Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.0, 2025-05-20

• Preserve mode for existing file when creating a temporary file for atomic
  updates with g_file_set_contents() (dconf#76, work by Wesley Hershberger)

• Fix race conditions between g_main_context_unref() and gsource*() methods
  (#803, work by Matthew Waters)

• Allow file handles inside nested containers when using the gdbus call
  command (#3624, work by Julian Sparber)

• Fix DNS resolution of local addresses in offline mode (#3641, work by
  Patrick Griffis)

• Various performance improvements to GObject locking (various MRs by
  Thomas Haller)

• Prefer matches occurring earlier in the string when searching
  GDesktopAppInfos, improving search for apps in gnome-shell (!4369, work by
  Fina Wilke)

• Fix thread safety of GClosure flags (!4575, !4577, work by Sam James and
  Philip Withnall)

• Bugs fixed:

  • GNOME/dconf#76 dconf update can set incorrect permissions to dconf system db
    (Wesley Hershberger)
    
  • #490 Not clearly documented behavior of g_key_file_set_comment function.
    (marklkram)
    
  • #803 g_main_context_unref() versus gsource*() race (Matthew Waters)
    
  • #1002 GObject doesn't support removing a weak reference in a GWeakNotify for
    the same object
    
  • #1250 gsocketlistener: Fix IPv4 listen() error-handling resulting in use-
    after-free
    
  • #2377 Document that g_socket_address_get_native_size() can return -1 on
    errors
    
  • #2544 Consider g_log_always_fatal for aborting in
    g_log_structured_array() (sid)
    
  • #3405 Enable -Wconversion warnings by default (progress towards this, but it
    is not complete)
    
  • #3616 docs: Broken link in GioActionEntry (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3617 Add generalised version of g_date_get_monday_week_of_year() (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3624 gdbus call should look for file handles inside nested containers
    (Julian Sparber)
    
  • #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
    
  • #3641 GResolver: Local DNS resolution failure in offline mode (Patrick
    Griffis)
    
  • #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)
    
  • #3656 Set SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER when logging to journald (Axel Karjalainen)
    
  • #3657 girepository: Wrong typelib path on Windows
    
  • #3663 Cannot use GZlibCompressor in GTK testsuite (Benjamin Otte)
    
  • #3684 UAF in GSignalGroup weak notify callbacks (Thomas Haller)
    
  • #3686 docs.gtk.org doesn't mention that GSourceFuncs.finalize may be NULL
    (BZZZZ)
    
  • #3693 Random failures in debian-i386-stable
    
  • !4185 [th/gobject-no-object-locks-pt1-notify] use
    g_datalist_id_update_atomic() instead of OPTIONAL_BIT_LOCK_NOTIFY
    
  • !4247 mappedfile: Avoid some allocations
    
  • !4369 gdesktopappinfo: Prefer matches that occur earlier in the match string
    
  • !4387 Fix various -Wshorten-64-to-32 warnings
    
  • !4484 Memory sanitizer fixes
    
  • !4489 gobject: Be consistent in using atomic logic to handle the
    GParamSpecPool
    
  • !4520 [th/gdataset-cleanup] minor cleanups of gdataset
    
  • !4536 [th/gobj-closure-array-atomic] use g_datalist_id_update_atomic() for
    array of closure watches
    
  • !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
    
  • !4575 gclosure: fix ATOMIC_CHANGE_FIELD to read vint atomically
    
  • !4577 gclosure: Allow full set of closure flags to be queried atomically
    
  • !4578 [th/bit-lock-and-set] bitlock: add g_bit_lock_and_get() and
    g_bit_unlock_and_set() API
    
  • !4579 tests: Add missing unistd.h include to scannerapi.c
    
  • !4581 [th/gobj-no-weak-ref-lock] drop OPTIONAL_BIT_LOCK_WEAK_REFS object
    lock for g_object_weak_{ref,unref}()
    
  • !4583 thread: fix Linux detection
    
  • !4585 gfile: Expand documentation around file info for inaccessible files
    
  • !4586 [th/gobj-doc-weakref] clear #GWeakRef earlier in
    g_object_run_dispose() and reword docs about #GWeakRef
    
  • !4588 gstring: carefully handle gssize parameters
    
  • !4590 Various -Wsign-conversion warning fixes
    
  • !4591 gthreadedresolver: fix crash in loopback interface check
    
  • !4592 gstring: Make len_unsigned unsigned
    
  • !4594 Enable -Wsign-conversion for girepository, gthread, gmodule
    
  • !4596 docs: Mention how to run the test suite in CONTRIBUTING.md
    
  • !4598 gtlsconnection: Fix annotation
    
  • !4599 Mark pointer as (type gpointer)
    
  • !4601 garray: Fix annotations
    
  • !4602 docs: fix typo glong: ULONG_MAX -> LONG_MAX
    
  • !4603 Fix GNetworkMonitorNetlink operation under a FreeBSD jail with shared
    network stack
    
  • !4604 cocoa: add support for GBytesIcon in notification backend
    
  • !4605 gparamspecs: Use standard min/max constants rather than literals
    
  • !4606 gobject, girepository: Fix several -Wsign-conversion warnings on macOS
    
  • !4609 Update Portuguese translation
    
  • !4610 Update Ukrainian translation
    
  • !4613 Update macOS job for new CI runner
    
  • !4615 shell: Handle empty comment gracefully
    
  • !4619 gslist: Improve documentation for append / prepend / insert methods
    
  • !4620 glocalfile: Disable faccessat()-based query_exists on Android
    
  • !4621 gallocator: mark as deprecated
    
  • !4627 [th/gsignalgroup-dispose] gsignalgroup: make GSignalGroup.dispose() a
    bit more reentrant
    
  • !4628 [th/gdataset-fix-zero-key] fix and cleanup related to using a zero
    GQuark for keys in GData
    
  • !4631 Update German translation
    
  • !4632 win32: Only print one OS version
    
  • !4633 gzlibcompressor: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
    
  • !4638 docs: Fix formatting of definition lists
    

• Translation updates:

  • Catalan (Jordi Mas)
    
  • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
    
  • French (Vincent Chatelain)
    
  • German (Philipp Kiemle)
    
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
    
  • Persian (Danial Behzadi)
    
  • Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
    
  • Romanian (Antonio Marin)
    
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
    
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)