Overview of changes in GLib 2.83.3, 2025-01-23

• Fix build-time paths appearing in generated Gio-2.0.gir and
  GioUnix-2.0.gir files (#3564, work by Simon McVittie)

• Fix crash on macOS when opening links (#3568, work by John Ralls)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3558 Recent (inout) changes caused unintended side-effects with
    GWeakRef (Michael Catanzaro)
    
  • #3561 Missing nullable annotation on parameter user_data and on the return
    value of GVfsFileLookupFunc callback (fbrouille)
    
  • #3562 GBytes semantics of handling empty strings are inconsistent and
    confusing (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3563 Bad anchor link in g_signal_connect() documentation
    
  • #3564 build-time paths to gio/gunixmounts.h, etc. end up in Gio-2.0.gir,
    GioUnix-2.0.gir (Simon McVittie)
    
  • #3568 Links crash application on MacOS due to lack of machine-id file (John
    Ralls)
    
  • #3569 Requirement of GUnixMountMonitor for a Valid Timestamp from
    unix_mount_at is not Suffeciently Documented (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3582 gmacros: _G_BOOLEAN_EXPR_IMPL is incompatible with c++ functions
    marked constexpr
    
  • !3885 [th/gdataset-index] add a lookup index (GHashTable) to GData
    
  • !4392 GWin32: Add g_win32_com_clear()
    
  • !4436 docs: Add --generate-md to the gdbus-codegen documentation
    
  • !4437 docs: Fix some backslash escaping issues in doc comments
    
  • !4440 gio, gobject: Improve reproducibility of enumtypes headers
    
  • !4441 gstrfuncs: Drop a redundant paragraph
    
  • !4442 Don't define test setups unless we're testing
    
  • !4443 build: Make the introspection feature yield
    
  • !4444 Fix pointer-to-paramref syntax in docs
    
  • !4446 gio: Fix a link to a specifications document
    
  • !4449 Add several assertions to help static analysis and fix some GIR
    annotations
    
  • !4450 Fix GCC version detection for GUINT*_SWAP_LE_BE
    
  • !4454 gioenums: Add deprecation for FLAGS_NONE
    
  • !4455 docs: Use gi-docgen syntax in main-loop.md
    
  • !4458 docs: Document more extension points
    
  • !4460 docs: Clarify that g_array_unref() works like g_ptr_array_unref().