FreeType 2.4.9 has been released. It is available from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ (please read the footnote on this page!) 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; all users should upgrade. Enjoy! Werner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Another round of fixes to better handle invalid fonts. Many of them are vulnerabilities (see CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144 and SA48320) so all users should upgrade. II. MISCELLANEOUS - The `ENCODING -1 <n>' format of BDF fonts is now supported. - For BDF fonts, support for the whole Unicode encoding range has been added. - Better TTF support for x_ppem != y_ppem. - `FT_Get_Advances' sometimes returned bogus values. - The demo programs no longer recognize and handle default suffixes; you now have to always specify the complete font name. - Better rendering and LCD mode cycling added to ftview. _______________________________________________ Freetype-announce mailing list Freetype-announce@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-announce