Overview of changes in GLib 2.79.1, 2024-01-22
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* Fix a race condition in `g_object_unref()` (#3064, work by Thomas Haller)

* Various API and build changes to libgirepository as it is not yet API-stable
  (#3216, !3780, !3805, !3823, !3833, !3840)

* Build fixes on big-endian 64-bit systems and mips64el (#3225, #3226, work by
  Simon McVittie)

* Reduce contention on global locks within GObject (!3774, work by Thomas
  Haller)

* Allow building man pages without the reference documentation (!3817, work by
  Simon McVittie)

* Bugs fixed:
  - #1010 g_get_num_processor does not respect cpuset/affinity
  - #3064 Crash under g_object_unref()
  - #3093 GDBusMessage: should validate the type of all known headers (Philip
    Withnall)
  - #3207 Add support for syslog to Structured Logging
  - #3216 Feedback on gobject-introspection: Casting to and from GIBaseInfo*
    (Philip Withnall)
  - #3222 pthread_t usages lack type name (Emmanuele Bassi)
  - #3223 CLang, GMutexLocker: error: unused variable 'locker'
    [-Werror,-Wunused-variable]
  - #3225 2.79 regression: gdatetime test failing on 64-bit big-endian since
    #3119
  - #3226 resource test fails on Debian mips64el: test5.gresource is not linked
    but the test assumes it should be (Simon McVittie)
  - !3774 [th/g-object-priv] add private data to GObject and use per-object
    locking
  - !3780 girepository: Use standard types instead of glib specific
  - !3789 gdatetime: Fix title of documentation comment
  - !3792 build: Tell gi-docgen where to find the GIR files
  - !3793 Shorten the title for D-Bus interface docs
  - !3794 Add boxed GType for GRand
  - !3795 girepository: Skip GIRepository versions not matching GIRepository-3.0
  - !3798 docs: Drop outdated .gitignore files
  - !3799 tests: Fix a minor leak in the new GParamSpecPool test
  - !3800 ci: Re-enable and fix FreeBSD CI
  - !3801 gmessages: Port all doc comments to gi-docgen
  - !3802 [th/g-pointer-bit-lock-ext] glib: add g_pointer_bit_unlock_and_set()
    and g_pointer_bit_lock_mask_ptr()
  - !3803 ci: Fix tarballing the docs on dist
  - !3805 girepository: Various small API cleanups
  - !3806 gsignal.c: drop an optimization that is undefined behaviour
  - !3808 glib/deprecated: Skip all the deprecated gthread api
  - !3809 docs: Fix links to symbols outside the allowed namsepace
  - !3810 gstrfuncs: Improve and port g_set_str() docs to gi-docgen
  - !3811 gvariant-parser: Mention annotated types
  - !3812 brz.c: Use uintptr_t instead of a hardcoded list of 64-bit arches
  - !3813 gobject: define HAVE_OPTIONAL_FLAGS for sizeof(void*) > 8
  - !3814 Fix typo in GPOINTER_TO_SIZE documentation
  - !3817 docs: Allow building man pages without the reference documentation
  - !3818 docs: Clarify >=2.76 changes to g_module_open()
  - !3821 tests: Fix a minor leak in the socket test
  - !3823 girepository: Misc cleanups
  - !3826 genums: use g_once_init_enter_pointer for GType initializers
  - !3827 array-test: Don't assume sizeof(void*)==sizeof(gsize)
  - !3831 gvariant-core: Don’t call posix_memalign() with size==0
  - !3833 girepository: Change various alignments to use size_t
  - !3835 build: Ignore branches in g_clear_*() functions under lcov
  - !3837 tests: A couple of test isolation improvements
  - !3839 gvarianttype: Fix typos
  - !3840 girepository: Exclude private symbols from the ABI
  - !3841 docs: Fix member names of GLib.LogLevelFlags
  - !3842 gio, gmodule, gthread: compile windows resources only in shared build

* Translation updates:
  - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
  - Russian (Artur S0)