FreeType 2.5.4 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; all users should upgrade. 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5.3 and 2.5.4 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A variant of vulnerability CVE-2014-2240 was identified (cf. http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43661) and fixed in the new CFF driver. All users should upgrade. - The new auto-hinter code using HarfBuzz crashed for some invalid fonts. - Many fixes to better protect against malformed input. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Full auto-hinter support of the Devanagari script. - Experimental auto-hinter support of the Telugu script. - CFF stem darkening behaviour can now be controlled at build time using the eight macros CFF_CONFIG_OPTION_DARKENING_PARAMETER_{X,Y}{1,2,3,4} . - Some fields in the `FT_Bitmap' structure have been changed from signed to unsigned type, which better reflects the actual usage. It is also an additional means to protect against malformed input. This change doesn't break the ABI; however, it might cause compiler warnings. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Improvements to the auto-hinter's algorithm to recognize stems and local extrema. - Function `FT_Get_SubGlyph_Info' always returned an error even in case of success. - Version 2.5.1 introduced major bugs in the cjk part of the auto-hinter, which are now fixed. - The `FT_Sfnt_Tag' enumeration values have been changed to uppercase, e.g. `FT_SFNT_HEAD'. The lowercase variants are deprecated. This is for orthogonality with all other enumeration (and enumeration-like) values in FreeType. - `cmake' now supports builds of FreeType as an OS X framework and for iOS. - Improved project files for vc2010, introducing a property file. - The documentation generator for the API reference has been updated to produce better HTML code (with proper CSS). At the same time, the documentation got a better structure. - The FT_LOAD_BITMAP_CROP flag is obsolete; it is not used by any driver. - The TrueType DELTAP[123] bytecode instructions now work in subpixel hinting mode as described in the ClearType whitepaper (i.e., for touched points in the non-subpixel direction). - Many small improvements to the internal arithmetic routines. _______________________________________________ Freetype-announce mailing list Freetype-announce@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-announce