Overview of changes in GLib 2.71.3

• Fix flaky GDebugController tests (!2504)

• Numerous small documentation updates

• Bugs fixed:

  • #517 g_utf8_collate returns 0 on U+C5D0 vs U+CD94
    
  • #1929 gdbus-connection-flush: setup_client_cb: Exhausted all available authentication mechanisms (tried: EXTERNAL, DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1)
    
  • #2589 Hash sign misinterpreted as heading
    
  • #2598 g_main_loop_run() may leak a GMainLoop reference
    
  • #2609 Clarify documentation for g_log_set_debug_enabled()
    
  • #2611 Unspecified options considered present
    
  • #2612 side effects of ensure_valid_dict result used in g_return_if_fail macro
    
  • #2613 Naked magic literal in gvariant.h
    
  • !1707 Add cache to g_unix_mount_points_get()
    
  • !2424 Remove old test file tests/testglib.c
    
  • !2451 glib: fix buffer overflow in g_canonicalize_filename()
    
  • !2466 Various minor fixes for empty argv handling
    
  • !2480 Various glib/tests/date fixes on win32
    
  • !2485 Various spawn-related test fixes on win32
    
  • !2490 Cleanup warnings split 1
    
  • !2491 Cleanup warnings split 2
    
  • !2492 Cleanup warnings split 3
    
  • !2493 Cleanup warnings split 4
    
  • !2501 glib-compile-resources: Fix a memory leak of the compiler option
    
  • !2502 tests: Merge iochannel-test into io-channel tests in glib directory
    
  • !2503 gbacktrace: Fix a set-but-not-used variable
    
  • !2504 gdebugcontrollerdbus: Track pending tasks with weak refs
    
  • !2505 tests: Stop ignoring test failures on macOS
    
  • !2506 gresource-tool: Fix unused-but-set-variable warn with G_DISABLE_ASSERT
    
  • !2507 ci: Drop custom dependency builds from installed-tests
    
  • !2508 codegen: Reformat parser.py according to black
    
  • !2509 tests: Fix various small memory leaks
    
  • !2510 gdesktopappinfo: Fix a leak when launching URIs over D-Bus
    
  • !2512 doc: Extend a bit GDECLARE* documentation example
    
  • !2513 gmain: Expand documentation about GSource priorities a little
    
  • !2514 ci: Various cleanups and moving Android API 21 and FreeBSD 12 to scheduled run
    
  • !2515 gmessages: Fix typo in docs
    
  • !2516 glocalfileinfo: Always define _g_stat_mtim_nsec, etc.
    
  • !2517 meson: Add schemasdir and giomoduledir to gio dependency
    
  • !2518 meson: Set GIO_EXTRA_MODULES in devenv
    
  • !2519 gdebugcontrollerdbus: Mark a variable as G_GNUC_UNUSED
    
  • !2520 tests: Remove threads from mock-resolver/network-address test
    
  • !2523 Add handling of NULL time_t* pointer as argument
    
  • !2524 Revert "meson: Add schemasdir and giomoduledir to gio dependency"
    
  • !2525 meson: Add schemasdir and giomoduledir to gio dependency
    
  • !2526 Remove unused test tests/testgdateparser.c
    
  • !2527 Move tests/type-test.c to glib/tests/types.c
    
  • !2528 meson: Add PYTHONPATH to load GDB helper module
    
  • !2531 gtask: Document that task name is set by g_task_set_source_tag()
    

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