Overview of changes in GLib 2.86.1, 2025-10-21

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3745 GIRepository: union fields offsets for compiled typelibs all have
    offset 0xffff (unknown) (Philip Chimento)
    
  • #3780 gio/tests/socket-listener requires dlsym
    
  • #3781 GLib.OptionContext's get_help() includes width of invisible options
    (FeRD (Frank Dana))
    
  • #3783 [CI] Pipeline on 'main' failed for commit c31c4a52 (Tobias Stoeckmann)
    
  • #3784 Memory leak related to g_get_home_dir (Michael Catanzaro)
    
  • #3798 Gio.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri_async crashes with non-existent
    paths (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3803 GNetworkMonitor's netlink backend doesn't notify connectivity change
    (Philip Withnall)
    
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/
    
  • !4755 ghash: Fix entry_is_big for CHERI architecture
    
  • !4756 ghash: Handle all table sizes in iterator
    
  • !4760 gbookmarkfile: Escape icon href and mime-type
    
  • !4773 docs: Add Luca Bacci as a co-maintainer of the Windows code
    
  • !4775 Update Ukrainian translation
    
  • !4776 Update Catalan translation
    
  • !4777 Update Lithuanian translation
    
  • !4778 tests: Fix clang compilation warnings
    
  • !4779 gmem: Replace SIZE_OVERFLOWS with g_size_checked_mul
    
  • !4780 Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
    
  • !4781 Update eu translation
    
  • !4782 Update Korean translation
    
  • !4785 Update Japanese translation
    
  • !4786 Update Galician translations
    
  • !4787 Update Hungarian translation
    
  • !4791 gstrfuncs: Check string length in g_strescape
    
  • !4800 gutils: Improve load_user_special_dirs' user-dirs.dirs parser
    
  • !4802 Update Turkish translation
    
  • !4809 Trivial backport of "gutils: Handle singletons in unlocked functions"
    to glib-2-86 branch
    
  • !4814 Backport translation updates to glib-2-86
    
  • !4821 Backport !4820 “gio/tests: Fix a race condition in
    /gdbus/connection/flush” to glib-2-86
    
  • !4828 Backport !4827 “ghostutils: Treat 0x80 (and above) as non-ASCII” to
    glib-2-86
    
  • !4834 Backport !4810 and !4819, various fixes to user-dirs.dirs handling in
    gutils
    
  • !4836 Backport !4835 “Update Portuguese translation” to glib-2-86
    
  • !4839 Update Romanian translation
    
  • !4842 Backport "girnode: Fix computation of union member offsets" to
    glib-2-86
    
  • !4848 Update British English translation (2.86)
    
  • !4865 Backport !4859 “gopenuriportal: Fix a crash when the file can’t be
    opened” to glib-2-86
    
  • !4867 Backport !4792 “gtype: Use transfer none for types (un)ref functions”
    to glib-2-86
    
  • !4872 Fix macOS and msys2 CI builds on glib-2-86 branch
    
  • !4873 Backport !4871 “gnetworkmonitorbase: Add missing notify::connectivity
    signal” to glib-2-86
    

• Translation updates:

  • Basque (Asier Saratsua Garmendia)
    
  • Catalan (Jordi Mas)
    
  • English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan)
    
  • Esperanto (Kristjan ESPERANTO)
    
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
    
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
    
  • Japanese (Makoto Sakaguchi)
    
  • Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
    
  • Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
    
  • Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
    
  • Romanian (Antonio Marin)
    
  • Serbian (Милош Поповић)
    
  • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
    
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)