Overview of changes in GLib 2.87.2, 2026-01-19

• Add initial support for GNotification on Windows (#3857, work by
  Oscar Pernia Moreno)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3850 g_strsplit_set docs are misleading (Matthias Clasen)
    
  • #3857 win32: Add support for notifications using Shell_NotifyIcon API
    
  • #3858 glib-compile-resources: Incorrect compiler detection on Windows when
    building GTK causes a DoS (L. E. Segovia)
    
  • #3863 Iterating over a short (preallocated) GVariant bytestring invalidly
    refs a NULL GBytes (Christian Hergert)
    
  • #3864 gir-tracker-bot posting diffs against too-recent-main (Marco
    Trevisan (Treviño))
    
  • #3867 win32: Notifications without body won't show up
    
  • !4918 gio/unixmounts: use bsearch() to check for set inclusion
    
  • !4949 gdesktopappinfo: Fix -Wsign-conversion warnings
    
  • !4950 gobject: Fix -Wshorten-64-to-32 warnings and enable warning flag
    
  • !4958 gtestutils: Avoid pointless logging string handling in gtestutils
    
  • !4959 glib-unix: Implement g_unix_fd_query_path for Cygwin
    
  • !4964 gio: Fix some -Wsign-conversion warnings
    
  • !4965 gmodule: Enable -Wshorten-64-to-32 warnings for gmodule
    
  • !4967 Fixup unicode 17