Vala 0.40.24
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 * Various improvements and bug fixes:
  - codegen:
    + Improve array-dup-wrapper for empty arrays [#999]
    + Don't call get_ccode_finish_instance() with non-async methods
    + Cast initializer-list to struct for non-constant/-array assignment [#1013]
    + Consistently use get_ccode_lower_case_prefix() for function names [#1008]
    + Properly compare string if binary-expression contains string-literal
    + Inline allocated and constant arrays are never NULL
    + Check param for null before using it
    + Properly destroy elements of an inline struct array [#365]
    + Include header for base-symbols when connecting vfuncs
    + Don't append unreachable clean-up section of Block [#169] [#838]
    + Always include base_struct declaration if available [#464]
    + Don't pass CCodeFunctionCall to NULL-aware free macro
  - vala:
    + Correctly handle qualified struct type in initializer list [#1004]
    + Fix value-type for ArrayCreationExpression used as argument [#1009]
    + Improve parameter check of "get" method used for foreach [#1017]
    + Avoid subsequent critical caused by invalid array type for constant
    + Improve error handling of nested initializer lists
    + Don't allow "resize" invocation on variable with unowned array type [#928]
    + Property must be writable when invoking ReturnsModifiedPointer method [#1023]
    + Recursive check of assignment target to recognize constants [#944]
    + Return copy of constant type in get_value_type_for_symbol()
    + Handle parameter initializer without value-type
    + Fully qualify member-access when using-directive was used to resolve [#57]
    + Tranform instance member-access to a static one if possible [#270]
    + Improve check of expression passed to yield
    + Allow prototype access to signal with emitter
    + Check error-type accessibility of creation methods and delegates
    + Mark tranformed member-access as qualified [#57]
    + Add TraverseVisitor for traversing the tree with a callback
    + Force usage of temporary variables for "tainted" member accesses [#1061]
    + Move transformation of unary increment/decrement to codegen
    + Set parent_node for child nodes of lambda-expression [#1062]
  - girparser:
    + Actually respect given cprefix metadata for enumerations
    + Warn about conflicting signals and properties
    + Skip 'docsection' elements in <namespace>
    + Add support for string "feature_test_macro" metadata
    + Additionally fallback to "glib:type-name" to retrieve the cname
  - girwriter:
    + Append symbol-attributes to callback field [#1006]
    + Add c:identifier-prefixes to <namespace>
    + Write c:type="void" when name="none"
    + Write c:symbol-prefix on supported elements
    + Don't include symbols outside of a namespace [#241]
  - libvaladoc: Support exporting the `class` modifier on methods and fields
  - libvaladoc/girimporter:
    + Skip "function-macro" elements
    + Fallback to "name" for callback
    + Fallback to "glib:type-name" for class, interface and record
    + Improve parse_symbol_doc() and don't use parse_doc()
    + Skip "attribute" elements
  - libvaladoc/gtkdoc-importer:
    + Correctly retrieve "url" from "ulink" elements
    + Don't let parse_block_taglet() return null
  - build: Update git-version-gen to latest upstream
  - tests: Build typelib if g-ir-compiler is available
  - tests: Don't rely on undefined use-after-free behaviour of glibc
  - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org
  - Don't use locale dependent string functions on syntax strings [#1067]
  - g-i: Fix a couple of C compiler warnings
  - libvaladoc: Fix a couple of C compiler warnings
  - testrunner: Pass --enable-checking to increase coverage, Filter external
    -0X flags to preserve current default -O0

 * Bindings:
  - glib-2.0: Add AtomicUint, an alternation of AtomicInt for uint [#915]
  - gio-unix-2.0: Fix "g_unix_mount_for" binding [#1052]
  - gio-2.0: Include "gio/gsettingsbackend.h" for GLib.SettingsBackend
    members [#1054]
  - gtk+-3.0: Deprecated abstract methods are not required to be implemented
  - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.24.21+ffe2df7b
  - gtk+-3.0: Resolve conflicts of signals with properties
  - posix: Declare WRDE_APPEND constant as public
  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.30.1