Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.1 ================================== * Several usability improvements to command line `gio` tool (!1153) * Add `g_array_steal()`, `g_ptr_array_steal()` and `g_byte_array_steal()` APIs (#285) * Add `g_get_os_info()` API (!1063, !1160) * Add `g_warning_once()` API (!1028) * Always resolve `localhost` to loopback address in `GResolver` (!616) * Add `GMainContextPusher` API (!983) * Limit recursion in `g_variant_parse()` (!1173) * Fix crash in `g_spawn()` with high FD numbers due to use of `select()` rather than `poll()` (#954) * Allow passing empty `GValue`s to `g_param_value_set_default()` (!1186) * Escape header guards generated by `gdbus-codegen` better (#1379) * Bugs fixed: - #285 [PATCH] add array steal and memdup functions - #954 The g_spawn_sync() function uses select() which has limitations - #1318 rare failure in gdbus-peer test: invalid uninstantiatable type '(null)' in cast to 'GDBusServer' - #1379 gdbus-codegen generates invalid header guards when build directory contains a + character - #1622 NULL pointer derefs on g_vasprintf() failure - #1813 g_option_context_add_main_entries() is missing array annotation for entries parameter - #1831 No reply on private socket due to auth problem - #1836 gobject.c uses undefined annotation “(not optional)” - #1858 docs/reference/gobject/tut_gobject.xml: object properties example uses deprecated API - #1877 g_cancellable_source_new annotated with 'skip' - #1896 Use after free when calling g_dbus_connection_flush_sync() in a dedicated thread - #1897 glib 2.62.0 fails test 'test_writev_no_vectors' wih gcc7 - #1903 use-after-free in mimeapps test causes intermittent segfault during testing - #1906 test_os_info fails on FreeBSD - #1916 objcopy not used from cross-compilation file in GIO tests - #1923 Recent Versions of GLib Break Dolphin File-Manager's Thumbnailing when Using 'gtk2' Style - !616 Always resolve localhost to loopback address - !983 gmain: Add GMainContextPusher convenience API - !1014 tests: Add a test for g_assert_finalize_object() - !1028 gmessages: Add g_warning_once() - !1035 Switching from C gnu89 to C gnu99 standard - !1063 gutils: Add g_get_os_info() - !1082 gdatetime: Document RFC 3339 extensions when parsing ISO 8601 - !1105 syscall flood on every time*() function call - !1120 Update documentation with FreeBSD build instructions - !1135 gmain: use atomic operation instead of GMutex to access g_main_context_default() - !1146 Solaris build fixes - !1147 gmodule: fix typo in doc comment - !1148 gio/gfileinfo: fix parameter references - !1149 gio/gfile: fix parameter reference for value_p - !1150 gio/gfile: fix parameter references to @contents - !1151 gio/gfile: fix typo in doc comment - !1152 gwinhttpvfs: Handle g_get_prgname() returning NULL - !1153 Several gio-tool bash completion fixes and improvements - !1155 Strict-aliasing fixes to new atomic built-ins - !1157 Fix various compiler warnings on Android - !1160 Add Windows support to g_get_os_info() - !1161 hash: Remove an assertion from the hot path - !1163 gcharset: Expand the documentation for g_get_locale_variants() - !1165 Use uname as a fallback to get OS info - !1167 Fix some minor leaks in testfilemonitor - !1168 Fix gdatetime tests on toolbox - !1171 Revert "gdbus-codegen: emit GUnixFDLists if an arg has type 'h'" - !1173 gvariant: Limit recursion in g_variant_parse() - !1177 ci: Add libdbus development files to CI Docker images - !1179 Improve GPtrArray doc-comments - !1180 array: Avoid use of memcpy(dest, NULL, 0) - !1181 gmain: Clarify thread safety of some common GSource functions - !1182 gio: Fix typo in URL - !1186 Allow using an empty GValue with g_param_value_set_default() - !1189 gparamspecs: Fix type class leaks on error handling paths - !1197 Fix GDBus test failures on non-Linux (in particular FreeBSD) - !1200 Minor fixes from a scan-build run * Translation updates: - Catalan - Chinese (Taiwan) - Spanish