Overview of changes in GLib 2.85.0, 2025-05-20
 * Preserve mode for existing file when creating a temporary file for atomic
   updates with g_file_set_contents() (dconf#76, work by Wesley Hershberger)

 * Fix race conditions between g_main_context_unref() and g_source_*() methods
   (#803, work by Matthew Waters)

 * Allow file handles inside nested containers when using the `gdbus call`
   command (#3624, work by Julian Sparber)

 * Fix DNS resolution of local addresses in offline mode (#3641, work by
   Patrick Griffis)

 * Various performance improvements to GObject locking (various MRs by
   Thomas Haller)

 * Prefer matches occurring earlier in the string when searching
   `GDesktopAppInfo`s, improving search for apps in gnome-shell (!4369, work by
   Fina Wilke)

 * Fix thread safety of `GClosure` flags (!4575, !4577, work by Sam James and
   Philip Withnall)

* Bugs fixed:
  - GNOME/dconf#76 dconf update can set incorrect permissions to dconf system db
    (Wesley Hershberger)
  - #490 Not clearly documented behavior of g_key_file_set_comment function.
    (marklkram)
  - #803 g_main_context_unref() versus g_source_*() race (Matthew Waters)
  - #1002 GObject doesn't support removing a weak reference in a GWeakNotify for
    the same object
  - #1250 gsocketlistener: Fix IPv4 listen() error-handling resulting in use-
    after-free
  - #2377 Document that `g_socket_address_get_native_size()` can return `-1` on
    errors
  - #2544 Consider `g_log_always_fatal` for aborting in
    `g_log_structured_array()` (sid)
  - #3405 Enable -Wconversion warnings by default (progress towards this, but it
    is not complete)
  - #3616 docs: Broken link in GioActionEntry (Philip Withnall)
  - #3617 Add generalised version of g_date_get_monday_week_of_year() (Philip
    Withnall)
  - #3624 `gdbus call` should look for file handles inside nested containers
    (Julian Sparber)
  - #3630 2.84.0 build failure on Linux: ../gio/gnetworkmonitornetlink.c:47:10:
    fatal error: netlink/netlink_route.h: No such file or directory (Philip
    Withnall)
  - #3634 test failure with gobject-introspection 1.83.4: warning: element
    doc:format from state 3 is unknown, ignoring (Philip Withnall)
  - #3636 gio/trash does not handle special characters well
  - #3641 GResolver: Local DNS resolution failure in offline mode (Patrick
    Griffis)
  - #3642 `g_cancellable_connect()` documentation incorrect (Marco Trevisan
    (Treviño))
  - #3643 g_cancellable_connect(): is it safe to unref cancellable from
    callback? (Marco Trevisan (Treviño))
  - #3649 Crash with some registry key values in GWin32AppInfo (Philip Withnall)
  - #3656 Set SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER when logging to journald (Axel Karjalainen)
  - #3657 girepository: Wrong typelib path on Windows
  - #3663 Cannot use GZlibCompressor in GTK testsuite (Benjamin Otte)
  - #3684 UAF in GSignalGroup weak notify callbacks (Thomas Haller)
  - #3686 docs.gtk.org doesn't mention that GSourceFuncs.finalize may be NULL
    (BZZZZ)
  - #3693 Random failures in debian-i386-stable
  - !4185 [th/gobject-no-object-locks-pt1-notify] use
    `g_datalist_id_update_atomic()` instead of OPTIONAL_BIT_LOCK_NOTIFY
  - !4247 mappedfile: Avoid some allocations
  - !4369 gdesktopappinfo: Prefer matches that occur earlier in the match string
  - !4387 Fix various -Wshorten-64-to-32 warnings
  - !4484 Memory sanitizer fixes
  - !4489 gobject: Be consistent in using atomic logic to handle the
    GParamSpecPool
  - !4520 [th/gdataset-cleanup] minor cleanups of gdataset
  - !4536 [th/gobj-closure-array-atomic] use g_datalist_id_update_atomic() for
    array of closure watches
  - !4541 gsettings: Port docs to gi-docgen format, add missing annotations and
    make various improvements
