diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a78a36c62a2..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-name: "CodeQL"
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ "master" ]
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ "master" ]
-
-jobs:
-  analyze:
-    # lgtm.com does not run in forks, for good reason
-    if: github.repository == 'mesonbuild/meson'
-    name: Analyze
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      security-events: write
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
-      with:
-        # bypass cache: https://github.com/github/codeql-action/issues/1445
-        tools: linked
-        config-file: .github/codeql/codeql-config.yml
-        languages: python
-        # we have none
-
-    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cygwin.yml b/.github/workflows/cygwin.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d819f802f1fe..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/cygwin.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-name: cygwin
-
-concurrency:
-  group: cygwin-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      # Stable branches such as 0.56 or 1.0
-      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/cygwin.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/cygwin.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  test:
-    runs-on: windows-latest
-    name: ${{ matrix.NAME }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - NAME: gccx64ninja
-            ARCH: x86_64
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME: cygwin-${{ matrix.NAME }}
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-        id: restore-cache
-        with:
-          # should use 'pip3 cache dir' to discover this path
-          path: C:\cygwin\home\runneradmin\.cache\pip
-          key: cygwin-pip-${{ github.run_number }}
-          restore-keys: cygwin-pip-
-
-      - run: git config --global core.autocrlf input
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - uses: cygwin/cygwin-install-action@master
-        with:
-          platform: ${{ matrix.ARCH }}
-          packages: |
-            cmake
-            gcc-fortran
-            gcc-objc++
-            gcc-objc
-            git
-            gobject-introspection
-            gtk-doc
-            libboost-devel
-            libglib2.0-devel
-            libgtk3-devel
-            libxml2-devel
-            libxslt-devel
-            make
-            ninja
-            python2-devel
-            python3-devel
-            python3-libxml2
-            python3-libxslt
-            python39-pip
-            python39-wheel
-            vala
-            zlib-devel
-
-      - name: Run pip
-        run: |
-          export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$(cygpath ${SYSTEMROOT})/system32
-          python3 -m pip --disable-pip-version-check install gcovr fastjsonschema pefile pytest pytest-subtests pytest-xdist coverage
-        shell: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --noprofile --norc -o igncr -eo pipefail '{0}'
-
-      - uses: actions/cache/save@v4
-        with:
-          # should use 'pip3 cache dir' to discover this path
-          path: C:\cygwin\home\runneradmin\.cache\pip
-          key: cygwin-pip-${{ github.run_number }}
-
-      - name: Run tests
-        run: |
-          export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$(cygpath ${SYSTEMROOT})/system32
-          python3 ./tools/run_with_cov.py run_tests.py --backend=ninja
-        env:
-          # Cygwin's static boost installation is broken (some static library
-          # variants such as boost_thread are not present)
-          SKIP_STATIC_BOOST: 1
-        shell: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --noprofile --norc -o igncr -eo pipefail '{0}'
-
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: ${{ matrix.NAME }}
-          path: meson-test-run.*
-        # test log should be saved on failure
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-
-      - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-        run: |
-          export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$(cygpath ${SYSTEMROOT})/system32
-          ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-        shell: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --noprofile --norc -o igncr -eo pipefail '{0}'
-
-      - name: Upload coverage report
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-          name: "${{ matrix.NAME }}"
-          fail_ci_if_error: false
-          verbose: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/file_format.yml b/.github/workflows/file_format.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d61d634c0315..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/file_format.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-name: File format check
-
-on: [push, pull_request]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: file_fmt-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  format:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-    - run: python3 ./run_format_tests.py
diff --git a/.github/workflows/images.yml b/.github/workflows/images.yml
index d20f7e5ced02..9678df91458f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/images.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/images.yml
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         cfg:
           - { name: Arch Linux,       id: arch     }
-          - { name: CUDA (on Arch),   id: cuda     }
+          #- { name: CUDA (on Arch),   id: cuda     }
           - { name: Fedora,           id: fedora   }
           - { name: Gentoo,           id: gentoo   }
-          - { name: OpenSUSE,         id: opensuse }
-          - { name: Ubuntu Bionic,    id: bionic   }
-          - { name: Ubuntu Rolling,   id: ubuntu-rolling  }
+          #- { name: OpenSUSE,         id: opensuse }
+          #- { name: Ubuntu Bionic,    id: bionic   }
+          #- { name: Ubuntu Rolling,   id: ubuntu-rolling  }
     steps:
         # Need v3 because of bionic
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5588034723b8..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-name: Lint
-
-concurrency:
