glib 2.63.1

[Philip Withnall <install-module master gnome org>]

About GLib
==========

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

News
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* 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




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