[ft-announce] Announcing FreeType 2.10.3

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.10.3 has been released.

It is available from

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/

or

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/

The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library.

See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.

Enjoy!


   Werner


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http://www.freetype.org


FreeType 2  is a software  font engine that  is designed to  be small,
efficient,  highly   customizable,  and  portable   while  capable  of
producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap
font formats.

Note that  FreeType 2 is  a font service  and doesn't provide  APIs to
perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing
(e.g.,  colored  text  rendering,  `hollowing',  etc.).   However,  it
greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and
uniform interface to access the content of font files.

FreeType  2  is  released  under  two open-source  licenses:  our  own
BSD-like FreeType  License and the  GPL.  It can  thus be used  by any
kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.


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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.10.2 and 2.10.3

  I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

  - New flag `FT_OUTLINE_OVERLAP'.  If set, make the smooth rasterizer
    do  4x4 oversampling  to  mitigate artifacts  in pixels  partially
    covered  by  overlapping  contours.    Note  that  this  at  least
    quadruples the rendering time.

    If  a  glyph  in  a  TrueType font  has  the  `OVERLAP_SIMPLE'  or
    `OVERLAP_COMPOUND'  bit set,  FreeType automatically  selects this
    rendering mode.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

  - Using the  arcane method of  including FreeType header  files with
    macros like  `FT_FREETYPE_H' is no longer  mandatory (but retained
    as an optional feature for backward compatibility).

  - Support for  building the library  with Meson.  Building  the demo
    programs with Meson will follow in a forthcoming release.

  - Minor improvements to the B/W rasterizer.

  - Auto-hinter support for Medefaidrin script.

  - Fix various  memory leaks (mainly  for CFF) and other  issues that
    might cause crashes in rare circumstances.

  - Jam support has been removed.

  - In  `ftview', custom  LCD  filter values  are  now normalized  and
    balanced.  Unorthodox filters are still available through the `-L'
    command line option.

  - The GUI demo programs can now be resized.

  - Demo programs that accept command  line option `-k' can now handle
    function keys, too.  The  corresponding character codes start with
    0xF1.  As  an example, the  POSIX shell syntax (accepted  by bash,
    ksh, and zsh)

      -k $'\xF3q'

    emulates the pressing of function key `F3' followed by key `q'.