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| author | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2006-12-14 20:43:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2006-12-14 20:43:31 -0800 |
| commit | 8fa86e897091ad8ce4c286896df56d44892040ee (patch) | |
| tree | f8662187813d286179d9c996c8f32ba64399d1c9 | |
| parent | 8b31038b9fb7f8fc3eb2729c3d14de5c0b130873 (diff) | |
NEWS: Add notes for cairo 1.3.8 snapshot
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@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@ +Snapshot 1.3.8 (2006-12-14 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) +========================================================== +This is the fourth development snapshot in the 1.3 series. It comes +just slightly more than one week after the 1.3.6 snapshot. + +After the bug fixes in 1.3.6, we're back to our original program of +weekly snapshots, each one faster than the one from the week +before. Cairo 1.3.8 brings a 2x improvement in the speed of rendering +linear gradients (thanks to David Turner), and a significant reduction +in X traffic when rendering text (thanks to Xan Lopez and Behdad +Esfahbod), making cairo behave very much like Xft does. + +A few other things in the 1.3.8 snapshot worth noting include a more +forgiving image comparator in the test suite, (using the "perceptual +diff" metric and GPL implementation by Hector Yee[*]), a bug fix for +broken linking on x86_64 (thanks to M Joonas Pihlaja) and an even +better implementation of _cairo_lround, (not faster, but supporting a +more complete input range), from Daniel Amelang. + +[*] http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/ + Snapshot 1.3.6 (2006-12-06 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) ========================================================== This is the third development snapshot in the 1.3 series. It comes two |