+Overview of changes in GLib 2.43.1
+==================================
+
+* GQueue now accepts NULL as a sibling in g_queue_insert_before() and
+ g_queue_insert_after()
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 11059 Linux poll issue
+ 726037 Add G_PARAM_READWRITE value to the GParamFlags enumeration
+ 727988 GMemoryOutputStream hangs when writing more than 1GiB
+ 729739 tlscertificate: add support for loading certificate chains
+ 733791 GSettings: delay backend subscription
+ 736286 Clarify g_file_replace behavior with etags
+ 736620 GQueue: accept NULL sibling for insert_before() and insert_after()
+ 737150 GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Failed to parse translated string 'visible-name...
+ 737160 unhelpful error message
+ 738259 GDBusInterfaceVTable: clarify memory handling for the method() virt...
+ 738551 'interface' variable conflicts with Windows defines
+ 738633 Need to disable SSLv3 in glib-networking
+ 740157 <app> --help doesn't work even when options were added
+ 740309 Fix docs in g_strfreev
+ 740413 Fix the GSettings Registry Backend
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Norwegian bokmål
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.43.0
+==================================
+
+* GObject gained a debug option to provide instance counts. To use it,
+ set GOBJECT_DEBUG=instance-count and call g_type_get_instance_count().
+
+* GOption now has a strict POSIX mode in which it stops parsing arguments
+ as soon as a non-option argument is encountered.
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 354457 Feature Proposal: Per-Type Statistics for Instantiable GTypes
+ 695082 g_hash_table_remove_all is not save against a call to g_hash_table_remove
+ 723160 GOption: add strict posix mode
+ 728256 gcredentials: add NetBSD support
+ 729739 tlscertificate: add support for loading certificate chains
+ 733338 Don't segfault in GNetworkMonitor when IPv6 support is unavailable
+ 736273 gdesktopappinfo: Use symbolic names in the code
+ 736284 Keep only one list of signal emissions
+ 736806 gtask: Fix reference count loop causing leaks
+ 736914 Docs: various fixes and improvements
+ 737143 Include <stdint.h> in glib/valgrind.h
+ 737259 gcancellable: Clarify that GSources hold references to GCancellables
+ 737338 gmain: Unref child sources when finalising a GSource
+ 737446 tests: Fix some minor leaks in the unit tests
+ 737451 Provide api to read_all_async
+ 737741 g_datalist_id_get_data assertion fails for non-existant keys
+ 737869 GApplication command line handling breaks --help
+ 738170 g_byte_array_new_take() doesn't initialize array->alloc
+ 738197 g_cond_timed_wait() doesn't time out on Mac OS X
+ 738374 gfile: g_file_equal (x, x) is TRUE
+ 738675 GSubprocessLauncher is missing some data on the docs
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Bengali (India)
+ Bulgarian
+ Gujarati
+ Italian
+ Telugu
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.42.0
+===================================
+
+All changes in this release are trivial in nature.
+
+ - introspection warning fixes
+
+ - g_application_add_main_option now uses an enum instead of an 'int'
+ for the type of a parameter
+
+ - added a G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE so that people don't need to use 0
+
+ - gresource: Use GError in more places
+
+ - gresource commandline tool: improve extraction from multiple sections
+
+ - GSource now takes the context lock (if any) in g_source_set_name()
+
+ - new documentation to clarify the use of some APIs related to
+ GVariant, GSource, GApplication
+
+ - other minor updates to docs
+
+* Bugs fixed
+ 736683 Thread safety issues with g_main_context_find_source_by_id
+ 736975 [patch] please document that GVariant serialization needs an
+ out-of-band length field
+
+* Translation updates
+ Danish
+ Hindi
+ Marathi
+ Punjabi
+ Serbian
+ Simplified Chinese
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.5
+==================================
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ 735819 single native credential struct used for two purposes
+ 735915 glib-building.html uses --enable-gcov instead of --enable-coverage
+ 736350 GDesktopAppInfo: avoid polling on missing desktop dirs
+ 736351 Don't use issetugid() on Android
+ Fix the default application logic in GDesktopAppInfo
+ 736458 Only use rand_s() when targetting Visual Studio >= 2005
+
+* Translation updates
+ Galician
+ Hungarian
+ Indonesian
+ Kannada
+ Latvian
+ Polish
+ Russian
+ Slovenian
+ Tamil
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.4
+==================================
+
+* GApplication now has binding-friendly API to handle
+ commandline options: g_application_add_main_option
+
+* G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS works with clang
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 583330 poll list of mounted file systems (no mtab support)
+ 727455 Command line option parsing from bindings
+ 734126 add G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS macro for clang
+ 735179 gsocketclient: Handle cancellation between CONNECTING...
