[ft-announce] Announcing FreeType 2.12.0

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.12.0 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


PS: Downloads from  savannah.nongnu.org  will redirect to your nearest
    mirror site.   Files on  mirrors may  be subject to  a replication
    delay   of   up   to   24   hours.   In   case   of  problems  use
    http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/


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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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You  can use  a  `.sig` file  to verify  that  the corresponding  file
(without the  `.sig` suffix)  is intact.  First,  be sure  to download
both  the `.sig`  file and  the  corresponding archive.   Then, run  a
command like this:

  gpg --verify freetype-2.12.0.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you  don't have the required public key,
execute

  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys BE6C3AAC63AD8E3F

to import it, then rerun the `gpg --verify` command.

SHA1 file checksums:

bf26d90c303974f4b0a0de5b8f1d3940a93e48d1  freetype-2.12.0.tar.gz
fd1eb1a27f178808e1d8ccd82c71abfa5d0ebe13  freetype-2.12.0.tar.xz
f5b1975ed75985cfea680079150b3876b93e699e  ft2120.zip
eb78f2b88e3c3eb12ff0a8f25f55df3ca2af7ddb  ft2demos-2.12.0.tar.gz
4477cbf3cb3e78b2862bd9d24d405e68fbede4d2  ft2demos-2.12.0.tar.xz
4a9573657f3dbb742a87ea5f0960f9fb908cfcfa  ftdmo2120.zip
535790b6b05b456cffe9b36dc360915d265c7bab  freetype-doc-2.12.0.tar.gz
24b6a4e1d37d1426ca2c207617a9b44c899df65f  freetype-doc-2.12.0.tar.xz
621c22109d595cdaa3e73210c9323b13a14bbc48  ftdoc2120.zip

SHA256 file checksums:

7940a46eeb0255baaa87c553d72778c4f8daa2b8888c8e2a05766a2a8686740c  
freetype-2.12.0.tar.gz
ef5c336aacc1a079ff9262d6308d6c2a066dd4d2a905301c4adda9b354399033  
freetype-2.12.0.tar.xz
d0c0e76e773bcc32ff60b70605b127de2881001f1668ed6f94ea18ce86867451  ft2120.zip
fed35f398fdbb9ae929b4caec5fc927216875e3a11f41a51fed29ef446b69878  
ft2demos-2.12.0.tar.gz
dbc7ecaebc8c1658e4cc9e04e5978bba35375f664e87b857ca67451ab6b372d3  
ft2demos-2.12.0.tar.xz
d54ae652e1b4c0c3bc4c5793c62760d2b034d85022bcd0feefea6857fb1ed43a  ftdmo2120.zip
ee555e32c41f3ad4658153d695742c8a8000dd69366e8cb8a8169844f2a719ef  
freetype-doc-2.12.0.tar.gz
22cf273cba41da07b7414a82a3ae701df1239e29928f0b8c42d08c5ef98dc01d  
freetype-doc-2.12.0.tar.xz
f6920056e469b034b551eb9fad223801e8d1dc86893211c1133acd633fc94ab0  ftdoc2120.zip


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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.11.1 and 2.12.0

  I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

  - FreeType  now   handles  OT-SVG  fonts,  to   be  controlled  with
    `FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SVG`  configuration macro.   By default,  it can
    only load the 'SVG ' table of an OpenType font.  However, by using
    the `svg-hooks` property of the new 'ot-svg' module it is possible
    to register an  external SVG rendering engine.   The FreeType demo
    programs  have been  set  up  to use  'librsvg'  as the  rendering
    library.

    This work was Moazin Khatti's GSoC 2019 project.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

  - The handling of fonts with an 'sbix' table has been improved.

    - Corrected bitmap offsets.

    - A  new tag  `FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_SBIX` for  `FT_Open_Face` makes
      FreeType ignore an 'sbix' table in a font, allowing applications
      to access the font's outline glyphs.

    - `FT_FACE_FLAG_SBIX`  and   `FT_FACE_FLAG_SBIX_OVERLAY`  together
      with their  corresponding preprocessor macros  `FT_HAS_SBIX` and
      `FT_HAS_SBIX_OVERLAY` enable applications to treat 'sbix' tables
      as described in the OpenType specification.

  - The internal 'zlib'  code has been updated to be  in sync with the
    current 'zlib' version (1.2.11).

  - The  previously internal  load  flag  `FT_LOAD_SBITS_ONLY` is  now
    public.

  - Some  minor improvements  of the  building systems,  in particular
    handling of the 'zlib' library (internal vs. external).

  - Support for non-desktop Universal Windows Platform.

  - Various other minor bug and documentation fixes.

  - The `ftdump` demo  program shows more information  for Type1 fonts
    if option `-n` is given.

  - `ftgrid` can now display embedded bitmap strikes.