Overview of changes in GLib 2.81.0, 2024-06-28

• Add a strong recommendation to build with a toolchain that supports C11; this
  will become a hard requirement in future stable release cycles (!4082, work by
  Emmanuele Bassi)

• 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)

• Fix a regression with IBus caused by the fix for CVE-2024-34397 (#3353,
  work by Simon McVittie)

• Fix Devhelp documentation indexes (#3287, work by Philip Withnall)

• Fix installation directory of the GVariant specification (#3351, work by
  Michael Catanzaro)

• Change dtrace and systemtap Meson options to auto-enabled features, and
  change default for sysprof from disabled to auto (#3354, work by Michael
  Catanzaro)

• Change how Python is found at configure time and in script shebangs
  (#3301, #3331, work by multiple people)

• Make various libgirepository APIs return reproducible results by defining an
  order over namespaces (#3303, work by Philip Withnall)

• Ignore SIGPIPE for the entire parent process when creating a GSubprocess
  (#3310, work by Philip Withnall)

• Use alternate signal stack to receive signals if the process provides one
  (!3983, #3314, #3315, #3337, work by Marco Trevisan, Pablo Correa Gomez,
  Philip Withnall)

• Allow multiple parameters for D-Bus activation of app actions (#3333, work by
  Philip Withnall, Julian Sparber)

• Fix out-of-bounds access when reading >4GiB files (#3397, work by
  Benjamin Otte, Philip Withnall)

• Use ppoll() rather than poll() where possible for more precise timeouts
  (!3958, work by Christian Hergert)

• Port various parts of the documentation to gi-docgen format (#3250, work by
  Sudhanshu Tiwari, Philip Withnall)

• Fix futex_time64() use on Android ≤ 10 (!3987, work by Amyspark)

• Various improvements to bash completion for GLib utilities (!3989, !4012,
  !4013, work by Ville Skyttä, Philip Withnall)

• 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)
    
  • GNOME/gobject-introspection#509 Gio Typelib error on method call:
    'gi.repository.Gio' object has no attribute 'content_type_get_icon'
    (Biswapriyo Nath)
    
  • #564 create introspection-friendly version of g_settings_bind_with_mapping
    (Philip Chimento)
    
  • #1767 Fix scan-build reports and gate CI pipeline success on scan-build
    success (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #2896 Links to docs for glib-compile-resources are broken (Emmanuele Bassi)
    
  • #3184 g_socket_client_connect_to_host_async leaks memory when target host
    doesn't respond to ARP (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3254 Property deprecation warning can be issued in cases when deprecated
    property isn't used (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3268 CVE-2024-34397: GDBus signal subscriptions for well-known names are
    vulnerable to unicast spoofing (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3286 g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len, g_strstr_len return ownership note is
    incorrect (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3287 Devhelp does not show indexes for GLib, GIO, or GObject (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3289 readlink -f fails in CI on macOS (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3290 Cleanup after G_TEST_OPTION_ISOLATE_DIRS follows symlinks (Will
    Thompson)
    
  • #3301 consider glib development binaries usable without external python
    modules
    
  • #3303 gi_repository_find_by_gtype is nondeterministic (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3310 Race condition in g_subprocess_communicate() with
    G_SUBPROCESS_FLAGS_STDIN_PIPE (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3313 GBookmarkFile documentation links to non-existant page (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3314 unix test fails on macOS due to alternate signal stack changes
    
  • #3317 test failures during glib bootstrap
    
  • #3326 Switch TRUE and FALSE to C99 constants (Emmanuele Bassi)
    
  • #3333 Gio.Application: Takes only first parameter when activating an action
    via D-Bus Activation (Julian Sparber)
    
  • #3337 unix test fails under valgrind due to alternate stack changes (Marco
    Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3342 Crash in gdbus schedule_callbacks() due to missing NULL check before
    g_str_equal() (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3351 GVariant specification installed in wrong directory (Michael
    Catanzaro)
    
  • #3353 Fixing CVE-2024-34397 caused regressions for ibus (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3354 Reconsider default values for certain build options
    
  • #3355 GIBaseInfo/GIBaseInfoStack bitfield definition doesn't match on
    16-bit-aligned-pointer systems
    
  • #3361 Documentation for i18n is limited, i18n macros not available
    (Emmanuele Bassi)
    
  • #3363 Factor out untranslatable parts of translatable error messages
    
  • #3366 Crash in error path of g_dbus_connection_export_menu_model() (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3369 Remove links to dead developer-old.gnome.org (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3372 G_LIKELY doesn’t appear in gi-docgen documentation (Emmanuele Bassi)
    
  • #3394 GLib unit tests fail on macOS runner due to localhost being out of
    addresses (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3397 g_file_load_contents reads large (>4GiB) files past end of array due
    to gsize to guint truncation
    
  • #3401 Random failures to build glib 2.80.3 (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3402 g_output_stream_write fails assertion if buffer is NULL and count is 0
    (Gary Li)
    
  • !3697 GLocalFile: support trashing long file name
    
  • !3939 Add g_file_copy_async_with_closures() and
    g_file_move_async_with_closures()
    
  • !3952 Add unref-to-strv to GStrvBuilder
    
  • !3954 [th/performance] add script for combining performance results
    
  • !3958 Use ppoll() when possible for more precise timeouts
    
  • !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
    
  • !3975 build: Post-release version bump
    
  • !3977 tests: Remove unnecessary subprocess from dataset tests
    
  • !3978 gio: Fix docs links to description of I/O priority
    
  • !3979 Don't assume CPU_ISSET will return 0 or 1
    
  • !3983 gmain: Use alternate signal stack if the application provides one
    
  • !3984 Fix a typo
    
  • !3985 gio: Change ‘unrecognised’ to ‘unrecognized’ in various user-visible
    places
    
