[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.3 has been released

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.4.3 has been released.

All users should upgrade.

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 2.4.2 and 2.4.3

  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - Fix rendering of certain cubic, S-shaped arcs.   This regression
      has been introduced in version 2.4.0.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

    - To  fix  the  above  mentioned  rendering  issue,  a  new spline
      flattening algorithm  has been  introduced which  speeds up both
      conic and cubic arcs.

    - Handling of broken fonts has been further improved.