From a429e56523f5b4565fe373a1138ccfd2d3d24f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Withnall Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 14:20:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 2.83.0 Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall --- NEWS | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 203 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8bef80a2e..250de2882 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,206 @@ +Overview of changes in GLib 2.83.0, 2024-11-06 +============================================== + +* Update to Unicode 16.0.0; there may be bugs in linebreaking support, see #3518 + (#3460, work by Philip Withnall) + +* Optimise UTF-8 validation of strings, including use of ifuncs to prevent + spurious warnings from sanitizers and valgrind (#3481, work by Christian + Hergert) + +* Fix a potential buffer overflow in `GSocks4aProxy` (#3461, work by + Michael Catanzaro) + +* Change the default value of -Dglib_debug from `auto` to `enabled` for + developers — distributions will almost certainly want to override it to + `-Dglib_debug=disabled` for package release builds though; see #3421 + +* Revert per-instance locking changes in `GCancellable` as they introduced new + races (#3448) + +* Bump Meson dependency to 1.4.0 (!4244, work by Benjamin Gilbert) + +* Rename multiple `g_unix_mount_*()` APIs to `g_unix_mount_entry_*()` (#3492, + work by Jialu Zhou) + +* Add a new `GFileMonitor` backend for macOS and BSD: libinotify-kqueue (!3657, + work by Gleb Popov) + +* Add APIs for sync, async and finish function annotations to libgirepository + (!3746, work by Evan Welsh) + +* Bugs fixed: + - #3289 readlink -f fails in CI on macOS + - #3415 module-test-library and module-test-plugin tests fail on FreeBSD and + muslc (Philip Withnall) + - #3417 Investigate trampoline performance implications in g_mutex_lock_impl() + changes (Philip Withnall) + - #3421 Default value for glib_debug meson option (Philip Withnall) + - #3444 deprecation warnings when using gobjectnotifyqueue.c + - #3450 Should check for epoll_create1 rather than epoll_create (Philip + Withnall) + - #3451 Gio.MenuModel docs have an outdated UI example (Philip Withnall) + - #3456 Test /unix-mounts/get-mount-entries fails unless libmount is enabled + (Philip Withnall) + - #3458 scan-build CI job fails due to gvdb subproject not having meson.build + (Philip Withnall) + - #3460 "404: Page not found" Error on "submitted as merge requests" Link + (Philip Withnall) + - #3461 Buffer overflow in set_connect_msg() (Michael Catanzaro) + - #3464 g-ir-scanner fails silently on msys2 CI jobs (Philip Withnall) + - #3465 Avoid GError for control flow in GResources + - #3469 Unclear correctness of g_malloc() in pattern_coalesce() (Michael + Catanzaro) + - #3470 Update to Unicode 16.0.0 (Philip Withnall) + - #3472 Overactive GVariantTypeInfo collection causes considerable overhead + (Christian Hergert) + - #3477 Determine policy on 32-bit support (Philip Withnall) + - #3478 Incorrect Examples in GVariant Specification (Christian Hergert) + - #3480 glib/gvariant: incorrect use of G_ANALYZER_ANALYZING (Christian + Hergert) + - #3481 Discussion: utf8 validation optimization (Christian Hergert) + - #3483 mainloop Unix FD test intermittently fails on Hurd (Philip Withnall) + - #3484 g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri no longer works on macOS + - #3486 GVariant inline allocation support broke i686/32-bit builds (Christian + Hergert) + - #3488 `glib` does not properly detect `gobject-introspection` (Philip + Withnall) + - #3489 Multicast cannot be joined on Mac OS on non-default interface + (Nirbheek Chauhan) + - #3490 Meson: fix support for aarch64-w64-mingw32 (Windows on ARM64) (Carlo + Bramini) + - #3492 Incorrect Documentation for g_unix_mount_get_mount_path Return Value + Ownership (Jialu Zhou) + - #3500 AIX: build failure due to pollfd structure change (Parth Patel) + - #3502 Test regressions with tzdata 2024b (Rebecca N. Palmer) + - #3508 g_array_free and free_seg + - #3512 AIX: Undefined symbol related to ASAN Sanitizer + - !3657 Introduce a new GFileMonitor backend: libinotify-kqueue + - !3746 girepository: Add APIs for sync, async, and finish function + annotations + - !3816 Update the wrap file for gi-docgen + - !4126 build: Enable -Wfloat-conversion and fix warnings + - !4176 tests: Expand tests for app launching via D-Bus + - !4196 refstring: add GEqualFunc for ref-counted strings + - !4202 simpleproxyresolver: Ignore host with scope id + - !4204 Fix minor issues found by static analysis, and add some additional + code comments + - !4216 build: Post-release version bump + - !4218 Persian l10n + - !4219 tests: Run lint tests with detected bash + - !4223 Update Korean translation + - !4224 Update Catalan translation + - !4225 Update Czech translation + - !4226 Update Portuguese translation + - !4227 gspawn: close child_err_report_fd before exiting on error + - !4235 Update Ukrainian translation + - !4236 Cherry pick Polish and Brazilian Portuguese translations from + glib-2-82 to main + - !4237 Update French translation + - !4239 Update Galician translations for main + - !4243 gresource: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax + - !4244 build: Bump Meson dependency to 1.4.0 + - !4245 resource: Add g_resource[s]_has_children and avoid a pointless + allocation + - !4248 dir: Avoid some allocations + - !4252 gio: Fix