-  group: lint-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    paths:
-    - "**.py"
-    - ".github/workflows/lint.yml"
-    - ".pylintrc"
-    - ".flake8"
-    - ".mypy.ini"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-    - "**.py"
-    - ".github/workflows/lint.yml"
-    - ".pylintrc"
-    - ".flake8"
-    - ".mypy.ini"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-
-  pylint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-    - run: python -m pip install pylint
-    - run: pylint --output-format colorized mesonbuild
-
-  flake8:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.x'
-      - run: python -m pip install flake8
-      - run: flake8 --color always mesonbuild/
-
-  mypy:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-    # Pin mypy to version 1.8, so we retain the ability to lint for Python 3.7
-    - run: python -m pip install "mypy==1.8" coverage strictyaml types-PyYAML types-tqdm types-chevron
-    - run: python run_mypy.py --allver
-      env:
-        PYTHONUNBUFFERED: 1
-        TERM: xterm-color
-        MYPY_FORCE_COLOR: 1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/macos.yml b/.github/workflows/macos.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 88acbef90206..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/macos.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,158 +0,0 @@
-name: macos
-
-concurrency:
-  group: macos-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      # Stable branches such as 0.56 or 1.0
-      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/macos.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/macos.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  unittests-appleclang:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-    - run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install pytest pytest-xdist pytest-subtests fastjsonschema coverage
-    - run: brew install pkg-config ninja llvm qt@5
-    - env:
-        CPPFLAGS: "-I/opt/homebrew/include"
-        LDFLAGS: "-L/opt/homebrew/lib"
-        MESON_CI_JOBNAME: unittests-appleclang
-        MESON_UNIT_TEST_BACKEND: ninja
-        HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: 1
-        # These cannot evaluate anything, so we cannot set PATH or SDKROOT here
-      run: |
-        export SDKROOT="$(xcodebuild -version -sdk macosx Path)"
-        export PATH="$HOME/tools:/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH"
-        export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
-        ./tools/run_with_cov.py ./run_unittests.py
-
-    - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-      run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-    - name: Upload coverage report
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      with:
-        files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-        name: "appleclang [unit tests]"
-        fail_ci_if_error: false
-        verbose: true
-
-
-  project-tests-appleclang:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        include:
-        - NAME: macos-clang
-          unity: off
-        - NAME: macos-clang-unity
-          unity: on
-
-    name: ${{ matrix.NAME }}
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME: ${{ matrix.NAME }}
-      HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: 1
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    # Avoid picking up an older version of LLVM that does not work.
-    - run: brew update
-    # github actions overwrites brew's python. Force it to reassert itself, by running in a separate step.
-    - name: unbreak python in github actions
-      run: |
-        find /usr/local/bin -lname '*/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/*' -delete
-        sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
-        brew install --force python3 && brew unlink python3 && brew unlink python3 && brew link --overwrite python3
-        # Delete nonsensical PEP 668 breakage. It is the wrong solution to the problem and isn't designed to be
-        # productive -- only victim blaming -- however it bites particularly badly because this is a container/VM
-        # See commit 5c479d7a13a518c18ccb4dc3b6bdd7bfc2a9bdb5 for a more thorough analysis.
-        find /opt/homebrew/Cellar/python* -name EXTERNALLY-MANAGED -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf
-    # use python3 from homebrew because it is a valid framework, unlike the actions one:
-    # https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/58
-    - run: brew install pkg-config ninja llvm qt@5 boost ldc hdf5 openmpi lapack scalapack sdl2 boost-python3 gtk-doc zstd ncurses objfw libomp
-    - run: |
-        python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
-        python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python3 -m pip install cython coverage
-    - env:
-        CPPFLAGS: "-I/opt/homebrew/include"
-        LDFLAGS: "-L/opt/homebrew/lib"
-        MESON_ARGS: --unity=${{ matrix.unity }}
-        XML_CATALOG_FILES: "/opt/homebrew/etc/xml/catalog"
-        CI: 1
-        # These cannot evaluate anything, so we cannot set PATH or SDKROOT here
-      run: |
-        export SDKROOT="$(xcodebuild -version -sdk macosx Path)"
-        export PATH="$HOME/tools:/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/bin:$PATH"
-        export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/lapack/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
-        ./tools/run_with_cov.py ./run_project_tests.py --backend=ninja
-
-    - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-      run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-    - name: Upload coverage report
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      with:
-        files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-        name: "appleclang [project tests; unity=${{ matrix.unity }}]"
-        fail_ci_if_error: false
-        verbose: true
-
-  Qt4macos:
-    # This job only works on Intel Macs, because OpenSSL 1.0 doesn't build on
-    # Apple ARM
-    runs-on: macos-13
-    env:
-      HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: 1
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-    - run: python -m pip install -e .
