Release Cairo 1.18.01.18.0

2 files changed, 46 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a1fcf0d9f..49acef870 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,47 @@
+Release 1.18.0 (2023-09-20 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>)
+==============================================================
+
+The first stable cairo release in five years should be cause for celebration.
+
+All the API added in the 1.17 development cycle is now considered stable, and
+will not change.
+
+Many thanks to all the contributors for this release.
+
+The cairo-sphinx tool has been removed; we could not find any instruction on
+how to use it, and no user answered our call for help. If you were using
+cairo-sphinx, please reach out to the cairo maintainers.
+
+Cairo now implements Type 3 color fonts for PDF. Thanks to Adrian Johnson for
+his work on this feature.
+
+Khaled Hosny contributed multiple documentation fixes, to ensure that the
+cairo API reference is up to date. Khaled also fixed multiple compiler
+warnings generated when building cairo.
+
+The XML surface has been removed; it was disabled by default when building
+cairo, and we could not find any downstream distributor that would enable
+it.
+
+The Tee surface is now automatically enabled. Downstream distributors of
+cairo have been enabling for years it in order to build Firefox.
+
+Fujii Hironori and Adrian Johnson fixed multiple issues with the DWrite
+font backend.
+
+John Ralls improved the Quartz surface; mainly, Quartz surfaces now use
+the main display ColorSpace, speeding up rendering operations.
+
+Cairo now hides all private symbols by default on every platform; the old
+"slim" symbols hack to alias internally used symbols has been dropped, in
+favor of using `-Bsymbolic-functions` with toolchains that support it.
+
+Uli Schlachter fixed multiple memory leaks in the code base and test suite,
+and helped with many reviews and general maintenance.
+
+Marc Jeanmougin added new API to expose the Pixman dithering filter to cairo
+patterns; this is currently implemented only for image surfaces.
+
 Release 1.17.8 (2023-01-30 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>)
 ==============================================================
 
diff --git a/src/cairo-version.h b/src/cairo-version.h
index 3ac065f68..1a7b56977 100644
--- a/src/cairo-version.h
+++ b/src/cairo-version.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_H
 
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 17
-#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 9
+#define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 18
+#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 0
 
 #endif