FreeType 2.5.3 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; all users should upgrade. Enjoy! Werner PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest mirror site. Files on mirrors may be subject to a replication delay of up to 24 hours. In case of problems use http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A vulnerability was identified and fixed in the new CFF driver (cf. http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697; it doesn't have a CVE number yet). All users should upgrade. - More bug fixes related to correct positioning of composite glyphs. - Many fixes to better protect against malformed input. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - FreeType can now use the HarfBuzz library to greatly improve the auto-hinting of fonts that use OpenType features: Many glyphs that are part of such features but don't have cmap entries are now handled properly, for example small caps or superscripts. Define the configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ to activate HarfBuzz support. You need HarfBuzz version 0.9.19 or newer. Note that HarfBuzz depends on FreeType; this currently causes a chicken-and-egg problem that can be solved as follows in case HarfBuzz is not yet installed on your system. 1. Compile and install FreeType without the configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ. 2. Compile and install HarfBuzz. 3. Define macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ, then compile and install FreeType again. With FreeType's `configure' script the procedure boils down to configure, build, and install Freetype, then configure, compile, and install HarfBuzz, then configure, compile, and install FreeType again (after executing `make distclean'). - All libraries FreeType depends on are now checked using the `pkg-config' configuration files first, followed by alternative methods. - The new value `auto' for the various `--with-XXX' library options (for example `--with-harfbuzz=auto') makes the `configure' script automatically link to the libraries it finds. This is now the default. - In case FreeType's `configure' script can't find a library, you can pass environment variables to circumvent pkg-config, and those variables have been harmonized as a consequence of the changes mentioned above: LIBZ -> removed; use LIBZ_CFLAGS and LIBZ_LIBS LIBBZ2 -> removed; use BZIP2_CFLAGS and BZIP2_LIBS LIBPNG_LDFLAGS -> LIBPNG_LIBS `./configure --help' shows all available environment variables. - The `freetype-config' script now understands option `--static' to emit static linking information. _______________________________________________ Freetype-announce mailing list Freetype-announce@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-announce