Overview of changes in GLib 2.84.1, 2025-04-03

• Fix test failure when building against gobject-introspection ≥1.83.4 (#3634,
  work by Philip Withnall)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3630 2.84.0 build failure on Linux: ../gio/gnetworkmonitornetlink.c:47:10:
    fatal error: netlink/netlink_route.h: No such file or directory (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3634 test failure with gobject-introspection 1.83.4: warning: element
    doc:format from state 3 is unknown, ignoring (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3636 gio/trash does not handle special characters well
    
  • #3642 g_cancellable_connect() documentation incorrect (Marco Trevisan
    (Treviño))
    
  • #3643 g_cancellable_connect(): is it safe to unref cancellable from
    callback? (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3649 Crash with some registry key values in GWin32AppInfo (Philip Withnall)
    
  • !4484 Memory sanitizer fixes
    
  • !4489 gobject: Be consistent in using atomic logic to handle the
    GParamSpecPool
    
  • !4541 gsettings: Port docs to gi-docgen format, add missing annotations and
    make various improvements
    
  • !4544 tests: Don't install runner scripts without installed_tests
    
  • !4545 Update French translation
    
  • !4547 Update Catalan translation
    
  • !4548 Update Turkish translation
    
  • !4551 Updated Danish translation
    
  • !4552 Update Persian translation
    
  • !4553 docs: Document GSignalFlags members added after 2.0
    
  • !4554 Update Indonesian translation
    
  • !4555 tests: Add a test for g_object_freeze_notify() being called too often
    
  • !4557 gfileinfo: Slightly expand docs for
    g_file_info_get_attribute_as_string()
    
  • !4558 gi: Dynamically set doc-format
    
  • !4561 tests: Various fixes to create temporary files in /tmp rather than the
    build directory
    
  • !4562 gdbusnameowning: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
    
  • !4563 giounix-private: Fix macro for checking for epoll_create1()
    
  • !4565 Fix LGPL in header
    
  • !4567 gutils: make documentation of g_set_prgname() clearer
    
  • !4568 docs: Add some detail
    
  • !4569 Update Romanian translation
    
  • !4570 gspawn-win32: Fix potential integer overflows in argv handling
    
  • !4571 gvarianttype: Improve docs on type validation
    

• Translation updates:

  • Catalan (Jordi Mas)
    
  • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
    
  • French (Vincent Chatelain)
    
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
    
  • Persian (Danial Behzadi)
    
  • Romanian (Antonio Marin)
    
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)