Overview of changes in GLib 2.78.1, 2023-10-25

• Fix truncating files when g_file_set_contents_full() is called without
  G_FILE_SET_CONTENTS_CONSISTENT (#3144, work by Philip Withnall)

• Fix -Dlibelf=disabled on Linux (#3120, work by Philip Withnall)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3105 NetworkManager 1.44.0 crashes repeatedly with glib 2.78.0 (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3111 gsubprocess-testprog.c: build error with cygwin (sys/ptrace.h: No such
    file or directory) (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3116 gio clears modification time in microseconds when setting with
    set_modification_date_time (Lukáš Tyrychtr)
    
  • #3120 Build of glib 2.78.0 ignores -Dlibelf=disabled (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3128 glib-2.78.0 fails at gio/tests/gsubprocess.p/gsubprocess.c.o
    
  • #3130 Segfault when creating GIO GPropertyAction without properties
    
  • #3144 g_file_set_contents_full() doesn't truncate the file (without
    G_FILE_SET_CONTENTS_CONSISTENT) (Philip Withnall)
    
  • !3576 guniprop.c: Avoid creating (temporarily) out-of-bounds pointers
    
  • !3579 Fixes for integer cast warnings when targeting CHERI
    
  • !3580 Fix test_find_program on FreeBSD
    
  • !3589 gconstructor.h: Ensure [c|d]tor prototypes are present for MSVC (Chun-
    wei Fan)
    
  • !3594 Fix gutils-user-database test on macOS
    
  • !3596 Add value annotation to G_TYPE_FUNDAMENTAL_MAX
    
  • !3601 meson: Fix Windows build with PCRE2 as sibling subproject
    
  • !3604 Backport !3589 “gconstructor.h: Ensure [c|d]tor prototypes are present
    for MSVC” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3608 Backport !3587 “glocalfileinfo: Preserve microseconds for
    access/modify times” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3609 Backport !3607 “Make sure the GTask is freed on a graceful
    disconnect” to glib-2-78 (Pavel Sobolev)
    
  • !3614 Backport !3582 “Buffer needs to be aligned correctly to receive
    linux_dirent64.” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3616 Backport !3590 “gtestutils.h: Fix warning with -Wsign-conversion
    caused by g_assert_cmpint” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3619 Backport !3617 “tests: Drop unnecessary include from gsubprocess-
    testprog.c” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3622 Backport !3621 “wakeup: do single read when using eventfd()” to
    glib-2-78
    
  • !3625 Backport !3624 “wakeup: Fix g_wakeup_acknowledge if signal comes in”
    to glib-2-78
    
  • !3644 Backport !3633 “Use g_task_return in task threads” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3649 Backport !3648 “build: Fix -Dlibelf=disabled on Linux” to glib-2-78
    
  • !3659 Backport !3650 “gfileutils: Add a missing ftruncate() call when
    writing files” to glib-2-78
    

• Translation updates:

  • Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
    
  • Chinese (China) (Boyuan Yang)
    
  • Czech (Daniel Rusek)
    
  • Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
    
  • French (Alexandre Franke)
    
  • Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
    
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    
  • Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
    
  • Romanian (Daniel Șerbănescu)
    
  • Russian (Artur S0)
    
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
    
  • Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
    
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)