  - !4544 tests: Don't install runner scripts without installed_tests
  - !4545 Update French translation
  - !4547 Update Catalan translation
  - !4548 Update Turkish translation
  - !4551 Updated Danish translation
  - !4552 Update Persian translation
  - !4553 docs: Document GSignalFlags members added after 2.0
  - !4554 Update Indonesian translation
  - !4555 tests: Add a test for g_object_freeze_notify() being called too often
  - !4557 gfileinfo: Slightly expand docs for
    g_file_info_get_attribute_as_string()
  - !4558 gi: Dynamically set doc-format
  - !4561 tests: Various fixes to create temporary files in /tmp rather than the
    build directory
  - !4562 gdbusnameowning: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
  - !4563 giounix-private: Fix macro for checking for epoll_create1()
  - !4565 Fix LGPL in header
  - !4567 gutils: make documentation of g_set_prgname() clearer
  - !4568 docs: Add some detail
  - !4569 Update Romanian translation
  - !4570 gspawn-win32: Fix potential integer overflows in argv handling
  - !4571 gvarianttype: Improve docs on type validation
  - !4575 gclosure: fix ATOMIC_CHANGE_FIELD to read vint atomically
  - !4577 gclosure: Allow full set of closure flags to be queried atomically
  - !4578 [th/bit-lock-and-set] bitlock: add g_bit_lock_and_get() and
    g_bit_unlock_and_set() API
  - !4579 tests: Add missing unistd.h include to scannerapi.c
  - !4581 [th/gobj-no-weak-ref-lock] drop OPTIONAL_BIT_LOCK_WEAK_REFS object
    lock for `g_object_weak_{ref,unref}()`
  - !4583 thread: fix Linux detection
  - !4585 gfile: Expand documentation around file info for inaccessible files
  - !4586 [th/gobj-doc-weakref] clear #GWeakRef earlier in
    g_object_run_dispose() and reword docs about #GWeakRef
  - !4588 gstring: carefully handle gssize parameters
  - !4590 Various -Wsign-conversion warning fixes
  - !4591 gthreadedresolver: fix crash in loopback interface check
  - !4592 gstring: Make len_unsigned unsigned
  - !4594 Enable -Wsign-conversion for girepository, gthread, gmodule
  - !4596 docs: Mention how to run the test suite in CONTRIBUTING.md
  - !4598 gtlsconnection: Fix annotation
  - !4599 Mark pointer as (type gpointer)
  - !4601 garray: Fix annotations
  - !4602 docs: fix typo glong: ULONG_MAX -> LONG_MAX
  - !4603 Fix GNetworkMonitorNetlink operation under a FreeBSD jail with shared
    network stack
  - !4604 cocoa: add support for GBytesIcon in notification backend
  - !4605 gparamspecs: Use standard min/max constants rather than literals
  - !4606 gobject, girepository: Fix several -Wsign-conversion warnings on macOS
  - !4609 Update Portuguese translation
  - !4610 Update Ukrainian translation
  - !4613 Update macOS job for new CI runner
  - !4615 shell: Handle empty comment gracefully
  - !4619 gslist: Improve documentation for append / prepend / insert methods
  - !4620 glocalfile: Disable faccessat()-based query_exists on Android
  - !4621 gallocator: mark as deprecated
  - !4627 [th/gsignalgroup-dispose] gsignalgroup: make GSignalGroup.dispose() a
    bit more reentrant
  - !4628 [th/gdataset-fix-zero-key] fix and cleanup related to using a zero
    GQuark for keys in GData
  - !4631 Update German translation
  - !4632 win32: Only print one OS version
  - !4633 gzlibcompressor: Convert docs to gi-docgen linking syntax
  - !4638 docs: Fix formatting of definition lists

* Translation updates:
  - Catalan (Jordi Mas)
  - Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
  - French (Vincent Chatelain)
  - German (Philipp Kiemle)
  - Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  - Persian (Danial Behzadi)
  - Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
  - Romanian (Antonio Marin)
  - Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
  - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)