Overview of changes in GLib 2.42.2
==================================
* Bugs fixed:
712570 Hang in g_threaded_socket_service_func
719455 g_file_make_directory_with_parents() can erroneously throw...
727829 win32: glibconfig.h.win32 updates
734946 Implement GContentType on OSX
741024 glist: Mention that g_list_length() is bad for checking li...
741654 [patch] gobject: don't use G_STRLOC in G_OBJECT_WARN_INVAL...
741788 Document GSettings build system integration
741807 Add thread name support on OS X and iOS
742851 avoid MSVC warnings in G_STMT_END
743508 polkitd fails to start: patch for gio/gcredentialsprivate.h
743936 handle unsigned modifier for long long in internal printf
* Translation updates:
Swedish
Overview of changes in GLib 2.42.1
==================================
* This release disables deprecation warnings by default
* Bugs fixed:
728256 gcredentials: add NetBSD support (no more patch-gio_gioenums.h)
736806 gtask: Fix reference count loop causing leaks
737143 Include <stdint.h> in glib/valgrind.h
738170 g_byte_array_new_take() doesn't initialize array->alloc
738197 g_cond_timed_wait() doesn't time out on Mac OS X
* Translation updates:
Bengali (India)
Bulgarian
Gujarati
Italian
Norwegian bokmål
Telugu
Patches removed:
- patch-ba
Fixed in 4f775b7b and 369c8bd5 (Bug 583330)
- patch-gio_gcredentials.c
patch-gio_gcredentialsprivate.h
patch-gio_gsocket.c
patch-gio_gunixcredentialsmessage.c
patch-gio_tests_credentials.c
Fixed in 3428bba1 and e763d934 (Bugs 728256 735819)
- patch-glib_gmessages.c
Fixed in ab9f63fa (Bug 720708)
Patches changed:
- patch-gio_gioenums.h
Still need 45344f36 (Bug 728256)
- patch-ak (=> patch-aa)
Hunk 9 fixed in 74ec9470
Highlights from the release notes:
* GApplication now has binding-friendly API to handle
commandline options: g_application_add_main_option
* G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS works with clang
* g_clear_pointer and g_clear_object no longer use atomics
* The Unicode support has been updated to version 7.0
of the Unicode standard
* GNotification now supports priorities for notifications
* GCredentials has gained NetBSD support
* GMutex now uses a faster, native implementation on Linux
* Many bugfixes found by static analysis, including potential fd leaks
and NULL pointer dereferences.
* Increased use of (nullable) attribute on out values and return types
now that it is supported (mostly from porting Vala metadata).
* use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn handling of desktop
files, deprecating g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env()
* add support for g_desktop_app_info_get_implementations() to find
desktop files that have an Implements= line for a given interface
* GHmac has gained SHA-512 support
* support the new mimeapps specification (most notably, moving the
assoications/defaults configuration to ~/.config/mimeapps.list).
* libgobject is now linked -Wl,-z,nodelete when possible to avoid errors
when gobject is used from a module for a program that does not itself
use gobject and that module is unloaded/reloaded
* ... and many other bug fixes.
* Many translations updated.
For full details see:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/NEWS?h=glib-2-42
Patches removed:
- patch-ai
Fixed in e3fa9c9a (Bug 583321)
- patch-cj
Fixed in c58a7b8c (Bugs 641350 711047)
- patch-gio_gdbusmessage.c
Fixed in 0167c334
- patch-gio_gfile.c
Fixed in 091e4660 (Bug 721034)
- patch-gio_glocalfile.c
Fixed in 7eb1e5fc (Bug 708860)
- patch-ap and
- patch-aq
Credentials have changed, see below
Patches changed:
- patch-aa
Second chunk fixed in 838b49ea (Bug 711600)
- patch-ba
Third chunk fixed in 7cf221aa
Reworked Bug 583330
Patches added:
- patch-glib_gmessages.c
Closes PR pkg/48318, fixed in 7328089e (Bug 720708)
- patch-gio_gcredentials.c
- patch-gio_gcredentialsprivate.h
- patch-gio_gioenums.h
- patch-gio_gsocket.c
- patch-gio_gunixcredentialsmessage.c
- patch-gio_tests_credentials.c
Attempt at gcredential support for NetBSD (Bug 728256)
Highlights from changes:
* Disable IPv6 testcases on machines without IPv6
* Document that it is a bad idea to match on generic error codes
* This release introduces a hard dependency on present and functioning
clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. It also introduces a
dependency on pthread_condattr_setclock() unless your system
happens to have pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np() (as do Mac
OS and Android). This release is known to be broken with at
least GNU/Hurd, pending addition of working
pthread_condattr_setclock(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) there.
