[vala/staging] Sync NEWS from 0.42

[Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz src gnome org>]

commit 13447a2f2d5ac83c2df0930d83b6aad6e2a5acf6
Author: Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz ubuntu com>
Date:   Thu Nov 8 08:04:41 2018 +0100

    Sync NEWS from 0.42

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+Vala 0.42.3
+===========
+ * Various improvements and bug fixes:
+  - codegen:
+    + Initialize internal temp-variables used as reference parameter
+    + Improve ccode for fixed-length array parameters (#163)
+    + Fix regex literal compile flags
+    + Add prototype for *_register_type() function
+    + Don't emit *_free() of derived compact classes
+    + Add prototype for *_new() of abstact compact classes
+  - girwriter: Fix ctype of out/ref and array parameters
+  - ccode: Fix typo and actually check "end_decls" (#672)
+  - abstract syntax tree:
+    + Always analyze nodes after they are inserted into the AST
+    + Add source_reference to local variable of catch-clause
+    + Add missing replace_expression() implementations
+    + Fix several construction/parenting issues
+    + DataType for GLib.Error should be should resolved as ErrorType
+  - libvaladoc: Add "unlock" to keywords in Highligher
+  - posix:
+    + Add replacement for G_(BEGIN|END)_DECLS
+    + Don't check for GLib.Variant casting
+  - testrunner: Reset $run_prefix before generating next test script
+  - build: Unconditionally add conditional VALAFLAGS to make bootstrap
+  - doc: Fix build of internal-api-docs
+  - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org
+
+ * Bindings:
+  - glib-2.0: Computing length once is enough in string.to_utf8()/splice()
+  - glib-2.0: Add binding for g_test_add()
+  - glib-2.0: Add array length to string.skip (#695)
+  - gio-2.0: Result of DBusMessage.get_header() is unowned
+  - gobject-2.0,gtk+-*.0: Fix some GLib.Value out/ref parameters
+  - gstreamer: Update from 1.15+ git master
+  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.94.0+b4b30b49
+
+Vala 0.42.2
+===========
+ * Various improvements and bug fixes:
+  - codewriter: Prepend "yield" if is_yield_expression is set on
+    MethodCall and ObjectCreationExpression
+  - codegen: Fix typo in is_pure_ccode_expression() [#673]
+  - gobject-introspection: Fix use after free in scanner [#674]
+  - vala: Check if ArrayType supports its given element-type in analyzer pass
+  - valadoc: Fix some string escaping which gettext complains about
+
+ * Bindings:
+  - Update GIDL-based bindings to fix unsupported type-arguments
+  - glib-2.0: Add feature_test_macro details for Time struct's methods
+  - glib-2.0: Set DateTime.now () to use local time zone as the default
+  - gstreamer: Update from 1.15+ git master
+  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.94.0+d90e2733
+  - libxml-2.0: Add missing context parameter in OutputWriteCallback
+  - x11: Add binding for XCreateSimpleWindow
+
 Vala 0.42.1
 ===========
  * Various improvements and bug fixes: