FreeType 2.6.2 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The auto-hinter now supports stem darkening, to be controlled by the new `no-stem-darkening' and `darkening-parameters' properties. This is an experimental feature contributed by Nikolaus Waxweiler, and the interface might change in a future release. - By default, stem darkening is now switched off (for both the CFF engine and the auto-hinter). The main reason is that you need linear alpha blending and gamma correction to get correct rendering results, and the latter is not yet available in most freely available rendering stacks like X11. Applying stem darkening without proper gamma correction leads to far too dark rendering results. - The meaning of `FT_RENDER_MODE_LIGHT' has been slightly modified. It now essentially means `no hinting along the horizontal axis'; in particular, no change of glyph advance widths. Consequently, the auto-hinter is used for all scalable font formats except for CFF. It is planned that other font-specific rendering engines (TrueType, Type 1) will follow. II. MISCELLANEOUS - The default LCD filter has been changed to be normalized and color-balanced. - For better compatibility with FontConfig, function `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter' accepts a new enumeration value `FT_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY1' (which has the same meaning as `FT_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY'). - A large number of bugs have been detected by using the libFuzzer framework, which should further improve handling of invalid fonts. Thanks again to Kostya Serebryany and Bungeman! - `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_MAX_RUNNABLE_OPCODES', a new configuration option, controls the maximum number of executed opcodes within a bytecode program. You don't want to change this except for very special situations (e.g., making a library fuzzer spend less time to handle broken fonts). - The smooth renderer has been made faster. - The `ftstring' demo program now supports sub-pixel rendering; use key `l' to cycle through the LCD modes. - The `ftstring' demo program now supports colour rendering; use the `space' key to cycle through various colour combinations. - The graphical demo programs now use a default gamma value of 1.8 (instead of 1.2). _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel