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@@ -1,3 +1,55 @@ +Release 1.8.4 (2008-11-14 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) +========================================================= +The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.4 release of the +cairo graphics library. This is the second update to cairo's stable +1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes, (in particular a +few fixes for build failures of cairo 1.8.2 on various systems). This +is being released just over two weeks after cairo 1.8.2. + +We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.4. + +-Carl + +Build fixes +----------- +Fix build with older XRender that doesn't define RepeatNone: + + Build of xlib backend fails against old XRender (RepeatNone undeclared) + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18385 + +Fix build with bash version <= 3.0: + + doltlibtool broken on linux with bash 3.00.0 + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18363 + +Bug fixes +--------- +Avoid triggering a bug in X.org server 6.9 resulting in a hung machine +requiring a reboot: + + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15628#c2 + +Fix display of user fonts as exercised by proposed support for type3 +fonts in poppler (unsigned promotion fixes): + + Use cairo user-font for Type 3 fonts + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-October/004181.html + +Avoid miscomputing size of fallback images required when rendering +with CLEAR, IN, or SOURCE operator to vector surfaces, (PS, PDF, SVG, +etc.). + +Be more tolerant of broken fonts when subsetting type1 fonts: + + Error handling in cairo_type1_font_subset_get_glyph_names_and_widths + http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-October/015569.html + +Fix cairo_fill_extents, cairo_stroke_extents, cairo_path_extents, to +correctly allow NULL parameters as documented. + +Fix potential crash on emitting a type3 glyph after having drawn text +paths from the same font, (for example with cairo_text_path). + Release 1.8.2 (2008-10-29 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) ========================================================= The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.2 release of the |