Overview of changes in GLib 2.87.5, 2026-03-12

• Brown paper bag release to attempt to fix the dist-job in CI; this caused it
  to be impossible to build a release archive for 2.87.4

• Bugs fixed:

  • !5096 ci: Force a git clone and update the index when running dist-job
    

Overview of changes in GLib 2.87.4, 2026-03-12

• Avoid installing broken symlinks as part of the test data for the gdatetime
  tests (!5054, work by Alessandro Astone)

• Fix g_file_set_contents() with non-ASCII filenames on Windows (#3873, work
  by Lukas K.)

• Bugs fixed:

  • #3688 Documentation issue with g_slice_new and g_slice_new0 (Philip
    Withnall)
    
  • #3730 Unclear assertion failure message when G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT and
    G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT_ONLY are both specified (depuc8)
    
  • #3814 vs2019-arm64 CI fails with ninja error (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3873 g_file_set_contents broken on windows for non-ASCII filenames
    
  • #3885 Documentation of g_file_info_get_is_backup() doesn’t define what a
    backup file is (depuc8)
    
  • #3897 GLocalFileInfo's set_symlink() is backwards (Philip Withnall)
    
  • #3905 Memory leak in g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_with_spawn (correctmost)
    
  • !5030 gsocketconnection: Set an error when closed if no address is cached
    
  • !5037 minor doc fixes
    
  • !5047 i18n: Update and correction for Occitan
    
  • !5048 ci: Install gi-docgen in the Fedora CI image
    
  • !5049 Update Serbian translation
    
  • !5050 Update Swedish translation
    
  • !5051 Update French translation
    
  • !5052 Update Bulgarian translation
    
  • !5053 Update Romanian translation
    
  • !5054 tests: Create unix_localtime root directory structure at runtime
    
  • !5055 Update Chinese (China) translation
    
  • !5056 Update Japanese translation
    
  • !5057 Update Korean translation
    
  • !5058 Update Georgian translation
    
  • !5059 Update Ukrainian translation
    
  • !5060 Update Lithuanian translation
    
  • !5061 Update French translation
    
  • !5062 Update Hungarian translation
    
  • !5064 Update Portuguese translation
    
  • !5065 Update Nepali translation
    
  • !5066 i18n: Update for Occitan
    
  • !5068 Update Turkish translation
    
  • !5069 Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
    
  • !5070 Update Galician translation
    
  • !5071 Update Kazakh translation
    
  • !5075 Update Polish translation
    
  • !5076 Update Catalan translation
    
  • !5077 Update Slovenian translation
    
  • !5078 gio-tool-launch: Fix a filename leak
    
  • !5080 Update Catalan translation
    
  • !5081 Update Danish translation
    
  • !5082 Update Polish translation
    
  • !5084 Update British English translation
    
  • !5085 Update Georgian translation
    
  • !5087 Update Nepali translation
    
  • !5088 tests: Fix a minor memory leak in the socket test
    
  • !5089 ci: Drop workaround for GitLab submodule checkout bug
    
  • !5090 Prevent iptosmessage test failures on FreeBSD and Hurd
    
  • !5091 gobject: Disable new construct property check with G_DISABLE_CHECKS
    

• Translation updates:

  • Bulgarian (Alexander Alexandrov Shopov)
    
  • Catalan (Victor Dargallo, Jordi Mas)
    
  • Chinese (China) (luming zh)
    
  • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
    
  • English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan)
    
  • French (Guillaume Bernard)
    
  • Galician (Francisco Diéguez Souto)
    
  • Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
    
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
    
  • Japanese (Makoto Sakaguchi)
    
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
    
  • Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
    
  • Lithuanian (Aurimas Aurimas Černius)
    
  • Nepali (Pawan Chitrakar)
    
  • Occitan (post 1500) (Mejans)
    
  • Polish (Victoria)
    
  • Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
    
  • Romanian (Antonio Marin)
    
  • Serbian (Miloš Popović)
    
  • Slovenian (Martin)
    
  • Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
    
  • Turkish (Emin Tufan Çetin)
    
  • Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)