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+Snapshot 1.3.14 (2006-02-13 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
+===========================================================
+This is the seventh development snapshot in the 1.3 series, (and there
+likely won't be many more before the 1.4.0 release). It comes just
+over 3 weeks after the 1.3.12 snapshot.
+
+Since we're so close to the 1.4.0 release, there are not a lot of new
+features nor even a lot of new performance improvements in this
+snapshot. Instead, there are a great number of bug fixes. Some are
+long-standing bugs that we're glad to say goodbye to, and several are
+fixes for regressions that were introduced as part of the optimization
+efforts during the 1.3.x series.
+
+PDF text selection fixed
+------------------------
+The inability to correctly select text in cairo-generated PDF has been
+a defect ever since the initial support for the PDF backend in the
+cairo 1.2.0 release. With the 1.3.14 snapshot, in most situations, and
+with most PDF viewer applications, the PDF generated by cairo will
+allow text to be correctly selected for copy-and-paste, (as well as
+searching).
+
+We're very excited about this new functionality, (and very grateful to
+Adrian Johnson, Behdad Esfahbod, and others that have put a lot of
+work into this lately). Please test this new ability and give feedback
+on the cairo@cairographics.org list.
+
+Many thread-safety issues fixed
+-------------------------------
+We've discovered that no release of cairo has ever provided safe text
+rendering from a multi-threaded application. With the 1.3.14 snapshot
+a huge number of the bugs in this area have been fixed, and multiple
+application dvelopers have now reported success at writing
+multi-threaded applications with cairo.
+
+Other fixes
+-----------
+Fixed a bug that was causing glyph spacing to be 32 times larger than
+desired when using cairo-win32.
+
+Fixed a regression in the rendering of linear gradients that had been
+present since the 1.3.8 snapshot.
+
+Fixed several problems in cairo-atsui that were leading to assertion
+failures when rendering text.
+
+Fix corrupted results when rendering a transformed source image
+surface to an xlib surface. This was a regression that had been
+present since the 1.3.2 snapshot.
+
+Fixed PDF output to prevent problems printing from some versions of
+Acrobat Reader, (a single glyph was being substituted for every
+glyph).
+
+And many other fixes as well, (see the logs for details).
+
 Snapshot 1.3.12 (2007-01-20 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
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 The relentless march toward the cairo 1.4 release continues, (even if