[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.2 has been released

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.4.2 has been released.

All users should upgrade as soon as possible.

It is available from

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/

or

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/

The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library.

See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.


Enjoy!


   Werner


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FreeType 2  is a software  font engine that  is designed to  be small,
efficient,  highly   customizable,  and  portable   while  capable  of
producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap
font formats.

Note that  FreeType 2 is  a font service  and doesn't provide  APIs to
perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing
(e.g.,  colored  text  rendering,  `hollowing',  etc.).   However,  it
greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and
uniform interface to access the content of font files.

FreeType  2  is  released  under  two open-source  licenses:  our  own
BSD-like FreeType  License and the  GPL.  It can  thus be used  by any
kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.


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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.1 and 2.4.2

  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - A stack overflow in CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter is fixed.

    - Handling Type 42 font deallocation was broken; additionally, the
      library is now more robust against malformed Type 42 fonts.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

    - Two new functions,  `FT_Reference_Library' (in FT_MODULE_H)  and
      `FT_Reference_Face'  (in  FT_FREETYPE_H),  have  been  added  to
      simplify life-cycle management.  A counter gets initialized to 1
      at the  time an  FT_Library (or  FT_Face) structure  is created.
      The  two  new   functions  increment  the  respective   counter.
      `FT_Done_Library' and `FT_Done_Face' then only destroy a library
      or face if the counter is 1, otherwise they simply decrement the
      counter.