Overview of changes in GLib 2.71.2 ================================== * Rework `glib-compile-resources` to output compiler-specific files to reduce compilation time; see the new `--compiler` option (work by Emmanuele Bassi) (#2492) * Add a cross-platform API for aligned memory allocations (`g_aligned_alloc()`, `g_aligned_alloc0()` and `g_aligned_free()`) (work by Emmanuele Bassi) (#2574) * Deprecate `force_posix_threads` configure option, since it was a workaround for static linking on Windows (#2592) * Add `GBindingGroup` and `GSignalGroup` APIs (work by Christian Hergert and Garrett Regier) (!2235) * Implement FD remapping support for `g_spawn_async_with_pipes_and_fds()` on Windows (work by Marc-André Lureau) (!2458) * Add an async file move API, `g_file_move_async()` (work by Lucas Schwiderski) (!2469) * Bugs fixed: - #1190 gapplication: Add an org.gtk.Debugging interface - #2329 GApplication CLI parsing of DOUBLE type failure - #2492 glib-compile-resources contains resource data twice and creates large output files - #2563 g_test_build_filename and friends not safe to call after g_test_run() has finished - #2574 Add API for aligned allocations - #2592 Consider deprecating 'force_posix_threads' build option - #2601 Missing tag in generated files - !2235 Add GBindingGroup and GSignalGroup - !2378 gtestutils: Mention the unit used for the test timer - !2404 File tests - !2433 Remove tests/testgdate.c from tests - !2458 Implement fd passing for Windows spawn - !2464 Amend g_bus_get* documentation regarding private connection - !2465 gi: expose some files as variable for gobject-introspection - !2467 ci: Add link to Coverage output at end of coverage job - !2468 gfile: resolve_relative_path isn't nullable - !2469 Implement async file movement - !2471 Fix test on the date format for FreeBSD and MacOS X. - !2472 Fix test date (again)... - !2473 Fix glib/test/date.c for FreeBSD/OpenBSD/MacOS X - !2476 Add G_UNICODE_SCRIPT_MATH to GUnicodeScript - !2477 Improve coverage of two digit years in gdate tests - !2481 Fix glib/tests/fileutils on win32 - !2482 Fix unit test on date format '%Z' which is too versatile to be trustable - !2483 Fix glib/tests/gdatetime on win32 - !2484 tests: Use g_test_skip() to skip a test on Windows - !2487 gconstructor.h: Visual Studio: Only include gslist.h if needed - !2488 Fix some problems with g_aligned_alloc() tests * Translation updates: - Basque - Catalan - Chinese (China) - Czech - French - Galician - Indonesian - Japanese - Polish - Portuguese - Portuguese (Brazil) - Russian - Slovenian - Spanish - Ukrainian