overindented docstring of buffer argument + - !4253 Update Bulgarian translation + - !4254 Update British English translation (main) + - !4256 Updated Lithuanian translation + - !4257 Update Hungarian translation + - !4260 Collation keys are not encoded in UTF-8 + - !4261 gsocket windows: check event before calling WSAEnumNetworkEvents + - !4262 Update Russian translation + - !4264 Update Danish translation + - !4267 Update Georgian translation + - !4268 subprojects: Update pcre2 to 10.44 + - !4269 docs(glib): Fix link in string-utils ref + - !4272 gio: Add a query_exists vfunc to GFile + - !4277 tests: Add some explicit float → int casts + - !4278 GDBus: Don't log a message for G_DBUS_CONNECTION_FLAGS_CROSS_NAMESPACE + - !4286 glib/gvariant: avoid GVariantType copy for stack builders + - !4288 girepository: Make _blob_is_registered_type static inline + - !4290 glib/gbytes: save small byte buffers inline + - !4292 Fix incorrect use of assert/debug/check macros + - !4293 gvarianttypeinfo: reduce caching overhead + - !4294 gvarianttype: mark const functions as such + - !4295 gvariant: Avoid malloc/free in valid_format_string() + - !4296 glib/gvariant: use g_utf8_validate() for strlen + - !4297 glib/gvarianttype: g_variant_type_is_subtype_of() fastpath + - !4298 glib/gvariant: avoid g_renew() for definite tuples + - !4299 glib/gvariant: Avoid extraneous GBytes ref counting + - !4300 gpoll windows: use a threadpool when polling large number of fds + - !4301 glib/gvariant: Inline small gvariant data using C99 flexible arrays + - !4302 glib/gvariant: skip bitlock for g_variant_ref_sink() + - !4303 gbytes: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax + - !4304 gutf8: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax + - !4305 build: switch back to c_std=gnu99 pending ObjC fix + - !4307 ci: Re-enable fatal warnings for FreeBSD CI + - !4308 utils: Add g_steal_handle_id() to complement g_clear_handle_id() + - !4310 tests: FreeBSD doesn't use glibc + - !4311 tests: Move fake-document-portal subprocess inside dbus-appinfo test + - !4313 remove quadratic behavior in g_string_replace + - !4315 fuzzing: Add simple fuzz test for g_string_replace() + - !4318 CI: Use Visual Studio 2019 for the MSVC CI + - !4321 gvariant-core.c: Fix suffix alignment on 32-bit MSVC builds + - !4322 gvariant: Fix unused variables when G_DISABLE_ASSERT is defined + - !4323 gbytes: Add an assertion to placate static analysis + - !4326 gvarianttype: Add two missing (nullable) annotations and port docs to + gi-docgen format + - !4327 gio/gdatainputstream: use memchr() when possible + - !4331 gir: Ignore function-inline and method-inline elements + - !4332 gstring: Fix a heap buffer overflow in the new g_string_replace() code + - !4334 fuzzing: Add input length limits on g_string_replace() test + - !4335 docs: Update CI platforms list and Visual Studio recommendation + - !4338 CI/MSYS2: Fix prefix for gobject-introspection + - !4339 Win32 cleanup: do not define STRICT + - !4340 gsocket: Fix #ifdef for defining g_socket_get_adapter_ipv4_addr() + - !4341 gio: Use g_steal_handle_id() with signal unsubscriptions + - !4342 CI: Add manual CI job for VS2019 ARM64 builds + - !4343 CI: Skip PCRE2 tests for now for 32-bit Visual Studio builds + - !4344 glib/gutf8: use ifunc to check for valgrind + - !4345 fuzzing: Add fuzz tests for GDataInputStream’s complex read methods + - !4346 gdate: Fix minor typo in documentation comment + - !4347 docs: Add Meson to the GSettings build integration + - !4348 gdatainputstream: Fix length return value on UTF-8 validation failure + - !4350 glib: Don't require GLIB_DOMAIN to be a NUL-terminated string + - !4351 Build fixes for building on Solaris & illumos + - !4352 gdatainputstream: Use memchr() for the multi-stop-char case too + - !4353 docs: Add CI runner maintainers to CODEOWNERS + - !4354 glib.supp: Suppress more _g_io_module_get_default_type leaks + - !4358 Add a CI job for Debian stable i386 (32-bit) + - !4359 tests: Use g_assert_*() rather than g_assert() in GDateTime tests + - !4365 fuzzing: Fix buffer overread error in the fuzz test itself + - !4366 glocalfile: Disable faccessat()-based query_exists on FreeBSD + - !4367 tests: Fix calls to deprecated API in unix-mounts tests + - !4373 macos: Remove extraneous space from type identifier + - !4374 thread: Force-limit thread name length + - !4375 Small improvements to g_on_error_stack_trace and g_on_error_query + - !4376 Enable GNetworkMonitorNetlink on FreeBSD + - !4377 gvariant: Introduce G_VARIANT_BUILDER_INIT_UNSET + - !4378 gio: Fix GFileEnumerator leaks in gio tools + - !4383 gtask: Fix comment for auto task naming via 'g_task_set_source_tag()' + +* Translation updates: + - Bulgarian (twlvnn kraftwerk) + - Catalan (Jordi Mas) + - Czech (AsciiWolf) + - Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen) + - English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan) + - French (Vincent Chatelain) + - Galician (Fran Diéguez) + - Georgian (NorwayFun) + - Hungarian (Balázs Úr) + - Korean (Changwoo Ryu) + - Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius) + - Persian (Danial Behzadi) + - Polish (Piotr Drąg) + - Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho) + - Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle) + - Russian (jtux270) + - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan) + + Overview of changes in GLib 2.81.2, 2024-08-16 ==============================================