FreeType 2.12.1 has been released.
It is available from
https://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
or
https://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
https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/
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https://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.
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You can use a `.sig` file to verify that the corresponding file
(without the `.sig` suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download
both the `.sig` file and the corresponding archive. Then, run a
command like this:
gpg --verify freetype-2.12.1.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
execute
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys BE6C3AAC63AD8E3F
to import it, then rerun the `gpg --verify` command.
SHA1 file checksums:
7cc2a3ea7e02b71a5bc183c14e837a7e554464b5 freetype-2.12.1.tar.gz
5133eed28a7624ffabbf6d00aa3f68b841d62d80 freetype-2.12.1.tar.xz
e56bf6602674ef6563dc630f6f191d2c434286a7 ft2121.zip
71bfc0864c415a9f25673cc6c98ebc966b964b54 ft2demos-2.12.1.tar.gz
ce009767b7dda246ab7cec111702c5f1d78d2431 ft2demos-2.12.1.tar.xz
c985ec71b615153209faabf7424b0d1523c59110 ftdmo2121.zip
9fc6f3edbd7039eb1cc5c9c64b4a5618083ca122 freetype-doc-2.12.1.tar.gz
f4e85a958f926701ca5751cda445c29bd28e7fd9 freetype-doc-2.12.1.tar.xz
5d3740b1fc379491397faf0e9369bff5e33b2b59 ftdoc2121.zip
SHA256 file checksums:
efe71fd4b8246f1b0b1b9bfca13cfff1c9ad85930340c27df469733bbb620938
freetype-2.12.1.tar.gz
4766f20157cc4cf0cd292f80bf917f92d1c439b243ac3018debf6b9140c41a7f
freetype-2.12.1.tar.xz
a32bf78834279203ed726ac26b82ee6c570b5d346eaecaf1b79eec722fe7482d ft2121.zip
02c32bcb38c965d970c670ac7f9eba1806fd99f2d69ba238d29501b96072a950
ft2demos-2.12.1.tar.gz
ce729d97f166a919a6a3037c949af01d5d6e1783614024d72683153f0bc5ef05
ft2demos-2.12.1.tar.xz
34eb06877bf58f6e0d790eb704c7419b7f13bae584b4bd105a6c2ed1a991aa91 ftdmo2121.zip
6cf582e20cb25788eea639bb1b70f05b37f70dc8d1a5b6ede9f10cbe80543cbc
freetype-doc-2.12.1.tar.gz
6664a32e4eedaa89f45422c1150e32da46fd301c972cbfd19d2dcc6dd96f07d1
freetype-doc-2.12.1.tar.xz
bd448fe263a51d5e4edad7dc668f23d0da4a2b0d1232ada6324b66904bf5b54c ftdoc2121.zip
CHANGES BETWEEN 2.12.0 and 2.12.1
I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- Loading CFF fonts sometimes made FreeType crash (bug introduced in
version 2.12.0)
- Loading a fully hinted TrueType glyph a second time (without
caching) sometimes yielded different rendering results if TrueType
hinting was active (bug introduced in version 2.12.0).
- The generation of the pkg-config file `freetype2.pc` was broken if
the build was done with cmake (bug introduced in version 2.12.0).
II. MISCELLANEOUS
- New option `--with-librsvg` for the `configure` script for better
FreeType demo support.
- The meson build no longer enforces both static and dynamic
versions of the library by default.
- The internal zlib library was updated to version 1.2.12. Note,
however, that FreeType is *not* affected by CVE-2018-25032 since
it only does decompression.
