2425 gfileutils: Remove outdated BTRFS fsync optimization from set_contents
    
  • !2426 gdbus-codegen: Fix a typo in a comment
    
  • !2428 Merge tests/gobject/gvalue-test.c with gobject/tests/value.c
    
  • !2429 gdbus: make client work with EXTERNAL on Windows
    
  • !2431 Merge tests/gobject/paramspec-test.c into gobject/tests/param.c
    
  • !2432 Merge test/unicode-caseconv.c into glib/tests/unicode.c
    
  • !2434 Remove a disabled test case that was covered by glib/tests/collate.c
    
  • !2440 Improve g_ascii_formatd docs and preconditions
    
  • !2441 Reduce the amount of compile-time warnings
    
  • !2442 Fix tests with static build on Windows
    
  • !2447 giowin32: use gint64 and _lseeki64
    
  • !2448 Add reStructuredText documentation generator for gdbus-codegen
    
  • !2452 gio/win32: add GMemoryMonitorWin32
    
  • !2453 Add (array length) annotation to g_tls_certificate_new_from_pkcs12()
    
  • !2454 gdbusmessage, gvariant and garray fixes
    
  • !2456 tests: Pass --internal and -z noexecstack to glib-compile-resources tests
    
  • !2459 gio: add missing zlib dependency in gio-windows-2.0.pc
    
  • !2461 Fix memory leak in gio/gdbusauthmechanismsha1.c
    
  • !2463 Revert "Merge branch 'fix-windows-pc' into 'main'"
    

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