Hi, thank you for the new release. I've come over changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1 and I see that the structure "FT_Var_Named_Style" has new member "psid" but soname is still "6". Do you plan to bump the soname?
Regards Marek On 12/30/2016 10:39 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > 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 > > > 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/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > http://www.freetype.org > > > 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. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel > _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