-    - run: brew install pkg-config ninja gcc
-    - run: brew tap cartr/qt4
-    - run: brew install qt@4
-    - run: brew link qt@4
-      # qt4 tap seems to be broken
-    - run: ln -sfn /usr/local/Cellar/qt@4/4.8.7_6.reinstall /usr/local/Cellar/qt@4/4.8.7_6
-    - run: meson setup "test cases/frameworks/4 qt" build -Drequired=qt4
-    - run: meson compile -C build
-    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      if: failure()
-      with:
-        name: Qt4_Mac_build
-        path: build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
-    - run: meson test -C build -v
-    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      if: failure()
-      with:
-        name: Qt4_Mac_test
-        path: build/meson-logs/testlog.txt
diff --git a/.github/workflows/msys2.yml b/.github/workflows/msys2.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b518fee7607..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/msys2.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-name: msys2
-
-concurrency:
-  group: msys2-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      # Stable branches such as 0.56 or 1.0
-      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/msys2.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/msys2.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  test:
-    runs-on: windows-2019
-    name: ${{ matrix.NAME }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - NAME: gccx86ninja
-            MSYSTEM: MINGW32
-            MSYS2_ARCH: i686
-            MSYS2_CURSES: ncurses
-            COMPILER: gcc
-            TOOLCHAIN: toolchain
-          - NAME: gccx64ninja
-            MSYSTEM: MINGW64
-            MSYS2_ARCH: x86_64
-            MSYS2_CURSES: pdcurses
-            COMPILER: gcc
-            TOOLCHAIN: toolchain
-          - NAME: clangx64ninja
-            MSYSTEM: MINGW64
-            MSYS2_ARCH: x86_64
-            MSYS2_CURSES:
-            COMPILER: clang
-            TOOLCHAIN: clang
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME: msys2-${{ matrix.NAME }}
-
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: msys2 {0}
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
-        with:
-          msystem: ${{ matrix.MSYSTEM }}
-          update: true
-          install: >-
-            base-devel
-            git
-            mercurial
-            lcov
-            wget
-            unzip
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-cmake
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-glib2
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-libxml2
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-ninja
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-pkg-config
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-python2
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-python
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-python-lxml
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-python-setuptools
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-python-pip
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-python-fastjsonschema
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-objfw
-            mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-${{ matrix.TOOLCHAIN }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          python3 -m pip --disable-pip-version-check install gcovr pefile pytest pytest-subtests pytest-xdist coverage
-
-      - name: Install pypy3 on x86_64
-        run: |
-          mkdir pypy3local
-          pushd pypy3local
-          wget -nv https://downloads.python.org/pypy/pypy3.8-v7.3.9-win64.zip
-          unzip pypy3.8-v7.3.9-win64.zip
-          mv pypy3.8-v7.3.9-win64/* ./
-          popd
-        if: ${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH == 'x86_64' }}
-
-      - name: Run Tests
-        run: |
-          if [[ "${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}" == "x86_64" ]]; then
-            # There apparently is no clean way to add to the PATH in the
-            # previous step?
