FreeType 2.7.1 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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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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I. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- Support for the new CFF2 font format as introduced with OpenType
1.8 has been contributed by Dave Arnolds from Adobe.
- Preliminary support for variation fonts as specified in OpenType
1.8 (in addition to the already existing support for Adobe's MM
and Apple's GX formats). Dave Arnolds contributed handling of
advance width change variation; more will come in the next
version.
II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- Handling of raw CID fonts was partially broken (bug introduced
in 2.6.4).
III. MISCELLANEOUS
- Some limits for TrueType bytecode execution have been tightened
to speed up FreeType's handling of malformed fonts, in
particular to quickly abort endless loops.
- The number of twilight points can no longer be set to an
arbitrarily large value.
- The total number of jump opcode instructions (like JMPR) with
negative arguments is dynamically restricted; the same holds
for the total number of iterations in LOOPCALL opcodes.
The dynamic limits are based on the number of points in a glyph
and the number of CVT entries. Please report if you encounter a
font where the selected values are not adequate.
- PCF family names are made more `colourful'; they now include the
foundry and information whether they contain wide characters.
For example, you no longer get `Fixed' but rather `Sony Fixed'
or `Misc Fixed Wide'.
- A new function `FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates' (with its alias
name `FT_Get_MM_Blend_Coordinates') to retrieve the normalized
blend coordinates of the currently selected variation instance
has been added to the Multiple Masters interface.
- A new function `FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates' to retrieve the
design coordinates of the currently selected variation instance
has been added to the Multiple Masters interface.
- A new load flag `FT_LOAD_BITMAP_METRICS_ONLY' to retrieve bitmap
information without loading the (embedded) bitmap itself.
- Retrieving advance widths from bitmap strikes (using
`FT_Get_Advance' and `FT_Get_Advances') have been sped up.
- The usual round of fuzzer fixes to better reject malformed
fonts.
- The `ftmulti' demo program can now switch engines with key `H'.
- The `ftstring' demo program can now show some built-in,
non-latin sample strings (to be selected with the TAB key).
- The `ftview' demo program can now switch between a font's
charmaps using the TAB key.
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