FreeType 2.4.7 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.
This is a security update; see below for the relevant snippet from the
CHANGES file. Users of version 2.4.6 should upgrade immediately if
they process Type 1 PostScript fonts.
Werner
PS: It takes up to one day until the FreeType archive files on
Savannah are available on all GNU mirrors.
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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 2.4.6 and 2.4.7
I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- Some vulnerabilities in handling Type 1 fonts have been fixed;
see CVE-2011-3256.
II. MISCELLANEOUS
- FreeType now properly handles ZapfDingbats glyph names while
constructing a Unicode character map (for fonts which don't have
one).
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