Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.1, 2025-06-13
Re-add the option of a singleton to
GIRepository
(#3664, work by
Christian Hergert)Add support for the
e
flag (O_CLOEXEC) tog_fopen()
(!4564, work by
Luca Bacci and Philip Withnall)Make the
sysprof
Meson option yield when using GLib as a subproject (!4659,
work by Matthias Clasen)Use the Meson built-in
localedir
option (!4661, work by
Kleis Auke Wolthuizen)Bugs fixed:
- #1665 g_file_trash() should return PERMISSION_DENIED if files can't be
deleted (Ignacy Kuchciński)
- #3664 Lack of g_irepository_get_default() equivalent makes cross-library
integration extremely difficult (Christian Hergert)
- #3698 Misleading autogenerated hints in the documentation of
g_async_queue_pop() (Alicia Boya García)
- !4560 glib/gnulib/printf.c: Sync with gnulib
- !4564 gstdio: Add support for the
e
flag (O_CLOEXEC) to g_fopen()
- !4637 Rework Windows implementation of g_getenv()
- !4641 [th/gobj-drop-bit-lock] gobject: drop object_bit_lock() functions
- !4642 [th/gobj-empty-notify-queue] gobject: optimize notify-queue handling
for a single freeze
- !4643 GRegex: apply monospace typeface in description
- !4644 gio: add annotations on parameters of 'g_file_monitor_emit_event' and
of 'g_vfs_get_file_for_path'
- !4645 gregex: Clarify docs for end_pos
- !4646 GRegex: update class description
- !4649 GAsyncQueue: assert non-null data in push_sorted()
- !4650 tests: Add atomics to asyncqueue test global variables
- !4651 Meson: Add libglib_static dependency for use in tests
- !4652 gobject: clarify in documentation that g_value_set_boxed copies
- !4654 Fix buffer overflow in string-test
- !4655 gstring: Fix overflow check when expanding the string
- !4657 docs: Stop hiding the Unix-like APIs which are in Gio-2.0.gir
- !4658 gmarkup: make documentation more discoverable
- !4659 Make the sysprof feature yield
- !4661 meson: Use the appropriate localedir option
- #1665 g_file_trash() should return PERMISSION_DENIED if files can't be