ANNOUNCE: libvirt-glib release 5.0.0

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 5.0.0, is now available from

https://libvirt.org/sources/glib/

The packages are GPG signed with

Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)

Changes in this release:

• Fix compatiblity with libxml2 >= 2.12.0
• Bump min libvirt version to 2.3.0
• Bump min meson to 0.56.0
• Require use of GCC >= 4.8 / CLang > 3.4 / XCode CLang > 5.1
• Mark USB disks as removable by default
• Add support for audio device backend config
• Add support for DBus graphics backend config
• Add support for controlling firmware feature flags
• Improve compiler flag handling in meson
• Extend library version script handling to FreeBSD
• Fix pointer sign issue in capabilities config API
• Fix compat with gnome.mkenums() in Meson 0.60.0
• Avoid compiler warnings from gi-ir-scanner generated code by not setting glib version constraints
• Be more robust about NULL GError parameters
• Disable unimportant cast alignment compiler warnings
• Use ‘pragma once’ in all header files
• Updated translations

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this new release.