+ 735297 Docs claim that GThread struct is deprecated
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Assamese
+ Catalan
+ Catalan (Valencian)
+ Czech
+ French
+ German
+ Greek
+ Hebrew
+ Korean
+ Oriya
+ Traditional Chinese
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.3
+==================================
+
+* g_clear_pointer and g_clear_object no longer use atomics
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 711547 win32: silence some build warnings
+ 725511 Compiled resource files should have the same /-separators everywhere
+ 725513 Some tests fail to build on W32
+ 725514 W32: gfileutils does not preserve errno correctly
+ 725515 test-printf fails on W32
+ 728730 gsocket: Set SO_NOSIGPIPE on sockets on Darwin
+ 729703 Leaks a GError in g_file_move
+ 730932 statically assert that reasonable assumptions about enums are true
+ 732085 gtype: Fast-path for g_type_is_a
+ 732754 GDBusMessage: optimise (de)serialisation of fixed arrays
+ 733345 ginetaddress: Add a precondition to g_inet_address_new_from_string()
+ 733576 Patches from static analysis run on 2.40
+ 733715 glib's configure.ac makes accidentally use of nested function
+ 733934 win32: improve the package installation dir lookup
+ 733960 W32: spawning a console process creates a new window when stdout...
+ 733969 Remove atomic aspects of g_clear_pointer/object
+ 733982 Do not crash when checking whether an instance type is of a given...
+ 734035 gedit hangs up when there's no GSettings key in the registry
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Basque
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ Lithuanian
+ Slovenian
+ Spanish
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.2
+==================================
+
+* 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
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 699132 Pluggable event loop backends
+ 720708 g_assert_warning(): number of arguments doesn't match for...
+ 722092 Add GtkApplication resources support
+ 724986 Change gio/data-to-c.pl to /usr/bin/env perl.
+ 727974 Fix up failure-to-see-expected-message logging
+ 728256 gcredentials: add NetBSD support
+ 728401 GDateTime: Add guards to g_date_time_new()
+ 729825 Formatting of g_alloca documentation
+ 729914 instead of DEBUG_CODE and IF_DEBUG, provide a common macro...
+ 730293 clang++-3.4: error: 'register' storage class specifier is ...
+ 731339 giochannel: avoid setting uninitialised length
+ 731424 #ifdef spaghetti for load_user_special_dirs() implementations
+ 731623 GNotification: add support for a priority setting
+ 731929 update tables to unicode 7.0.0
+ 731950 gvalue: New g_value_from_instance
+ 731986 GLib: implement GMutex natively on Linux
+ 732184 GObject: warn on use of deprecated properties
+ 732357 Docs: various fixes and improvements
+ 732429 GActionEntry: improve documentation
+ 732465 Fix build on x64 Visual C++ builds
+ 732704 Docs: various fixes and improvements
+ 732739 ginetsocketaddress: Explicitly initialise flags for getaddr...
+ 732754 GDBusMessage: optimise (de)serialisation of fixed arrays
+ 732984 g_object_ref(NULL) in g_dbus_object_manager_client_finalize
+ 733084 Typos in g_bytes_hash() and g_time_zone_find_interval() docs
+ 733146 spawn helper does not use correctly the parameters
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Lithuanian
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.1
+==================================
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ 697229 Custom Interface implementations will be broken with glib 2.37/38
+ 698614 GObject: prevent installing properties after init
+ 729269 gvariant: Fix confusion between type and format strings in the docs
+ 730198 broken valgrind.h leads to crashes in g_type_free_instance on mingw64
+ 730807 GMutex performance regression
+ 730963 gconvert: mention that the g_convert len should be in bytes
+ 730984 Faster instance type check for fundamentals
+ 731050 <structname> tags appear in documentation
+ 731200 unconditional 'notify' during g_object_set() is problematic
+ 731335 gtype: guard uses of new fundamental type check
+ 731341 gparam: change value of G_PARAM_EXPLICIT_NOTIFY
+ 731366 run-assert-msg-test.sh gdb leaves assert-msg-test zombie
+ 731425 giomodule protects function-call with different token than function...
