Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.4, 2025-08-22

• Follow symlink (instead of overwriting it) when updating mimeapps.list
  (#3579, work by Rafael Girão)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3579 mimeapps.list is overwritten if it is a symlink (Rafael Girão)
    
  • #3724 Crash in g_hash_table_add after 252645135 elements (Tobias Stoeckmann)
    
  • #3743 g_utf8_validate out parameter has wrong type (two)
    
  • #3751 meta: clang-format refers to a broken link (Rafael Girão)
    
  • #3758 Out-of-bounds read in GMemoryMonitorPoll (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3760 Stack overflow when recursing within g_log_structured() with
    G_LOG_FLAG_RECURSION (Tobias Stoeckmann)
    
  • #3761 Regression in g_printf() - can no longer output formatted values
    containing NUL bytes (Luca Bacci)
    
  • #3766 Update sl.po (Slovenian) (Martin)
    
  • !4714 gmain: Reformat docs to fully use gi-docgen and match style guide
    
  • !4720 Disable GMemoryMonitorPsi on Solaris
    
  • !4727 garray: Improve and migrate documentation to gi-docgen
    
  • !4735 build: Fix stp files for development versions
    
  • !4736 systemtap: Use correct formatters/types
    
  • !4738 docs: Add Thomas Haller as a co-maintainer of GObject
    
  • !4739 Annotate ref/unref functions as transfer full
    
  • !4740 gstrfuncs: Check parameter validity
    
  • !4742 garray: Fix g_array_binary_search description
    
  • !4743 Update Russian translation
    
  • !4744 tests/gio: skip Unix socket-mock tests on Windows
    
  • !4747 tests/printf: Use proper compare helper for unsigned types
    
  • !4748 gconstructor: Add attribute used for TLS callback pointer
    

• Translation updates:

  • Russian (jtux270)
    
  • Slovenian (Martin)