Overview of changes in GLib 2.79.1, 2024-01-22

• Fix a race condition in g_object_unref() (#3064, work by Thomas Haller)

• Various API and build changes to libgirepository as it is not yet API-stable
  (#3216, !3780, !3805, !3823, !3833, !3840)

• Build fixes on big-endian 64-bit systems and mips64el (#3225, #3226, work by
  Simon McVittie)

• Reduce contention on global locks within GObject (!3774, work by Thomas
  Haller)

• Allow building man pages without the reference documentation (!3817, work by
  Simon McVittie)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #1010 g_get_num_processor does not respect cpuset/affinity
    
  • #3064 Crash under g_object_unref()
    
  • #3093 GDBusMessage: should validate the type of all known headers (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3207 Add support for syslog to Structured Logging
    
  • #3216 Feedback on gobject-introspection: Casting to and from GIBaseInfo*
    (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3222 pthread_t usages lack type name (Emmanuele Bassi)
    
  • #3223 CLang, GMutexLocker: error: unused variable 'locker'
    [-Werror,-Wunused-variable]
    
  • #3225 2.79 regression: gdatetime test failing on 64-bit big-endian since
    #3119
    
  • #3226 resource test fails on Debian mips64el: test5.gresource is not linked
    but the test assumes it should be (Simon McVittie)
    
  • !3774 [th/g-object-priv] add private data to GObject and use per-object
    locking
    
  • !3780 girepository: Use standard types instead of glib specific
    
  • !3789 gdatetime: Fix title of documentation comment
    
  • !3792 build: Tell gi-docgen where to find the GIR files
    
  • !3793 Shorten the title for D-Bus interface docs
    
  • !3794 Add boxed GType for GRand
    
  • !3795 girepository: Skip GIRepository versions not matching GIRepository-3.0
    
  • !3798 docs: Drop outdated .gitignore files
    
  • !3799 tests: Fix a minor leak in the new GParamSpecPool test
    
  • !3800 ci: Re-enable and fix FreeBSD CI
    
  • !3801 gmessages: Port all doc comments to gi-docgen
    
  • !3802 [th/g-pointer-bit-lock-ext] glib: add g_pointer_bit_unlock_and_set()
    and g_pointer_bit_lock_mask_ptr()
    
  • !3803 ci: Fix tarballing the docs on dist
    
  • !3805 girepository: Various small API cleanups
    
  • !3806 gsignal.c: drop an optimization that is undefined behaviour
    
  • !3808 glib/deprecated: Skip all the deprecated gthread api
    
  • !3809 docs: Fix links to symbols outside the allowed namsepace
    
  • !3810 gstrfuncs: Improve and port g_set_str() docs to gi-docgen
    
  • !3811 gvariant-parser: Mention annotated types
    
  • !3812 brz.c: Use uintptr_t instead of a hardcoded list of 64-bit arches
    
  • !3813 gobject: define HAVE_OPTIONAL_FLAGS for sizeof(void*) > 8
    
  • !3814 Fix typo in GPOINTER_TO_SIZE documentation
    
  • !3817 docs: Allow building man pages without the reference documentation
    
  • !3818 docs: Clarify >=2.76 changes to g_module_open()
    
  • !3821 tests: Fix a minor leak in the socket test
    
  • !3823 girepository: Misc cleanups
    
  • !3826 genums: use g_once_init_enter_pointer for GType initializers
    
  • !3827 array-test: Don't assume sizeof(void*)==sizeof(gsize)
    
  • !3831 gvariant-core: Don’t call posix_memalign() with size==0
    
  • !3833 girepository: Change various alignments to use size_t
    
  • !3835 build: Ignore branches in gclear*() functions under lcov
    
  • !3837 tests: A couple of test isolation improvements
    
  • !3839 gvarianttype: Fix typos
    
  • !3840 girepository: Exclude private symbols from the ABI
    
  • !3841 docs: Fix member names of GLib.LogLevelFlags
    
  • !3842 gio, gmodule, gthread: compile windows resources only in shared build
    

• Translation updates:

  • Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
    
  • Russian (Artur S0)