+ 731513 clang: build failure: implicit declaration of function '__atomic_load_4'
+ 731584 gbookmarkfile: Cleaner error handling code to pacify static analysis
+ 731657 Prevent an invalid @CARBON_LIBS@ from appearing in the .pc files
+ 731979 docs: Correct param to interface's default_init()
+ 731996 Return folder as icon for directories
+ 732002 gwakeup: Clarify buffer sizing in g_wakeup_signal()
+ 732005 Remove unused assignments
+ 732019 gtestdbus: Don’t close stdout for dbus-daemon
+ 732068 gsignal: Add an example to the g_signal_connect_swapped() documentation
+ 732081 gsocket: Document that g_socket_create_source() holds a socket ref
+ 732107 gsocketlistener: Reconsider closing sockets on listener finalisation
+
+
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.41.0
+===================================
+
+* 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.
+
+ 623552 glib warns if backtrace.py is not present
+ 667468 glib-2.30.2: ipv6 tests fail when no ipv6 support is available
+ 668152 -framework Carbon linker flag not passed to pkg-config .pc files
+ 707298 libgobject should be linked with -Wl,-z,nodelete
+ 712391 Add g_desktop_app_info_get_implementors()
+ 722723 Infinite recursion when calling g_io_stream_close_async() from libsoup
+ 724741 hmac: Fix support for SHA-512 in GHmac
+ 726040 networkaddress: fix parsing of uri with @ after authority
+ 726318 gio: Document that GSocket is not thread safe
+ 726611 socketclient: Leak on cancellation
+ 726872 gio: Add names to idles and timeouts
+ 727119 wrong IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_LINKLOCAL usage break android build
+ 727123 GNotification: Some small documentation fixes
+ 727320 docs: Remove escaping '\' from literals
+ 727551 Check use_count of GApplication in g_application_release()
+ 727559 g_file_copy: Don't set GError when we intend to ignore errors
+ 727692 gio/gtlscertificate.c -- broken PEM-file processing (affects local CA root stores, for starters)
+ 727890 soup_content_sniffer_real_sniff segfault
+ 727900 gio: Add newer dbus UnknownXxxx and PropertyReadOnly errors
+ 727928 gapplication-tool fixes
+ 727939 INTLLIBS are always appended in configure checks
+ 727964 g_io_extension_point_get_extension_by_name: Warn, but don't crash, for NULL inputs
+ 728040 Implement new mimeapps spec
+ 728066 Deal with startup notify id being NULL
+ 728280 platform_get_argv0: fix sysctl(3) use on OpenBSD
+ 728285 docs: Use markdown links in .h files, too
+ 728350 gaction: Minor clarifications in the GAction documentation
+ 728380 docs: Remove <!-- --> comment before plural s
+ 728565 gfile: More explicitly document the context for GFileProgressCallback
+ 728983 Docs: various fixes and improvements
+ 729167 gobject: Document that classes/objects/interfaces are zero-filled
+ 729563 GOption: A short option's value is included in G_OPTION_REMAINING
+ 729813 AppInfo: use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for OnlyShowIn
+ 729875 gio: cleanup gdbusmessage.c file
+ 730045 Avoid overeager warning about deprecated properties
+ 730189 gtestutils: Fix a very unlikely FD leak in test fork handling
+ 730190 gsocket: Add missing preconditions to g_socket_send_message()
+ 730277 gthread: Fix use of a local variable after it went out of scope
+ 730278 gsubprocess: Add a missing va_end() call
+ 730295 gdbus-tool: Remove dead variables
+ 730493 Port annotations from Vala metadata
+
+Translations updated:
+ Basque
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ Catalan
+ Czech
+ Danish
+ Greek
+ Hebrew
+ Hungarian
+ Punjabi
+ Serbian
+ Slovenian
+ Spanish
+ Ukrainian
+
+Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.91 to GLib 2.39.92
+=====================================================
+
+This is a release candidate for 2.40.0.
+
+There are no major changes in this release, but a few serious bugs have
+been fixed.
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 710367 Crash in g_settings_backend_dispatch_signal()
+ 723899 G_DEFINE_TYPE() causes compiler warnings with clang due to foo_get_instance_private
+ 724859 Let the test_wait_until() test also run on non-*nix
+ 724916 gio unmount code makes XFCE's Thunar crash
+ 725651 GSubprocessLauncher: Does not copy the calling process environment.