-            # See for instance https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2/issues/171
-            export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/pypy3local
-            # Make sure it is on the PATH
-            pypy3 -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"
-          fi
-          export PATHEXT="$PATHEXT;.py"
-
-          if [[ '${{ matrix.COMPILER }}' == 'clang' ]]; then
-            export CC=clang
-            export CXX=clang++
-            export OBJC=clang
-            export OBJCXX=clang++
-          fi
-
-          if [[ "${{ matrix.MSYS2_CURSES }}" != "" ]]; then
-            pacman --noconfirm --needed -S mingw-w64-${{ matrix.MSYS2_ARCH }}-${{ matrix.MSYS2_CURSES }}
-          fi
-
-          MSYSTEM= python3 ./tools/run_with_cov.py run_tests.py --backend=ninja
-
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: ${{ matrix.NAME }}
-          path: meson-test-run.*
-
-      - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-        run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-      - name: Upload coverage report
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-          name: "${{ matrix.NAME }}"
-          fail_ci_if_error: false
-          verbose: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nonnative.yml b/.github/workflows/nonnative.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2712d1032935..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/nonnative.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-name: Cross-only compilation environment
-
-concurrency:
-  group: nonnative-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      # Stable branches such as 0.56 or 1.0
-      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/nonnative.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/nonnative.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  cross-only-armhf:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: mesonbuild/eoan:latest
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME: ubuntu-${{ github.job }}
-
-    steps:
-    - run: |
-        apt-get -y purge clang gcc gdc
-        apt-get -y autoremove
-        python3 -m pip install coverage
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Run tests
-      run: bash -c 'source /ci/env_vars.sh; cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE; ./tools/run_with_cov.py ./run_tests.py $CI_ARGS --cross ubuntu-armhf.json --cross-only'
-
-    - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-      run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-    - name: Upload coverage report
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      with:
-        files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-        name: "Ubuntu nonnative"
-        fail_ci_if_error: false
-        verbose: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/os_comp.yml b/.github/workflows/os_comp.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0912a750a76b..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/os_comp.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,186 +0,0 @@
-name: linux
-
-concurrency:
-  group: linux-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      # Stable branches such as 0.56 or 1.0
-      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/images.yml"
-      - ".github/workflows/os_comp.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - "mesonbuild/**"
-      - "test cases/**"
-      - "unittests/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/images.yml"
-      - ".github/workflows/os_comp.yml"
-      - "run*tests.py"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  arch:
-    name: ${{ matrix.cfg.name }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        cfg:
-          - { name: Arch Linux,       id: arch     }
-          - { name: CUDA (on Arch),   id: cuda     }
-          - { name: Fedora,           id: fedora   }
-          - { name: Gentoo,           id: gentoo   }
-          - { name: OpenSUSE,         id: opensuse }
-          - { name: Ubuntu Bionic,    id: bionic   }
-    container:
-      image: mesonbuild/${{ matrix.cfg.id }}:latest
-      volumes:
-        - ${{ matrix.cfg.id == 'bionic' && '/node20217:/node20217:rw,rshared' || ' ' }}
-        - ${{ matrix.cfg.id == 'bionic' && '/node20217:/__e/node20:ro,rshared' || ' ' }}
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME: linux-${{ matrix.cfg.id }}-gcc
-
-    steps:
-    - name: install nodejs20glibc2.17
-      if: ${{ matrix.cfg.id == 'bionic' }}
-      run: |
-        apt install curl -y
-        curl -LO https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/v20.9.0/node-v20.9.0-linux-x64-glibc-217.tar.xz
-        tar -xf node-v20.9.0-linux-x64-glibc-217.tar.xz --strip-components 1 -C /node20217
-        ldd /__e/node20/bin/node
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Run tests
-      # All environment variables are stored inside the docker image in /ci/env_vars.sh
-      # They are defined in the `env` section in each image.json. CI_ARGS should be set
-      # via the `args` array ub the image.json
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        # dmd is installed under /root on OpenSUSE
-        [[ ${{ matrix.cfg.id }} == opensuse ]] && export HOME=/root
-
-        source /ci/env_vars.sh
-        cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
-        ./tools/run_with_cov.py ./run_tests.py $CI_ARGS
-
