Overview of changes in GLib 2.83.1, 2024-12-11

• Bugs fixed:
  
  • #1251 gio/tests/contenttype fails on OS X: "public.directory" !=
    "public.folder"
    
  • #3441 Bump minimum supported version of macOS (John Ralls)
    
  • #3493 Heap buffer overflow read in utf8_verify_ascii() (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3511 Build failure “'ifunc' is not supported on this target” with muslc
    (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3517 Silent linked-list corruption in g_static_resource_init() on redundant
    calls
    
  • #3524 Wrong parameter type for g_enum_register_static in GObject-2.0.gir
    (Jan-Willem Harmannij)
    
  • #3526 Segfault in statically linked binary during initialization of ifuncs
    since 2.83.0 (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3532 g_converter_output_stream_write() can return 0 (Benjamin Otte)
    
  • #3540 g_signal_connect on "notify::non-existant-property" doesn't warn for
    invalid property (Sid)
    
  • #3545 Modernize the default value for g_thread_pool_set_max_unused_threads
    (Matthias Clasen)
    
  • #3546 Make the thread name available (Matthias Clasen)
    
  • #3548 Fix g_settings_schema_has_key() to work with extended schemas
    
  • #3552 Missing nullable annotation for log_domain in GLogFunc callback
    (Roberto Leinardi)
    
  • #3559 2.82.3 regression: lollypop crashes on startup (Philip Withnall)
    
  • !4232 refstring: Fix race between releasing and re-acquiring an interned
    GRefString
    
  • !4382 girepository: gi_object_info_find_signal(): Avoid repeated allocations
    
  • !4384 test utils: Make nonfatal assertions an option
    
  • !4385 gutf8: Skip ASan instrumentation for load_word
    
  • !4389 macos: Add extra content type tests
    
  • !4393 Replace procfs linuxism with kinfo freebsdism
    
  • !4395 appmonitor: Fix warning building test
    
  • !4396 tests: Factor out a function to convert FD to path
    
  • !4398 grefstring: Mark a variable as potentially unused
    
  • !4399 meson: Add variables to -uninstalled.pc files
    
  • !4401 testutils: Documentation improvements
    
  • !4403 Revert "CI: Rebuild a slightly newer version of ninja for debian-
    stable-i386"
    
  • !4406 glib/gbytes: Be more careful when saving a GBytes of NULL
    
  • !4407 guri: Fix paths starting with ‘//’ when parsing
    
  • !4410 threadpool: Simplify pool thread naming
    
  • !4411 gdbusconnection: Allow creating connection with cross-namespace
    
  • !4412 gmessages: Treat DEBUG_INVOCATION=1 same as G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all
    
  • !4413 gunicode: Update some comments in gunicode.h for Unicode 16.0.0
    
  • !4414 gdbus: Add a few missing (nullable) annotations to GDBus method
    invocation related functions
    
  • !4415 gdbus: Fix leak of method invocation when registering an object with
    closures
    
  • !4421 gparam: Add link to constructed vfunc to CONSTRUCT
    
  • !4422 docs: Fix dead link in CONTRIBUTING
    
  • !4423 gio-tool: Clarify that gio mount -l only lists user-interesting
    things
    
  • !4424 ci: Ensure all variables are quoted in .gitlab-ci.yml
    
  • !4425 tests: Skip unsupported dbus-appinfo test on GNU/Hurd for the moment
    
  • !4428 girepository: Expose gi-compile-repository and gi-* tools in pkg-
    config
    
  • !4429 gdbus: Add nullable annotations for fd list outs
    
  • !4432 ci: Add release component to automate tarball publishing