Add notes for 1.0 release. Thanks to Owen Taylor.

Note that PS and PDF backends are experimental.
Note the progress that has been completed so that 1.0 is ready now.

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+Release 1.0.0 (2005-08-24 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
+=========================================================
+Experimental backends
+---------------------
+ * The PS, PDF, Quartz, and XCB backends have been declared
+   experimental, and are not part of the API guarantees that accompany
+   this release. They are not built by default, even when the required
+   libraries are available, and must be enabled explicitly with
+   --enable-ps, --enable-pdf, --enable-quartz or --enable-xcb.
+
+   It is very painful for us to be pushing out a major release without
+   these backends enabled. There has been a tremendous amount of work
+   put into each one and all are quite functional to some
+   extent. However, each also has some limitations. And none of these
+   backends have been tested to the level of completeness and
+   correctness that we expect from cairo backends.
+
+   We do encourage people to experiment with these backends and report
+   sucess, failure, or means of improving them.
+
+Operator behavior
+-----------------
+ * Prior to 0.9.0 the SOURCE, CLEAR and a number of other operators
+   behaved in an inconsistent and buggy fashion and could affect areas
+   outside the clip mask. In 0.9.0, these six "unbounded" operators
+   were fixed to consistently clear areas outside the shape but within
+   the clip mask.  This is useful behavior for an operator such as IN,
+   but not what was expected for SOURCE and CLEAR. So, in this release
+   the behavior of SOURCE and CLEAR has been changed again. They now
+   affect areas only within both the source and shape. We can write
+   the new operators as:
+
+     SOURCE: dest' = (mask IN clip) ? source : dest
+     CLEAR:  dest' = (mask IN clip) ? 0 : dest
+
+Behavior and API changes
+------------------------
+ * Setting the filter on a gradient pattern would change the
+   interpolation between color stops away from the normal linear
+   interpolation. This dubious behavior has been removed.
+
+ * The CAIRO_CONTENT_VALID() and CAIRO_FORMAT_VALID() macros --
+   implementation details that leaked into cairo.h -- have been moved
+   into an internal header.
+
+ * The cairo_show_text function now advances the current point
+   according to the total advance values of the string.
+
+Features
+--------
+ * When compiled against recent versions of fontconfig and FreeType,
+   artificial bold fonts can now be turned on from fonts.conf using
+   the FC_EMBOLDEN fontconfig key.
+
+Optimization
+------------
+ * The compositing code from the 'xserver' code tree has now been
+   completely merged into libpixman. This includes MMX optimization of
+   common operations.
+
+ * The image transformation code in libpixman has been improved and
+   now performs significantly faster.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+ * Several crashes related to corruption in the font caches have been
+   fixed.
+
+ * All test cases now match pixel-for-pixel on x86 and PPC; this
+   required fixing bugs in the compositing, stroking, and pattern
+   rendering code.
+
+ * Negative dash offsets have been fixed to work correctly.
+
+ * The stroking of paths with mutiple subpaths has now been fixed to
+   apply caps to all subpaths rather than just the last one.
+
+ * Many build fixes for better portability on various systems.
+
+ * Lots of other bug fixes, but we're too tired to describe them in
+   more detail here.
+
 Release 0.9.2 (2005-08-13 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
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