Overview of changes in GLib 2.79.3, 2024-02-27

• Various consistency improvements to the command line libgirepository tools
  (!3926, !3927, !3928, !3930, work by Simon McVittie)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3080 Gimp GTK file chooser hang when a remote file is open (Luca Bacci)
    
  • #3210 Critical using Open location: GWinHttpFile doesn’t set
    G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_TYPE (Luca Bacci)
    
  • #3252 [2.79.1] gdatetime installed tests fails on s390x (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3255 g_base_info_clear on zero-initialized stack-allocated introspection
    info (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3258 Possible memory leak in GUnixVolumeMonitor (Ondrej Holy)
    
  • #3260 Add man pages for girepository tools
    
  • #3262 msys2-mingw32 build failing with error code 3221225785 (0xc0000139)
    (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3263 Ensure girepository tools are translatable (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3266 Use-after-free in gsocketclient.c:connection_attempt_remove() (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3271 GLib: string malformed for gettext (Philip Withnall)
    
  • !3918 tests: Don’t run lint tests under valgrind
    
  • !3919 tests: Speed up threaded toggle notify test unless -m slow is passed
    
  • !3921 ci: Fix printing the execution environment
    
  • !3922 gdatetime test: Produce more helpful output on mismatches
    
  • !3923 girepository test: Don't assume doubles are naturally-aligned
    
  • !3925 girwriter: Take the GIRepository as a parameter
    
  • !3926 gi- tools: Remove unused options, improve --debug/--verbose
    
  • !3927 g-ir-compiler: Only accept one input file
    
  • !3928 gi-decompile-typelib: Interpret --includedir as most-important-first
    
  • !3930 migrating-gi: Document command-line option removals
    
  • !3935 Restrict macOS CI to origin
    
  • !3937 girepository: Fix static build under Windows
    
  • !3945 tests: Remove variable-length lookbehind tests for GRegex
    

• Translation updates:

  • Basque (Asier Sarasua Garmendia)
    
  • Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
    
  • Chinese (China) (Boyuan Yang)
    
  • Czech (Daniel Rusek)
    
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
    
  • Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
    
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  • Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
    
  • Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
    
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  • Russian (Artur S0)
    
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
    
  • Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
    
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal, Emin Tufan Çetin)
    
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