Overview of changes in GLib 2.87.0, 2025-11-03

• Update to Unicode 17.0.0 (!4793, work by Peng Wu)

• Support runtime extensions to gdbus-codegen tool to allow modifying its
  output in project-specific ways (!4812, work by Sebastian Wick)

• Use document portal to open all the URIs for snaps (!4822, work by
  Marco Trevisan)

• Add g_markup_parse_context_get_offset() API for getting error locations in XML
  files (!4879, work by Matthias Clasen)

• Bugs fixed:

  • GNOME/ptyxis#490 new tab does not open in current directory when hostname
    contains a period (Christian Hergert)
    
  • #672 hash resize broken for large sizes (Tobias Stoeckmann)
    
  • #2608 Support nanosecond time resolution with stat() on macOS (André Barnabá
    Silva)
    
  • #2949 gdbus-server-auth test intermittently fails on macOS
    
  • #3070 gio/g-file-info test fails on macOS (André Barnabá Silva)
    
  • #3523 g_filename_from_uri rejects valid host names according to RFC 1123
    (Christian Hergert)
    
  • #3745 GIRepository: union fields offsets for compiled typelibs all have
    offset 0xffff (unknown) (Philip Chimento)
    
  • #3771 Should opening a .desktop file fail if Exec key contains invalid
    escapes? (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #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 (Tobias Stoeckmann)
    
  • #3785 "gio trash --empty" returns 0 even when it fails to remove files
    
  • #3790 _g_log_abort() should check TracerPid from /proc before raising
    SIGTRAP
    
  • #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)
    
  • #3805 [CI] Pipeline on 'main' failed for commit e6c52881
    
  • #3806 fake-document-portal needs to use _g_fd_query_path() rather than
    accessing /proc/self/fd directly (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3808 Uyghur language translation updated.
    
  • #3809 GRegex tests fail with pcre2 10.47: different error for ^(a)\g{3
    (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3811 g_get_user_special_dir doesn't strip trailing slash from $HOME/
    (Tobias Stoeckmann)
    
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/
    
  • !4753 GIO/Win32: Remove custom definitions of system interfaces
    
  • !4755 ghash: Fix entry_is_big for CHERI architecture
    
  • !4756 ghash: Handle all table sizes in iterator
    
  • !4759 GWin32AppInfo: Allow focus-stealing when requested via
    GAppLaunchContext
    
  • !4760 gbookmarkfile: Escape icon href and mime-type
    
  • !4764 subprojects: Update libffi, pcre2, proxy-libintl
    
  • !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
    
  • !4789 gio: add some nullable / zero-terminated annotations
    
  • !4790 gstring: Support large strings in g_string_replace
    
  • !4791 gstrfuncs: Check string length in g_strescape
    
  • !4792 gtype: Define copy and free functions for GTypeClass and
    GTypeInterface
    
  • !4793 gunicode: Update the code for Unicode 17.0.0
    
  • !4794 CI/MSYS2: Use builtin b_coverage option
    
  • !4795 Meson: Add arguments and defines to all C-like languages
    
  • !4798 GDBus: Add (out) annotation to quark in
    g_dbus_error_register_error_domain()
    
  • !4800 gutils: Improve load_user_special_dirs' user-dirs.dirs parser
    
  • !4802 Update Turkish translation
    
  • !4803 Add missing (array length=n_values) annotation to GEnumClass /
    GFlagsClass
    
  • !4806 build: Post-release version bump
    
  • !4807 Add missing "nullable" to parameter docs of GList/GSList
    
  • !4810 gutils: Mark load_user_special_dirs unlocked
    
  • !4811 Update Esperanto translation
    
  • !4812 gdbus-codegen: Support extensions and changing the
    GDBusInterfaceSkeleton type to inherit from
    
  • !4813 Update Serbian translation
    
  • !4815 gfile: Expand documentation around file equality
    
  • !4816 strfuncs: Check for overflows when joining strings
    
  • !4817 Mark a couple of functions as constructors and not methods
    
  • !4819 utils: Fix a leak when user-dirs.dirs declares a variable twice
    
  • !4820 gio/tests: Fix a race condition in /gdbus/connection/flush
    
  • !4822 GDesktopAppInfo: Use document portal to open all the URIs for snaps
    
  • !4823 gio/gdocumentportal: Use the target name when opening a symlink
    
  • !4825 gdbus-codegen: Supress coverity warning in skeleton finalization
    
  • !4827 ghostutils: Treat 0x80 (and above) as non-ASCII
    
  • !4829 docs: Fix typos in win32-build.md
    
  • !4830 giowin32: Fix uninitialised variable error on msys2-clang64
    
  • !4831 macros: Add C23/C++23 standards
    
  • !4832 gtypes: Support more overflow check implementations
    
  • !4835 Update Portuguese translation
    
  • !4837 tests: Fix another clang compiler warning
    
  • !4838 GLocalFile: keep suffix name when trashing
    
  • !4840 gpattern: Support patterns/strings longer than G_MAXUINT
    
  • !4843 tests: Use integer widths rather than maximum values for strfuncs
    check
    
  • !4844 Forward-port !4839 “Update Romanian translation” to main
    
  • !4847 GFile entity tags: Update HTTP reference link to point to RFC9110
    ETags description
    
  • !4849 Update British English translation (main)
    
  • !4851 Docs: New file-name-encodings image: light/dark, color
    
  • !4855 glib-compile-resources: print error message when the temp file cannot
    be created
    
  • !4856 Mark return value of g_dbus_interface_get_info() as nullable
    
  • !4857 Docs: Migrate gvariant-*.svg licenses to comments
    
  • !4858 gsocketcontrolmessage: Fix a minor typo in a doc comment
    
  • !4860 Fix g_memory_monitor_base_query_mem_ratio on Solaris
    
  • !4861 gio/tests/gapplication: Check the values received on action activation
    
  • !4862 ci: Temporarily disable macos-arm64 CI as it has issues creating temp
    files
    
  • !4863 ci: Temporarily disable msys2-mingw32 CI
    
  • !4864 ci: Update Fedora CI image to Fedora 41
    
  • !4866 Fix various scan-build errors
    
  • !4870 Reenable MSYS2 CI
    
  • !4874 ci: use APFS for macOS TMPDIR
    
  • !4877 gresolver: Fix loopback detection of IPv6 addresses
    
  • !4879 Add g_markup_parse_context_get_offset
    
  • !4887 glib-unix: Add Solaris implementation of g_unix_fd_query_path
    
  • !4893 ci: Use CI/CD file variable tokens for secrets
    
  • !4894 gthread-win32: Ignore error when setting thread priority
    
  • !4895 gunixmounts: fix out of bounds write in AIX mount table parser
    
  • !4896 ci: Actually use token file for the issue bot
    
  • !4897 Re-enable PCRE2 tests for 32-bit Visual Studio builds
    

• 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)
    
  • Uighur (Abduqadir Abliz)
    
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)