Overview of changes in GLib 2.77.1, 2023-07-30

• Fix some regressions with GKeyFile comment handling (#3047, work by Gaël Bonithon)

• Improve handling of query and fragment components in file: URIs (#3050, work by Lukáš Tyrychtr)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #473 systemtap probes for gvariant (Allison Karlitskaya)
    
  • #623 g_type_query() doesn't work for dynamic types (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #931 Optimise GPrivate by removing one malloc (Allison Karlitskaya)
    
  • #2929 gio: Failing build due to race generating glib/gversionmacros.h (Eric
    van Gyzen)
    
  • #3045 2.77.0: gio pkg-config test has incorrect install location for gio-
    querymodules & glib-compile-schemas (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3047 2.77.0 changes formatting of keyfiles (Gaël Bonithon)
    
  • #3048 Forcing fallback for libintl does not work (Brendan Shanks)
    
  • #3050 g_file_new_for_uri() handles query strings incorrectly ("?") (Lukáš
    Tyrychtr)
    
  • #3054 Fedora installer (anaconda) crashes early with glib 2.77.0 due to
    "Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked", when it runs hwclock and
    changes the system time (Thomas Haller, Philip Withnall)
    
  • !3287 Audit and fix incorrect use of (closure) in glib
    
  • !3461 gfileinfo: add file_path methods for language bindings
    
  • !3485 docs: Expand supported platforms documentation a little
    
  • !3494 ci: Manually fetch submodules for style-check CI jobs
    
  • !3495 gdbus-codegen: Error on invalid dbus types
    
  • !3496 garray: Fix typo in doc comment of g_ptr_array_sort[_with_data]()
    
  • !3499 strfuncs: Add missing ownership annotations for returned string
    vectors
    
  • !3504 Revert "build/gmodule-2.0.pc: Move compiler flags from Libs to Cflags"
    
  • !3505 meson: help gobject-introspection locate source and build dirs
    
  • !3509 build-sys: drop -mms-bitfields GCC flag
    
  • !3510 testutils: Use prctl PR_SET_DUMPABLE to silence core dumps on Linux
    
  • !3514 Revert "build-sys: drop -mms-bitfields GCC flag"
    
  • !3515 gnetworkmonitor: Expand guidelines for metered data use
    
  • !3517 tests: Add some more tests for g_type_query()
    
  • !3518 m4macros: drop unused m4 files
    

• Translation updates:

  • Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
    
  • Hebrew (Yosef Or Boczko)
    
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
    
  • Persian (Danial Behzadi)
    
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
    
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)