[vala/staging] Sync NEWS from 0.54

[Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz src gnome org>]

commit 8faa03ec13b47a54b6afdc19722281a3e7b44aa6
Author: Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz ubuntu com>
Date:   Thu Dec 16 09:32:25 2021 +0100

    Sync NEWS from 0.54

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+Vala 0.54.5
+===========
+ * Various improvements and bug fixes:
+  - codegen:
+    + Correctly handle chain up of struct creation methods [#1264]
+    + Use a dedicated EmitContext for _variant_get*() functions
+    + gtkmodule: Handle nested closure elements and bind them accordingly [#1262]
+  - vala:
+    + NullLiteral is not a valid argument for string concatenation [#1260]
+    + Set is_yield_expression in async context when chaining up to async base ctor
+    + Report statement parsing error if it is not meant to be an expression [#1261]
+    + girparser: Avoid possibily creating duplicated attributes
+  - vapigen.m4: use $PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
+
+ * Bindings:
+  - glib-2.0: Always use the actual C type for CCode.array_length_type
+  - gstreamer: Cherry-pick bindings fixes from 0.56
+  - gstreamer-1.0: Unskip the ElementFactory.make/create_full() symbols
+
 Vala 0.54.4
 ===========
  * Various improvements and bug fixes: