[ft-devel] Announcing FreeType 2.10.1

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.10.1 has been released.

It is available from

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

or

    http://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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http://www.freetype.org


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 2.10.0 and 2.10.1

  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

  - The bytecode hinting of OpenType variation fonts was flawed, since
    the data in the `CVAR' table wasn't correctly applied.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

  - Auto-hinter support for Mongolian.

  - For distribution,  `.tar.bz2' packages are replaced with `.tar.xz'
    bundles.

  - The handling of  the default character in PCF fonts as  introduced
    in version 2.10.0 was partially broken, causing premature abortion
    of charmap iteration for many fonts.

  - If  `FT_Set_Named_Instance' was  called  with  the same  arguments
    twice in a row, the function  returned an incorrect error code the
    second time.

  - Direct   rendering   using  FT_RASTER_FLAG_DIRECT   crashed   (bug
    introduced in version 2.10.0).

  - Increased  precision  while  computing  OpenType  font   variation
    instances.

  - The  flattening  algorithm of  cubic  Bezier  curves was  slightly
    changed to make  it faster.  This can cause  very subtle rendering
    changes, which aren't noticeable by the eye, however.

  - The  auto-hinter  now  disables hinting  if there  are blue  zones
    defined for a `style' (i.e., a certain combination of a script and
    its related typographic features) but the font doesn't contain any
    characters needed to set up at least one blue zone.

  - The `ftmulti' demo program now  supports multiple hidden axes with
    the same name tag.

  - `ftview', `ftstring', and `ftgrid' got  a `-k' command line option
    to emulate a sequence of keystrokes at start-up.

  - `ftview', `ftstring', and `ftgrid' now support screen dumping to a
    PNG file.

  - The bytecode debugger, `ttdebug',  now supports variation TrueType
    fonts; a variation font instance can be selected with the new `-d'
    command line option.