[ft-devel] FreeType version 2.3.9 has been released

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.3.9 has been released.

It is available from

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

or

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157

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

See below  for the  relevant snippet  from the  CHANGES file; users of
version 2.3.8 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 2.3.9 and 2.3.8

  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - Very unfortunately, FreeType 2.3.8 contained a change that broke
      its  official ABI.  The  end result  is  that programs  compiled
      against previous versions of the library, but dynamically linked
      to  2.3.8 can  experience  memory corruption  if  they call  the
      `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info' function.

      We recommend all users to  upgrade to 2.3.9 as soon as possible,
      or to downgrade to a previous  release of the library if this is
      not an option.

      The  origin of the  bug is  that a  new field  was added  to the
      publicly  defined  `PS_FontInfoRec'  structure.   Unfortunately,
      objects of this  type can be stack or  heap allocated by callers
      of   `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info',  resulting   in   a  memory   buffer
      overwrite with its implementation in 2.3.8.

      If  you want to  know whether  your code  is vulnerable  to this
      issue,  simply  search  for  the  substrings  `PS_FontInfo'  and
      `PS_Font_Info' in your source code.  If none is found, your code
      is safe and is not affected.

      The FreeType team apologizes for the problem.

    - The POSIX support  of MacOS resource-fork fonts  (Suitcase fonts
      and LaserWriter Type1 PostScript fonts) was broken in 2.3.8.  If
      FreeType2 is built without Carbon framework, these fonts are not
      handled correctly.  Version 2.3.7 didn't have this bug.

    - `FT_Get_Advance' (and `FT_Get_Advances') returned bad values for
      almost all font formats except TrueType fonts.

    - Fix a bug  in the SFNT  kerning table  loader/parser which could
      crash the engine if certain malformed tables were encountered.

    - Composite SFNT bitmaps are now handled correctly.


  II. IMPORTANT CHANGES

    - The   new  functions   `FT_Get_CID_Is_Internally_CID_keyed'  and
      `FT_Get_CID_From_Glyph_Index'  can be  used to  access CID-keyed
      CFF fonts  via CID  values.  This code  has been  contributed by
      Michael Toftdal.


  III. MISCELLANEOUS

    - `FT_Outline_Get_InsideBorder'  returns   FT_STROKER_BORDER_RIGHT
      for empty outlines.  This was incorrectly documented.