FreeType 2.13.2 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.
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> As long as v38 is different from v40, some part of it is closer than v40 to
> MS/Apple's. Also fact.
Also.. You are making it sound like we are handicapping FreeType. Then
Phoronix or Slashdot will sensationalize it. OMG! OMG! OMG! Major
FreeType regression!
This is FUD! This is zero evidence
> "Better" is your personal opinion. Anyway, I think some of others' "personal
> opinion" (different from yours) is simply based on familiarity - some people
> are just more familiar with MS/Apple rendering, and therefore prefer it. In
> the end of the day, FreeType is not MS/Apple font scaler.
On Friday, 25 August 2023 at 05:38:14 BST, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
wrote:
> Infinality (v38) was substituted by v40 in 2.13.1. Anybody requesting
> v38 got v40 instead... and nobody even noticed. That is the whole
> point of the exercise: v40 is perfectly capable and better than just
> good enough