-    - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-      run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-    - name: Upload coverage report
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      with:
-        files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-        name: "OS Comp [${{ matrix.cfg.name }}]"
-        fail_ci_if_error: false
-        verbose: true
-
-  pypy:
-    name: 'Arch / PyPy'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: mesonbuild/arch:latest
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME_UPDATE: linux-arch-gcc-pypy
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Run tests
-      run: |
-        source /ci/env_vars.sh
-        export MESON_CI_JOBNAME=$MESON_CI_JOBNAME_UPDATE
-        pypy3 run_tests.py
-
-  ubuntu-rolling:
-    name: 'Ubuntu Rolling'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        cfg:
-          - CC: 'gcc'
-            CXX: 'g++'
-          - MESON_ARGS: '--unity=on -Ddefault_library=static'
-            RUN_TESTS_ARGS: '--no-unittests'
-            CC: 'gcc'
-            CXX: 'g++'
-          - MESON_ARGS: '-Ddefault_library=both'
-            RUN_TESTS_ARGS: '--no-unittests'
-            CC: 'gcc'
-            CXX: 'g++'
-          - CC: 'clang'
-            CXX: 'clang++'
-          - MESON_ARGS: '--unity=on'
-            RUN_TESTS_ARGS: '--no-unittests'
-            CC: 'clang'
-            CXX: 'clang++'
-          - RUN_TESTS_ARGS: '--cross ubuntu-armhf.json --cross linux-mingw-w64-64bit.json'
-            MESON_RSP_THRESHOLD: '0'
-            CC: 'gcc'
-            CXX: 'g++'
-          - RUN_TESTS_ARGS: '--cross ubuntu-armhf.json --cross linux-mingw-w64-64bit.json'
-            MESON_ARGS: '--unity=on'
-            CC: 'gcc'
-            CXX: 'g++'
-
-    env:
-      MESON_CI_JOBNAME_UPDATE: linux-${{ github.job }}-${{ matrix.cfg.CC }}
-
-    container:
-      image: mesonbuild/ubuntu-rolling
-      env:
-        MESON_RSP_THRESHOLD: ${{ matrix.cfg.MESON_RSP_THRESHOLD }}
-        MESON_ARGS: ${{ matrix.cfg.MESON_ARGS }}
-        RUN_TESTS_ARGS: ${{ matrix.cfg.RUN_TESTS_ARGS }}
-        CC: ${{ matrix.cfg.CC }}
-        CXX: ${{ matrix.cfg.CXX }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Run tests
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          export HOME=/root
-
-          export CC=$CC
-          export CXX=$CXX
-          export OBJC=$CC
-          export OBJCXX=$CXX
-          export PATH=$(pwd)/tools:$PATH
-          if test "$MESON_RSP_THRESHOLD" != ""
-          then
-            export MESON_RSP_THRESHOLD=$MESON_RSP_THRESHOLD
-          fi
-
-          source /ci/env_vars.sh
-          export MESON_CI_JOBNAME=$MESON_CI_JOBNAME_UPDATE
-
-          update-alternatives --set x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix
-          update-alternatives --set x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-posix
-          update-alternatives --set i686-w64-mingw32-gcc   /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix
-          update-alternatives --set i686-w64-mingw32-g++   /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++-posix
-
-          ./tools/run_with_cov.py ./run_tests.py $RUN_TESTS_ARGS -- $MESON_ARGS
-
-      - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-        run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-      - name: Upload coverage report
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-          name: "Ubuntu [${{ matrix.cfg.CC }} ${{ matrix.cfg.RUN_TESTS_ARGS }} ${{ matrix.cfg.MESON_ARGS }}]"
-          fail_ci_if_error: false
-          verbose: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/stable_builddir.yml b/.github/workflows/stable_builddir.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ae2951801cef..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/stable_builddir.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-name: stable build directories
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  regression:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      TESTDIR: "manual tests/13 builddir upgrade"
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: install ninja
-        run: sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ninja-build
-      - name: Fetch tags and unshallow
-        run: git fetch --unshallow --tags
-      - name: Checkout latest release on this branch
-        run: |
-          cp -r "$TESTDIR" "$TESTDIR"-temp
-          git checkout "$(git describe --abbrev=0)"
-      - name: Configure with most recent tag
-        run: ./meson.py setup "$TESTDIR"-temp builddir
-      - name: Return to testing commit
-        run: git checkout $GITHUB_SHA
-      - name: check that everything still works
-        run: |
-          ./meson.py compile -C builddir
-          ninja -C builddir test
-          DESTDIR=pkg ninja -C builddir install
-          ./meson.py introspect builddir --all
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unusedargs_missingreturn.yml b/.github/workflows/unusedargs_missingreturn.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 72f39b511f45..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/unusedargs_missingreturn.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-name: UnusedMissingReturn
-# this workflow checks for
-# * unused input arguments
-# * missing return values
-# * strict prototypes
-# some users have default configs that will needlessly fail Meson self-tests due to these syntax.
