Overview of changes in GLib 2.83.4, 2025-02-20

• Fix Python shebang paths so they work on Windows again (#3331, work by
  Dan Yeaw and others)

• Fix refcounting semantics of g_dbus_connection_register_object_with_closures()
  by adding a replacement API (#3560, work by Philip Withnall)

• Support static vfuncs in GIRepository (!4457, work by Philip Chimento)

• Add support for QNX8.0 (!4466, work by Felix Xing)

• Add a soft dependency on C11 — if your toolchain doesn’t support C11, you have
  six months to tell us before this becomes a hard dependency (!4473)

• Port from net.hadess.PowerProfiles to org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles
  for GPowerProfileMonitorDBus (!4478, work by Marco Trevisan)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3331 Windows build broken because of Python paths (Dan Yeaw)
    
  • #3448 Use after free in GCancellableSource test (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3560 Fix refcounting semantics of
    g_dbus_connection_register_object_with_closures() (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3578 gkeyfile: Honor C in $LANGUAGE as gettext does (Gaël Bonithon)
    
  • #3587 g_app_info_launch crashes on macos (Andre Miranda)
    
  • #3592 GDBusConnection does not handle serial number overflow (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3595 Toolchain documentation should mention that GLib assumes functions can
    be called through wrongly-typed function pointers (Demi Obenour)
    
  • #3612 cancellable unit test crashes in /cancellable-source/threaded-dispose
    (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3613 Potentially revert g_win32_com_clear() due to pulling in windows.h
    
  • !3255 Drop TypeNode reference counting
    
  • !4046 Add G_OPTION_FLAG_DEPRECATED
    
  • !4457 Support static vfuncs in GIRepository
    
  • !4461 docs: Update the release documentation for the new release workflow
    
  • !4464 gosxappinfo: Fix leak
    
  • !4466 Add support for QNX8.0
    
  • !4468 Registry backend fixes
    
  • !4471 glib.supp: Ignore once-per-thread leak from SysprofCollector
    
  • !4472 gkeyfile: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
    
  • !4473 build: Add a soft dependency on C11
    
  • !4475 docs: Fix invalid references and broken links
    
  • !4476 tests: Cleanup python tests and add tests for gi-compile-repository
    and gi-inspect-typelib
    
  • !4477 gcancellable: remove sketchy source ref/unref
    
  • !4478 gio/powerprofilemonitordbus: Use newer D-Bus API
    
  • !4479 docs: Make docs more markdown-ish
    
  • !4483 tests: Fix a memory leak if a callable-info test is skipped
    
  • !4486 meson: Fix typo in comment about python shebang
    
  • !4487 gio/gfilemonitor: Use atomic API to get / store cancelled state
    
  • !4488 gmain: Use atomic logic to handle internal GSource flags
    
  • !4490 gio/subprocess: Lock while writing on shared pid and status values
    
  • !4491 Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
    
  • !4492 gfilemonitor: Various cleanups and minor fixes to property handling
    
  • !4493 gdbus: Add g_clear_dbus_signal_subscription() inline convenience
    function
    
  • !4494 gio/subprocess: Initialize pid variable to 0
    
  • !4495 gio/gvolumemonitor: Suggest disconnecting signals
    
  • !4496 Update Polish translation for GNOME 48
    
  • !4497 tests: Fix a minor leak in a new GSubprocess test
    
  • !4498 gdatetime: Fix integer overflow when parsing very long ISO8601 inputs
    

• Translation updates:

  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)