From 8f0b968cd128915853d17bf7944f7e0ebd90a399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Withnall Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:38:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 2.67.0 Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall --- NEWS | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 108 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2789f0889..3426e7b80 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,111 @@ +Overview of changes in GLib 2.67.0 +================================== + +* Important and time-critical fix to DST transitions which will happen in Europe + on 2020-10-25 on distributions which use the ‘slim’ tzdata format (which is + now the default in tzdata/tzcode 2020b) (work by Claudi M., LRN) (#2224) + +* Further timezone handling changes to improve performance of `GTimeZone` (work + by António Fernandes, Sebastian Keller) (#2204) + +* Fix deadlock on Windows when `G_SLICE` is set in the environment (diagnosis by + Christoph Reiter) (#2225) + +* Fix UTF-8 validation when escaping URI components (thanks to Marc-André Lureau) (!1680) + +* Security fix for incorrect scope/zone ID parsing in URIs (!1669) + +* Add `g_log_writer_default_set_use_stderr()` API for printing log messages to stderr (work by Simon McVittie) (#2087) + +* Improve connection error reporting when IPv6 is available and disabled (work by Michael Catanzaro, debugging by Konstantin Kharlamov and Milan Crha) (#2211) + +* Fix definition of `G_MSVC_SYMBOL_PREFIX` for ARM (work by Wolfgang Stöggl) (!1187) + +* Add `GStrvBuilder` convenience API for building `NULL`-terminated string arrays (work by Robert Ancell) (!1417) + +* Support appinfo verbs other than ‘open’ on Windows (work by LRN) (!1502) + +* Expose node-based `GTree` APIs (work by Maciej S. Szmigiero) (!1509) + +* Add `G_DBUS_METHOD_INVOCATION_HANDLED`/`_UNHANDLED` convenience constants (work by Simon McVittie) (!1603) + +* Set `IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT` on sockets when binding to local addresses (work by Cristian Rodríguez) (!1598) + +* Add Meson option for libelf support (work by Niklas Gürtler) (!1650) + +* Add support for PKCS #11-backed TLS certificates (work by Patrick Griffis) (!1663) + +* Add `g_subprocess_launcher_close()` API to make `GSubprocessLauncher` more usable in bindings (work by Sergio Costas) (!1677) + +* Bugs fixed: + - #1233 GType for GTree + - #2077 Invalid Pointer Arithmetic in g_path_get_basename + - #2087 Respecting G_MESSAGES_DEBUG in a custom log writer should be easy to do + - #2164 GDBus DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 mechanism may use too old a key + - #2194 gtk3/glib crash on gimp + - #2203 fstatat is available only on macOS 10.10+ + - #2204 Time zone cache is constantly invalidated if TZ is NULL + - #2209 gthreadedresolver: faulty logic in parse_res_txt + - #2210 g_private_replace ordering issue + - #2211 "Network is unreachable" error returned when IPv6 is disabled and network is reachable using IPv4 + - #2215 DST incorrectly ends on wrong dates + - #2224 top bar time is incorrect, timezone map in control center is broken + - #2225 Setting G_SLICE makes Windows programs hang since 2.66 + - !1187 Define G_MSVC_SYMBOL_PREFIX correctly for ARM + - !1417 gstrvbuilder: Add a new object to make NULL-terminated string arrays. + - !1449 gio: Expose g_file_query_info_for_copy() + - !1502 GWin32AppInfo: Support verbs other than "open" + - !1509 GTree: add an ability to iterate over a tree and a node-based API + - !1575 Use C++11 decltype where possible + - !1598 gsocketclient: set IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT if binding to local address + - !1603 GDBus: Add G_DBUS_METHOD_INVOCATION_HANDLED, _UNHANDLED + - !1643 Minor Coverity fixes + - !1645 Fix various signedness warnings + - !1647 Fix warnings (keep going) + - !1648 glocalfile: Never require G_LOCAL_FILE_STAT_FIELD_ATIME + - !1650 Make libelf dependency optional via meson feature + - !1652 trash portal: Handle portal failures + - !1654 gio-tool-trash: Prevent recursion to speed up emptying trash + - !1657 glist: Clarify that g_list_free() and friends only free an entire list + - !1658 utils: Limit the scope of the variable `max` + - !1661 Lookup fallback time zones in the cache to improve performance + - !1663 gtlscertificate: Add support for PKCS #11 backed certificates + - !1665 Fix g_module_symbol() under Windows sometimes not succeeding + - !1669 guri: Fix URI scope parsing + - !1670 GSubprocessLauncher: Move cleanup to dispose() + - !1671 gdatetime: Avoid integer overflow creating dates too far in the past + - !1673 CI: Re-enable code coverage reporting for MSYS2 builds + - !1674 Add version macros for 2.68 + - !1675 Make static assertions about standard types + - !1677 gsubprocesslauncher: Allow to close FDs + - !1678 gmessages: Document that using a custom log writer basically disables fatal handling + - !1679 gmain: Fix minor typo in documentation + - !1680 guri: Fix UTF-8 validation when escaping URI components + - !1681 gspawn: Handle error opening /dev/null + - !1686 Various improvements in GSocketClient + - !1687 uri: add missing (not)nullable annotations + - !1688 gspawn: Use close_range() if available to close FDs between fork/exec + - !1691 gmain: Fix possible locking issue in source unref + - !1692 gsignal: Plug g_signal_connect_object leak + - !1695 gfile: Clarify refcount handling for g_file_replace_contents_bytes_async() + - !1696 Fix various minor scan build warnings + - !1706 Add various missing nullable annotations + - !1712 Revert "Use C++11 decltype where possible" + - !1714 gmacros: Use __typeof__ when compiling with Clang + - !1718 gtrace: Add G_GNUC_PRINTF annotation + +* Translation updates: + - Chinese (Taiwan) + - Danish + - Greek, Modern (1453-) + - Hebrew + - Latvian + - Portuguese + - Russian + - Slovak + - Ukrainian + + Overview of changes in GLib 2.66.0 ==================================