* New API: g_str_to_ascii()
* fix a crasher in code from gdbus-codegen
* improvements to gobject gdb helper script
* Portability:
- fix a deadlock issue with kqueue on FreeBSD
- work around a quirk in the sunstudio compiler
- rename a variable to avoid clashing with a macro definition of
'environ' on some platforms (like mingw)
- use POSIX-specified <poll.h> over <sys/poll.h>
- many improvements to Visual Studio projects and and some build
fixes for Windows
* tests
- a very large number of improvements in test coverage
- don't report skipped tests as failures
- return 77 if we skip all tests in an executable
- improve gtest documentation and fix some minor issues
- fix g_test_trap_reached_timeout() return value
- remove some dead code uncovered during test coverage expansion
- Use tap mode for installed tests too, when using tap
* fix races in unix signal handling
* make our GVariant-based commandline tools (glib-compile-schemas,
gdbus, gapplication) print out GVariant parse errors in context
* GApplication now has a --gapplication-service command line switch to
turn any GApplication into a service
* improve compatibility of GApplication and GOptionContext
* fix gsettings.m4 wrt. builddir != srcdir with non-recursive make
* use a directory monitor in GKeyfileSettingsBackend
* improve robustness of some GIcon classes
* Portability
- Remove alleged support for OS/2
- Remove alleged support for BeOS
- Remove alleged support for last-millennium Unixes
- Require C90 compliance
- Require POSIX.1 (1990) compliance on Unix
- Require GNU make
* GSettings fixes/improvements
- GSettingsSchema API is now more powerful and consistent
- new GSettingsSchemaKey API allows accessing metadata for keys:
type, default value, range and the long-awaited support for summary
and description
- GSettingsSchemaSource gains support for listing schemas within a
source. Deprecate the global API that did this for the default
source.
- 'gsettings list-schemas' now works properly with --schemadir
- deprecate a bunch of now-redundant functionality on GSettings
- add API to GSettings for getting the default value of a key (as set
by the sysadmin)
- add API to GSettings for determining if the user has assigned a
particular value to a key (ie: we are not just reading the default)
- ignore qualified tags and attributes appearing in schema files
* Applications/Actions
- make GSimpleAction a bit more strict with respect to state changes
that would violate the interface (ie: by changing the state type
after construction)
- throw an error when attempting to 'Describe' a non-existent action
via D-Bus instead of returning a bogus description
- throw an error when attempting to invoke unsupported methods on an
Application (eg: 'Open' on an app that doesn't HANDLES_OPEN)
instead of emitting a g_critical() in context of the app (which is
not itself at fault for the errant call)
* Appinfo
- substantially rework GDesktopAppInfo to reduce the amount of disk
accesses that are performed in common situations
- add a new class: GAppInfoMonitor for discovering when applications
are installed/removed
- add a new g_desktop_app_info_search() API for searching for
installed applications by name, keywords, etc.
* GMarkup: add new G_MARKUP_IGNORE_QUALIFIED flag for skipping over
"qualified" tags and attributes (those with a colon in the name, such
as 'my:tag')
* GDBus
- ignore qualified tags, as above
- GTestDBus: unset all D-Bus addresses (such as STARTER) to ensure
that test programs don't pick them up
- add new session_bus_run() convenience in the tests and use it
* GRand: use real random data as a seed on win32 and use the
timestamp/pid/uid fallback only on UNIX machines where we can't open
'/dev/urandom'. This may cause issues with older mingw32 releases
due to a missing prototype for the rand_s() API.
* Many win32 (and particularly MSVC) portability fixes. Many
additional tests are now runnable when building with MSVC.
* Due to early testing of the (soon to land) GCleanup framework, a very
large number of memory errors have been found and fixed (mostly in
the testcases, but some in glib itself).
