Version 1.81.1
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- Breaking change: When creating a GObject with the `new` operator, the
  constructor takes a single argument consisting of a property bag with
  GObject construct properties and their values.
  This was often confused with the `new` static method that may take
  arguments that are not interpreted as property bags.
  For example, Gio.FileIcon was one of the many affected APIs:

      new Gio.FileIcon({file: myFile})

  vs
   
      Gio.FileIcon.new(myFile)

  Confusion between the two often lead to bug reports when confusing
  these two and calling `new Gio.FileIcon(myFile)` - the constructor
  would look for a nonexistent `file` property on `myFile`, causing an
  improperly initialized object.

  This is now no longer allowed. The argument to `new Gio.FileIcon(...)`
  must be a plain JS object, not a GObject.

  It's possible that existing code legitimately used a GObject here. If
  your code does this and a quick migration is impractical, please get
  in touch and we will revert this change before 1.82.0 in favour of a
  longer deprecation period.

- The `get_data()`, `get_qdata()`, `set_data()`, `steal_data()`,
  `steal_qdata()`, `ref()`, `unref()`, `ref_sink()`, and
  `force_floating()` methods of GObject now throw if called.
  These methods never worked, but sometimes they would silently appear
  to succeed, then cause crashes or memory leaks later.

  If you were trying to use the `get_data()` family of methods, just set
  a JS property instead. If you were trying to modify the refcount of a
  GObject in JS, instead set the object as the value of a JS property on
  some other object.

- Closed bugs and merge requests:
  * doc: Document how to get a stack trace [!864, Sonny Piers]
  * TextDecoder should accept GBytes [#587, !903, Sriyansh Shivam]
  * Possible use-after-free with GLib.Regex.match/GLib.MatchInfo [#589,
    !920, Philip Chimento]
  * method `get_line` of `Pango.Layout` doesn't work. [#547, !921,
    Philip Chimento]
  * Block calls to g_object_get_data and friends [#423, !922, Philip
    Chimento]
  * Crash when calling Pango.Layout.get_pixel_size() with a badly
    init:ed Pango.Layout [#580, !923, Philip Chimento]
  * doc: avoid reference to Gio.UnixInputStream [!925, Andy Holmes]
  * Add a CI check for config.h, and some other useful checks [#447,
    !926, Philip Chimento]
  * Incorrect UnixOutputStream warning [#610, !928, Philip Chimento]
  * Various maintenance [!929, !931, Philip Chimento]
  * Docs: Various markdown fixes [!930, Frank Dana]
  * Some build fixes for the master (and gnome-46) branches for Visual
    Studio [!932, Chun-wei Fan]
  * GJS doesn't log undefined values [#621, !933, Gary Li]
  * property objects are printed as empty js objects [#622, !934, Gary
    Li]