Overview of changes in GLib 2.80.1, 2024-05-07

• Fix CVE-2024-34397: GDBus signal subscriptions for well-known names are
  vulnerable to unicast spoofing (#3268, work by Simon McVittie, reported by
  Alicia Boya García)

• Bugs fixed:

  • GNOME/tracker-miners#315 3.7.0 - GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 09:27:12.186: Error
    creating IO channel for /proc/self/mountinfo: Invalid argument (g-io-error-
    quark, 13) (Ondrej Holy)
    
  • #3268 CVE-2024-34397: GDBus signal subscriptions for well-known names are
    vulnerable to unicast spoofing (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3287 Devhelp does not show indexes for GLib, GIO, or GObject (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3289 readlink -f fails in CI on macOS (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3342 Crash in gdbus schedule_callbacks() due to missing NULL check before
    g_str_equal() (Philip Withnall)
    
  • !3954 [th/performance] add script for combining performance results
    
  • !3959 [th/gobject-toggle-refs-check] Fix critical warning for toggle
    notifications in g_object_ref()/g_object_unref()
    
  • !3962 meson: Fix a needless recompilation of some gdbus tests
    
  • !3966 girparser: Don't assume sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(void *)
    
  • !3967 girparser: Allow time_t, off_t, etc. to appear in GIR XML
    
  • !3969 Ported the first few documentation comments in gio/gaction.c to gi-
    docgen
    
  • !3970 girparser: Make sizes in integer_aliases more obviously correct
    
  • !3972 girparser: Adjust signedness() macro
    
  • !3973 glib/gvariant: fix compile error with GCC 14.0.1
    
  • !3974 tests: Mark several additional tests as can_fail on GNU Hurd
    
  • !3981 Backport !3979 "Use CPU_COUNT to get the number of set CPUs" to
    glib-2-80
    
  • !3992 Backport !3989 “completion: make gsettings work in nounset mode” to
    glib-2-80
    
  • !4004 Backport "Remove unused cmph files" for glib-2-80
    
  • !4021 Backport !4019 “gunixmounts: Use fallback if libmount monitoring
    fails” to glib-2-80
    
  • !4025 Backport !4005 “Fix various bugs found by scan-build“ to glib-2-80
    
  • !4029 Backport !4028 “gdbusconnection: Fix a crash on arg0 matching” to
    glib-2-80
    
  • !4032 Backport !4031 “gdocumentportal: Handle EROFS and similar errors more
    gracefully” to glib-2-80
    
  • !4039 Backport !4038 “gdbusconnection: Don't deliver signals if the sender
    doesn't match” to glib-2-80
    

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