-env:
-  CFLAGS: "-Werror=unused-parameter -Werror=return-type -Werror=strict-prototypes"
-  CPPFLAGS: "-Werror=unused-parameter -Werror=return-type"
-  FFLAGS: "-fimplicit-none"
-
-concurrency:
-  group: unusedargs-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-on:
-  push:
-    paths:
-    - ".github/workflows/unusedargs_missingreturn.yml"
-    - "test cases/cmake/**"
-    - "test cases/common/**"
-    - "test cases/fortran/**"
-    - "test cases/linuxlike/**"
-    - "test cases/objc/**"
-    - "test cases/objcpp/**"
-    - "test cases/windows/**"
-
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-    - ".github/workflows/unusedargs_missingreturn.yml"
-    - "test cases/cmake/**"
-    - "test cases/common/**"
-    - "test cases/fortran/**"
-    - "test cases/linuxlike/**"
-    - "test cases/objc/**"
-    - "test cases/objcpp/**"
-    - "test cases/windows/**"
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-
-  linux:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-    - name: Install Compilers
-      run: |
-        sudo apt update -yq
-        sudo apt install -yq --no-install-recommends g++ gfortran ninja-build gobjc gobjc++
-        python -m pip install coverage
-    - run: ./tools/run_with_cov.py run_project_tests.py --only cmake common fortran platform-linux "objective c" "objective c++"
-      env:
-        MESON_CI_JOBNAME: linux-ubuntu-gcc-werror
-
-    - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-      run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-
-    - name: Upload coverage report
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      with:
-        files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-        name: "UnusedMissingReturn"
-        fail_ci_if_error: false
-        verbose: true
-
-  windows:
-    runs-on: windows-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.x'
-
-    - run: pip install ninja pefile coverage
-
-    - run: python ./tools/run_with_cov.py run_project_tests.py --only platform-windows
-      env:
-        CC: gcc
-        CXX: g++
-        FC: gfortran
-        MESON_CI_JOBNAME: msys2-gcc-werror
-
-    - name: Aggregate coverage reports
-      run: ./ci/combine_cov.sh
-      shell: C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash.exe --noprofile --norc -o igncr -eo pipefail '{0}'
-
-    - name: Upload coverage report
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      with:
-        files: .coverage/coverage.xml
-        name: "UnusedMissingReturn Windows"
-        fail_ci_if_error: false
-        verbose: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/website.yml b/.github/workflows/website.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index fdb7d1400919..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/website.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-name: Update website
-
-concurrency:
-  group: mesonbuild.com
-  # We do NOT want `cancel-in-progress` here since only one website job
-  # should run at a time to avoid upload race conditions.
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths:
-      - .github/workflows/website.yml
-      - docs/**
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - .github/workflows/website.yml
-      - docs/**
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  release:
-    types:
-      - published
-
-permissions:
-  contents: write # for release creation (svenstaro/upload-release-action)
-
-# This job is copy/paster into wrapdb CI, please update it there when doing any
-# change here.
-jobs:
-  update_website:
-    env:
-      HAS_SSH_KEY: ${{ secrets.WEBSITE_PRIV_KEY != '' }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-        id: restore-cache
-        with:
-          # should use 'pip3 cache dir' to discover this path
-          path: ~/.cache/pip
-          key: website-pip-${{ github.run_number }}
-          restore-keys: website-pip-
-
-      - name: Install package
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip ninja-build libjson-glib-dev
-          pip install hotdoc chevron strictyaml
-
-      - uses: actions/cache/save@v4
-        with:
-          # should use 'pip3 cache dir' to discover this path
-          path: ~/.cache/pip
-          key: website-pip-${{ github.run_number }}
-
-      - name: Setup SSH Keys and known_hosts
-        env:
-          SSH_AUTH_SOCK: /tmp/ssh_agent.sock
-        run: |
-          ssh-agent -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK > /dev/null
-          ssh-add - <<< "${{ secrets.WEBSITE_PRIV_KEY }}"
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' && env.HAS_SSH_KEY == 'true'
-      - name: Build website
-        run: |
-          git config --global user.name "github-actions"
-          git config --global user.email "github-actions@github.com"
-          cd docs
-          ../meson.py setup _build
-          ninja -C _build
-          ninja -C _build test
-      - name: Update website
-        env:
-          SSH_AUTH_SOCK: /tmp/ssh_agent.sock
-        run: |
-          cd docs
-          ninja -C _build upload
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' && env.HAS_SSH_KEY == 'true'
-      - name: Release the current JSON docs
-        uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2
-        with:
-          repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          file: docs/_build/reference_manual.json
-          tag: ${{ github.ref }}
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'release' }}
-      - name: Release the current man docs
-        uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2
-        with:
-          repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          file: docs/_build/meson-reference.3
-          tag: ${{ github.ref }}
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'release' }}