* GIO:
- some more seeking cleanups: particularly on GLocalFileInputStream
- don't leave a .trashinfo file around if trashing a file fails
- Add a request_certificate virtual method to GTlsInteraction
* GNotification
- new API for sending persistent notifications via the desktop shell
- notifications persist when the application has quit and clicking on
them can restart the application with an action (via
DBusActivatable)
* GSubprocess
- new API for launching subprocesses
- nice GIO integration like async functions, cancellability, etc.
- a convenient communicate() API inspired by the same API in Python
- related: the gspawn API now has a CLOEXEC flag for the created
pipes for stdin/stdout/stderr
* New gapplication(1) commandline tool
- intended to be used with DBusActivatable apps
- can be used for launching apps, opening files, invoking application
actions and listing apps and actions
- bash tab completion is supported
* GDesktopAppInfo changes:
- g_file_get_path() can implicitly cause a FUSE mount so don't call
it until we know we need it (for an app that doesn't support URIs)
- don't crash when trying to load from a keyfile with
DBusActivatable=true
- remove some dead code, refactor the search path handling a bit and
do a large-scale whitespace cleanup (prep work for the pending
desktop file index)
* File monitors
- fix broken handling of mount point monitoring
- remove some strange use of GObject::constructor() from the base
class and inotify backend
- fix GFileMonitor to work in the non-default main context even when
the main context is not running (or is blocked)
- add internal private API for easily creating a file monitor in the
GLib worker thread
* GSettings
- g_settings_list_children: only list viable schemas. This fixes a
longstanding issue where 'gsettings list-recursively' will crash
when there are invalid schemas installed
- don't accept invalid paths on g_settings_new_with_path, etc.
* GIO
- GFile now has a thumbnail::is-valid attribute to check if the
thumbnail in thumbnail::path needs to be regenerated
- GDBusProxy now has a flag to control autostarting of services at
construction time
- for GSeekable, properly introduce the concept of "resizable" vs.
"fixed-sized" streams in the docs, explaining the expected
semantics of the interface in each case
- fix some cases in GMemoryOutputStream that were violating the above
expectations (which may cause a slight API incompatibility)
- clean up GCredentials code and add support for Hurd and Solaris
- improve splicing by using different codepaths for the case where we
have real _read_async() and _write_async() implementations on the
stream vs. the case where they are internally emulated (via
dispatching the sync variant of the call in a thread)
* GKeyFile
- fix a leak in g_key_file_get_(u)int64 when we fail to parse the
value as an integer
- add long-requested API g_key_file_save_to_file()
* Portability improvements
- avoid using O_DIRECTORY on platforms that don't have it
- be careful about systems that define SOCK_CLOEXEC but don't
actually support it (like Hurd)
- only use SA_RESTART if it exists
* Other small API changes/additions
- a pair of functions to support matching strings for the type of
search functionality that you'd expect to have with things like
GtkSearchBar. This will also be used by the desktop file index.
- g_str_is_ascii() with obvious purpose
- g_test_expect_message() no longer appears to allow you to catch
G_LOG_ERROR messages
* GMainContext/GSource
- fix handling of overflowing the 'next source id' counter
- g_source_remove() will now throw a critical in the case that you
try to remove a non-existent source. We expect that there is some
code in the wild that will fall afoul of this new critical but
considering that we now reuse source IDs, this code is already
broken and should probably be fixed.
