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The goal here is to reconcile the difference between GLib's 6-month security policy and GNOME's 12-month policy (which may soon be expanded to 13 months, gnome-build-meta#731). It's strange for GLib to be an exception when the rest of GNOME supports two stable branches at a time. I'm not aware of any other GNOME project with a shorter release lifetime than GNOME itself, and it results in a situation where the previous stable version of the GNOME runtime never receives any GLib updates, since we stick with the same GLib version for the entire release and do not do security backports. But I also want to avoid creating an expectation that GLib maintainers will do a bunch of additional backporting work, so most commits should be out of scope. We can say maintainer discretion will be used to determine whether a backport to the previous stable branch is warranted. And normally, it won't be, so the goal should be no previous stable branch releases. But occasionally we might feel a CVE is important enough that a release really is warranted.
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# GLib
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GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such
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as GTK and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability
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wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop,
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threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
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The official download locations are:
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<https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib>
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The official web site is:
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<https://www.gtk.org/>
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## Installation
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See the file ‘[INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md)’. There is
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[separate and more in-depth documentation](./docs/win32-build.md) for building
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GLib on Windows.
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## Supported versions
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Upstream GLib only supports the most recent stable release series, the previous
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stable release series, and the current development release series. All
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older versions are not supported upstream and may contain bugs, some of which
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may be exploitable security vulnerabilities.
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See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) for more details.
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## Documentation
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API documentation is available online for GLib for the:
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* [GLib](https://docs.gtk.org/glib/)
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* [GObject](https://docs.gtk.org/gobject/)
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* [GModule](https://docs.gtk.org/gmodule/)
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* [GIO](https://docs.gtk.org/gio/)
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## Discussion
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If you have a question about how to use GLib, seek help on [GNOME’s Discourse
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instance](https://discourse.gnome.org/tags/glib). Alternatively, ask a question
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on [StackOverflow and tag it `glib`](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/glib).
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## Reporting bugs
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Bugs should be [reported to the GNOME issue tracking system](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/new).
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You will need to create an account for yourself. You may also submit bugs by
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e-mail (without an account) by e-mailing <incoming+gnome-glib-658-issue-@gitlab.gnome.org>,
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but this will give you a degraded experience.
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Bugs are for reporting problems in GLib itself, not for asking questions about
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how to use it. To ask questions, use one of our [discussion forums](#discussion).
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In bug reports please include:
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* Information about your system. For instance:
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* What operating system and version
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* For Linux, what version of the C library
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* And anything else you think is relevant.
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* How to reproduce the bug.
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* If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
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in the `tests/` subdirectory, that will be most convenient. Otherwise,
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please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior.
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As a last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece
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of software that can be downloaded.
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* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out
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when the crash occurred.
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* Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but
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is not necessary.
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## Contributing to GLib
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Please follow the [contribution guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) to know how to
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start contributing to GLib.
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Patches should be [submitted as merge requests](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/new)
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to gitlab.gnome.org. If the patch fixes an existing issue, please refer to the
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issue in your commit message with the following notation (for issue 123):
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```
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Closes: #123
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```
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Otherwise, create a new merge request that introduces the change. Filing a
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separate issue is not required.
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