[ft-announce] Announcing FreeType 2.9.1

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.9.1 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/


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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.


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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.9 and 2.9.1

  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - Type  1  fonts  containing   flex  features  were  not  rendered
      correctly (bug introduced in version 2.9).

    - CVE-2018-6942: Older  FreeType versions  can crash  with certain
      malformed variation fonts.

        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6942


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

    - Bug fix: Multiple calls to `FT_Get_MM_Var' returned garbage.

    - The base  extensions `ftlcdfil' and  `ftfntfmt' are now  part of
      the  base  module  (and  thus no  longer  configurable  in  file
      `modules.cfg').

    - Emboldening of bitmaps didn't work correctly sometimes,  showing
      various artifacts (bug introduced in version 2.8.1).

    - Use  of  the `freetype-config'  script  to  get compilation  and
      linking  options   is  deprecated   since  it   doesn't  support
      cross-compiling, among other  deficiencies.  Instead, you should
      use the `pkg-config' interface.

      The `configure'  script no longer installs  `freetype-config' by
      default.  For  backwards compatibility,  a new  configure option
      `--enable-freetype-config'   is  provided   that  reverts   this
      decision.

    - The auto-hinter script ranges have  been updated for Unicode 11.
      No support  for new scripts  have been added, however,  with the
      exception of Georgian Mtavruli.

    - Support for cmake has been improved.

    - The next  release will  remove support for  Position Independent
      Code  as  needed  by  systems that  prohibit  automatic  address
      fixups, such  as BREW.  [Compilation with  modern compilers that
      use flags like `-fPIC' or `-fPIE' is not affected.]