=== 2.56 ======================================================================

    • Changes:
      - Add _Float128 to the base C types
      - Update annotations imported from GLib, and require GLib 2.56

    • Issues resolved on gitlab.gnome.org:
      - #173 - Fails to parse flag-constants
      - #175 - writer: Include documentation and symbol position in
               source files
      - #120 - adding subdir-objects to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      - #190 - const qualifier dropped from c:type on (type filename)
               parameters
      - #188 - giscanner: don't print "suppressed N warnings" if --quiet
               was specified

    • Bugs resolved on bugzilla.gnome.org:
      - #764791 - gitypelib.c: increase #define MAX_NAME_LEN from 200 to 255
      - #756921 - g-ir-scanner does not recognize _Thread_local
      - #791991 - Broken shared-library value in gir files on *BSD when
                  builddir includes the name of the library
      - #791902 - Building using non-libtool (e.g., meson) on MinGW
      - #629667 - MY_ENUM_VALUE = <constant> only works for last member
      - #699354 - g-ir-compiler man page for --shared-library incorrectly
                  says "lib" and ".so" should be removed
      - #761985 - os.name can be wrong in some context
      - #699328 - GI_TYPELIB_PATH is undocumented

    • Contributors:
      Ting-Wei Lan, Leslie Giles, Rico Tzschichholz, Christoph Reiter,
      Nicola Fontana, Tomasz Miąsko, Emmanuele Bassi, Philip Chimento,
      Karl-Philipp Richter

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