Public bug reported:
There are a lot of changes in pango1.0 since the version we currently
have in eoan. We held off updating because there was a test failure.
This has been resolved in the latest release, so we'd like to go for the
update now.
Overview of changes in 1.44.6
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- docs: Fix symbol indices
- Fix Thai line breaking
- Re-add symbols needed by some bindings
- Don't insert hyphens for some languages
- Fix a crash with hyphenation
Overview of changes in 1.44.5
=============================
- Revert a broken change (causing crashes on OS X)
Overview of changes in 1.44.4
=============================
- Add an insert-hyphens attribute
- Reinstate the return type of pango_fc_font_lock_face
- Fix a problem with ellipses getting the wrong font
- fc: Improve filtering by font format
- Re-add PangoFcFont to public headers
- Install PangoFc and PangoOT introspection files
- Fix ink rectangles to have positive height
- Fix mark positioning
- Switch to using harfbuzz for metrics
Overview of changes in 1.44.3
=============================
- Install pango-ot headers
- Make subpixel positioning optional
- fc: Ignore fonts with unsupported formats
Overview of changes in 1.44.2
=============================
- Disable ligatures when letterspacing
- Set design coords on hb_font_t
- Expose more font options in pango-view
- OS X: Make 'system-ui' font work
- Keep deprecated pango-fc apis in headers
- Make hex boxes work, always
- introspection: Various build fixes
- introspection: Add PangoPT, PangoFT2 namespaces
- layout: Make the new line-spacing opt-in
Overview of changes in 1.44.1
=============================
- Fix a crash with allow_break attributes
- Fix Emoji spacing
- Fix up includes and pkg-config requires
- Correct some cases for hyphen insertion
Overview of changes in 1.44.0
=============================
- Use harfbuzz for shaping on all platforms
- Stop using freetype for font loading; this
drops support for type1 and bitmap fonts
- Add a getter for hb_font_t
- Make PangoCoverage a GObject
- Add a pango_tailor_break api
- font metrics: Add line height
- layout: Support line spacing
- layout: Draw hyphens for line breaks
- Add an attribute to suppress line breaking
- cairo: Don't render hex boxes for space
- Add an attribute to show invisible characters
- Stop quantizing glyph positions
- Add tests for itemization and line breaking
- Remove language and shape engine remnants
- Rename meson options: gtk_doc, introspection
- Require GLib 2.59.2
- Require Harfbuzz 2.0
Overview of changes in 1.43.0
=============================
- Drop autotools
- Drop Visual Studio build
- Build with meson everywhere
- Update Emoji tables for Unicode 11
- Update test data for Unicode 11
- Fix a crash with Thai breaking
- Fix a crash with font variations
- Deprecate bidi apis in favor of fribidi
- Add a variable font family api
- Improve font fallback handling on win32
And see posts from upstream
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/19/pango-updates/
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/27/more-text-rendering-updates/
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/08/07/pango-1-44-wrap-up/
for the new features.
We'd like to update to it, if possible.
** Affects: pango1.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: upgrade-software-version
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