- simplify handling of the 'current dispatching source' to not
require use of a linked list
* GObject
- the long-broken (and leaky) pattern of destroying a just-allocated
object from inside of a custom GObject::constructor is now
officially completely illegal and will abort the program
* Unicode: update to 6.3.0
* Many bug fixes
* Many translation updates
For full details see:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/NEWS?id=2.40.0
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
Patches removed:
- patch-ce: fixed in 690d6b97 (Bug 697386)
- patch-gio_gcontenttype.c: committed as ab5aa2aa
- patch-gio_glocalfile.c: fixed in 584358 (Bug 698348)
- patch-gio_gthreadedresolver.c: fixed in 8372f22b
- patch-glib_gfileutils.c: fixed in 8372f22b
- patch-glib_gmarkup.c: : fixed in 8372f22b
- patch-glib_gstrfuncs.c: fixed in 8372f22b
Patches changed:
- patch-aa: last 3 hunks removed as committed as 996edb0 (Bug 706958)
- patch-ah: last 2 hunks removed as something similar in 8372f2
- patch-ak: last 3 hunks removed as committed as 996edb0 (Bug 706958)
- patch-ba: hunk 9 removed as committed as d47430 (Bug 697365)
Overview of changes from GLib 2.38.1 to 2.38.2
===============================================
* GCancellableSource will now dispatch for each time a cancellable is
cancelled (ie: in the case that it was reset) but this is still
considered undefined behaviour
* fix g_source_add_child_source() thread safety issues
* add workaround for buggy D-Bus daemons when path-matching on '/'
* fallback to pathname queryinfo to help g_file_copy() work on gvfs
filesystems that don't implement query_info_on_read()
* don't crash if loading a DBusActivatable application from keyfile
* fix crash when replacing a symlink with another using GIO
* add a fallback for '-symbolic' icons to the non-symbolic form
Overview of changes from GLib 2.38.0 to 2.38.1
===============================================
* Fix error code checks when SOCK_CLOEXEC is defined but not supported
(fix support for GNU/Hurd)
* g_settings_list_children: only list viable schemas
(fix gsettings list-recursively crashes with invalid schemas installed)
* GDBusObjectManagerClient: Fix typo in the /org/freedesktop/DBus path
when adding match rules
* Various -Werror=format-nonliteral fixes
* gmessages: fix clang annotations to work with older versions
* gio: don't dist (generated file) gnetworking.h
* Restore gl_GLIBC21 to configure; needed for libcharset
Translations:
Catalan (Valencian)
Norwegian bokmål
Russian
Serbian
What's new in Glib 2.38
========================
* Application support
- GIO now provides an implementation of Desktop Actions from the
desktop entry specification
- GApplication now implements the org.freedesktop.Application
interface as per the desktop entry specification, allowing for
standards-based D-Bus launching of GLib-based applications
- GDesktopAppInfo now supports DBusActivatable as per the desktop
entry specification, allowing GLib-based applications to use D-Bus
to launch other applications
- GApplication now has a "busy" flag that can be set on an application
to allow the shell to show that it is busy
* GObject
- the private offset for a given class type is now always constant.
This was done by reorganising the memory layout of instances so that
the private data comes before the "official" pointer for the object
(ie: at a negative offset). Valgrind macros were added to mitigate
any problems that this may have caused.
- a new G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE has been added along with a
generated function *_get_instance_private() that can now serve as an
equally-performing alternative to ->priv pointers in instances
(allowing memory savings)
- new G_PRIVATE_FIELD, G_PRIVATE_FIELD_P and G_PRIVATE_OFFSET macros
provide a convenient method of converting between named variables in
private structures and their (now constant) offsets
- installing properties on a GObjectClass must now be done from
class_init. It is no longer valid to install them after class_init
has returned.
- it is now possible to manually break a GObject property binding
without destroying one of the objects involved
* Icons
- the requirements for implementing the GIcon interface have changed
in order to make it possible to consume all implementations of GIcon
with a finite number of cases
- a new GBytesIcon type was added for an icon represented by an
in-memory binary blob in a known image format (ideally png).
- new APIs g_icon_serialize() and g_icon_deserialize() replace the old
to/from_string APIs and will always work, irrespective of which
types have been initialised in the calling process, allowing for a
serialised GdkPixbuf to be deserialised in a process that doesn't
have GdkPixbuf
- support for icons has been added to GMenuModel using the new APIs
* Actions and menus
- GPropertyAction provides a convenient way of creating a stateful
property corresponding to a property on a GObject, such as the
"visible-child-name" property of a GtkStack
- new API g_menu_remove_all()
- we now have established rules about what is a "valid" action name
and an API to check them
- a new API for converting detailed action names to and from the
split-out name and parameter value (as GVariant)
- for backwards compatibility, invalid action names can still be used
with most functions, but this is not recommended
* Other GIO
- GDBus now supports services that wish to handle some of all
properties on an interface asynchronously, without requiring the
service to reimplement the entire org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties
interface
- GFile now has a new _measure_disk_usage() (and async) API for
recursively determining the amount of disk space used by a
particular directory (akin to 'du').
