Overview of changes in GLib 2.82.0, 2024-08-26

• Change the default value of -Dglib_debug from auto to enabled for
  developers — distributions will almost certainly want to override it to
  -Dglib_debug=disabled for package release builds though; see #3421

• Revert per-instance locking changes in GCancellable as they introduced new
  races (#3448)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3417 Investigate trampoline performance implications in g_mutex_lock_impl()
    changes (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3421 Default value for glib_debug meson option (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3428 wrong comment in gmessage.c:escape_string
    
  • #3450 Should check for epoll_create1 rather than epoll_create (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3451 Gio.MenuModel docs have an outdated UI example (Philip Withnall)
    
  • !4195 Replace hi.po with updated translations.
    
  • !4197 gunixmounts: Fix use of uninitialised variable
    
  • !4198 tests: Run expected-to-hang cancellable tests in subprocesses
    
  • !4205 CI/msys2-mingw32: Set the G_DEBUGGER environment variable
    
  • !4207 Update Chinese translation
    
  • !4208 Update Swedish translation
    
  • !4211 Revert !2765 “GCancellable: Use per-instance mutex logic instead of
    global critical sections” for glib-2-82
    
  • !4213 Various small backports to glib-2-82
    
  • !4215 Backport !4214 “gthread: Move thread _impl functions to static inlines
    for speed” to glib-2-82
    

• Translation updates:

  • Chinese (China) (lumingzh)
    
  • Hindi (Karunakar Guntupalli)
    
  • Swedish (Anders Jonsson)