FreeType 2.4.2 has been released. All users should upgrade as soon as possible.
It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or https://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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A stack overflow in CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter is fixed. - Handling Type 42 font deallocation was broken; additionally, the library is now more robust against malformed Type 42 fonts. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Two new functions, `FT_Reference_Library' (in FT_MODULE_H) and `FT_Reference_Face' (in FT_FREETYPE_H), have been added to simplify life-cycle management. A counter gets initialized to 1 at the time an FT_Library (or FT_Face) structure is created. The two new functions increment the respective counter. `FT_Done_Library' and `FT_Done_Face' then only destroy a library or face if the counter is 1, otherwise they simply decrement the counter. _______________________________________________ Freetype-announce mailing list Freetype-announce@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-announce