- asynchronous version of g_file_trash() and g_file_make_directory()
have been added
* Other new API
- GRegex has a new function to query the maximum lookbehind length to
allow for regexp matching on streams
- GVariant has two new APIs for constructing strings that allow
avoiding copies in some cases: g_variant_new_take_string() and
g_variant_new_printf()
* Testing
- we can now generate TAP output
- new support functions for simplifying the process of dealing with
data files for srcdir != builddir and installed test cases
- g_test_trap_subprocess() provides a portable alternative to
g_test_trap_fork()
* Other
- GLib now builds on Android against the bionic C library
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.93 to 2.38.0
================================================
* fix the documentation for GSourceFuncs
* fix compilation on OS X/ppc64
Bugs fixed: 708445, 647145
Translations updated:
Danish
French
Portuguese
Punjabi
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.92 to 2.37.93
================================================
* a couple of bugfixes in the new g_file_measure_disk_usage() API
* updated Traditional Chinese translation
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.7 to 2.37.92
===============================================
* new API g_file_measure_disk_usage() similar to du(1)
* minor fixes
* Translation updates:
Assamese
Belarusian
Brazilian Portuguese
Catalan
Czech
Galician
German
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Korean
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Polish
Serbian
Slovenian
Spanish
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.6 to 2.37.7
==============================================
* GDateTime now supports %:z formatting variations
for timezones. This is a GNU date extension.
* Bugs fixed:
685387 Segfault with GObject.signal_handler_is_connected()...
686786 g_socket_get_available_bytes() returns wrong value ...
705027 GSocket GSource not threadsafe on Windows
706469 Fix G_DEFINE_ABSTRACT_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE documentation
706706 Fix Gir annotations on g_loadable_icon_load_finish
706888 gtype: fix a no-op assertion
706958 configure.ac: fix atomic opts detection
707092 "File Utilities" page for GLib documentation doesn'...
707151 gdatetime: Extend the '%z' timezone format
* Translation updates:
Catalan
Hungarian
Japanese
Polish
Slovak
Tamil
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.5 to 2.37.6
==============================================
* Tests using the g_test facilities can now generate TAP output
* Bugs fixed:
680926 generic type fallback logic is broken for -symbolic
684327 setting null icon to icon list
689245 GSocket unable to reuse (address,port) on Mac OS X
692125 Support TAP as GTest output format
693335 build: fix dtrace-related warnings
696633 gdbus-codegen trips over unicode chars when using python 3.x
696970 Compiling 2.36.0 for win64 fails
697185 GSocket – Allow specifying the multicast interface from...
700268 Add support for using the clang analyzer
701318 Add G_SPAWN_DEFAULT to GSpawnFlags
701529 glib/tests/gdatetime: use UTC time in test_GDateTime_diff()
701800 a new approach to reporting critical errors
702674 g_date_time_new_utc crash
704165 GLib.IOChannel read_unichar() fails
705075 Simplify g_get_tmp_dir()
705152 Race in glib/task.test
705398 gtype: Fix typo in g_type_class_add_private() error message
705570 Check ref_count in g_object_notify_by_pspec
705600 Deprecate GSimpleActionGroup functions?
* Updated translations:
Assamese
Brazilian Portuguese
Czech
Dutch
Galician
Gujarati
Hebrew
Italian
Lithuanian
Marathi
Norwegian bokmål
Russian
Slovenian
Spanish
Thai
Traditional Chinese
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.4 to 2.37.5
==============================================
* Implement the Desktop Action specification: In the case that the
application is a GApplication and DBusActivatable, actions from the
desktop file are translated into GActions that have been added to
the application with g_action_map_add_action().
* GPropertyAction is a new type of GAction that represents the value
of a property on an object, and allows to change the value when
activated.
* GNetworkMonitorNetlink can now handle default routes via a device.
* The gsettings tool now reports failure to write a key (e.g. because
the key was locked down)
* Miscellaneous new api:
- g_variant_new_printf
- g_action_print_detailed_name
- g_regex_get_max_lookbehind
* Bugs fixed:
664444 Support additional application actions in .desktop files
684123 glib build only tries -D_GNU_SOURCE if glibc is detected
689794 support incremental matching
699259 add org.freedesktop.Application support to GIO
700460 rewrite tests to not rely on precise timing of timeouts
701511 updates to various GSource types
701609 gnetworkmonitornetlink: handle default route via device
703270 add GPropertyAction
704157 GAction: add function for printing detailed names
704250 Doc: various fixes
704267 regression gsourceclosure: segfault in gedit file chooser
704322 glib-unix: fix handling of multiple signal source for the...