  • !3986 Port the remaining documentation comments in gio/gaction.c to GI-
    Docgen
    
  • !3987 glib/gthread-posix: Block futex_time64 usage on Android API level < 30
    
  • !3988 Introspection: Fix running g-ir-scanner 1.80.x+ on Windows
    
  • !3989 completion: make gsettings work in nounset mode
    
  • !3990 docs: spelling and grammar fixes
    
  • !3993 Convert BIONIC usages that check for Android to ANDROID
    
  • !3994 glib/gthread-posix: Fix missing saved_errno variable in Android's
    g_futex_simple
    
  • !3996 docs: Fix g_object_connect()'s docblock
    
  • !4000 Revert "gmain: Use alternate signal stack if the application provides
    one"
    
  • !4002 Ports the documentation comments in gio/gactiongroup.c to GI-Docgen
    
  • !4003 Remove unused cmph files
    
  • !4005 Fix various bugs found by scan-build and refresh scan-build config in
    CI
    
  • !4008 docs: Update Code of Conduct URI
    
  • !4011 docs: Minor GVariant fixes
    
  • !4012 tests: Enable shellcheck for bash completion scripts
    
  • !4013 completion: Invoke the command being completed
    
  • !4014 Add a few more missing license and copyright headers to files
    
  • !4016 gunicode.h: fix warning with -Wcast-qual for define g_utf8_next_char()
    
  • !4017 docs(gio/overview): Restore missing heading
    
  • !4020 girepository/introspection: correctly install .gir files into custom
    locations
    
  • !4022 gfileinfo: Fixed broken link to gio/file-attributes.html
    
  • !4023 Fix various implicit conversions from size_t to smaller types
    
  • !4024 gdatetime: Fix string type used to initialise array
    
  • !4031 gdocumentportal: Handle EROFS and similar errors more gracefully
    
  • !4034 link with -latomic when needed
    
  • !4035 Add g_converter_convert_bytes
    
  • !4045 gapplication: Fix a small leak on an error handling path
    
  • !4051 gdbusconnection: Fix test signal subscription ordering
    
  • !4057 gdbusmessage: Clean the cached arg0 when setting the message body
    
  • !4058 Tests: Build fixes when running meson test without previous builds
    
  • !4059 tests: Fix various memory leaks and valgrind / ASAN errors
    
  • !4063 gdbusconnection: Fix a misleading comment
    
  • !4064 girepository/build: Actually use our compiler to generate GLib
    typelibs and fix parser leaks
    
  • !4066 Fix several GCC 14 warnings to please msys2-mingw32 CI
    
  • !4067 Remove unused struct
    
  • !4068 docs: Fix string-utils paragraph heading
    
  • !4069 gdbus: Make more use of symbolic constants for various aspects of the
    D-Bus protocol
    
  • !4075 ci: Update Fedora CI image to Fedora 39
    
  • !4078 tests: Fix clang compilation failure due to unrecognised option in
    pragma
    
  • !4081 gpattern: Port the docs to gi-docgen syntax
    
  • !4082 docs: Update toolchain requirement to C11
    
  • !4083 gobject: fix broken links to parameters and signals naming rules
    
  • !4084 docs: Improve g_strescape & g_strcompress descriptions
    
  • !4087 ci: Disable systemtap on musl CI build
    
  • !4088 girepository: add support for relocations
    
  • !4089 Revert "Alias TRUE and FALSE to C99's true and false"
    
  • !4091 build: Use C89 for the standard version check
    
  • !4092 docs: Improve conversion-macros formatting and add
    GTYPE_TO_POINTER/GPOINTER_TO_TYPE
    
  • !4093 gmem.c: Update g_clear_pointer() documentation
    
  • !4094 tests: Fix compilation failure on macOS due to missing include
    
  • !4095 Improve handling of standard types' signedness
    
  • !4097 docs: Fix docs reference to main-loop
    
  • !4098 Dump pointer types in the introspection blob
    
  • !4099 gfile: Fix finish-func annotations
    
  • !4100 docs: Mention XDG_DATA_HOME in glib-compile-schemas manual
    
  • !4101 gio/g-i: Mark Application:action-group property as deprecated
    
  • !4102 tests: Add basic tests for gdump.c in libgirepository
    
  • !4108 build: Rename meson_options.txt to meson.options
    
  • !4114 glocalfileinfo: A few fixes on win32
    
  • !4115 tests: Use gassert*() rather than g_assert() in notification tests
    
  • !4117 tests: Improve 4GB file loading test to work on i386
    
  • !4120 gtestutils: Free test_data when freeing a test case
    
  • !4121 gmacros: Avoid casting functions
    

• Translation updates:

  • Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
    
  • Czech (Daniel Rusek)
    
  • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
    
  • French (Vincent Chatelain)
    
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
    
  • Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
    
  • German (Christian Kirbach)
    
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
    
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
    
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    
  • Kabyle (Rachida SACI, Athmane MOKRAOUI)
    
  • Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
    
  • Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
    
  • Persian (Danial Behzadi)
    
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
    
  • Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (Juliano de Souza Camargo, Leônidas Araújo)
    
  • Slovenian (Martin)
    
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
    
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)