+ 725656 Unskip GVariantDict
+ 725891 gio tests: add codegen to BUILT_SOURCES
+ 726046 Recent commit created symbolic icons issues
+
+* Translations:
+ Chinese
+ French
+ Korean
+ Latvian
+ Norwegian bokmål
+ Portuguese
+ Russian
+ Traditional Chinese
+
+Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.90 to GLib 2.39.91
+=====================================================
+
+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()
+
+* Fixed bugs:
+ 670144 unconditional use of CLOCK_MONOTONIC is broken
+ 673607 invalid assumption in g_cond_wait_until() / g_get_monotonic_time() API
+ 710142 Add more impressive transliteration to GLib
+ 722360 make check fails
+ 722604 (partial) Various tests are failing with 2.39.3
+ 723316 g_hash_table_iter_remove() should be explicit whether or not it is safe while iterating the table
+ 724609 Fix build of GIO on Windows
+ 724687 gmain: make monotonic time really monotonic, everywhere
+ 724706 gsource: document priority of child sources
+ 724707 some GSocket source improvements
+ 724839 GMainContext: some source ID cleanups
+ 724858 Dist gtranslit-data.h
+ 724994 Missing icons for bookmarks in file chooser
+ 725023 Can no longer find apps by executable/desktop file name
+
+* Translations:
+ Lithuanian
+ Polish
+ Thai
+
+Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.4 to GLib 2.39.90
+====================================================
+
+* Fixed bugs:
+ 625408 make GVariant dictionaries more useful
+ 660809 document that if you fail a precondition check, documented guarantees do not apply
+ 661576 fix handling of constructors that destroy half-constructed objects
+ 679957 g_inet_address_new_from_string is not able to handle dots and numbers IPv4 addresses
+ 712837 gvariant: Document the need to cast varargs when constructing GVariants
+ 721458 g_simple_async_result_is_valid has a NULL check for the wrong source_tag
+ 721977 improve split handling of command line arguments
+ 722033 win32: fixup lib.exe invocation
+ 723422 Fix g_socket_get_available() with TCP on Windows
+ 723616 gio/tests: fix race when generating code
+ 724001 gsubprocess: Fix a broken link in the documentation
+ 724124 glib/tests/collate.c fails if no en_US locale
+ 724126 intermittent GApplication test failure: /gapplication/local-actions: lines of output permuted
+ 724233 gsocketservice: Note g_socket_listener_close() for closing open sockets
+ 724239 soup_session_queue_message - Connection terminated unexpectedly
+ 724278 gsocketconnection: Document closing connections with g_io_stream_close()
+ 724330 configure.ac: tweak inotify check
+ 724385 gtestutils: make the new assert messages more detailed
+ 724401 gsubprocess: Mutex leak
+ 724417 glib master build broken on OpenBSD
+ 724434 Build failure in gio/gresolver.c
+
+* Updated translations:
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ Galician
+ Indonesian
+ Italian
+ Kannada
+ Norwegian bokmål
+ Spanish
+ Thai
+
+Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.3 to GLib 2.39.4
+===================================================
+
+* Fixed Bugs:
+ 139699 Correction for g_main_context_unref()
+ 583036 g_strchomp and g_strchug are not declared const
+ 683388 improve documentation for application developers
+ 685204 ./configure fails to add the '-g' flag to CFLAGS
+ 688406 GStaticMutex broke ABI on at least ARM EABI during 2.31.x
+ 693299 cannot compile on Solaris: error in gbitlock.c
+ 707111 Clarify type transformability and compatibility
+ 711547 win32: silence some build warnings
+ 719344 Fix the various test programs (or GLib itself) on Windows
+ 722025 cleanup/clarify command line argument encoding on Windows
+ 722323 remove unused include 'gslist.h' in 'gbookmarkfile.c'
+ 722326 gstringchunk: Use g_slist_free_full() where possible
+ 722357 gio: fix small memory leak on local xattr
+ 722436 Adjust doc to Makefile.decl renaming
+ 722503 GSimpleAction: add default activate handler
+ 722526 glib/deprecated/gthread.h error on FreeBSD
+ 722591 [documentation] broken link to GtkAction from GAction.html
+ 722973 Broken example in GApplication reference
+ 723048 'network-access' test can fail to guess interface index
+ 723360 gmain: Note that g_source_destroy() can be called multiple times
+
+* Updated Translations:
+ Assamese
+ Tamil
+ Traditional Chinese
+
+
Overview of changes from GLib 2.39.2 to GLib 2.39.3
===================================================
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