704424 No error when failing to override a locked key
704447 Fix build/use of g_child_watch_closure_callback on Windows
704523 g_thread_create_full() can dereference NULL pointer
704543 Add implementations for G_GNUC_*_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS for ...
704567 gdbusnameowning: Don't spew an error if we're releasing a...
704585 libc printf can give mixed-case strings for NaN and Inf
704587 FTBFS: statfs_result is undeclared for statvfs()
704699 gmain: Reset signal handlers to default when source is
704704 AI_NUMERICSERV cannot be used with ai_socktype = 0
704873 inotify: don't assume mainloop is running
704999 glib/convert.test crashing due to lack of iconv cache
704931 GMenuModel: add annotations to virtual functions
* Translation updates:
Assamese
Czech
German
Gujarati
Spanish
Tamil
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.3 to 2.37.4
==============================================
* Bugs fixed:
701283 g_source_add_child_source() segfault
702147 inconsistency of G_STRFUNC
703191 new private macros interact poorly with versioning macros
703254 Doc: various fixes
703407 g_spawn_async() keeps child_pid_report_pipe open in child process
703437 GDBusConnection: be more careful with async GetAll
703478 Missing G_BEGIN/END_DECLS in gsettingsschema.h
* Translation updates:
Catalan
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.2 to 2.37.3
==============================================
* add a new API for instance private data: G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE
* fix timestamps in tarball to prevent automake from being required to
build the unmodified source
* add new D-Bus API for async property handling
* add back fsync() on ext4 for g_file_set_contents() after it was
discovered that despite statements in the ext4 documentation
suggesting that this is safe, it is not safe.
* Translations:
Italian
Norwegian bokmål
* Bugs fixed:
698375 - D-Bus async properties
700350 - timestamp issue
701560 - fsync issue (fixed again)
700035 - new API for instance private data
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.1 to 2.37.2
==============================================
* The GLib test utilities have grown some file-related APIs
to support tests that can be used installed and uninstalled.
* Installing properties after class initialization is deprecated,
and will trigger a warning.
* GApplication:
- Support org.freedesktop.Application, including D-Bus activation
from desktop files
- Set prgname to appid for services
* Bugs fixed:
549783 gtester lacks framework for tests with data files
692848 Fix property example in gobject tutorial
698018 Add an explicit g_binding_release()
698614 GObject: prevent installing properties after init
699259 add org.freedesktop.Application support to GIO
699959 g_file_copy(): Ensure we create private files by default
700123 Test failure: g_inet_socket_address_get_scope_id
700725 GIcon: NULLify the `type' out param in the sync methods too
701401 gtest: add function for testing for WINE
701456 Error in gnome/glib/gio/tests/file.c
701474 Error building glibmm due to extra comma in glib/gtestutils.h
701560 various improvements for g_file_set_contents()
701680 GFileEnumerator: Add some documentation about ordering
701878 Check wakeup() before iteration(TRUE) doesn't block
* Translations:
Assamese
Czech
Galician
Gujarati
Kannada
Marathi
Odia
Polish
Slovenian
Spanish
Telugu
Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.0 to 2.37.1
==============================================
* add support for installed tests:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/InstalledTests
* add a new g_test_trap_subprocess() that works on Windows as a
replacement for the (now deprecated) g_test_trap_fork()
* support for explicitly cancelling a gobject property binding
* performance improvements for signal argument handling
* stop using `quotes' in very many log messages generated by GLib, for
favour of 'this style'. This may cause testcases in other packages
to fail if they were matching on the previous text.
