[ft-announce] FreeType 2.4.0 has been released

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.4.0 has been released.

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; users of
version 2.3.12 should upgrade.

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 2.3.12 and 2.4.0

  I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

    - Since May  2010, all  patents  regarding  the TrueType  bytecode
      interpreter have expired worldwide.  Consequently, we now define
      TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER by  default (and  undefine
      TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING).

    - A new function `FT_Library_SetLcdFilterWeights' is available  to
      adjust the filter weights set by `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter'.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

    - Thanks to many reports from Robert Święcki, FreeType's stability
      in handling broken or damaged fonts is much improved.

    - Support  for LCD  filter  control has  been  added to  the  demo
      programs `ftdiff' and `ftview'.