Comment 11 for bug 998521

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you can see the details of the commits on http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/log/?h=glib-2-32

summary of the .news:

* GApplication: can now have a NULL application ID

* g_clear_object: fix warnings when using it on C++ (due to lack of
  ability to implicitly cast void*)

* GDBus:
 - add our own implementation of the message bus for use on Windows only
 - fix up a few bugs that use of this bus uncovered in GDBus
 - escape nonce files in dbus addressess (think 'c:\')
 - support initial underscores in dbus codegen namespace (for private)

* Fix misdetection of GNUstep as Cocoa (for the MacOS GSettings backend)

* make sure configure fails if AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF cannot detect the alignment

* GAppInfo: overwrite the DISPLAY only if it is set in the launch context

* glib/tests/date: force US locale running the GDateTime tests

* GSocketControlMessage: Don't warn about unknown messages

* Resources:
 - fix broken use of GVDB on big endian machines
 - set a 'display name' so that pretty file names appear in Gtk CSS
   warning messages

* GMainContext:
 - block child sources when blocking the parent
 - introduce more testcases for child sources

* Bug fixed:
 619026 avoid warning in gutils.h when using gcc with -Wconversion
 669260 Open/Save dialog hangs waiting for data with libsoup
 671249 GApplication: Allow a null application_id?
 672786 goa-daemon: action in notification doesn't work
 673409 g_resource_lookup_data may return stale data pointer
 674172 glib-2.32.1 misdetects GNUstep as Cocoa
 674345 cssprovider: Make sure to print out file name in css warnings
 674483 broken configure results when cross-compiling with gcc >= 4.5

* Bug fixes:
 Correct a typo in the ELF configure check
 Reset LIBS after the ELF configure check
 Fix GIO/GObject Visual C++ projects
 gio: fix error handling in async case of GProxy...
 GConverterInputStream: fix an infinite loop...

* Translation updates

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The new version is shipped in Debian testing and fedora, a big part of the diff is the dbus server added for win32 (it's not used on linux)

Testing ... there is nothing specific to test out of the fact that the desktop keeps running normally