* improve manpages: add missing arguments and flags
Translations:
Aragonese
Assamese
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Norwegian bokmål
Odia
Slovenian
Spanish
Tamil
Telugu
Bugs fixed:
679683 replace g_test_trap_fork()
694380 Improve signal argument collection performance
695233 Strings require plural forms
697849 spelling fixes in cross.xml and running.xml
698877 GProxyAddressEnumerator calls g_network_address_parse_uri without port
698981 [PATCH] test /gdbus/connection/large_message could hang forever
699079 Prototype support for installed tests
699485 [PATCH] tests/mappedfile: Also handle ENOMEM
699493 SOCKS5 proxy code crashes if it cannot authenticate
699500 gbitlock: fix this to not unconditionally use futex emulation
699779 [PATCH] G_GNUC_FORMAT: documentation error
700263 m4macros/glib-gettext.m4: Don't use AC_HEADER_STDC
700714 [PATCH] gtestutils: Ensure test subprocesses don't dump core
700746 Use 'dumb quotes' rather than `really dumb quotes'
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This change addresses a major issue: despite assurances in the
documentation for the ext4 filesystem, it is still unsafe to omit a call
to fsync() when doing atomic replaces, as per g_file_set_contents().
Some patches have gone into the kernel already, but we are putting the
fsync() back for safety reasons.
There have also been win32 improvements and a fix where
GNetworkMonitor failed to detect the connection with some VPN
configurations.
Translation updates:
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- fix configure scripts to detect !G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE correctly
(use AC_TRY_LINK rather than AC_TRY_COMPILE to see if symbols are defined)
- fix prototype mismatches in !G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE case
(note no binary changes in G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE case)
"please commit it" from agc@.
Overview of changes fron GLib 2.36.2 to 2.36.3
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* Bug fixes:
692848 Fix property example in gobject tutorial
696857 GThreadedResolver: set an error if no records could be found
697849 spelling fixes of 'runtine' and 'adresses' in cross.xml a...
699779 G_GNUC_FORMAT: documentation error
699959 g_file_copy(): Ensure we create private files by default
701560 various improvements for g_file_set_contents()
701680 GFileEnumerator: Add some documentation about ordering
* Translation updates:
Kannada
gdbus-codegen has grown a --xml-files option for introspection XML files.
* Bug fixes:
697887 GVariant: fix transfer annotation
699485 tests/mappedfile: Also handle ENOMEM
699493 SOCKS5 proxy code crashes if it cannot authenticate
699500 gbitlock: fix this to not unconditionally use futex emu...
Fix a hang in pidgin
* Translation updates:
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a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
Among many bugfixes, changes and translations:
* GIO now has kqueue support for GFileMonitor (BSDs, Mac OS)
* GTask (the new GAsyncResult implementation) has landed
* We now install a public "gnetworking.h" header that can be used to
include the relevant OS-dependent networking headers. This does not
really abstract away unix-vs-windows however; error codes, in
particular, are incompatible.
See NEWS file http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/plain/NEWS?id=2.36.1 for details.
Patches removed:
- patch-aj:
Per PR pkg/41601: Bug 133344 is closed and compile tested by Joern Clausen
- patch-at:
Fixed in b26fb3ae (Bug 687600)
- patch-cf:
Adds sys/param.h - if still needed, should go into gnetworking.h.in
XXX might still be needed
- patch-cg:
Fixed (or changed anyway) in 6f8f1f70 and 52a81a7d (Bug 688681)
- patch-ci:
Fixed in a33aaad0 (Bug 637013)
- patch-glib_goption.c:
Fixed in f9a6a974
- patch-glib_tests_include.c:
Fixed in d2b7ee62 (Bug 672406)
Patches changed:
- patch-ak:
First chunk fixed in 5fbdd3aa (Bug 691011)
- patch-ap:
Added NetBSD support to g_credentials_get_unix_pid()
First chunk fixed in b377e696 (Bug 623187)
- patch-aq:
First chunk fixed in b8c13a01 (Bug 688109)
Patches added:
- patch-gio_glocalfile.c (Reported as Bug 698348)
xsltproc and Docbook packages do not enable this unexpectedly. Fixes
the build whenever manpages get enabled for some reason, as the PLIST
does not account for them.
- patch-ar and patch-as to avoid dependending on python are no longer
necessary since the introduction of --disable-modular-tests
- patch-co has been committed to glib in 2360d04e
- other patches cargo culted across
- statfs test was fixed in glib with commit afa82ae8
- no longer provide man pages as that requires docbook & xsltproc
Many changes in glib since 2.32.4, especially GDBus improvements.
See NEWS file http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/plain/NEWS?id=2.34.0 for details.
