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+Overview of changes in GLib 2.57.0
+==================================
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ 739424	Rewrite kqueue GFileMonitor backend to drop threading
+ 751826	Use g_get_language_names() for other locale categories
+ 788773	meson does not install correct pc files
+ 793400	g_application_id_is_valid() not strict enough
+ 793578	gdatetime tests depend on Japanese translation of month names
+ 793645	test_month_names: Updated translations needed for el_GR, hr_HR, ru_RU
+ 793729	gitlab-ci: Add Windows MinGW support
+ 793994	GUnixVolumeMonitor doesn’t show user mounts when run as root
+ 794170	gdbus: hexdecode() and hexencode() do not return/use decoded/encoded s...
+ 794194	gobject_gdb.py: 'address' is a property of gdb.Value not a function
+ 794207	leak: g_socket_listener_add_inet_port increases ref-count on socket-li...
+ 794284	Support whitespace stripping for JSON resources
+ 794285	glib-compile-resources should not noisily g_printerr() when xmllint is...
+ 794473	Remove duplicated option in gio.xml
+ 794506	glib-mkenums: Enters infinite loop if using typedef enum SomeIdentifier
+ 794528	Fix segfault caused by use-after-free in GPollFileMonitor
+ 794555	glib meson build fails on MinGW due to misdetected functions
+ 794557	gtkdoc-scangobj fails on gio in meson builds
+ 794606	glib-2.56.0 fails to compile when res_nquery is not available
+ 794635	gmacros: Don't define bogus __has_* macros
+ 794636	G_HAVE_GNUC_VISIBILITY is defined in meson MinGW builds
+ 794686	Date (except weekday) displayed in English
+ 794732	Fix various compiler warnings 
+
+* Translation updates
+ Hungarian
+ Slowak
+ Slovenian
+ Spanish
+
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.56.0
 ==================================